Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-14

AuVthCE Oess0s
Gets After Jay Gould, BY the
Command OF God-fhe Police
Get After Hin-Interesting In
cidents OF His Detection and
Capture.
NEW York. November l4.-0ctobsr
18th q letter was sent to IN editor
on Wall street. asking that the enclosure
bs forwarded to Jay Gould. the we'll.
known fnancisr. The letter addressed
to Gould vas also anonymous and read
o. follows:
WINDSOR HorEL. October 10, 1881.
Jay Gould. Esq.-Sir: Il il ny pain.
full duty to inform yeu that within six
days from the dale OF this letter your
body will have returned to the dust
from whence Il came. therefore en-
treat that you make your peace with
God and prepare for the fate which
awaits you. This IL no wish OF mine,
to take your life, bot I am inspired and
requested by the all.living God to do 50.
a. q public necessity and for the bsneHt
OF the community ct large. You must
undoubtedly be aware that you have
bsen q rogue Of the nrst water all your
life. and that through your artiul Gun.
ming and deceit you have robbed many
Thousands Of people Of their birth.
right. You have made money. You
have robbed rich and poor, father
and fathsrless. widow and orphan indis-
criminately Of their last dollar. and
through your villainy you have brought
ruin and destruction upon thousands Of
families. All this you have done under
. cloak. by circulating false reports. by
buying newspapers, making false state
msnts, committing perjury and by artful
cunning and deception. In fact. you
have robbed both great and small, and
now the Lord says you must pay for all;
that your death 10 o public necessity.
and In order to save Thousands Of others
from pain and distraction. Your death
will be an easy one. for I purpose shoot.
ing you through the heart II possible,
and II my frst shot 10 not instant death l
will give Q coup do graes with the second
shot, 30 that your death shall be quick
and easy.
Don't hold out any hope that this 10
Q threatening letter for stock jobbing
purposes. for ! do not own Q single
share Of stock Of any kind; neither am
I interested In any. This 10 simply the
will Of God, and he has chosen ne to
carry this out. BE has applied to mo In
Q dream and requested me to slsy you a.
q public necessity. and In doing 80 Ged
has assured me that II 10 by divine
Providsnoe. ] am chosen to do this
act. and that by doing so I shall become
q public be~neiactor, and ! have sworn
and taken q solemn oath before the all.
living God that I will put yen to death.
intended to have shot you last Friday
when I saw you with Dillon and Sage.
I had my pistol ready and cooked. bot q
voice from the Lord sounded In my ear.
saying: "Hold on; give him time to
repent, lest hs descend into everlasting
punishment" New. make your peace
with God, and prepare for the fate shat
awaits you, and may the Lord have
mercy on your seul.
am only an agent Of the Lord. The
Lord appeared to me again last night
and said : "Jay Gould must surely de-"
and when I reasoned with the Lord In
my dream, I told him my life would also
be required and I would be hanged. The
Lord assured me no harm would come
to me; that the rope was not made, mel
Their wal the hemp grown to make .
rope TO hang me with, and that no would
deliver me out OF the hands Of my enc
mics. This is by the express will and
command Of God that I am chosen u
put you to death. aud I have sworn be-
fore the all.livipg God. the great Jeho'
yah and Rsdeemer OF the world, and
taken o solemn oath and kissed the holy
Bible, that I will carry ont within Of,
days from this date. II opportunity 90
ours. Therefore, DO prepared to meet
your fate at any moment, and may God
have mercy on your soul.
remain, sir, An OLD VICTIM.
N. B.-Should I not have an opportu'
nifty within six days. I will surely do &C
the first opportunity that. occurs.
Gould gave the letter to his broker,
W. Z. Conner, and directed that every
effort should be made to And the writer
and punish him. Conner gave the lsttsi
to Inspector Byrne Of the detective force,
and they began devisipg means to cap,
ture the rogue. Personals were inserted
in Q newspaper. which drew from the
unknown writer . number Of other let
tiers, In which he BY turns threatened
Gould and implorsd him to help him
win back the hundreds OF thousands o.
dollars which he claimed to have lost In
stock speculstious. He sent Gould 9
"key" by which personals could be pub
lished, using cipher words In place Of
names Of stocks, and by which Gould
could give him information on which ht
could speculate safely. Following THU
key, the Inspector and Nj. Conner kept
up q correspondence With the black
mailer until yesterday. Meanwhile Il
was discovered that all the letters sem
by the blackmailsr passed through Sta
ton Z. Thirty.fourth street and Eighth
avenue, and Q plan was formed 10 cap.
turs him. The Postmaster and Post
master General were consulted and ffty
carriers In citizens dress were placed aI
the disposal OF Inspector Byrnes.
The carriers assembled OF station E si
an early hour yesterday morning and
were met there BY an equal Lumber oil
detectives. Soon aftsrward each Of the
fifty letter boxes In the district were
watched by o detective and carrier.
Whenever q person dropped . letter In .
boz q detective kept watch IN that per.
son until the carrier had gone to the
boz, opened Il, and read the address on
the envelope. II wa agreed II the car.
risr found q letter addressed to Gould
the carrier was to raise his hat and the
detective was TO arrest The person whs
had dropped Il. Al 3 P. NJ, q tall, we'll.
dressed man. OF sixty years dropped q
letter. addressed 10 Gould. into the box
st Thirty.fourth street and Seventh ave-
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