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Show equipping them with my discarded j gowns." "Did it heromc her?" was Mr. Nicoll's only rejoinder. Much of the day was taken up in qncKtlonlng Mrs. Could regarding her lavish expenditures. How many gowns lo wear a day, how Ions it took to dtcssind Hie declaration that il was "very' bad taste", to wear a gown twice, were anions the I liferent Ins forrlon hints in the testimony. The name of Dust in Farnum was again brought in. and George Gould told how he had instituted an investigation investi-gation to ascertain the facts concerning concern-ing ii alleged marriage of the plaintiff bclore she became his brothers wife. ABANDONMENT TO BE THE SOLE ISSUE THIS WAS MADE KNOWN BY JUSTICE JUS-TICE DOWLING. This Sweeps Away Several Phases of Case Notably Cruelty and Non-Support. New York, Juno 14. That abandonment abandon-ment will be the sole issue upon which the suif for separation brought by Catherine Clemraons Gould against lur husband, Howard Gould, was made late today In the supreme court by-Justice by-Justice Dowling, after counsel for Mrs. Gould had rested the case for the plaintiff. This sweeps away several phases of the case notably cruelty and non-support, and Is a partial victory vic-tory for Howard Gould. As to the charge of abandonment, the court held lhat this, too, might not stand, unless the plaintiff was able to show thai. Howard Gould's stipulations for a re conciliation were unreaHonable Thia phase will be argued tomorrow. tomor-row. Developments today were perhaps the most interesting In the trial. Gecrgr? Gould, a brother of the defendant, de-fendant, testified, and Mrs. Gould was excused from the stand after three days of searching cross-examination. After the case for the plaintiff was rented, Denlancy Nicoll, for the husband, hus-band, made the usual motion lo dismiss dis-miss the suit on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to make out a case "There have been no evidences of cruelty," he argued. "One of the alle gatmns is that the plaintiff was surrounded sur-rounded by spies. Nothing has been nuduccd to prove it." Referring to the abandonment chr.rge. he said Howard Gould left his wife in July, 1906, but offered to return on perfectly reasonable terms, among other things, her abstention from intoxicating in-toxicating liquors. Mrs. Gould, he continued, refused. During the argument Mrs. Gould be-ccme be-ccme faint and left the room. Her counsel, Clarence Sheam, argued ugi-inst the motion to dismiss. "It Is cruelty," he affirmed, "for a husband, without justification, to accuse ac-cuse his wife of being a bad character or to entertain against her, without cause, reflections against her honor." Ii.asmuch as the abandonment charge only is to bo considered to-' moirow, there will be no further mention men-tion of Buffalo Bill, "Big" Hawley. the former convict, or Ed Sholes, the reputed re-puted gambler. But it still leaves open Mrs. Gould's Indulgence in intoxicants. in-toxicants. Whatever bearing the events of the day will havo on the ultimate decision in the case, honors were about even in the verbal battle between the cross-examiner and Mrs. Goukl. Both sprang surprises. The lawyer's most pertinent and apparently embarrassing thrust was the exhibition of a faded, old-fashioned photo of a young woman sitting on a white horse, with tho whiti canvas of a circus in the background. back-ground. Mrs. Gould turned a dull red as it was shown, but tshe would not identify the photo as one of herself, i nor would she swear it was not. She the tight it was "hardly fat enough for me." This picture was introduced to show if possible Mrs. Gould's former association asso-ciation with Buffalo Bill's show. In retaliation for the picture incident, inci-dent, Mrs, Gould made one cutting retort re-tort to her inquisitor. Mr. Nlcoll had been asking the witness about the gowns, how many she wore, how often she wore them and what became of them. "They were given away," Mrs. Gould testified. "One of them," she nhot in, "was given to your own sister, who ls on the stace. I have aided many poor girlc to get stage eugngemouta by i |