The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-15

day a letter from MIS-. CQarlOttes N4coli
Weston sister of Delaney Nicoll. Mr..
Gould's attorney, was given out. deny
ing that Mrs. Gould had given her a
dress. Mrs Weston said she had never
seen Mrs. Gould. When the letter was
shown to Mrs. Gould, she said:
Il did not give the gown to her per-
sonally, but she was one of the ac-
tresses who received a box of gowns
that 1 sent to one of the theaters.''
Maurice Malloy, superintendent of
the Castle Gould estate, was the first
witness today called in the interest of
Mr.. Gould. Mr.. Shearn, for Mrs.
Gould, objected to some of the ques-
tions asked him by Mr.. Watson, asso-
ciate counsel for Mr.. Gould, but Justice
DowIing ruled that 1t was proper to
have the habits of the plaintiff, Mrs.
Gould. proved. Malloy said he was
given control of the Castle Gould
estate.
Went to Europe With Her.
Did you go to Europe with Mrs.
Gould ?''
Yes, I went on the Kaiser wilhelm
Der Crosse with Mrs. Gould and Mr..
Sells on February g."
How soon after you went to Castle
Gould did you see Mr.. and Mrs. Gould
on the estate?'
Early in June, 1906"
What was the first conversation you
had with Mrs. Gould at Castle Gould 2"
There was an objection to this ques-
ton, which the court sustained: "At
what time at Castle Gould did you find
Mrs. Gould under the influence of in
toxicating liquors?"
II object said Mr. Shear 'and I
want to argue this point. If the state
mentS show that she was under the in
fuence of liquor it would not give him
any justification for abandonment"
Mr.. Shearn then cited several author
tiles and a number of precedents and
there was considerable argument on
the question.
Mal1oy mentioned an occasion
when he said Mrs. Gould reprfmanded
her walk was unusual and that she
fell against the window and
"ricochetted against the bannister. :"
He said she had only a little while
previously ordered him to go outside
and then had told him to come and
At this point Mr.. Shearn interposed
with a motion to have "all that
stricken out except alien and in
solent puppy" creating laughter in
which Mrs Gould Joined.
Malloy was allowed to tell of oc-
casions when Mrs. Gould, he said, had
applied abusive epithets to him.. She
was under the influence of intoxicants
in his opinion on these occasions
"Alien and insolent puppy, We're
some OF the eplIuclS, MdliOy lOoti1iCN
Mrs. Gould applied to him. Malloy
said as manager of Castle Gould he
received an annual salary of $40, 900
from Mr.. Gould, but this did not in
fiuence his attitude towards the prin-
cipals in the present suit. He gave a
long list of estates by which he had
been employed in England.
Seven Bottles in Two Weeks.
other employees of the Gould estates
were called in continuation of de-
fense's efforts to show that Mrs.
GouId's conduct had furnished Justifi-
cation for her husbands abandonment
of her Alfred Richards of this city.
employed as steward at Castle Gould
in the summer of 1905. who had
charge of the buffers pantry, testified
that on several different occasions he
had seen Mrs. Gould under the inf1u-
ence of liquor.
At one period, he said, Mrs. Gould re-
mained in her room for two weeks and
the witness supplied her with liquors
morning. noon and night The liquors
were delivered to her maid. In the
morning two cocktails were frequently
served; at luncheon light wines, later
whisky and soda and in the evenings,
as rule, two drinks of brandy. In
the course of two weeks the contents
of seven bottles of brandy in all we're
sent to Mrs. Gould's room, the witness