The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
Association of Actor and Mrs.
 Gould Is Told By Servants
CALLED HIM HER NEW BEAU
Testimony of Persons Who Once Were Employed By Mrs. Gould Is Very Damaging to Her Case and
 Makes Her Very Angry.


 Makes Her Very Angry.
 New York, June 1s.-The flow of testi- mony adduced by the defense in the suit for separation brought by Katherine Clemmons Gould against her husband, Howard Gould, kept edging more and more today toward Dustin Farnum, the actor, whose broad shoulders and mop of curly hair have become a familiar figure in the case. There were also as- sertions of servants that Mrs Gould was repeatedly seen under the influence of liquor by them, and that when she had been drinking, as they alleged on the stand, she changed from a charming affable woman to a woman of whims and caprices, ill-tempered; not nice in her choice of language; overbearing and quar- relsome.
 Mrs. Gould's former personal valet swore that at one time he had served his mistress with two quarts of Man haitian cocktails in as many days, be- sides the wines and liquors which he Sdlu SIG urdIk dI Ino ldDle.
 On cross-examining these witnesses, At torney Shearn for Mrs. Gould strove al- ways to prove either that they had q per- sonal grudge against her or that they were under obligations to MT. Gould.
 Endearing epithets twice marked the testimony. Gavin H. Kimball, an oil and paint dealer, who said he had known MT. Gould for IS years, testified that he went to a performance of "The Virgin ian in August, 1s06 with Mir and Mrs Elijah Sells and the Goulds at the Acad. emy of Nlrs ,a his city, and that Dus- tin Farnum, the star in the play joined the party outside the playhouse after the performance and spoke to Mrs. Gould. She smiled, the witness testified. and said to the witness:
 This Is my new bsau.~
 chauffeur's Testimony.
 John Flynn. who said he is employed by Mrs. Gould as a chauffeur and that he often drove her to meet Farnum after the play, testified that once when 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 au- tomoblle was waiting.
 "Oh," said Farnum, laughing, F1yun testified, That Is my new one.'
 Another time, Flynn swore, when he rapped 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. T thought 1t was MT. Farnum."
 Mary Elizabeth Harrison, a fresh checked good looking girl who said she was a floor clerk in the Bellevue Stra tford hotel in Philadelphia, pre- faced her testimony with the expla- nation that 1t was her first appear ance in court. She had been impelled by her conscience, she said, to tell what she saw at the hotel. Finally she wrote a letter to MT. Gould.
 q 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. D
 Farnum In Hotel.
 Mrs. Gould occupied apartments on the floor where she was stationed in September, 1906, the witness went on and one morning about 7:30 o'clock, she said, she saw man come out of Mrs. Gould's room and take the elevator. She noticed that he was the only pas senger In the car; and that the dial registered 14th floor when the car stopped. She described the man as tall with dark bushy hair and wearing a soft hat and a long coat. The defense contends that Farnum was staying on the 14th floor of the h otel at that time as they attempted to show by the next witness, Florence Garner. She was also employed in September, 1906, as a floor clerk in that hotel, on the 14th floor, she said when Dustin Farnum was playing in "The Virginia" at Phil adelphia. She testified that Farnum had a room on that floor at the same floor. She remembered that one morn ing he came up in the elevator rather early and appeared to her Tess well groomed" than usual.
 Did you take any means to find out if MT. Farnum's room had been occu- pied that night?" asked Delancey Nicoll, MT. Gould's lawyer.
 No, but the maid reported that it had not been," the witness replied.
 On cross-examination she said she talked with Miss Harrison about the incident afterwards.
 Court adjourned at o'clock until Monday morning. None of the plain tiff's witnesses has been heard in re- buttal. and the prospect is that the case has more than a week more to go.
 Valet On Stand.
 Harry J. Veitch of Des Moines, Ia., called to the stand by the defense to- day, said he was employed as a valet to Mrs. Gould from December, 1905, to Sep tember, 1906, and during that time trav- eled with her to the West Indies and Europe, and attended her at the St. Regis hotel in this city and at Castle Gould.
 "Did you ever assist in preparing her toilet?" asked MT. Nicoll
 "Only on one occasion" answered the witness.
 Veitch testified he had seen Mrs. Gould under the influence of liquor several times.
 He said she drank a great deal on the trip to the West Indies on the yacht
 
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