The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-20
MRS. GOULD INTRODUCES CURLY
HEADED ACTOR TO HER
FRIENDS. Ill.
CALLED her HIS QUEEN
No Hearing sterday--Fridsy Hotel
Girl Testified Farnuns Came
From Mrs. Gouid's Room
In Early Morning.

INcN Iciht JUNE - u6Tt Was uo
Gould hearing today When 1t is re-
sumed Monday Justice Bowling will
make an effort to hurry the testimony
and finish the hearing by Saturday
night. Night sessions are probable.
Mrs. Gould expresses the great st
confidence that rebuttal witnesses
will yindicate her and Farnum
The flow of the testimony kept
edging more and more toward Dus-
tin Farnum. the actor. whose broad
shoulders and may of curly hair have
become familiar figure In the case.
There were also assertions by SER
wants that Mrs. Gould was repeatedly
seen nnder the influence OF liquor BY
them and that when she had been
drinking, as they alleged on the
stand. she changed from a cnar ming
affable woman to a woman of whims
and caprices. ill-tempered. not nice
in her choice of language. overbear
ing and cuarrelsome.
Mrs. Gould's former personal valet
swore that at one time he had served
his mistress with two quarts of Man
haitian cocktails In as many DAYS. le
sides the wines and liquors, which he
said she had drank at the table.
On ross-examination Of II csc wit
nesses Clarence ]. Shearn. for Mrs.
Gould strove always to prove either
that they had personal grudge
against her or that they we're und r
obligations TO Mr. Gould.
Farnum Her "New 6eau."
Endearing epithets twice marked
the testimony. GAVIN III. kimbaH. All
oil and paint dealer, who said he hal
known Mr.. Gould for eighteen years.
testified that he went to perform
anoe of the "virginian' In August,
1906. with Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Sells
aud the Cords at the Academy of
Music In this city, and that Dustin
Famum, the star In the play. j7iled
the performance and spoke to Mrs.
Gould. She smiled the witness tcs'i-
fed and said to the witness:
This Is my new beau"
John Flynn who said he was en-
ployed by Mrs. Gould as chaufe1r
md that he often drove her to meet
Fanum, testified that once when
Mrs. Gould was waiting In the auto
mobile for Farnum at the Hotel
Somerset. two men turned to the ac-
, L. Of hx,
and asked him whose automobile was
waiting.
"Oh," said Farnum. laughing, Flynn
testified. that Is my queen"
Farnum Was fDearie."
Another time, Flynn swore, when
he raped on Mrs. Goulds chamber
door at the St Regis, she called out.
"All right. dearier," and then, when
she saw who II was. excused herself
with. Il thought It was Mr.. Farnum."
Mary Elizabeth Harrison, fresh
checked. good looking girl. who said
she was a floor clerk in the Bellevue
Stratiord Hotel in Philadelphia, pre-
faced her testimony with the explana-
tion thai II was her first appearance
In court She had been impellel by
her conscience, she said to tell what
she saw at the hotel. Finally she
wrote letter to Mr.. Gould.
Il said i'm the letter." she testified.
I'm obedience to the Golden Rule I
write to you to help you IL you are in
trouble, or something like that
Mrs. Gould occupied apartments on
the floor where she was stationed in
September, 1906. the witness went on
and one morning about 1880 O'Clock,
she said. she saw a man come out OF
Mrs. Gould's room AMI take the ele-
vator. She noticed that he was the
only passenger in the car. and that the
dial registered fourteenth floor VII
the car stopped.
Mr.. Goulds chauffeur. Leon Lehe.
rox. testified that he took Mrs. Gould
and two young women iE an automo-
hile to Boston, Springfield, New Lon
don and Hartford on Sept l6. 1896.
He saij he left Mrs. Gould at hotel
in Hartford. the name Of which he
coud not remember. and did not see
her again that night. but he did see
her again the following mcrling.
when he again took her to hotei
he name of which he aid not know.
Dustin Fsrnum Was There.
Il waited there until man came
out and told me to go back to the
garage and that Mrs. Could would
telephone me about o'clock
The man was Dustin FaTnrm. the
actor said The chauffeur. The fos-
lowing week Leherox said he took
Mrs. Gould and Mr.. Farnum to Larch-
mont in an automobile and brought
them back in the afternoon. That
evening he took Mrs Gould aud a