The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-02-12
H. GOULD, DR., JEWELLER, CIR,
MIR. GOULD SAYS HE NEVER
TOID MS WIFE TO BY.
And Never md Get a statement From
Cartier Of Paris l'ntii Tie Notified
the Firm Not to Let Mrs. Gould Have
Any thing on Tick Now Hc Il sued.


The testimony Of Howard Gould. taken
10y commission in Paris in the suit brought
10y Cartier. the French jeweller. to recover
sii,7i7 for jewelry and stones sold to Mrs.
kathrine Clemmons Gould and repairing
done on articles she owned. was filed in
the County Clerks office Yesterday. MIR.
Gould denied almost every statement
made by his wife in a deposition taken in
behalf Of the plaintiff AT Lynchburg, Va
Mrs. Gould had testified that Howard
told her she could have all her jewelry
reset when she was in Paris in the spring
and summer Of 1909 and that she could
buy all the jewelry she wanted. She
said that her husband saw the style
Cartier suggested for resetting her old
diamond necklace and that he directed
il done
! MIR Gould testified that his wife went
To Europe ahead OF him at that time and
, that he was there only two weeks. lie
denied that there was ever any convcrsa-
ton about having his wife's jewels reset
! said that he never told her she could buy
all she wanted and never saw the Cartier
| necklace. He never told his wife she
could buy any OF the articles of jewelry
for which he is now asked to pay.
! Asked if he ever told Cartier TO deliver
! anv of the iewelry AT the Hotel Nendome
and charge it TO him. Mr.. Gould said:
| The only Conversat on ever had with
! Cartier was about a small watch my wife
had bought at TIFFANY = and had given to
me at Christmas time. Cartier wrote
! letter saving that he would like to satisfy
his curiosity bv examining the watch
because he believed that he had made
, i; and sold it in 1901 and that his own
name had been scratched from the case
and TifYanv's substituted
/ MIR Gould was asked TO give n list Of
all the jewelry he had ever presented to
his wife and he said
1t is impossible for me TO give COM
r,ete list wthou, reference to my books.
but the jewclry gave her prior TO March.
! 1909, amounted in value to about 500 600.
| Mr.. Gould said that before they went to
Europe he had been allowing his wife
/ $4,000 a month but that on this trip she
had letter of credit and he believed that
( he gave her az least &'ooO0 while she was
/ abroad He had no written agreement
with her az to how she was TO spend the
money she got. he said.
/ Mr. Gould said that he never saw chain
Z containing -" brillisnts and costing 600
francs. which is one Of the articles sued on.
He said il may have been delivered at the
, Hotel Nendome while he was there. but
the fact was kept from him. Neither his
wife or any one else told him about the
chain until he got back to New York that
b summer.
Mrs. Gould had testified that Anna
, Gould introduced her at Cartier =. but Mr..
! Gould saws he recently asked Anna about
that and she said it was not true. She told
him that katherine asked her where she
could get her jewelry reset and Anna
I suggested Carriers
When did you first raise an objection
10 The account" was asked
In the summer Of l&s when ! was in
formed that my wife had bought jewelry
from Carriers and had it charged cabled
To Anna and asked her to see If it was true
She cahled back that Cartier would send
n statement which never came. A couple
of months afterward Frank was going To
Paris and asked him to inquire about II
He replied that they would send n state
ment They didn't do so and ] got the
late Edmond Kelly. the lawyer. to notify
them not to give up any lewelry that
Katherine got unless she paid for II. Then
! the statement came 10 me
Mr. Gould denied that he had ever dis
cussed with Cartier the subject Of his
! allowance to his wife.