The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-19
fARNUM, ACTOR,
AND MRS. GOULD
Testimony in Scandslous Case
Deals More and More With
the Thespian.
SERVANTS CONTINUE TO
RELATE THEIR STORIES
Katherine's Capacity for Cham
pagne Cocktails Seems TO
Have Been Unlimited.

NEW lO'Np June IS.--l eStlmOny adj
duced by the defense in the suit for sep
aration brought by Katherine Clemmons
Gould against Howard Gould. kept edg-
ing more and moro today toward Dus-
tin Farnum, the actor, who has become
familiar figure in the case.
There also were more charges by
servants that Mrs. Gould was repeatedly
that when she had been drinking she
changed from Il charming, affab,e
woman To Il woman Of whims and ca
prices, lll-tempered. careless in her
choice. OF language, oVcrbearing aud
quarrelSomc.
Mrs. Gould's onc-time personal valet
swore that at one time he served his
mistress with two quarts of Manhattan
cocktails lu as many DAYS, besides the
wines and liquors which he said she
drank at the>table.
Her New Beau
John II. kimball, an oil and paint
dealer. who said me had known Mr.
Gould for eighteen years, testified that
le went to performance of The Nir
ginlan' in August. 1906. with Mr. and
Mrs. Elijah Sells and the Goulds. in this
sity. and that Dustin Falnum, the star
IN the play. joined the party outside
the playhouse after the performance
and spoke 10 Mrs. Gould
She smiled, the witness testified. and
SAID to the witness. 'fThcrc Is my new
John Flynn, who said he was en-
ployed by Mrs. Gould as chauffeur, and
that he often drove her to meet Farnum
after the play, testified that once when
Mrs. Gould was waiting in the ANTONIO
ble for Farnum at the Hotel Somerset.
TWO men turned 10 the actor as he came
out at the hotel door and asked him
whose automobile was waiting.
Oh, SAID Farnum laughingly,
that is my new one
Another time Flynn swore. when he
raped on Mrs. Gould s chamber doog
at the st. Regis, she called out:
''AIi right, dearie, - and then. when
she saw who IL was, excused herself
with, I thought 1T was Mr.. Falnum,
Down by Conscience.
Mary Elizabeth Harrison. who said
she was floor clerk in the Bellevue
Stratfurd hotel in Philadelphia said she
had been impclled by her conscience TO
tell what she saw AT the hotel, Finally
she wrote a letter to Mr., Gould.
81 said in the letter" she testified.
81 II obedience TO the golden rule, I
writo to- you to help YOU if YOU arc in
trouble. or something like that
Mrs. Gould occupied apartments on
the floor where sho was stationed in
September, 1906, the witness went on,
and one morning about I:30 clock
she SAID, she saw man come ont Of
Mrs, Gould's room and take the Gle
vator. She noticed he was the only
passenger IN the car and that the dial
registered fourteenth floor when the car
stopped. She described the man as tall,
with dark bushy hair and wearing soft
hat and long coat.
The defense contends that Dustin
Iarnum WAS staying on the fourteenth
~ la. 1,..tg Il IL.
attempted to show by the next witness.
Florence Gardner, who also was en-,
ployed as floor clerk in the hotel.
She testified that Mrs. Gould then had
rooms on lower level. She remem-
bercd that one morning Farnum came up
in the elevator rather carly and ap-
peared to her ''less we'll croomcd - than
usual.
Did You take any means to find
out If Mr.. Faruum s room had been
occupied that nieht? asked Delaney
Nicoll, Mr.. Gould $ lawyer
No, but the maid reported that il
had not been, the witness answered.
Court then adjourned until Monday.
One of the sensations of thc trial lie.
Xeloped Just before the close of ycstcr.
day s proceedings in thc testimony Of
Herbert Schmidt. the Goulds footmau
story on the witness stand of gather.
ing Of several wellkpowu New York
women AT which Mrs. Gould was present.
IN the apartments ot Mrs. Underwood
kirkpatrick, when, according To Schmidt,
the hostess arm WAS bitten, another
woman received a black eye, and he
1ouDd Mrs. Gould IN the cellar of the
house weeping.
Testimony of Valet
Harry J. Vcitch Of Des Moines, la.
was the first witness called 10 the stand
By the defense today. He was employed
ss a yalct by Mrs, Gould from Dccom-
her, 1905, TO September. 1906, the wit,
ness said. and during that time travelled
with her TO tho West Indies and Europe,
and attended her al the St. Regis hotel
in this city and al Castle Could.
Ncitch testified that he had seen Mrs.
Gould under the influence of liquor sew
cral times. He said She drank n great
deal on the trip 30 the West Indies
on the yacht Niagara. mostly champagne
and Manhattan cocktails.
The witness described an incident
at Castle Gould in July or August,
1906. when he said Mrs. Gould drank
champagne cocktails all dav and be-
came loud and boistcrous and therat,
cDed 10 ''firo everybody in the place.
She asked me 10 tie bcr slippers
and when | started TO do 1t she kicked
them off in the air. ~ said the former
valet
Staggering, but Drinking.
"Sbc was staggering about then, but
ordered one or two more cocktails,
continued the witness, ''and lstCr in
the evening passed her room and the
door was open. She was lying on the
bed fully dressed, sound asleep and
snoring loudly"
ELL the time lie was iestifyiug. She
appeared 10 be much angcred by his
evidence.
The witness repeated statement that
Mrs Gould had ordered him to throw