The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-19
WITNESSES RELATE SOME QUEER
ACTIONS ON PART OF MRS.
HOWARD GOULD.
MUCH LIQUOR CONSUMED
on One Occasion He Served His Mis-
tress With Two Quarts Of Manhattan
Cocktails in as Many Days Besides
Other Liquors She Drank.

New York. June 1s.-Testimony ad
duced by the defense in the suit fol
separation brought by Katherine
Clemmons Gould against Howard
Gould kept edging more and more to.
day toward Dustin Farnum, the actor
who has become a familiar figure In
the case. There also were more
charges by servants that Mrs. Gould
was repeatedly seen under the in
fluence of liquor and that when she
had been drinking she changed from
charming, affable woman to a
woman of Whims and ,caprices, i'll
tempered, careless in her choice of
language, overbearing and quarrel
some.
Mrs. Goulds one-time personal valet
swore that at one time he served his
mistress with two quarts of Manhat-
tan cocktails in as many days, besides
tire wines and liquors which he said
she drank at the table.
John Fl. kmball, an oil and paint
dealer, who said he had known Mrs.
Gould for 1S years, testified that he
went to a performance of THE Vir-
ginian," in August, 1906, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elijah Sells and the Gouds, i'm
this city, and that Dustin Farnum, the
star of the play, joined the party out
side the playhouse after the perform
ance and spoke to Mrs. Could.
New Beau. ~
She smiled, the witness testified, and
said to the witness: '"There is my
new beau.'
John Flynn, who said he was en-
ployed by Mrs. Gould as a chauffeur,
and that he often drove her to meet
Farnum after the play, testified that
once 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 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 door
at the st. Regis, she called out: "All
right, dearie.' and then, when she saw
who it was, excused herself with II
thought it was Mr.. Farnum."
Mary Elizabeth Harrison. who said
she was a floor clerk in the Bellevue
Stratford hotel in Philadelphia, said
she had been impelled by her con-
science to tell what she saw at the
hotel. Finally she wrote letter to
Mr. Gould.
II said in the letter." she testified |
:" In obedience to the golden rule, |
write to you to help you if you are in
trouble or something like that"
Mrs Gould occupied apartments on |
the floor where she was stationed in |
September, 1905, the witness went on.
and one morning about 80 o'clock
she said, she saw a man come out of
Mrs. Goud's room and take the ele-
vator She noticed he was the only
passenger in the car and that the dial
Registered fourteenth floor when the
ear stopped She described the man
as tall, with drak bushv hair and
wearing soft hat and long coat.
Not Well Groomed.
The defense contends that Dustin
Farnum was staying on the fourteenth
loor of the hotel at that time, as they
attempted to show by the next wit
ness, Florence Garner who also was
fH'pioyeu Gus IL lloof clerk III lne nOleL
She testified that Mrs. Gould t, en- had
looms on lower floor. She remem-
pered that one mo ming Farnu,n came
ap IN the elevator rather early and ip-
peared to her less well sroomed" than
Usual.
Did you take any means to rird
Put If Mr.. Farnum's room had been
occupied that night?" asked Delaney
Sicoll, Mr. Gould's LAWYER
mo; but the maid reported that It |
bad not been" the witness answered. ,
Court then adjourned until Monday. {