Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-17
MRS. GOULD IS BLACKENED
Her Former Servants Tell Scandalous
Stories About Her Conduct.
GETS DRUNK EVERY OTHER DAY
SwOre at Grooms--Raves i'm Dis
heveIIed Condition Before Meni-
aIs-End is Not Yet.

NEW YORK, June 16.-Howard Gould
did not go on the stand today TO testify
against his wife. Katherine Clemmons
Gould. whose snit fzr eparatipn he is
opposing. Instead theretwas a continuation
of servants gossip accounts hv mentals OF
their former mistress's eccentricities, hum
Hating details, sworn to on the stand
of Mrs. Gould's alleged fondness for al
corolic beverages, and her manner at such
times when what the witnesses said was
the influence of liquor, brought from her
lips remarks i'll suited to a woman's
tongue.
And indications are that the plaintiff
must endure for another day possibly for
two the embarrassing ordeal Of listening
to the testimony of former servants, AL OF
whom have been called at the instance
Of her husband to sustain, If possible. his
contention that living with his wife was
impracticable and decidedly unoIaasant
hence that the charge of abandonment,
the meinstay of Mrs. Goulds case, is not
borne out
Was often Intoxicated.
What Mrs. Gould heard today was but
a reiteration and in some respects an ann
plication Of yesterdays testimony the
basis Of which is that at various and divers
times at the vast Long Island show place
Castle Gould. she had, according to the
witnesses been intoxicated; had abused
menials. had given arbitrary and unreason-
able commands to the servants and had
used severe language in alterations with
her husband
Coachman, gardener, maid and other SER
wants went on the stand and swore to the
demeanor Of the woman who used to give
them orders. An occasion when she would
have fallen from her carriage, but for the
protecting arm of a coachman, an attempt
of hers to drive through a closed gate, and
a time when a footman saved her from
falling intoxicated, were among the things
testified by the Long Island rustic or SER
want on the witness stand. AS on yester-
day, Mrs. Gould was greatly moved as she
heard this evidence.
A carpenter, Herbert Trotter was the
last witness Of the day He said when he
was working in the servants quarters
Mrs Gould rushed in at one time swore
at and abused the servants.
'Her voice was shaky and incoherent,
her hair disheveled and she was very pro-
fame. She was decidedly drunk" said the
witness
she syyears at the GroOnIs.
"At another time she came into the sta
hlss wnue 7 was working there and swore
at the sroomS and so drunk that
every one could tell that she was drunk. y
he continued. He tried TO so up stairs to
the harness room but could not navigate
the steps" he added emphatically.
Trotter said he was ordered to go to|
Blue Gap farm, the Gould place in Vir-
ginia on several occasions during the
first ten days ne was there he testified
he saw her intoxicated and heard her
swear a great deal at the workmen.
''One night she came in from driving
drunk" said the witness, "and began 10
abuse me and a man named Tony She
said to me she wanted the big seven-foot
hall clock moved, and l told her l would
have TO get help. and she said: why,
can move il myself She was staggering
drunk She grabbed the clock and they
fell against the wall together"
Trotter testified that Mrs. Gould was
only occasionally intoxicated" during her
stay OF ten days at the Blue Gap farm
when he was there.
Drunk Every other Day.
How many times do you think she was
intoxicated during that ten days?' asked
Mr., shearn.
Every other day was the reply.
Referring to a time when Trotter said