The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-16
SHOWS SIGNS
Of SHAME AND
HUMILIATION
Witnesses Tell of Use of lntOX-
iCantS by Mrs Katherine
ClemmonS Gould.
NOT ONLY GOT DRUNK,
BUT ABUSED HUSBAND
FAIR PLAINTIFF WEEPS DURING
THE RECITAL OF OCCUR
FENCES ALLEGED.

New York. June 15.-Torn with anger
and extreme humiliation, alternately
flushing with shame, sobbing or clench-
ing her hands in evaporation, Kathe-
rine Clemmens Gould sat through a try
ing ordeal in the supreme court today
at the continuation of her suit for
separation against Howard Gould.
1t was a day of testimony for the de-
tense. during which Mr.. Gould's attor-
ney sought to bring out that Mrs.
GOuld's habits were such that her hus
band was justified in leaving her. In
the event of proving this, the defense
hopes to undermine the charges of
abandonment, the only phase of the
plaintiffs case which has withstoOd the
attacks of opposing counsel Justice
Bowling having ruled out the charges
OF cruelty and non-support-
Rich Gowns and Strong Drink.
Mrs. Gould having naively told yes
teTday what is required of woman of
fashion in the matter Of dress at Palm
Beach and elsewhere, witnesses for the
defense recited today the indulgence of
the same women of fashion in the mat
ter of alcoholic stimulants They told,
further. while the heavily-veiled Mrs.
hands. of remarks and conversations
not i'm keeping with $500 gowns and the
palatial Castle Gould on Long Island.
1t was during this testimony concern
ing the alleged violent and profane lam
guage. some too strong to be printed
with prOpriety. that Mrs. Gould wept
most Yet she recovered herself quick
ly and at times coached her lawyer.
Called Husband a Little Hound"
Specific statements that Mrs. Gould
had been intoxicated on various occa-
siOns, that she called Howard Gould
you little hound" that once she was
apparently 50 under the influence of
liquor~as TO stagger. that her maid
brought liquors to her room, were
among the statements brought out as
employees of the Gould estate related on
the stand their experiences with their
former mistress.
Mrs. Gould's lawyer, Clarence J.
shearn, who had objected strenuOusly
at first to the trend of the testimony.
but was Overruled. injected into the
case the rather novel argument that
admitting even that his client had been
intoxicated. this should have strength
ened rather than have weakened, the
ties between wife and husband.
The Usual Case Reversed.
1T has been held" he said. that if a
husband drank he needed the love and
companionship Of his wife more than if
he were sober. Is not this equally true
I'm the case of the wife?'
Opposing the view, Delaney Nicoll,
for the defense, argued that Mrs.
Gould's alleged excuses. as he would
show. had rendered her unfit for her
househald duties. and that this certain
~ justified the husbands actions and
attitude
It was a rather erratic administration
that Mrs. Gould conducted at Castle
Gould, according to the testimony. Yer
bal clashes with the manager of the
great estate heated arguments over
the construction of a hen coop with
carpenters, one of whom testified that
'she could not walk a straight line" a
period when she remained in her room
for two weeks. consuming seven bottles
of brandy, with other iquors-these in
cidents. and others. were sworn to on
the stand.
One Exciting Night.
Also, there was an account by q
former steward of an exciting night,
when. he said she wanted the house
locked, although Howard Gould was
out on the lawn. This. said the stew
ard. did not seem to appeal to Mrs.
Gould as an argument against closing
the front door, and she told him TO GO
ahead and lock up. To appease her, he
testified. ne shut the door, but did not
lock it,
This was the night that Mrs. Gould
is said 10 have called her husband "a
little hound" a term which she applied
to him, as testified, after he had come
to her room to see what the matter
WAS confusion having been spread
throirEh the great castle by the ringing
Of bells in Mrs. GOuld's room and the
burglar alarm system.
One Favorable Witness,
While most of the testimony was
against Mrs. Gould. one witness spoke
in her favor. He is Charles H. DAMS
of Glen Cove, Ions Island. He testified
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