Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-22
GOULD DECIDES
NOT TO TESTIFY
IN SUIT OF WIFE
ANNOUNCEMENT DlSAPP0lNTS
CURIOUS AT COURT
EMPLOYEES IN HOUSEHOLD DENY
TALES OF INEBRIETY
Private Secretary Says Plaintiff Die
tated Ten Letters Every Day and
Chef Did Not Garry Her
Upstairs
fBv Associated Press.)

III seekers and the curious who nave
4N attended daily the sessions OF
Katherine Clemmons Gould's suit for
separation from her husband, Howard
Gould. were disappointed at the re-
sumption of the hearing before Justice
Dowling today, when it was announced
that the defense rested ana tnat nov
ard Could would not take the stand
clarence ], Shearn, counsel for the
plaintiff, apparently was greatly sur
prised. Mr.. Gould seemed reHeVed anu
Mrs. Gould seemed annoyed: o,,u
"Since the recess Of last Friday, your
honor" said Delaney NicoH, counsel
for MIR. Gould, my associates and l
have decided that the testimony we
have offered is so complete that there
is No necessity of going further. Ihere-
fore we have decided to rest"
Mr.. Shearn led off the rebuttal with
testimony designed to show, he eX-
planned, "the falsity of the charges that
Mrs. Gould was continually and ma
bitually intoxicated from 1902 to the
present date"
He produced many below-stairs wit
nesses whose testimony was followed
by the reading of dispositions OF guests
and friends who swore that Mrs. Gould
never, to their knowledge, drank 10
excess and that she always was ana
Bile, reserved anu IlOuOSl III hSA
euage 1t was on account or the uneX-
pected attitude taken by the defense
that Mr.. Shearn ran short of witnesses
late in the day and was obliged to IN
troduce the dispositions. He promised,
however, to have about fifty witnesses
ready when court opened tomorrow
who will testify in rebuttal to disprove,
If possible, the husbands charges, in
Guiding those of Mrs. Gould's assocla-
tions with Dustin F'arnum.
Evidence at Philadelphia
Mrs. Howard Gould. accompanied ny
T. #. Sturtevant, of Clarence Shearn
office. arrived here yesterday after
trip to Philadelphia. She MADE the
trip for the purpose of securing refuta~
tion of the testimony of two employees
of the Bellevue-Stratford hotel IN
philadelphia with regard to the loca-
tion of rooms in the hotel anu otiier
testimony given by them.
The deposition taken up by Mr.
shearn was that of Mrs. Alice S. Bank
head of Atlanta, Ga, wife OF Lieut.
Henry Bankhead of Fort McPherson'
Ca. who visited Mrs. Gould on numer-
Gus occasions.
Mrs. Bankhead related the incidents
of a visit to Mrs. Gould as the latter
guest in Cairo, Egypt, in 1902, when
the party visited the khedive's palace.
The witness described Mrs. Gould S
conduct on this occasion as 'ladylike
and above reproach." Mrs. Bankhead
accompanied the Goulds on their yacht
from Cairo to Alexandria. Mrs. Gould. S
conduct was perfect and beyond crltl-
cisrl," according to Mrs. Bankhead.
Mrs. Gould was never intoxicated
during this trip, the witness deposed.
The witness stated that she had Wis
tied Mrs Gould at Castle Gould and
the st. Regis hotel for periods of sew
eral weeks at a time, and never saw
her use intoxicants to excess at any
time.
"Mrs Gould never drank more than a
cocktail before dinner, and only light
wine with her dinner, not more than
the average society lady drinks" said
the witness.
"Mrs. Gould would usually take a
cocktail before luncheon, but the ex-
tent of her drinking was not noticeable
to me on account of her conduct" the
witness continued. She never saw Mrs.
Gould drunk in the evening, and never
heard her swear or use improper Ian
guage. The witness was with Mrs.
Gould in Chicago in 1907, and noticed
nothing improper in her conduct. Mrs.
Bankhead said her daughter, Gather
inc. who was born August 81, 1905, was
named after Mrs Gould.
Mentioned Farnum Once
ON cross examination, Mrs. Bank
head 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 that their names were
mot linked together in any improper
way
Mrs. Shearn next read the deposition
of Lieutenant Bankhead, who testified
in regard to various visits of himself
and wife to the Gould estates and at
hotels in this city. He had never seen
Mrs. Gould intoxicated or observed her
conduct to be unladylke. The witness
deposed he had never seen her drink
more than any of the guests at dinners.
On cross-eXamination, Lieutenant
Bankhead said that when placed on
oath to tell the truth he would testify
unhesitatingly in regard to woman's s
conduct.
Louie o. Foreman, superintendent of
a cleaning firm, who said he had been
at Castle Gould frequently during the
four years from May, 1901 to December,
1906 engaged in installing heating
and ventilating plant, was the first
witness called by the plaintiff. He tes-
tilted that he had met Mrs. Gould quite
often. as she would give him instruc-
tions about the work at Castle Gould,
and never saw her intoxicated or heard
her use strong language to the servants
or employees
Heard No Bad Language
on cross examination Mr. Nicoll
asked MIR. Foreman for the dates when
he had seen Mrs Gould at Castle
Gould. but the only occasion he could
remember specifically was in August,
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