The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-16
SERVANTS TESTIFY TODAY THAT MRS. GOULD USED
 INTOXICANTS TO EXCESS
But None of the Witnesses Saw
 Her Take a Drink.
One Declared That She Was so Unsteady on Her Feet She Swayed and Had to Hold onto a Wall for Sup port-Under Cross Exami- nation Witness Said His Memory Was Helped by His Diary.
Especial from United Press.)

lSpeC1aI ITCI1 Onllcu IIcSS-J
 New York. June 16.-Further testi-
 nony by servants employed by How
 ard Gould that his wife was an habit
 uaI user of intoxicants to excess was introduced today when the trial of
 Mrs. Gould's suit for legal separation
 on the grounds of desertion was re-
 stunned before Justice Bowling. The
 trial was late in starting and there
 was a whispered conference between the attorneys and the justice regard-
 ing the testimony prior to the wit ness's being sworn. Henry Turner
 who stated that he was employed in the green houses at Castle Gould since
 1906, swore that he saw Mrs. Gould under the influence of liquor in the latter part of July or in August. 1eo6
 He declared that she had asked him a
 question and was so unsteady on her
 feet that she swayed and had to hold
 on to a wall for support
 He also related another alleged in
 stance which happened on November 6 of that year. Mrs Gould, he teSti-
 fled. summoned all of the servants to
 the estate office and half dozen times informed them that 'I ann Mrs. How
 ard Gould He characterized her appearance as unsteady" and insist ed that her face twas flushed
 Cross-examined by Shearn the wit ness stated that they were the only
 two occasions when he had ever seen Mrs Gould when she appeared to
 Turner testified that he had never seen Mrs. Gould take drink and in formed Shearn that she was driven to the estate office in her carriage She Hrst talked to Malloy and then to the other servants She had told Malloy that he was discharged and "called him some names" Shearn asked him If Mrs. Gould had not complained to <k, ><t tar cnr mt ho were refusing to obey her and he ad- 1ntfted che said something like this. He
 stated4 thai he had no contract with Howard being employed from month to month at $100 a month and board William Wysong, who was employed at Castle Gould in 1903. testified that Mrs. Gould, while apparently under the influence of liquor, called William F. Murphy a bad name" At the time of the alleged occurrence Wysong was inside of steam roller and heard the remark, through the curtain" Un- der cross-examination he admitted he was 150 feet away from Mrs. Gould .at ahe time and did not see her face, rec Dgnizing the voice.
 Wysong denied that he had any thing to do with getting af1davits in the case and claimed not to know that his brother ever did so.
 Augustus Wright, who said that he was the ssclark" at the estate of Howard Gould, employed by Malloy, 6v4OES Ln6l AS SAW 14IS. 0Ou1Q icAted in the storehouse at the estate. She was angry because he had failed to send stores to the house. He also testified regarding the meeting of the servants in the office of the estate de- that Mrs. Gould abused us all and told us to get out" Cross-exam- ined, he declared his memory was ''helped'' by his diary and said Malloy also kept a diary but he did not know if the other servants who have 'fe6tffied have one.
 Regarding the memorable meeting with the servants. the witness alleged that Mrs. Gould talked for twenty i inutes- keeping her balance by cling Ing to the window casing. Like those who had preceded him, this. witness also had never seen Mrs. Gould take a drink-
 Next followed Reinhold Carlson, who from October. 1904. until August, 1905, was head coachman at Castle Gould. He related three specific instances when he said Mrs Gould was intoxi- cated- On one occasion he took her driving in a skeleton brake and mo- ticed ''her face was flushed and she did not sit straight" He declared he was afraid she would fall out of the rig A couple of weeks later, he swore Mrs Gould came to the stables and gave him orders- "She smelled strongly of .iQuof." he declared. On a third oc- casfon, while driving Mrs. Gould, the witness alleged they hftched the horses to tree ''She got out and hitched them to a wagon" he said, "but final | ly gave 1t up and tied them to a tree. She also smelled strongly of liouorn