The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-19
DUSTIN FARNUM
COMES FORWARD
IN GOULD CASE
Witnesses Testify About ReIa-
tons Between Actor and
MuIti-MiIIiOnaire'S Wife.
LIQUOR IN ENORMOUS
QUANTITIES IS CONSUMED
CAPACITY OF WOMAN FOR IN
ToWcATING sTIMULANTS APP
PARENTLY UNLIMITED.

New York. June 1S-Testimony adduced
by the defense in the suit for separation
drought by Katherine Clemmons Gould
against Howard Gould kept edging more
and more today toward Dustin FarRum,
the actor. who has become a familiar fig
IRE in the case. There also We're more
charges by servants that Mrs Could was
repeatedly seen under the influence Of
LIQUOR and that when she had been drink
ing she changed from a charming. affa-
bic woman TO a woman of Whims and
caprices. i'll tempered, careless in her
choice of language, Oyerbearins and quar-
relsome.
Mrs Gould's One-time personal valet
sw1re that at one time he served his mis-
tTess with two quarts Of Manhattan cock
tails iu as many DAYS. besides the wines
and liquors which he said she drank at
the table.
Farnum New Beau.
john H. Kimball. an oil and paint deal
fr. who said he had known Mr.. Gould
for eighteen years, testified that he went
to- a performance of The Nirginian, in
August. 1906 with Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah
Sells and the GOulds, in this city, and
That Dustin Farnum the star in the play,
Joined the party outside the playhouse
after the performance. and spoke 70
Mrs Could She smiled. the witness tes-
lifted. and said to the witness; There
b. my new beau.
John Flynn. who said he was employed
hy Mrs. Gould as d chauffeur and that
la often drove her to meet Farnum after
the play. testified that once when Mrs
Gould was waiting i'm the automobile for
Farnum at the Hotel Somerset, two men
turned 10 the actor as he came out at
tIo hotel door and asked him whose auto
mobile was waiting.
oh" said Fanum. laughingly, that
is my new one
Called Him Dearie.
Another time. Flynn swore, when he
raped on Mrs. Gould's chamber door at
the ST. Regis, she called out:
-AH right. deaTie. and then, when she
saw who I'd was. excused herself with, 4
thought it was Mr., Farnum.
Mary Elizabeth Harrison. who said she
was a floor clerk in the BelleVue-SJrat-
ford hotel in Philadelphia said she had
been impeiled by her conscience TO tell
what she saw at the hotel Finally she
VIote a letter to Mr.. Could.
] said In the letter she testified, In
obedience TO the golden rule. write to
vou to help YOU if YOU are in trouble.
Ur something lie that.
Mrs. Gould occupied apartments on the
floor where she was stationed in Septem-
her 1896. the witness went on, and one
morning about 7:50 o'clock. she said. she
saw q man come out of Mrs. Gould S
room and take the elevator she no
r.ad he was the only passenger In the
car and that the dial registered four
t.-uth floor when the car stopped She
described the man as tall, with dark,
u-snv hair. and wearing a soft hat and
ID long coat.
Actor Careless of Person.
The defense contends that Dustin Far
Tum was staying on the fourteenth floor
off the hotel at that time as they at
f.rrntrd TO show By the next witness,
Florence Garner. who also was employed
as d floor clerk in the hotel. She testi-
fled that Mrs Gould then had rooms
600 q lower floor. She remembered that
one morning Farnum came up in the ele-
rat0r rather early and appeared to her
'I.ss well grOOmed than usual"
Did YOU take any means TO find out II
Air. Farnum's room had been occupied
rHat rfeht2" asked Delaney NicOl Mr.
EluId's lawyer
NO but the maid reported that II had
not BEEN" the witness answered
Court then adjourned until Monday.