The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-24
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Annie Conlon, a maid In the employ O
Mrs. Sells, who accompanied Mrs. Goult
on many Of her trips. said that she hat
known Mrs. Gould For ten years and de
olared that the time when Coachmai
Carlson drove Mrs. Gould to the Por
Washington station and missed the trail
Mrs. Gould didn't say she didn't care
damn IL the coachman killed the horses
The maid denied that Mrs. Gould drov'
the coach horses into a gate on n oc
casion. She said the horses merely facet
that gate and that Mrs. Gould entered tn,
estate by another one.
The maid accompanied Mrs. Gould t.
Blue Gap Farm in August. 1908, and sh.
denied that the things occurred to which
Trotter. the carpenter, testified for tn,
defence. One OF these was that Trotte
opened by mistake a box containing
Gould would kill them both II she kne-
about it. She declared that she neve
saw Mrs. Gould drink whiskey.
MISS RoBsoN AND HER WIG.
Mr.. Shearn asked a number OF ques
tions bearing on the happenings at the
Bellevue-Stratford In Philadelphia wher
she was along as maid to Miss Marjory
Sells. She said she knew May Robson
the actress, and saw Miss Robson or
Saturday morning in Mrs, Gould's bed
room before 8 o'clock: She said Miss
Robson had spent the night there.
.Was she dressed?'
Not quite
what was she doing?"
She vas holding her wig up just then.
What else happened?'
Miss Robson and Mrs. Gould were
doing some theatrical work, cutting ur
and making fun"
The witness said that she also saw Miss
Robson in Mrs. Gould's DOT at 7:st
o'clock on Sunday morning n didn't
know whether Miss Robson slept with
Mrs. Gould that night or not. The wit.
ness said she was in Mrs. Gouid's room al
1870 o'clock on Tuesday morning and
didn't see anybody there or in the sitting
room. This evidence was offered to
offset that OF the Bellevue-Stratford floor
clerks. who told of seeing Farnum come
out OF Mrs. Gould's room one morning at
7:3O.
Did you see any man in any of Mrs.
Gould rooms on any morning at or be-
fore 7:a0 o'clock during the Philadelphia
stay3'
NO"
The witness said she was with Mrs.
Gould when she met Farnum in WASH
ington in November and Their went on to
Blue Gap farm with her. Mr.. Shearn
tried to show that when Mrs, Gould and
the maid got to Blue Gap farm Trotter.
t"S 49, tNtAVtSs "us al - out NIIo
Court would not allow the question.
THE TINE r. GOULD FELL OFF A CHAIR.
The maid said she never saw a clock
story OF what happened in the dining
room the night Mrs. Gould is alleged to
have been 80 drunk that she foil of a
chair. became Ill and then lay on the floor
unconscious.
1t was about an hour after we had been
dining. Mrs. Gould had been sitting at
the head OF the table when she suddenly
dropped out Of the chair and fell on the
floor: Trotter was not there then and he
didn't come in any time later. / got a
pillow and raised Mrs. Gould's head up"
/. What did you notice about her face?"
i never, saw anybody LOOK like that
before and | was scared, Her face
comforter and put 1t over her and she lay
there about two hours. She was moaning
all the time. and after she was Ill she
seemed to get better. Mrs. Gould got
up after while and went out doors Tor
nearly an hour and then wen up stairs
and lay On the bed. She didn't get I'M
dressed at all that night
statements by Mrs. Gould to the maid
that she thought she had been poisoned.
but the Court would not receive them.
On the cross-examination Mr.. Nicoll
asked IL Mr.. Farnum visited Mrs. Gould
at the Hote' Raleigh in Washington and
the witness said that he came to Mrs.
Gould's apartment at about ii o'clock at
night and had supper with her and Miss
Sells. She said that the next night Farnum
came to the hotel and took Mrs. Gould
and Miss Sells out to supper.
MI. Nicoll could not shake the VT
ness testimony as to what she saw in
Mrs. Gould'e room at the Bellevue-Stat-
ford. and he asked II the witness insisted
that she saw Miss Robson in Mrs. Gould's
room on Sunday morning not quite
dressed. The maid said she did and MIR.
Nicoll said:
do you know that Miss Robson had
testified that she only stayed n night?"
morning.
The only tine she saw Farnum in Phila-
delphia was when he took Mrs. Gould
and Miss Sells put to dinner Monday
night ut II o'clock.
The last witness Of the morning was
Agnes Young a s~tenographer who vas
employed by Mrs Gould at the st. Regis
in 1871. She said that for four months
Mrs. Gould dictated to her daily from
to 9. most Of the time concerning checks
she had drawn during her'entire married
life. She lever saw Mrs. Gould intoxi-
or drinking liquor in her o
SERVANTS TESTIFY IN PUNCHES.
Witnesses followed each other in rapid
succession at the afternoon session Most
Of them were servants in a minor capacity
who were called to say that Mrs Gould
never swore at them or drank. or else
testimony put in by the de-
fence.
When Elsie Schmidt. a masseuse VIII
Mrs. Gould at the st. Regis. testi-
fled that she level saw her intoxicated |
Mr. Nicoll asked:
DO any Of your patients drink liquor?-
NO"
Il thought not. BY the way. did she
Farnum?"
The witness looked surprised and said
while Mr.. Nicoll appeared to get a good |
deal OF amusement out Of the question.
John Geerin. the captain Of the hall
at the st. Regis in 1908, said that
he never saw Mrs. Gould intoxicated and
that he never saw Dustin FRrnum at the
hotel, although admitting that he didn't
Farnum.
James Coyte. superintendent OF a boot
establishment. said that he saw
Mrs. Gould between q dozen and twenty
times in the period covered by the COM
plant OF Mr.. Gould and that she was
sober.
"She was n pretty good customer Of
yours, wasn't she3' asked Mr.. Niooll.
'Yes; first rate
How many hundred pairs Of shoes did
SHE didn't buy A hundred. Oniv