The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-23

/ 1DUE guests are Tree 10 80 anu NNiLtAC
1 as they please; is that it?' asked MI
/ NicoI
Yes. but we have a chambermaid
| who is expected to observe anything I'M
/ usual" Mr.. Lynn replied.
! The witness said that only one meal
/ had been served in Mrs. Gould rooms.
/ according to the bill
System of Mirrors.
Arthur L. Barney. formerly assistant
/ manager of the Bellevue-StTatfOrd ho-
| te in Philadelphia, was questioned
/ about the system of mirrors at the no
/ tel by which IL is claimed the floor
/ clerks can see every one entering or
/ leaving the rooms on their floor. Mr..
! Barney said this was a fact.
/ James A. PalseT, q theatrical man
ager, who was with The Virgtnian. IN
which Dustin Farnum starred in 1906.
! testified that he accompanied Mrs.
/ Gould and Farnum in Mrs. Gould's au-
/ tomobile from Brooklyn to New York
| after the play on Saturday, Sept. %,
| 1905
/ 1t was the first and only time he had
ever seen Mrs. Gould. Palser got out
at the Somerset hotel. where ne was
stopping. and Farnum drove away with
Mrs. Gould. Palser said he did not sec
( Farnum with Mrs. Gould in LynchburE.
although he was there and stopped at
| the Carroll hotel, where Farnum also
| stopped. He did not know that Mrs.
! Gould was there. the witness said
No Drinks Taken.
John b Leay. "a contractor. who was
doing some work at the Blue Gap farm
in September. 1906, contradiCted the tes-
timony of the carpenter. Trotter, who
said that Mrs. Gould on one occasion
was in the basement drinking with Mr.
Adams Ieay testified he was in the
basement at that time: as he had been
called i'm by Mrs. Gould to help move
| some boards, and he saw no one take
drink.
/ Douglas Robinson, brother-in-law of
ex-President Roosevelt was called by
/ Mr.. SheaTn to contradict the statement
Of the witness Flynn. who said he once
saw Mr.. Robinson with Mrs. Gould in
her electric automobile. Mr.. Robinson
/ said he had never been IN Mrs. Gould 8
automobile In answer to Mr.. NicolI $
question, Mr.. Robinson said there were
/ other RObinsOns engaged in the real es-
tate business, like himself, i'm this city.
John Berdon, now chef at the Hotel
Astor in this city. and in 1905 chef at
| Castle Gould and on the yacht Niagara,
testified that he had never observed
Mrs. Gould when she showed any signs
that she had been drinking.
| James H. Brennan, who said he had
been cashier at the St. Regis since II
] opened i'm 1904. testified that he had
never seen Mrs. Gould under the in
hUence of liquor while she lived there.
Envelopes Full of Checks.
. On cross-examination of the witness
Brennan, Mr.. NicOll showed him a num-
Der Of checks for supplies at the St
/ Regis. which the witness said had been
furnished to Mrs. Gould. The checks
were signed by walters at the hotel for
Mrs Gould and sent to her husband
who paid them, the cashier said.
Mr.. Shearn objected strenuously To
the admission of the checks in evidence
but Justice Dowling overruled him and
admitted them. There were a dozen OF
more large envelopes full of these
checks. most of which were for supplies
during the fall of 1906. Mr.. Shearn said
there was no proof that any of the
checks were genuine, and that they
might be fOrgeries.
All the items which Mr.. Shearn read
were for Manhattan cocktails, with an
item for extra drinks" on the bottom
The great bulk of the checks were not
read in court.
Leo Theimer. head waiter in the main
dining room Of the St Regis when Mrs
Gould lived there. testified that he had
never seen Mrs. Gould acting bolster
ously in the dining room, and had not
seen Nj Farnum with Mrs. Gould al
the hotel.
"As a matter of fact. Mrs. Gould tool
most Of her meals in her apartment
didn't she?" asked Mr.. Nicon, on cross
examination.
Yes. I believe she did" the witnes.
answered.
An Early Riser.
Mrs. Ellen Rock. cametaker at CastI,
Gould from MAY. 1903. to October. 1904
testified that Mrs. Gould was an early
riser.
Her work took her often to Mrs
GOuld's rooms, the witness said, and sh,
never saw any liquors in the room. Sh,
/ never knew of Mrs Gould drinking ;
cocktail before breakfast.
Patrick II. GormCn, station agent a
Port Washington, Long Island. wher.
| the Gould estate is located testified
that he remembered the occasion wheI
/ Carlson. the Gould coachman, drov,
Mrs. Gould hurriedly up to the station
/ and they missed the train. He said Mrs
/ Gould talked with him during the hou
of waiting for the next train. and sh
did not impress him with any charac
teTistiCs of intoXication. Carlson pre-
viously testified that Mrs Gould wa
loud and boisterous on that occasion
made him run the horses all the way &
the station, a distance Of one and one
half miles. and threatened TO discharg
every one in the stable because sh
missed the train.
Only an Occasional Drink.
A chambermaid. a waiter and
seamstress. who were attendants upol
Mrs. Gould a various times, all testi
ned that she only drank an coca siona