Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-10-07
Remarkable Case Of Abduction
A wall Street Broker EFcId san DC
fault Of $4,000 fer Criminal As
SaTsIt ON q INDY.

Yesterday afternoon. mt the TomhS Pc
/ lice Court. before Judge Bowling Mr..
John W Gould. residing at 40 East TWEEN
/ tX-~iNth street. New York. and who had
been apprcheuded at midday at his office,
JS Wall street. by Office James Gillian,
was charged with abduction of and crimi-
+ nal assault on Mr. Anna Mead. of 80 PTC~i-
dent street, Brooklyn.
The circumstances were very Tcm2rka-
HE rs Will be seen from the following
summary of Mrs. Mead'~ affidavit. sworn
. 10 before Judge bowling yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Mead l. a lady of cousidcra-
| bile personal attractions. of lIdN-iikc man
uer-. and evidently accustomed to the
manner of good society. She said that
ON the 18th of September she received
four letters signed with the initials ). W.
e.. requesting her to meet the writer AT the
Hamilton ferry house. at the foot of W hitc-
hall street. on some business connected
with her husband. She went there and
met a gentleman whom she partly recnG-
niZcd a. having been before. He aE-
preached her and asked her it She would
like TO find out about her husband She
replied that she would very much. and ne
informed her that her husband was stop
ping on Station Island. at the hotel at
Va6Derbilt'~ landing He then requested
her to 90 with him there and enquire a.
bout her husband. She accompanied him
there. and the prisoner told her that the
hotel was kept by Mr.. Newport. When
She arrived at the hotel the prisoner in
formed her that her husband WAS out rid
ING with u lady and was expected back
shortly. He requested her to remain at
the hotel until her husband returned
After waiting some time the prisoner told
her il was likely that her husband would
be in nj supper. and he requested her to
accompany him to see If she could find
him ut the supper table. She went. but
found her husband was not there. He
+haa ratIP-tpH hrr to have some sumner.
She did so. but they sat at some distance
from the regular supper table. n there
they DartOOk of some T~cfTCShmcut. The
prisoner and herself returned to the par
lOr. and there they continued to remain
waiting for her husband to return Tn
prisoner then went ont of the parlOr and
went down stairs. but shortly Afterwards
returned with some soda water "nttb ~.
drank ,Thgn,,a a. II was Getting l tio
prisoner il would be better for her to go
home. lie then asked her to remain for
the min o'clock boat. but she replied thar
She did not like to wait 50 long. aS she
should like to be home by nine o'clock if
possible. She had some conversation
with the prisoner, in the course of which
he informed her that his name was job
w. Gould. and that he resided at No. 10
East TWcnty-SiNth street. shortly after
wards she found herself in a stupcr. and
she had a faint recollection that she was
in a bedroom with Could. and that he
was taking oil some of her clothing. and
that he was ~cndcayOriuG to place her on
the bed. He was UndreS~ed. Sine has no
recollection OF anything else until the
morning. when she found hcrSclfim Il room
in the second landing of the hotel. She
has since been informed by Mr.. Newport
that his attention was Callad to the rooms
on the night of the 18th of September by
some of the bOarders of the house, who
said that there was a great noise in the
ing on there. Mr.. Newport Sc his clerk
up to the room to inform Could that MIR.
Newport desired TO see him. Gould went
down stairs and Newport informed him
that he could not stay at the hotel. bat
that the lady could remain. Could said
that the lady was sick and did not desire to
remain. GOuld went down stairs and
took Mrs. Mead with him, and asked Mr..
Newport to send for a carriage. which he
refused to do. and then Gould left the no.
tel. Mrs. Mead said that she had every
reason to believe that Gould had commit
ted "A criminal assault upon her: that she
had been informed that Gould on the fol-
lowing morning had said that he was very
sorry for what had taken place on the pre-
viOus night. and that he had been offered
81 900 bV Mrs. Mead. the mOtneT-in-law
of depOuent. to act in the manner he had,
for the purpose of procuring evidence a
gainst Mrs, Mead. JT.. 50 "a to enable her
husband to obtain a divorce from her.
The application for the warrant to ar
rest Gould was made by Mr.. Howe, whoi i
counsel for the prosecution. In default
of so. 900 bail, Judge Bowling committed
to answer the above charge. -