Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-19
STORY TOLD OF A
TURBULENT PARTY
MRS. GOULD ACCUSED OF BITING
HER HOSTESS AT AFTERNOON
AFFAIR AND ANOTHER WOMAN
WAS GIVEN BLACK EYE.


Veitch of Des Moines, Ia, was called
to the stand by the defense when the
court opened today in the Gould sep
aration suit. He was employed as
valet to Mrs. Gould. yeitch testified
he had seen Mrs. Gould under the in
fuence Of liquor several times. He
said she drank a great deal on the
trip to the West Indies on the yacht
Niagara, mostly champagne and Man
haitian cocktails.
The story of a near fight among so
ciety matrons during which Mrs.
Katherine Clemmons Gould is said to
have bitten her hostess and to have
caused other damages, was partly told
at yesterday afternoons hearing OF
the Gould separation suit. Objections
by counsel and cautions by the court
against repetition of hearsay evidence
prevented the full story from being re-
lated
1t all happened in May, 1905, when
Mrs. Gould, with four others, was
guest at the home of Mrs. George u.
Kirkpatrick, West Thirty-seventh
qstreet The story was told by
Herbert Schmidt, who was serving at
that time as valet, footman and gen
was a general wreckage Of hats and
wearing apparel, according to Schmidt,
while Mrs. kirkpatrick suffered bite
on the arm, inflicted by Mrs. Gould,
and Mrs Taller, now Mrs. Irving
Smeltzer, a black eye, according to
Schmidt, by Mrs. Gould.
The two other guests, Mrs. H. L..
Burnett and Mrs. Jonas B. Kissam,
escaped injury aside from disarrange-
ment of their Wns and hats, but
were found by tie valetfootman weep
ng Historically.
Mrs. Gould Calls 1t Indis. ton.
Mrs. Gould denies that she was a
.,arty to any such imbroglio and says
that her condition on that May. after
noon was the result of. a severe at
tack of indisposition which made her
too weak to walk unsupported.
Schmidt was equally positive that his
mistress indulgence in liquor was at
least partly responsible for the events
that marked the day in his memory.
AFFIDAVIT of bell boy and a waiter
ut the Hotel Carroll, Lynchburg, Va,
shed more light on the meeting there
Of Mrs. Gould and Actor Farnum and
the latter's reception by the million
aires wife. The pair remained at the
hotel, the boy swore, one day after
Mrs. Gould's maid had been sent away
Farnum Dimes in Her Room.
The deposition of Clarence Pullen
negro waiter, which was read at the
afternoon session, was to the effect
that Farnum and Mrs Gould ate sew
eral meals together in Mrs Gould's
private dining room at the Hotel Car
roll
The waiter deposed that she sent {
note by him to Farnum asking him tc
supper, and that he waited upon them
The next morning, according to Pull
len, he was summoned to wait upor
the couple at breakfast, and again a
noon dinner and at supper in tht
evening The waiter always left Far
mum and Mrs. Gould in the suite to
gether, he said. He did not see Far
mum enter before breakfast, and HI
saw no third person other than him
self in the suite.
During the night, after the secont
supper, Mrs. Gould left on train.
Earlier in the day the deposition o
Hotel Carroll bellman named Co,
was read, to the effect that he hat
summoned Farnum to Mrs. Could
room at her request in November
1905.
Herbert Schmidt, the footman am
9alet employed by Mrs. Gould fron
October to May, 1904-5, swore she wa
Intoxicated in February, 1905, whe
she started for Florida in her privat
car Mayfair. Upon one occasion tn
witness left Mrs. Gould and a man i
room with bottle of brandy. TIL
bottle was empty the next morning.
Night Robe Promenade.
Mrs. Gould's night robe promenad
of the saloon Of the yacht Niagara on
hot night whe,a the yacht was off POI
Antonio, Jamaica was described b
Second Steward Edward Brechtolc
In his opinion, Mrs. Gould was unde
the influence of liquor.
The crowds of the curious at tn
doors Of the court room continue t
swell, and as Mr.. Shearn has announ
ID that he will call fifty or more wi