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Show DEPOSITION OF FARM IS READ ACTOR TELLS OF VARIOUS MEETINGS MEET-INGS WITH MRS. GOULD. Says They Were Never Alone on These Occasions, and That They Discussed Dis-cussed Stage Matters. Now York, June 24. Katherlne Clemmons Gould was called back to I tho Man.i for a final ordeal today to explain away If possible the damaging testimony given by the witnesses for I her husband in hor suit for separation land alimony of 250,000 a year. It was a day of denials, beginning with the reading of the deposition of Dustln Farnum, who denied all allegations allega-tions of improper conduct with Mrs. Gould, and ending with Mrs. Gould's repeated denials of practically everything every-thing in word or action attributed to her by the witnesses for the other side. I For two warm hours Mrs Gould answered an-swered the carefully framed questions of her counsel, repudiating with a monotonous mo-notonous Hat denial all the testimony charging her with excessive drinking, , profanity or other impropriety. Chauffeurs, Chauf-feurs, grooms, stablemen, shop keop-, keop-, ers, laborers and other servants and employes were alike branded with the short and ugly epithet She never drank to excess, never used profane language, never forgot her dignity as mistress of Castle Gould, and never overstepped the grounds of propriety, according to her statements. She told her counsel she never tried to hllcn up a pair of mules, never ordered or-dered dishes and food thrown from her St. Regis apartments, never referred re-ferred to Dustln Farnum as "my new 1 beau," never quarreled with her husband hus-band before company, never had a coachman's arm about her waist to hold her on' the carriage seat, never discharged an employe in anger, never became Intoxicated aboard the Niagara, Niag-ara, never consumed two quarts of cocktails In two days. Mrs. Gould's explanation of her friendship with Dustln Farnum naturally natu-rally took up much of her time today! to-day! Her testimony held close to the line in the deposition offered In behalf be-half of Farnum, who was unable to appear, it was announced, on account of illness. Whatever Intimacy there was between be-tween her and the actor was accounted account-ed for by her desire to have his advice ad-vice regarding her plans to return to tho stage. "My home had been broken up," she said.'1 all authority had been taken from me, my happiness was gone and I wanted some occupation to divert ray mind. I thought of returning to the stage and wanted to talk the matter' mat-ter' over with Mr, Farnum, who, I was convinced, would be able to help me." She had not seen Farnum, she said, from 1904 until 190G, when she talked with him about returning to the stage. Mrs. Gould said Farnum was never in her parlor at the St. Regis except on the August afternoon in 1904, when they lunched together, with several others present, and on the occasion of the automobile accident on Long Island, Is-land, when they returned there to arrange for bail" for the chauffeur. She never addressed Mr. Farnum by any endearing names, she said, and never permitted any improper familiarity. |