The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-15
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS


IApOpyBOOe letbef YVES seuL 10 bn6 6Qltol
| of Wall street paper, asking that thu
enclosure be forwarded to Jay Gould. TIT
great fnAncier. The letter addressed II
Gould was also anonymous and reads 81
| fellows:
WINDSOR HOTEL, Oct. Is, 'S1.
Jay Gould, Esq:
&T-It is my painful duty 10 inform
you that within six days from the date
of this letter yeur body will have re.
turned to dust from whence 1t came; ]
therefore eAtreat you to make your
peace with 0od and prepare for the fate
which awaits you. This is no wish OF
mine to take your life, but I am inspired
and requested by the All-living God to
do so IS a public necessity and for the
benefit Of the community at large. You
must, undoubtedly, be aware that you
have been a rogue of the first water all
your life; that through your artiui cun-
ming and deceit you have robbed thous-
ands OF people of their birthright; you
have had no mercy, you have robbed
the rich and poor. father and fatLerless,
widow and orphan, indiscrimi nately, of
the last dollar and through your villainy
have brought ruin on thousands Of fami-
lies. This you have done under cloak
By cireulA tiAg false reports, by buying
newspapers, making false statements,
committing perjury and by artful cum
ming and deception. In fact, you have
robbed both great and small, and now
the Lord says you must pay for all; that
your death is public necessity in order
to save thousands of others from pain
and destruction. Your death will be an
easy one, for I purpose shooting you
through the heart, and if my first shot is
not instant death, I will give coup de
grace with second shot so that your
death will be quick and easy. Don't
hold any hops that this is threatening
letter nor for steck-jobbing purposes, for
I do not own single share OF stocks of
any kind, neither am interested in any.
This is simply the will of God, and he
has chosen me to carry this out. Re has
applied to me in a dream and requested
me to slay you rs public necessity.
God has assured me that it is by divine
providence I am chosen to do this act,
and that by so doing | shall be public
benefactor, and l have sworn and taken
q solemn oath before the ALI Living God
that I will put you to death. I intended
10 have shot you last Friday yesterday
when saw you with Dillon and Sage.
I had my pistol ready and cooked, but a
voice from the Lord sounded in my ear,
saying, "AOld on, give him time to re-
pent lest he descend into everlasting
punishment" Now make your peace
with God and prepare for the fate that
awaits you, and may the Lord have
mercy on your soul. / am only an agent
Of the Lard. The Lord appeared to me
again last night and said "Jay Gould
must surely aie," aud when I reasoned
with the Lord in my dream I told him
my life would also be required, and l
would be hanged. The Lord assured me
that no harm would become of me, that
the rope was not made, neither was the
hemp grown to make rope to hang me
with, and that he would deliver me out
Of the hand eff my enemies. This is by
the express will and command of God
that I am chosen to put you to death,
and I have sworn before the all-living
God, the great Jehovah and Kedeemer of
The world, and taken solemn oath and
kissed the Holy Bible that I will carry
It out within six days from this date, if
he opportunity occurs. Therefore, be
to meet your fate at any mo-
nent. and may God have mercy on your
soul. I remain sir,
AN OLD VICTIM.
n. B.-Should not have an oppor-
unity within six days, I will surely do
10 the frat opportunity that occurs.
Gould gave the letter to hisabroker,
E. Conner, and directed
hat every effort be made to find the
writer and punish him. Conner gave
.he letter to Inspector Byrnes, of the
detective force, and they began devising
means to capture the rogue. Personals
we're inserted In a newspaper, which
iraw from the unknown writer number
IF other letters, in which he By turns
threatened Gould and implored him to
help him win back some hundreds of
thousands which he claimed he lost in
stock speculations. He sent Gould key
Dy which personals could be published,
Using cipher words in place of names Of |
stocks, and by which Gould could give
him information on which he could spec
llate safely. Following this key, the in
'pector and Mr.. Conner kept up CORES
pondence with the blackmailer until
'o-dsy. Meanwhile, it was discovered that
Ill letters sent By the blackmailer pass ed
through station E, Thirty fourth street
and Eighth Avenue and q plan was
formed to capture him The postmaster
and acknowledgement were consulted,
md fifty carriers in citizens dress were
placed at the disposal of Inspector
Byrnes. The carriers Assem- bled at Sta
ion Z, at an early hour this morning,
md were met there by an equal number
Of detectives. Soon afterwards each of
he fifty letter boxes in the district were
watched by detective and q carrier,
Whenever person dropped a letter in
5he box, the detective kept watch on the
person until the carrier had gone to the
box, opened it, and read the address on
'he envelop. It WAS agreed that if a
carrier found letter addressed to Gould,
The carrier was to raise his hat, and the
detective was to arrest the person who
had dropped it. The secret was
closely kept. At 8 pm. q tall.
we'll dressed man of sixty vears
dropped letter addressed into box at
Thirty fourth street and Seventh avenue.
de was arrested at once, and taken to
.he police headquarters, when he adj
nltted his guilt. He gave his address "a
Col. j. Howard Welieg, s65 Fifth ave-
que. He would net give any further in
formation about himself and it was as
eersained afterwards that the address in
Fifth avenue, was not his present place
oY residence, though he had at one time
boarded there. He was so much dis
'ressed by his arrest, that he was watched
'losely tonight for fear he would COM
nit suicide. 1t was said tonight that