The Washington times., 1918-12-15
The One Almost Comic Episode IN the Sombre
Details Of the Frank Gould Divorce
Suit Which Has Startled Even Gay Paris

for divorce? That is a question which is
before the French courts. 1t all hinges
on the mystery of the dinner table set
for two.
Thus begins a cause ceIebre which al
ready is the gossip of the boulevards-the
Frank J. Gould divorce case.'
at may take months and it may take
years to determine" say Mr.. Gould's law
yers.
I'VE are fighting formidable battle"
say Mrs. Gould's attorneys.
The details of this great cause will prob
ably be stiIl fresh in the courts when the
peace terms are forgotten" agree both.
But, of course, the real mystery in the
whole affair is that table set for two which
is occupying the attention of the French
courts.
Fully to realize what a mystery it ac-
tually is and how it must be perplexing
the Correctional Court in its judgment of
whether to fine Mr. Gould and Nine. Lacaze
fifty francs each just as Mrs. Gould and
Senor Cassasus were fined, It is necessary
to reconstruct the scene in detail.
Mr.. Gould, as everybody knows, is the
and Mrs. Gould have been living in Paris
but not living together. In her lonesome
desolation in her hotel there came into
her life Senor Cassasus, tender, sympathe-
tic and gloriously gallant.
Recently it came to Mrs. Gould's ears
that her husband had taken three sumptu-
ously furnished rooms in the rue de la
Paix hotel. All! this must be looked into.
Would Senor Cassasus be so obliging as
TO find out what was going on? With
knightly chivalry he undertook the mis-
sion.
Senor Don Mario Cassasus, very un-
happy over the sorrows of Mrs Gould
who, It will be remembered, was Edith
ress, and the second wife Of Frank J.
Gould-also took rooms in this hotel to
see whether he could not find in Mr..
Gould's actions some solution Of Mrs.
Gould's troubles.
lHlS was very CHlNdlTOuS OI OtHOE COh
Cassasus, and it turned out that the IN
formation gained by Mrs. Gould's knight
soon came in handy.
The suite taken by Mr.. Gould was num-
bered 20S, 210 and 212. This Senor Cas-
sasus soon found out. And Cassasus was
not long in discovering that, while Mr..
Gould himself lived in room 20S, yet room
PIP, which was separated from room POS
by room 210, was occupied by Mile. Flor
ence Lacaze, a charming and extremely
beautiful and youthful vaudeville actress
hardly as yet in her twenties. Aha!
Senor Cassasus had made a great dis
covery.
There was an impression about. the
hotel, the police later found. that room 210
was occupied by "a Mrs Bennett" But,
as Mrs. Gould says, this impression was
later found by the authorities to be in
accurate. This mysterious Mrs. Bennett
would seem to be some sort Of camouf1age
which may be explained when all the facts
are developed at the trial
After the dramatic episode which re-
suited in the finding OF Mrs. Gould and
Senor Cassasus, the time seemed ready to
call Mr. Gould to account. How fortunate
that Senor Cassasus already knew all
about those apartments of Mr. Could 1t
was somewhat necessary, too, because,
while the decision of the court in fn!ng
her.the ten dollars might initiate against
her divorce plea II the status remained
quo. 1t would not, Mrs. Gould says she was
told, If a counter charge Of a similar ma
ture were sustained against Mr.. Gould in
the same court; this is French law.