The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-18
SOUSE ALL THE Time
DAMAGING TESTIMONY is GIVEN
AGAINST MRS. GOULD.
Drank Intoxicating Liquors; Witnesses
State That the Wife of Howard
Had Been Intoxicated on Various
Occasions, That She Used Violent
and Profane Language-Testimon
Causes Woman to Weep.

New York, June 16.-Torn with an
ger and extreme humiliation, alternate
ly flushing with shame, sobbinS or
clenching her hands in evaporation.
Katherine Clemens Gould sat through
trying ordeal in the supreme court
at the continuation of her suit for
separation against Howard Gould.
third son of the late Jay Gould.
1t was day of testimony for the
defense during which Mr.. Gou1d's
attorney sought to bring out through
witnesses who had been associated
with Mrs. Gould that Ter habits were
such that her husband was justified
in leaving her. In the event of prov
ing this, the defense hopes to under
mine the charge of abandonment, the
only phase of the plaintiffs case which
has withstood the attacks of opposing
counsel, Justice Bowling having ruled
out the charges of cruelty and non
support Monday. Howard Gould him.
self may take the stand today.
Mrs. Gould, having naively told on
Monday what is required of a woman
of fashion in the matter of dress at
Palm Beach and elsewhere, witnesses
for the defense recited the indulgence
of the same woman of fashion in the
matter of alcoholic stimulants and
told further while the heavily yelled
Mrs. Gould buried her burning face
In her hands, of certain remarks and
conversations not exactly in keeping
with $500 gowns and the palatial Cas-
tie Gould on Long Island.
1t was during this conversation con-
corning some of the alleged violent
and profane language, some of it as
related too strong to be printed with
propriety, that Mrs Gould wept most.
Yet she recovered herself quickly and
at times coached her lawyer, refresh
ing his mind on certain incidents with
suggestions and reminders.
Intoxicated on Various Occasions.
Specific statements that Mrs. Gould
had been intoxicated on various occa-
sions, that she called Howard Gould
"you little hound" one night, that
once she was apparently so under the
influence of liquor as to stagger
against the bannister at Castle Gould,
that her maid brought liquors to her
room, including sometimes two cock
tails before breakfast, were among
the statements brought out as en-
ployes of the Gould estate related on
the stand their experiences with their
former mistress.
In the midst of the testimony relat-
ing to Mrs. Gould's alleged inebria-
ton, her lawyer. Clarence J. Shearn.
who had objected strenuously at first
to the trend of the testimony, but was
overruled, injected into the case the
rather novel argument that admitting
even that his client had been intoXi-
Gated this should have strengthened
rather than have weakened the ties
between wife and husband.
at has been held" he said. that
II husband drank he needed the
love and companionship of his wife
more than If he were sober. Is not
this equally true in the case of the
wife,"
AS opposing this view, Delaney
Nicholl for the defense argued that
Mrs. Gould's alleged excuses. as he
would show, had rendered her unfit
for household duties and that this
certainly justified the husbands &C
tions and attitude.
Whether or not fit for managing q
household. it was a rather erratic ad-
1ainistration that Mrs. Gould conduct
ed at Castle Gould, according to most
of the testimony. Verbal clashes with
the manager of the great estate, heat
ed arguments at the hen coop with
the carpenters, one of whom testified
that she could not walk straight at
the time period when she remained
in her room for two weeks, consuming
during that time seven bottles OF
brandy with other liGuors-these Incl
dents and others were 5worn to on
the stand