The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-11-19
Divine Inspiration Ceases Upon Another
Individual, Who Entreats Jay Gould to
Make Peace with His God.


Individual, Who Entreats Jay Gould to
Make Peace With His God.
New YORK. Nov. l3-October II an anony
nous letter was sent to the editor of the
Wall street News, asking the enclosure to
be forwarded to Jay Gould, the well-known
financier. The letter addressed to Gould
was also anonymous, and read as follows:
WINDSOR HOTEL. October 10, 1881.
Jay Gould:
sIR-1t is my painful duty. 10 inform you that
wiLhi six DAYS from date OF this letter your body
will have returned TO The dust fr IN whence il
came ! therefore entreat you make your
peace with God AID prepare the late which
to take your life, but am inspired and requested
by the all living God To- do public necessity
aud for the benefit of the community nj laigt
been rogue Of the first water all your life, aid
that through your artiul cunning and
deceit De5pe have SeS h hS%saSds
you have had no money; you have robbed the
rich and ID or. father aud fatheIleSs, widow and
orphan indiscriminately, OF the last dollar, aud
trucliOn Oh thousands Of families. All
this You have done under cloak
Oy circulating fase reports or l bri6i Il
perjury, aud by artful cunning And deception. In
fact. you hav. robbed both great and small, aud
now the Lord says you must pay for ALL that your
death is pm bic necessity in order to save thou
sands OF others from pain and Destruction
Your death Will be an easy one, Tor
propose shooting you through the heart IL
possible, and II my first shot Is not instant death
will give yotr c up de grace with second shots
so that you death shall be quick and easy. Don't
hold out any hope that this is "A threatening let
ter, nor tor stock jobbirg purposes, for do not
own a single share of any kind, neither
am ! interesied IN any. This IS simply
the will of God ana He has chosen me To- carry
This out lie has applied TO me In dream and
requested me 70 slay YOU as public necessity.
AID In doing So God has assured me 1t is by
Divine Providence am chosen To DO this aci, anu
that by dol so, | shall become public
benefactor. and | haze sworn and taken a
| solemn oath before all living God that
will put you 10 death ] intended to purchase Il
shotgun last Friday yesterday when saw you
with Dillon and sage. mad my pistol ready and
cooked, but voice from the Lord sounded IN my
repent lest he descend into ever
lasting punishment Now, make your
The fate that awaits You, and may the Lord have
| e-cy on your soul am only an agent of the
Lord. The Lord appeared Ia me again last night
when reasoned W III the Lord In my dream
| told Him my lie would also he required. aud
would be hanged. The Lord assured me no harm
would become Of me: that the rope was
not made. neither was hemp grown To make a
rope 20 hang me with. and hat He would deliver
me out of The hands OF nv, enemies. II Is by
the express will AID command OF God that am
S SaSe sworn by the ali III living God. ' The
UTtAt JcubNdn anu IeteeIueT OF the WOrlu,
aud taken solemn oath d kissed the Holy
b BILE that will carry IL out within six days from
this date. II opportunity occurs Therefore be
prepared to meet your fate any moment, and may
God have mercy on your soul.
re main, sir,
AN OLD VICTIM
n. B. Shonld not have an opportunity WITHIN
six days. | will surely do so the first opportunity
that occurs.
Gould gave the letter to his broker,
Washington f.. Common, and directed every
effort be made to find the writer
and punish him. Common gave the letter
to Inspector Byrnes, of the detective
force, and they began devising means to cap
ture the rogue. Personals were inserted i'm
the newspapers which drew from an I'M
known writer a number of other letters in
which he by turns threatened Gould, and i'm
plored him to help win back some hundreds
of thousands which he claimed
to have lost in stock speculation.
He sent Gould a key by which personals
could be published, using cipher words in
place OF names of stock, and by which Gould