Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-12

| that responsibility for these bills would
net be continued by the Defendant. The
alimony allowance of So. 900 was to he
paid to Mrs. Gould in monthly INSTALL
| ments.
! Il nave not the slightest idea of the
| correctness of these bills" declared
Mrs. Gould, after the letter had been
| rad.
| more bills; bills for finery and for neces-
| Sltles' ana gifts for servants. Some of
| them Mrs. Gould could identify as hers.
| others she couldn't.
III striking contrast with this recital of
| luxurious articles was Mrs. Gould's testi-
| mony that at times at Castle Gould she
was actually without provisions.
You told Mr.. Sherin that while Won
We're at Castle Gould it was impossible
, for you to have any provisions sent to
the house What period to you speak
| Cf?' she was asked.
FROM the time when Mr. Gould left on
July 16 up to Augusta of the next wear.
when L left for the last time-when I
| was really forced to leave" was the
reply.
Are you prepared to swear that with
/ in that period you were not supplied with
ali the necessaries?"
Il am prepared to swear was ref,ls-
ed every day. was the firm answer
Mrs. Gould's counsel questioned Mrs.
Gould about the Blue Gap farm near
Lynchburg and the witness said she paid
s5SO00 for it. Mrs. Gould said the farm
was controlled by a corporation in which
she put the most money. After Mrs
Gould had~told what she had taken from
Castle Gould to the Lynchburg farm, Mr..
Nicoll asked the witness her age, but the
| court excused her from answering that
or from telling where she was born. Be
tore her marriage, Mrs. Gould said, she
was known as Viola Katherine Clemmons
and as Viola Day, the latter being the
name of her stepfather.
Mr.. Nicoll asked the witness if she had
| ever Travelled with a Wild West show.
Mrs. Gould replied that she had once
Travelled with Miss Ada Cody and had ac-
companied the show to Naples, Rome and
other European cities. She had seen a
good deal of Col. Cody, as he was her
manager and she had frequently to con-
suit with him, the witness said.
Mr.. Nicoll next questioned Mrs Gould
about her residence in the ST. Regis hotel
in New York in August, 1906 Mrs. Gould
said she often had company in her rooms
there for luncheon and dinner and that
Dustin Farnum, the actor, had dined with
her at the St Regis. On a motor trip in
September she said she met Farnum and
dlnod with him in the restaurant of a
hotel in Hartford. CT. She said she next
saw Farnum in Philadelphia on Oct T.
Mrs. Gould said she met Mr. Farrum
at Castle Gould in the fail of 1906. This
happened when conveyance in which
Mrs. Gould was riding collided with
truck between New York and jamaica
Mrs. Gould said she did not go to n road
house and sup with Mr. ITarnum after the
collision, but on a visit at the Castle
Gould they stopped at Il road house on
the Vanderbilt race course and had some
refreShmcnt brought out to them, but did
not enter the house.
Mrs. Gould said she could not recall
whether she had anything to drink but
declared that it would not have been
| unusual. With Mr. Farnum Mrs Gould
said She returned to the St Regis hotel
about II o'clock that night and Mr.
Farnum accompanied her to her apart
| to his own rooms.
Mrs. Gould said she had Mr.. Farnum
to supper at the Hotel Bellevue STRAIT
ford, Philadelphia. on oct. II and that
| he suppcd with ner the following day
and with some friends a day later. A
| few days later she went with him as
| far as Jersey City in an automobile.
Mrs. Gould stated that she saw Mr..
Farnum in Washington on Oct 20 and
| that she afterward visited the Blue
| Gap farm in November.
| A letter written by Mrs. Gould to
Manager Malloy of the Castle Gould
| estate, was put in evidence In it she
| instructed him to prepare an elaborate
| dinner to be held there, but Mrs. Gould
| said the dinner was never held as the
| guests did not ccme and that she new
er went to the castle after November,
| 1906
| The witness then identified bills for
| jcWery which she had purchased in
| New York in the fall of 1906, including
one bill for $51 900, one fer $4,000 for
| a diamond pendant, $4,000 for a dia-
| mond chain and $500 for a string of
| pearls which she wore in court today.
! Mrs Could said she made purchases
without asking the price, having the
articles sent home and the price charg-
| ed to her account. She was then ques-
toned about the purchase of IA hats
and eight blouses in. September, 1906.
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