The New York herald., 1922-05-06
EDITH KELLY LOSES,
ASKS MAINTENANCE
She Offers Bill to Former Hus-
band, f. j. Gould, for $780,
900 for Food, Clothing, Sc.
25 TO 80 GOWNS A YEAR
Paris Rent $40 a Day, Motor
Car at $4,000 and Two Trips
to U. s. at $4,000.

The Appellate Division yesterday
versing an order of Justice Guy which
granted Edith Kelly Gould $1,000 as
counsel fee with which TO reopen her
divorce suit against Frank ]. Gould.
holds that Mrs. Gould is not entitled
tc seek relief in the courts OF this
State. and that the matter having been
decided against her in courts in France,
the decision there is binding.
Whatever question the plaintiff CAIrs.
Gould) might raise as 10 the jurisdic-
tion of the courts of France to grant a
decree of divorce justice Page wrote,
there can be no question of the juris-
diction of the courts of that country
to punish an American citizen who vlo-
lates fits penal laws while present within
it's territory; and the facts upon which
that adjudication was made stand ad-
mitted herein. There could, therefore,
if the Judgment were reversed, and the
parties sent to trial, be but one result
the plaintiffs complaint would be dis
missed"
Itemizes Cost of Living.
Almost concident with the handing
down of the Appellate Divisions de-
cision, Mrs. Gould's attorneys, jerks g.
Rogers OF 81 Wall street filed for her
in the office of the County Clerk a bin
of particulars in an action to recover
100000 from her former husband for
maintenance since their separation. In
the bill she makes the following annual
allowances:
Food. 5000: clothing. $19.500; enter
tainment, $500: service of maid, ST.
500; services of physicians. $4,000, and
dentist, 1000. The clothing allowance
includes an estimate of from twenty-five
TO thirty gowns each year. each costing
about s400: hats, $4,000; underwear,
$4,000; stockings and gloves, $4,000;
shoes 81 500, and miscellaneous clothing,
81 900.
Under the heading of travel are in
cluded two trips from England to the
United States, $4,000; trip to Nice.
$500; trips to London. Spain, Monte
Carlo. Cannes, Ostend and Dover, each
SO. .000
Rent Of Paris apartment is listed as
costing $1,000 from MAY, 1915 to May
1919. and $4,000 the following year. At
intervals during this time was the ex-
pense of London apartment at the rate
Of $50 week. and two months in New
York hotels at the rate of s100 each
week. A suite of rooms in a Paris hotel
from May, 1919. until April. 1921, was
cited at the rate OF $40 per day. The
total of this hotel rent was s2S,S00.
Buys $4,000 House.
In 1918 was furniture bill Of $4,000 I;
in April, 1921. tho purchase OF house
near London for which she paid $4,000
and owes s25.000. according to the bill
of particulars. Mrs. Gould further cites
the purchase of an automobile in Octo-
Der, 1919. for $4,000. This was sold in
December. 1919. A second car purchased
in July. 1920 cost s4,500 and its upkeep
until November. 1921. was at the weekly
rate of S115.
Her attorneys fees In 1919 were
$4,000. Dancing lessons, from May.
1919. to April. 1921, are listed at the
rate of $50 a north. One month with
her instructor In London last year cost
81 900.
The Goulds were married in Scotland
in 1910. They lived in New York until
1918, when they were separated until
1918. living most of the time In Paris.
In November 1918. Mr.. Gould received n
divorce in the civil tribunal of Versailles
based upon an arrest by Paris police OK
Mrs. Gould and one Casassus. Mrs.
April. 1920, and began suit for divorce.
contending that the Paris decree had
gone against her through error.