The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-22
GOULDFAILSTO
TAKE STAND IN
SUIT OF WIFE
Sensation Seekers DisappOint=
ed When Defense Rests on
Its Showing
Many Witnesses Testify Fair
Complainant Is Not a
Drunkard

seekers and the curious who have at
tended daily the sessions Of Katherine
Clemmons Goulds suit for separation
from her husband. Howard Gould. were
disappointed at the resumption Of the
hearing before Justice Bowling today
when IL was announced that the de-
tense rested and that Howard Gould
would not take the stand.
Clarence J. Shearn. counsel for the
plaintiff, apparently was greatly sur
prised- Gould seemed relieved and Mrs.
Gould annoyed.
Since the recess of last Friday. your
honor. said Delaney NicolL counsel
Tor Gould, my associates and 1 have
decided that the testimony we have
offered is so complete that there is no
necessity for going further. Therefore,
We have decided to rest"
Shearn led of the rebuttal with tes-
tmOny designed 10 show, he fully ex-
planned, the falsity Of the charges
that Mrs. Gould was continually and
. abitually intoxicated from 1902 TO the
f3~esent date"
he produced many below stairs wit
uesses whose testimony was followed
bv The reading Of dispositions Of guests
and friends who swore that Mrs Gould
never, 10 their knowledge. drank TO
excess. and that she always was affable.
reserved and modest in her language.
TAKEN By SURPRISE
II was on account of the unexpected
attitude taken b. the defense that
Shearn ran short of witnesses late in
The day and was obliged TO introduce
The dispositions. He promised. however.
10 have about so ready when court
opens tomorrow, who viii testify in
rebuttal to disprove, If possible, the
husbands charges. including Mrs.
Goulo's associations with Dustin Far
mum.
Mrs. Gould said today that she had
obtained evidence TO refute the testi-
mony Of the employees of the Hotel
Believes tratford who testified that
tney saw Dustin Farnum. the actor,
leave her apartments early one morn
ing during her stay at the Philadelphia
hotel in 1906.
Mrs GOuld's lawyer declined to say
what the refuting evidence was, but
said there would be many surprises for
the defense.
The deposition taken up by Shearn
was that OF Mrs. Alice 5. Bankhead
Henry McCauley Bankhead Of Fort Nc
PhersOn. Ga. who visited Mrs. Gould
on numerous occasions.
BIRS- GOULD ~LADYLIKE-
Mrs. Bankhead related in her deposit
toin the incidents Of q visit with Mrs
Gould, the latter's guest. in Cairo.
Egypt. in 1902, when the party visited
The khediye's palace. The witness de-
scribed Mrs. Gould's conduct on this. oc-
casion as "lsdylike and above re-
prOach."
Mrs Bankhead accompanied the
Goulds on their yacht from Cairo to
Alexandria. Mrs. GOuld's conduct was
perfect and beyond criticism" on that
"trip. according TO Mrs. Bankhead. Mrs.
Gould was never intoxicated during
this trip. the witness depOsed.
The witness said that she visited Mrs
Gould At Castle Gould and the St. Regis
hotel for periods Of several weeks at
time and never saw her use intoxi-
cants 10 excess at any time.
Mrs Gould never drank more than
4 cocktail before dinner and only light
vine with her dinner. not more than
the average society lady drinks
What did you observe she would
drink at lunch time?" was a question
asked by Mrs. Goulds counsel.
Mrs Gould would usually take a
cocktail before luncheon, but the extent
~ her drinking was not noticeable to
me on account of her conduct" the
witness replied. She never saw Mrs.
Gould drunk in the evening and never
saw her boisterOus and never heard
her swear or use improper langua ge.
The witness was with Mrs. Gould in
chicago in 1907 and noticed nothing
improper in her conduct. Mrs Bank
head said that her daughter. Katherine.
who was born August p. 1905 was
named after Mrs. Gould. The deponent
said Mrs Gould was ''dignifed, refined
md gentle, and always conducted her
self in a manner above reproach."
In the cross examination on the
deposition Mrs. Bankhead would not
swear that she had never heard Mrs.
Gould spoken of as a drinking
woman" She said that Mrs. Gould had
never spoken to her but once about
Dustin Farnum. the actor, and had
then told her that their names
were not linked together in any i'm
proper way.
Shearn read the deposition of Lieu
tenant Bsnkhead. son of Senator Bank
head OF Alabama, who testified on va
riOus visits Of himself and wife 10
the Gould estates and at hotels in this
city ne had never seen Mrs Gould in
toxicste or observed her conduct TO
fe uniadylike-
a shearn read the deposition of a
Frnchburg. Va, lawyer. who had taken
lie dispositions OF the colored walters
At the Lynchburg hotel. where II is
contended Mrs Gould and Dustin FAR
. mum were stopping at the same time
in 1906. The Lynchburg lawyer de-
MED that PUllen., the waiter had ever
told him that he had seen a man in
Mrs Gould's parlor at the Carroll
house IN Lynchburg. Pullen had told
MIN all he said he mad stated about
Mrs Could at that time The waiter
later on made deposition for the
other side in New York. telling of the
presence of a man in Mrs. Gould's room
in the hotel IN Lynchurg, which was
read earlier in the trial
Dozens OF other dispositions were in
PRODUCED. al to the general effect that
Mrs. Gould was not an habitual drinker
and did not use abusive language gen
orally toward servants. They were
made by employees at Castle Gould.
aboard the Gould yacht and elsewhere.