The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-17
SAYS MRS. GOULD
DRANK THE MOST
AND SWORE, TOO
Led All the Others on Yacht
When 1t Came to Test
of Capacity.
~"BLACKMAILING TACTICSl"
SHOUTS Delaney NIC0LL
Melville R. Chapman, Broker
Clubman, Testifes TO Having
Seen Mrs. Gould intoxicated.

NEW YORK, June 17.-The taking Of
testimony of the servants and en-
ployees on the two Gould estates, Castle
Gould. in Port Washington, N. Y, and
Bite Gap Farm, IN Virginia, was con-
tinued today at the trial of the suit Of
Katherine Clemmons Gould for a
separation from her husband, Howard
Gould, and alimony amounting to $3.50, :
coo q year.
served with Brandy Every Night.
Edward Bechtold, who was in charge
of the wines and liquors aboard Mr..
Gould's yacht Niagara, in December,
1905, when the Goulds were cruising
with a party of friends. testified that
he saw Mrs. Gould intoxicated several
times during the cruise.
II served Mrs. Gould with brandy
every night the witness said, and
at the dinners aboard the yacht she
drank more than anyone else
After a dinner in Kingston, he said,
she stopped in the music room and
took hold of q chair to steady herself
land she had to take a long breath
before she could go on" witness stated.
witness JoIts Counsel.
you never heard Mrs. Gould curse or
swear on that trip, did you?" asked Mr..
Shearn, Mrs. Gould's lawyer.
"Oh, yes, l did, said the witness.
One night, at Quarantine, he said he
heard her swearing. On another night,
when he was IN the kitchen, the witness
said, Mrs. Gould started to open the
kitchen door, installing 1t, apparently,
fo. 1a,. ~faferoapa door whieh WAS a
short distance beyond.
Leaving the episodes on the yacht
Niagara, Delaney Nicoll. Howard
| Gould's counsel, called Charles T.
Dodge, a carpenter, who testified that he
saw Mrs. Gould on n occasion when
he thought she was intoxicated. She
came INTO the room where he and
| others were working and told them IL
they didn't stop their talking h would
make them all walk to the railroad sta
tom
Melville E.. Chapman, a broker, whe
had been a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Gould
on the yacht Niagara on several trips
in 1905, testified that Mrs. Gould was
frequently under the influence of intoyI'
cants and very loud and abusive In hel
language to the servants at those times
The witness said that during a cruise
to the West Indies he remembered sew
eral occasions when Mrs. Gould had
been drinking and became greatly ex'
cited. She said that she intended t
run the boat and that no one should
take orders from anyone but herself.
What did Mr.. Gould do and say on
those occasions? 2" asked Mr.. Nicon.
He Invariably tried to soothe ant
calm her and pass the incident of
pleasantly"
IN combating Mr.. Shearn's endeayor
to get several letters in evidence to i'm
peach the <credlbility of the witness
Chapman, Mr.. Nicoll shouted: This il
only a case of blackmailing tactics
practised' from start to finish in thil
suit Mr.. Shearn promptly demanded
a~nrapology.
Justice Bowling sternly said thai
Mr.. Nicoll owed an apology to the cour
and Mr.. Shearn for making such
charge. Mr.. Nicoll ~apologized, and sail
he meant no reflection on Mr.. Shear
personally. but believed it had bee thu
attitude OF others on the opposite sid
to extort nancy from his client. Thi
closed the incident.