The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17

Mrs. Gould drove with him about the es-
 tate and acted very peculiarly toward the various employees. She would ask them all who they were, what they did, al-
 though she knew them perfectly well.
 She drove to the lodge at one time and asked the keeper if he had a revolver. He told her he had" said Carlson, and she ordered him to go down to the gate
 and stand there and shoot any one who attempted to come in or go out. l could smell strong liquor on her breath l sat beside her in the trap and she was intoxicated"
 United a Mule.
 Upon another occasion Carlson said he was driving Mrs. Gould when they came to a place where men were unloading coal and two mules were hitched to a
 tree nearby. "She got out of the car riage and united one of the mules and tried to hitch them up together, said the witness She tried three times and
 then had to give 1t up."
 Carlson said Mrs. Gould was very bois- terious until their return to Castle Gould
 on this occasion and laughed hard with
 out any provocaton. He said she was
 intoxicated at that time. He also told
 of a coaching trip in July, 1905, when he said he saw Mrs. Gould drinking on the
 lawn and was intoxicated.
 One afternoon Mrs. Gould hurriedly or dered phaeton and a pair of horses and 1 told Carlson she wanted to catch a train. | He started the horses at a rapid pace
 but Mrs. Gould kept telling him to drive | faster. saying, T don't give damn if
 you kill them I must catch this train and l If l don't there will be trouble at the | stables"
 | Carlson said he galloped the horses all | the way, a distance of two and a half | miles and then missed the train Mrs. | Gould told him to go back and discharge every one in the stables. They were all
 reinstated soon afterward. The witness 1 declared that Mrs. Gould was intoxicated
 on all these occasions in his opinion. Admission of Witness. | MT. Shearn went over the terms of
 Carlson's employment at Castle Gould
 and got the witness to admit that he | drove Mrs. Gould about a great deal and there were many times that she | did not act or appear as if she had | been drinking. Carlson said he met Mrs. Gould in 1908. She told me if I
 testified she would have me arrested l for perjury and asked me to think what
 would become of my wife If I was
 sent to prison, said Carlson T told her she could not arrest me for per 1 jury if l only told the truth"
 | Mrs. Amanda Carlson. wife of the 1 former head coachman at Castle Gould, who testified at the morning session, was the first witness this afternoon. | She told of seeing Mrs. Gould intoxi- | cated on two or three occasions. l Jane McCann, who was employed as l a chambermaid at the Gould estate for | four weeks in the summer of 1904, tes- | tifed that Mrs. Gould was intoxicated | the day the witness arrived at the cas- | tie. On one occasion the witness said
 some of the men servants were moving | a sewing machine when Mrs. Gould | came into the room and called the men
 damn stupid fools" On still another occasion the witness said Mrs. Gould came home in her automobile and soma | of the servants had to assist her into | the house because of her intoxicated l condition.
 Bottle of Brandy.
 T once saw Q bottle of brandy in her