The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-19
CANNOT keep
" y, FARNUM OUT
Name Of Actor BObs Up In
Gould Trial.
FRIENDLY WITH PLAINTIFF

Paint Dealer, Chauffeur and Hotel
Employees Testify TO Numerous In.
oidents Tending to Show That Mrs.
Gould Frequently Referred TO "The
Virglnisn" In Terms Of Endesr.
nent and Entertained Him In Her
Apartments.
New York, June 19.--The flow OF
testimony adduced by the defense in
the suit for separation brought by
Katherine Clemmons Gould against
her husband, Howard Gould, keeps
sdging more and more toward Dustin
Farnum, the actor, whose broad
shoulders and mop OF curly hair have
become familiar figure in the case.
John II. Kimball. an oil and paint
dealer. who said he had known Mr..
Gould for IS years, testified that he
went to a performance of "The Vir-
ginian" in August, 1906. with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elijah Sells and the Goulds. at
the Academy of Music, and that Dus-
tin Farnum, the star in the play.
Joined the party outside the play
house after the performance and
spoke to Mrs. Gould. She smiled, the
witness testified. and said to the wit
ness. This is my new beau"
John Flynn. who said he was en-
ployed by Mrs. Gould az a chauffeur
and that he often drove her to meet
Farnum after the play. testified that
once when Mrs. Gould was waiting in
the automobile for Farnum at the
Hotel Somerset, two men turned to
the actor as he came out at the ho-
tel door and asked him whose auto
mobile was waiting. oh" said Far
mum. laughing, Flynn testified, that
is my new one"
Another time, Flynn swore, when
he raped on Mrs. Goulds chamber
door at the st. Regis, she called out,
"All right, dearie," and then, when
she saw who II was, excused herself
with. Il thought it was Mr.. Farnum."
Mary Elizabeth Harrison, fresh
checked, goodlooking girl, who said
she was a floor clerk in the bellevue
Stratford hotel in Philadelphia, pro-
faced her testimony with the expla-
nation that 1t was her first appear
ance in court. She had been impelled
by her conscience, she said. 10 tell
what she saw at the hotel. Finally
she wrote letter to Mr.. Gould.
Mrs. Gould occupied apartments o.
the floor where she was stationed in
September, 1906, the witness went
on, and one morning about 1880
o'clock she said she saw a man come
out OF Mrs. Gould's room and take
the elevator. She noticed that he
was the only passenger In the car
and that the dial registered four.
teenth floor when the car stopped
She described the man as tall, with
dark, bushy hair and wearing a soft
hat and long coat.
The defense contends that Dustin
Farnum was staying on the four
teenth floor of the hotel az that time.
az they attempted to show by the
next witness. Florence Garner She
also was employed in September.
1905, as floor clerk in the Bellevue
Stratford, on the fourteenth floor, she
said, when Dustin Farnum was play.
ing In THE Virginian" at Philadel.
phia. She testified that Farnum had
a room on that floor at the same time
Mrs. Gould roomed on a lower floor.
She remembered that one morning
he came up in the elevator rather
early and appeared to her less well
groomed' than usual.
did you take any means TO find
out II MIR. Farnum's room had been
occupied that night?" asl.ed Delaney
Nicoll, Mr.. Gould's lawyer NO but
the maid reported that II had not
been" the witness answered.