Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-18
QUESTIONS STIR
MRS. GOULD TO
MIRTH AND PAIN
LAWYERS PROBE SECRETS OF
YACHTING CRUISES
BUFFERS, MAIDS AND BELL8oYs
AMONG WITNESSES
Counsel for Millionaire EndeaVors to
Show Wife Was Confused and
Abusive as Result of In
toxicants

uSnI OIL the cfoSS-e&aullndIlOn COLI
~ tinued to oscillate today in the
trial of Mrs. Howard Gould's suit for
separation from the estate at Castle
Gould and the St Regis hotel, to the
farm at Blue Gap. Va, and the Gould
yacht, and back to New York again,
but except for the moments when it
fingered. on Dustin Farnum it never
got very far away from the buffers
keys to the wine cellar.
Delaney Nicoll, counsel for the hus-
band, was willing enough to adduce
testimony that the wife was affable
when herself, if only he could bring her
good nature into contrast with testi-
mony that tended to show her violent,
abusive, uncertain in her motives and
confused in her actions when she was
alleged to have been drinking.
Plaintiff Exhibits Pain
There was no abatement of Mrs.
Gould's ordeal, and as the burden of
reiteration grew heavier. she shrank
visibly and a look of pain came into
her eyes, as if, though she might have
read or seen such things, it was new
realization for her to hear them applied
directly to herself.
At other times she smiled broadly
shook her head in amused denial and
several tunes SldI6u tue N4lIGSS OuI VI
cOuntenance.
Only once was there a break in the
procession of footmen, buffers, chauf-
feurs, maids, walters and bellboys on
whose testimony it is sought OF prove
Mrs. Gould an impossible wife, and that
was when Mr. Nicoll called Melville E.
Chapman, a broker, who was a guest
of the Goulds on the yacht Niagara
during several cruises in the year 1905.
He had several times seen Mrs. Gould
undeniably drunk, he testified, and,
led by Mr.. Nicoll, he described several
alleged outbreaks, with emphasis on
the overbearing manner of the wife
and the efforts of the husband to soothe
and eoncilate her.
Lawyer Becomes Agitated
In an effort to discredit this Witness
Mr.. Shearn drew the word "blackmaiP'
from Mr. Nicoll and became so much
agitated at its application to his own
conduct of the case that for some mo-
ments he was unable to continue his
cross-examination.
The court ruled the use of the word
offensive, and Mr.. Nicoll apologized for
using it.
AS Mr.. Shearn has announced that
he will call fifty on more witnesses to
rebut the testimony of the defense, it
is probable the case will continue for
another week or ten days. To shorten
1t as much as possible. Justice bowling
is holding court unth 6 o'clock daily.
NIGHT Waterman Testifies
Andrew Frederickson. who was en-
ployed as night Waterman at Castle
Gould from September to December.
1906, the first witness called in the
trial, testified he saw Mrs. Gould un-
der the influence of liquor, in his opin-
ion, November 7, 1906.
1T was in the evening and I was
making the rounds of the house the
witness said. Il noticed a fire in the
kitchen garden near the wash house
and saw a woman coming from that
direction. I went up to her and found
it was Mrs. Gould. She said some
thing but I did not understand it. 1
went into the kitchen garden and found
the straw af1re in three places.
'While I was putting out the fire
/ heard loud voices in the kitchen and
went in and found Mrs Gould there.
She asked me if l was the man she
met I told her I was and she wanted
me to go and get the key to the cleo
trio alarm. but I told her l could not
as l had to watch the place. Her face
was flushed and she talked rapidly
and appeared to be under the influence
of intoxicants."
The witness said he saw Mrs. Gould
again the same night and in his opin-
ion she was intoxicated then.
Edward Bechtold, who was in charge
of the wines and liquors aboard Mr..
Gould's yacht Niagara in December
1905, when the Goulds were cruising
with a party of friends, testified that
he saw Mrs Gould intoxicated several
times during the cruise, and that at
dinners she drank more than any one
else.
Has to Steady Herself
On one occasion after a dinner at
Kingston Bechtold said Mrs. Gould took
hold of a chair to steady herself, land
she had to take a long breath before
she could go to her stateroom."
On cross-eXamination the witness
said he had made an affidavit for Mr..
Gould's lawyers and had talked with
them about testifying
''Now you never heard Mrs. Gould
curse or swear on that trip did yOu?'
asked Mr.. Shearn.
"Oh, yes did, said the witness.
One night at quarantine he said he
heard her swearing. On another night
when he was in the kitchen, said the
witness, Mrs. Gould started to open
the kitchen door, mistaking it, the
witness thought, for her stateroom
door which was short distance be-
yond.
"She blushed and turned about and
walked unsteadiy toward her state
room and l followed her, thinking she
wanted something" said the witness.
Mrs. Gould frequently shook her
head at the witness answers and
smiled sarcastically.
Melville E. Chapman. broker who
had been a guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
trips in 1906 testified that Mrs Gould
was frequently under the influence of
intoxicants and very abusive in her
language to the servants.
Recalls Mrs. Gould's Drinking
He said that during a cruise to the
West indies he remembered several oc-
casions when Mrs. Gould had been
drinking and became dissatisfied with
everything and everybody and would
become greatly excited and say that
she intended to run the boat and that
no one should take orders from any
one byt herself. The witness described
two of these outbursts one in Santiago
and the other in Havana habors
''What did Mr. Gould do and say on
these occasions" asked Mr.. Nicoll.
HE invariably tried to soothe and
calm her and pass the incident off
pleasantly" replied the witness.
In endeavoring to get several let
tiers in evidence which Mr. Shearn con-
tended would impeach the credibility
IF Melville c. Chapman, who had tes-
<iIed in the case, and which Justice