New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-14

he thought, had done the best piece VI
detective work ever undertaken in New -iorA'
and had proved himself exceedingly sklillul oS .io
way in which he had hunted the bIackll''iier
down. In speaking of his reasons for wishihI W
work up the case Mr.. Gould said that nc was n'-
cusomed to receive threatening letters OF all Ki"S'
but they had become so numerous and were such q
nuisance that Mr. Connor had determined to make
test case and try to put stop, for while ~ ieas''
to the attempts at blackmail. In TINS IN
stance the first letter had not been hl'ich
noticed, bccause it was believed TO oe III"
production of n crazy man. But wheh inc No'o
one arrived and was more lcgibly written, ,len n''
Gould thought il was good chance TO follow the
thing M. So it was DONE anl the result was 'no
arrest that was made yesterday. Mr.. GouiH eN-
pressed asonishment that the person had proved 10
be such well connected man; he did not kno"
him and did not think that Wecs could have ire
Gucn.ed the Street very much of late
MIR. c ,NNOR's VERSION.
WASHINGTON T. ConnOr JAY Gculds broker was
found at his house. No. II East Forty-iitl-st' TIC
was willing to talk freely upon the ease because as
he sad he was proud of the success oil Inspector
Byrncs. In relating the story he said;
For many years Mr.. Gould has received thTeHt- thTnei
cning letters Of all descriptions, 6ut ne mas @ Lnt
tie or no attention 20 them, thinking that nc u,S,
thing to do perhaps was mol 10 ~ to
matter up. At last. however. we dcterImuGu u
bring some one 10 jus ice if po ,iblc Tor ihe oah' ""
uutiing an end to what had become a very great
nuisance. 50 we began o. this case" -,
"Whv did you take this particular one oc
There is 10 -on that KNOW -
II lust happened So The first letter, we thought,
WAS written by an insane person, 50 we ou ~. ~
notice il. Then another one came more corr t ~
written. aud The langu1ge seemed 20 prove 'ha' lc
writer was educated. Then We lid the case NcIotc
INSPECTOR Byrncs At first we tried 10 ger ll' I'.,
low 70 rive MS some address where We coui leave
L Eutli
other experiments but the adroitncss OF NelcS o"'-
pa You encourage him by giving him actual
PG.'Yli Yes. to certain extent because / hoped to
fas.cn the crime upon the man through HIS
Did you find ont who his brokers wereeif, ,.;,..
IL watched the matkct following mp the bs'iIs
that gave through the pgr,on2l' ana n.auo % ,pp W.
brokerS who were operating Tor the man. "Do''''
did you not suspect them pcrsonallyr -. ..
rcpntabl, hensc as there is in the
Street But knew that they in dong ngsi"G,s ,, II.
their ordinary way would no, nee ncc,sSrddy s d6pS So"
" hat was the next step I D..
The next step was watching the To,, iGa,
Office boxes i'm the street. II lhal
had not proved successful we should have trgd 10
find ont who the person was through DrcScr, lioT-
ell 4 Co. or course, | am a't9ulShed 10 ilhi Nlo
the man is. because understand that he ha3 so'ho no
money: that ne is mn educated person ana that ne
Daring ihc coryrr,ation Nlr. Connor often spoke
of the way m which Inspector ByrHcS had WGrNe
the ease up, and declared that too much cohId IpI
be- said in favor of that detcctIFc' liI
consulted with Bymcs every mghl' ..i.lH anI
WIS astonishcd at the cleverncss Win "H''u
the details had been worked up.
wFLIEss BROKER ,rCcH SURPRISED.
J. :. Decker of Decker. Howell x CO.. was
aefoundod when he heard Of the facts concerning
Wcllcs.
81 have known Wcllc,." ne sail, "for a number OF
wears. gII always have believed him 10 be wealthy
man. lie is elucatcd. refined person who hasql-
owars held u good position in Ncw-lork. and the
stor, ialmo-t beyond belief. oar firm has done o
good deal Of business AZ different times for
We les From what | know of him | always
Thought that hc was careful and cl Sc operator.
OF coIr-c We did rot know that he was doing any
thing that he sIoud not do
"Nhat was his t"mpcraWcntF =
"Thlt of q highly nervous and cNcltabc man; !
never heard hm spoken of o.. being insane but
think hc must have been so 10 DO what he has Uecn
puity or As 10 tic issue, have no idea what that
viii BE- Idonauow whether II Is % case that can
be- compromised.
MS BEOTHEE-IN-LAW's BfLIFR
General Charles Roomc, the president Of the Man
haitian Gaslight Company, married sister Of
Wclle.. At his house, No. 20 West Fifty
scrond-st.. the story was at first di>hcleycd.
When the reporter stated some Of 'hc facts
o,1 then asked for q possible explanation,
II gas Inserted that Wccs must have been
ont of hs head; because sad General
Roome. "Welles has always had considerable
money At one time lac very wealthy cannot
understand why he should want To 90 INTO stock,
to sncb an extent as this terrible affair would udi-
cate lie has lived abroad many years. HIS "Ic
General Rnomc was so affected by the story. which
he could hardly believe was true, that hc could not
saw much lie sent for careiage, and went to Judge
Ambrose NonclPs house, No 15I East ~Iyty-hr-I st.
IuLpe Mcneil entered the carriage, Whch was ihru
driven TO Police Headquarters, where TAX was
had with Wclles. his was very affecting Mt
Couuor also had an lntcryow with
Wrllcs IN his cell. The prisoner
was very much agtatcd, aud said that II the story
was publishcd in the ncwspa els lac should XII
himself Judge Mcneil SAID to be nephew
bv marriage of Wclles AZ his house
II Was learned that Wclles was IN
the STATE Of MARYLAND, and had won his title OF
colonel i'm the rebellion. His family always con
sdercd him just sane enough 10 be allowed ms lrec
dom bnt his friends expected that something would
hapDen' lie was repeatedly urged not 10 go into
/ stocks he was 30 cXcitablc. Only year ago hc
specuatcd SO wildly and acted so strangely ;,ig
Strangers called upon General Roomc and asked
that MIR. WcIlcs be looked after.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT At BLACKMAIL.
Mr. Connor. when speaking last evening of the
publication of the facts said that lac regretted 1t Tor
one reason. because it would put an
end to ferrctng ont case that
had only been begun on Saturday. On Friday Mr..
! Gould had received a threatening letter from
another source and IN answer 10 II had inserted "a
! Personal IN yesterdays paper as follows:
yictim-Giye me place to send you what will sat
! isfy your claims
Inspector Byrncs had the case IN hand also, but OF
course it would he cropped now that one man had
| been caught.
WHAT MS FORMER LANDLADY SAYS.
AtNo 800 Fifth-avc., which Wellcs gave as his
place of residence il learned last night that Inc
had not lived there since the latter part of July
| when Mr.. and Mrs. Mack, who own the house, re-
turned from Europe after qn absence Of three years
and reoccupled it, Mrs. Harriet A. Barrett who
had rented the house during the absence Of the
| owners was found in the evening by TRIBUNE