Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-22
GOULD DECIDES
NOT TO TESTIFY
IN SUIT OF WIFE
ANNOUNCEMENT DISAPPoINTS
CURIOUS AT COURT
IN HOUSEHOLD DENY
TALES OF INERRIETY
Private Secretary Says Plaintiff Die
tated Ten Letters Every Day and
Chef Did Not Garry Her
Upstairs
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1904. He said he had never met her
inside the house.
William F. Murphy, an automobile
broker. who said he had charge of the
private garage at Castle Gould from
September, 1900. to April, 1902, testified
that he frequently drove Mrs. Gould
about the estate He never heard her
curse or swear and never saw her
when she showed ANY signs of being
under the influence of liquor"
On cross examination Mr.. Murphy
said he had never talked with Mrs.
Gould about the case. He admitted he
had made an affidavit in the case in
1908.
Michael J. Guffy, who said he was
superintendent of buildings at Castle
Gould from August 1902, to May, 1904,
and met Mrs. Gould almost daily in
his work, testified that he had never
seen her under the influence of liquor
nor heard her use abusive language.
According to letters introduced in evil
dence by Mr.. Nicoll the witness had
written Mrs. Gould's secretary in Sep
TENDER, 1908, to get permission to visit
Castle Gould and was refused.
Jacob S. Cocks, who said he had
done general road building, carting.
etc, for Mrs. Gould at Castle Gould
from 1901 to 1906 and sometimes met
her to get orders as often as three
times a day, testified that during this
five-year period he had never seen Mrs,
Gould intoxicated or heard her use
abusive language.
Mr.. Trotter, a carpenter, testified at
a previous session of the trial that
while at Gould farm he saw Mrs.
Gould and John w. Adams, plumber,
drinking together in the cellar Adams
Cd fn1n hof hn ahAV- or
that he and Trotter and Mrs. Gould
went into the cellar together, as sho
had asked him to move some boards
He had never seen Mrs. Gould under
the influence of liquor at Blue Gap
farm.
Henry Dubois. builder who worked
on the construction Of the cow barns
at the Castle estate, testified that he
saw and talked to Mrs. Gould often
about the work and never saw her
when she acted as If she was under the
influence of intoxicants.
Ten Letters Each Day
Thomas ]. Jones, who was Mrs
Gould's private secretary at Castle
Gould and at the st. Regis hotel In
1904 and 1905, said that Mrs. Gould die
tated ten letters to him each day, and
that he never saw her intoxicated OF
heard her swear
William Cullen, a steward on the
Gould yacht in 1902, testified that Mrs
Gould always conducted herself prop
erly so far as he observed her ABOARD
the yacht.
Bridget Kelly, housemaid at Castle
Gould from April, 1901, to June, 1902
said she saw Mrs Gould nearly every
day, and never saw her intoxicated OF
haerd her usa. profane language.
Seavier Dryer, chef at Castle Gould
in 1902 and 1903, in a deposition said he
saw Mrs. Gould sometimes as often al
fifteen or twenty times day, but ha6
never seen her under the influence OF
intoxicants. The witness deposed thai
Mr.. Nicoll, counsel for the defendant
had asked him if he had ever carried
Mrs. Gould upstairs because of her In
toxicated condition, and the witnes:
answered he had not.
Victor Ripa, a steward on the yacht
Niagara from February, 1904, to Sep
TENDER, 1906, which included the cruise
of the Goulds with party of friends
to the Mediterranean, testified he never
saw Mrs. Gould drink or act improperly
during the cruise.
Mr.. Shearn read the deposition of q
Lynchbrug lawyer who had taken the
deposition of colored waiter at the
Lynchburg hotel, where 1t Is commended
Mrs Gould and Dustin Farnum were
stopping at the same time in 1906. The
Lynchburg lawyer denied that Pullen
the waiter, had ever told him that he
had seen a man in Mrs. Gould's parlol
at the Carroll house in Lynchburg. The
waiter later in a deposition for the 9th
er side In New York told of the pres
ence of a man in Mrs. Gould's room in
the hotel in Lynchburg. This was read
earlier in the trial.