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Show Dustin Farnum Swears That Mrs. Gould Was Always a Lady CHICAGO, April 22. Botwoon a bad tooth and a weari.somo cross-examination by Attorney Archibald R. Watson, Wat-son, representing. Howard Gould, Dustin Farnum put iu a 'trying day here In tho law office o Louis G. Ehlc, who was appointed by the New York .supreme court to tako the actor's deposition covering Mi. Gould's allegations that his wile, Katherinc fMemmons Gould, had misconducted herself with Mr. Farnum. Far-num. Mr. Farnum was patient and pleasant in answering the hagglincs of tho lawyers, law-yers, and acquitted himself to the satisfaction sat-isfaction of Attorney Clarence J. Shcarn of Nov.- York, representing Mrs. Gould. In all points he parried aud denied tho charges made against him and Mrs. Gould, declaring that she was always the lady and that he could not remember ever seeing her drink intoxicating intox-icating liquors. Some Pointed Questions. Returning to testimony concerning a luncheon which Mr. Farnum and Mrs. Gould enjoyed together in Mrs. Gould's apartments in the St. ltegis hotel. Now York, iu August, 1906, Mr. Watson asked: "What was tho color of Mrs. Gould's hair on that day?" "Brown or reddish brown, I think,'' said Mr. Farnum. "What was the color of her eves?" "I don't know. I never look'ed at them.'1 "You don't mean that, do you?" asked the lawyer. "Well, 1 niay have looked at them, but not into them. T. don't believe in looking straight into a lady's eves." " ITow tall is she'" "I can't say exactly. That, is a matter mat-ter which depends upon tho hat and shoos in .-judging. I never saw her without with-out her hat on." "Nor her shoes?" "Never." "Was her figure well developed?" "As far as I could sec." Had Late Suppers. . Concerning a meeting with Mrs. Gould in Hartford, Conn., Mr. Farnum testified that he met Mrs. Gould and a Miss Sells and another young woman at the Allen house there. They all had supper together, went to the theater and were Mr. Farnuin's guests at a supper after the theater. "What did Mrs. Gould want to see you about?" asked Mr. Watson. "She was talking about returning to the stage aud wanlod me to fiud a suitable play for her out of all the manuscripts sent to me." "What kind of a dress did Mrs. Gould havo on when 3011 met her in Hartford?" "T could not tell whether it was blue or yellow." '"'How about the hat?" "Oh., it was one of those large ones with a lot of fussy things on top." "Did you and Mrs. Gould have anything any-thing to drink on those occasions?" "1. am quite positive she did not. I might have had some beer." "Did you see her eyes at this Hartford Hart-ford meeting?" "Casually." "Your glances did not meet" j "You mean 'clasp of souls across the deep,' and that sort of thing? No." Mr. Farnum testified that he saw Mrs. Gould 011 the Sunda.y following tho Hartford meeting. At Katherine's Apartments. "She asked me to motor over to Castle Cas-tle Gould with her," said he. "I remained re-mained outside the house for twent-minutes twent-minutes while sho went in. On our way to New York, on a dark Jamaica road, we ran into a wagon load of Germans and turned the wagon over. thought we were going to be mobbed for a while. A man eiune along and offered us his car to Now York. We got in about 11 or 12 o'clock at night aud I went up to Mrs. Gould's apartments with hor to wait until wo heard from our chauffeur. When the chauffeur came T went out." "Did you have supper that night?" asked Mr. Watson. "No." "Did you sit 011 a sofa with Mrs. Gould?" "Not with her." "You arc positive?" "I never sat closer to her than in the touneau seat, of an automobile. We had nothing to drink." The nest meeting referred to was iu Brooklyn. Mrs." Gould met Mr. Farnum and his manager, Mr. Paber, after the theater and drove them over to New York, dropping Mr. Tabor at the Lexington "What was tho occasion of this?" asked Mr. Watson. She was in earnest about the stage and Mr. Paber tried Co dissuade her from taking it up again. Wo had a little supper in the cafe of the St. Hogis mid L said good night to her, thero. ' ' Further meetings and suppers took place in Washington and New York, but all were on the same decorus lines, according to Mr. Farnum. In Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Mr. Farnum testified that he saw Mrs. Gould, who was on a motor trip with her young friends to Atlantic City. She registered as "Mrs. Howard." How-ard." The Meeting at Night. At Lynchburg, Va., he said, he met Mrs. Gould again in October. He received re-ceived an invitation to visit hor farm near there, but found that she was ill. "Did you see her that night?" "lies, a colored boy told 1110 a lady wanted to sco me. "I went right up and found her in bad shape. She said she thought she was poisoned. She asked mo to come back to supper. I did so." "Were you alone with her?" "'No, tho waiters were coming and going and I think there was a' maid there." "Don't you know tho maid was sent to New York?" "No." "Did you see her again that night?" "I did not." "Will you swear that you did not go into her sitting room' after the play?" "T did not." "When did you sec her next?" "I got up early and took her to her train. Then T waited for my own." "When did you sec her again?" "Not until a short time ago in New York. I saw notice of this suit in the papers aud told her that 1 would do all I could to help her." "You aro inclined to protect tho lady, are you not?" "I don't know what you moau. I never saw her act in any way a lady should not. Sho was always extremely dignified. The whole thing is trivial and assinino on Mr. Gould's part." |