Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-15
mrs. GOULD'SCAST
OFF CLOTHING.
Delaney MicolI's Sister Denies
That She Had Been Given II
One of Her Dresses.
EVIDENCE is INTERESTING.
Keeper OF Castle Gould is Asked When
He First Saw Plaintiff Under
Influence OF Liquor.

New York, June 15.-Abandonment
was the onlY charge upon which Mrs.
Katherine Clemmons Gould,s suit for
separation from her HUSBAND Howard
Gould. rested when the hearing Of
the case was resumed today The
charges OF cruelty and non-support,
which We're a part of Mrs. Gould's.
OH ginal complaint, having been
stricken out by Justice Bowling at
+ the motion Of counsel for Mr.. Gould.
todaN's evidence was confined to the.
hearing on abandonment only Mrs
Gould has declared that she has not
oxen to Mr., g ould since July, 1906 I
when she had complained to him
about the condition of Maurice Mall
sloS,S whom Mr.. Gould had PUT in
eiarge OF Castle Gould, the Long!
clsland home of Mr.. and Mrs. Gould.
husband sent Elijah w. Sells to her
Ito say hat Mr.. Gould would return
to her if she would agree to certain.
conditions or he would arrange eith-i
5er for a#se paratfon or divorce. These
proposals We're rejected BY Mrs.
Gould
Under the ruling Of Justice Dowl-
Ing Howard Gould was given per-.
mission to present evidence in sup
port of charges that Mrs Gould was
addicted to the use OF intoxicants
and that she had Inundated him be-
fore Ills guests. Il.
DENIES MRS. 8GouLDs STORY.
Before the resumption of the case
today a letter from Mrs Charlotte
fSicoll Weston. sister of Delaney
Sicoll, Mr.. Gould's attorney, was
given out denying that Mrs. Gould
had given her a dress. Mrs. Weston
/ said she had never seen Mrs. Could
When the letter was shown to Mrs.
Gould she said: ;'15
III did not give the gown to her per-
Esonally, but She was one of the act
$resses who received a box OF gowns,
tina 4 sent to one of the tl,eaters.' 2 IS
Morris Nalloy, Superintendent Of the
Castle Gould estate, was the first Wit.
ness today called in the interest of Mr..
Gould. Mr., siiearn. for Mrs II Gould,
ed him by Mr.. Watson, associate
counsel for Mr.. Could. but Justice
Bowling ruled that it was proper to.
have the habits of the plaintiff, Mrs.
Gould, proved AIalloy said he was
given control OF the Castle Gould es-.
tate. 3,s5 II.
S1Did you 90 70 Europe with Mrs
a went on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse with Mrs. Gould and Mr.. Sells
on FEB. g. rs "a. a {j33S
on soon after YOU went I'd Castle
Gould did you see Mr.. and 4 Mrs.
Gould on the estate ~ ~
Early in June 1906. 3t 81 81
/" AT what time at Castle Gould did
you hlld Mrs. Gould under the In
sfluence of Intoxicating liquors 2"
4 object" said Mr.. Shearn. and
s / want to arguethis point. II the
statements show that she was under
Z the influence of liquor it would not
give him any justification for aband-.
onment.'' III & y III
sH Mr.. Sheari then cited several au-5
8thorities and a Number of presidents
and there was considerable argument.
Z DRUNKENNESS
Mr.. Shearn declared that even If the
charges against Mrs. Gould We're true.
II they could not furnish ground for y
separation. drunkenness. it has been
held, has never justified abandonment,
said Mr. Shearn. Instead Of drink
ing on. the part of his wife making
his abandonment more req sonable, 1t
makes it but more reprchensible
AZ. Malloy, however, was permit ted to tell
of various Instances when he said MIS-
Gould was intoxicated.
Referring to onesiof these occasions,
counsel asked sAIallo%: Us
S$3Sl..Did you get close enough to smell
her breath q
t.lNo, / did not get any nearer than
IL had to- said the. witness.
on objection by Mrs. Gould $ counsel
the witness was not permitted to give
"details of many Incidents which oc-
Cured at Castle Gould. the court hold
ing them to be trivial and irrevelant
and not tending to establish the con-
5tention that Mr.. Gould was justified in
Tearing his wife because she was hab-
litually intemper era tie.
e. a ter falloy was allowed Ito tell of
Sot her occasions when Mrs. Gould. he
said, had applied abusive eplthets to
him. She was under he influence of
intoxicarlts, in his opinion, OF. these
occasions. II
these were for the most part after
the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Could
The court held that proof could be of
tered for continuing conditions which
would constitute reason for the husband
refusing to live with his wife. lien"
and ..ilisolent puppy, We're some OF the
epithets fMalloy testified Mrs. Gould ap-
piled to him.
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