Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-06-22
Sensation Seekers ond Curious Who
Attend Trial are Disappointed By
Announcement Of Attorney.
MANY BELOW STAIRS WITNESSES
Shearn Calls Servants in Rebuttai
Testimony-Army Officer ard His
Wife Defend Mrs. Gould, Former
Saying Her Conduct Was Ladyiike
ana Above Reproach.

(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, June Sensation
seekers and the curious who attended
the Katherine Clemmons Gculd's suit
for 50 para,ion from Howard Could We
sadly disappointed at the n sumption
vi the hearings before Justice bowl
ing in the Supreme Court today when
IL was announced that the defense had
rested and Howard Could wOIld not
take the stand 1t had been cXpe cied
tust his dlrect testimony and hi1
REORGANIZATION BY Clarence J.
Shearn. counsel fer the plant Fl. woult
take two full days.
Mrs Shtarn apparently was greatly
surprised by the announcement ;hat
Mr. Gould would not testify. Gould
himself seemed relieved and Mrs.
Gould annoyed.
Mr.. Shearn led off the rehuttal with
& stimony designed 10 show. he *
planned. the falsity of the charge
that Mrs. Gould was continually and
habitually intoxicated from 1902 to the
present date
10 you regard such evidence as
necessary" asked the court.
Servants Testify.
Necessary or not counsel for IN
plaiatiff thereupon produced a stream
of below stairs witnesses whose tes-
, timuny was followed by the reading
of depositions of guests and friends
who swOre that Mrs. Gould never. 10
their knowledge. drank to excess and
that she always was afable. reserve
and modes in her language-testi
mOny directly opposed to that OF the
defendants witness given previously.
A deposition taken up by Mr.. Shearn
was that of Mrs. Alice s. Bankhead.
Of Atlanta. Ga. wife of Lieutenant
Henry McCaulay Bankhead. of Fort
Mcpherson, Ga. who visited Mrs
Gould on numerous occasions.
Mrs. Bankhead related In her de-
position the incident of a visit with
/ Mrs. Gould. as the latter's guest. In
Cairo, Egypt. in 1902, when the party
visited the Khedive's palace. The wit
ness described Mrs. Gould's conduct
on this occasion as "l@dylike and
above reproach."
Mrs. Bankhead accompanied the
Goulds on their yacht from Caro- 10
Alexandria Mrs. Gould's conduct was
perfect and beyond critism" on that
. trip. according 60 Mrs. Bankhead. The
with, s. stated that she had visited
Mrs. Could at Castle Gould and the
ST. Regis hotel for periods Of several
weeks at a time and never saw ncr
use intoxicants to excess.
Just One Cocktail.
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. 3
What did you observe she would
drink at lunch time?" vas a question
asked by Mrs. Gould's counsel
Mrs. Gould would usually take n
cocktail before luncn but the extent
: OF her drinking was not noticeable 10
me on account Of her conduct the
witness replied She nevsr saw Mrs.
Gould drunk in the evening aud never
saw her hO.sicrous and never heard
! her swear or use impropsr language.
she said.
The witness was with Mira Gould
! in Chicago In 1907 and noticed moth
! ing improper in her conduct. Mrs
fsankhcad sad her daughter. Katie
rIne. who was born August y. 1900,
was named after Mrs. Gould The
.. porcnt SAID Mrs. Gould vas dig
nifed. refined and gentle and always
condecfed herself in a manner above
rcproach.~
in the Cross-cxsm!nation IN the de-
position. Mrs. Bsnkhcad would not
swear that she had never heard Mrs
Gould spoken q a. a drinking WON
an
/ s7ok- e. Her % Fsr1Uu-
She sad that Nfs Gould had spoken
o. her but once about Dustin Farnum.
sthe actor. and had then told her that
their names were not linked tcgeth-
ef' IN any improper way.
Mr.. Sheafn read the deposition %
Lieutenant Bankhead The witness
said that b. vas the son Of Senator
/ uankhcad. Of Alabama. and had enter