The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-12-06
GOULD'S NARROW ESCAPE
Badly Squeezed by Keene, He
is Saved from Ruin by
Russell Sage.
One OF the Biggest Schemes
Ever Known in Wall
Street.
4 Corner in Union Pacific Which
Forced Gould to the Wall
Eis Ruin Averted by the
Timely Tender Of a Check
for S2.OOO,OOO

Timely Tender of a Check
for 80, 100000.
Bc~ Yors films
The history of Wall street can
never be written -nu ny BY. AS: 4
liihe cf it, remarke,; ole Uf the
magistrates of the stork market 4" =
Times reporter YESTERDAY. h"r'. l.
ole chapter particularly ia that his
tory winch his Decn ,,-j'; ain .zingl,
quiet I'm conf icni ia 1 10 nt"rr
than dozen men hav,. rVry known
anything about il. and the Inaj 'rirv
VI That dozen are gmI g c"n;e'it 10 lee
She world co.iriaue IL "c.i i@ a!nuE
ia the dark Ii l. a,i IN ,rr>iHg
story. all the more - ,r'm the iacl
that Jay Gould .igur,-> iu :iia 'front.' 81:
il, and figures iii war ;hat most
folks will wonder Al Ii kind o re
lated 10 his latest experience, loo.
Tie story. in a nutshell. is thai AS
hate As three years az" Could "as
showed into Il corner, and ka.t-d"zen
.trong men We're debating terms 10
him terms which contemplated moth
ng less than his almost utter ruin.
And Gould had lost hi, l,ac- bone.
He was ready 20 sill under, throw
ny everything,
RETIRE FROM TIE STREET,
sad commence again, | sapro,e. to
..ed1l- tinware * the backw"olsmen
81 Delaware county.
In Possession vi this rather say
Or sin. ID; If history, preventative
ST the Fines caileI f,,r further light
sp,n NJ Russet Sa.e, VINO figures in
the story and Knows nj about it
Er. Sare was very husv; NJ SAGE
~as likewise very ,hv The reporter,
hewever, persisted M asking qn"s-
lions.
Il {. ,n'i want 10 bc interviewed on
Sac subject" insisted Mr.. sag: Il
emit afford L. hs mixed up in il p"
But the story is true, every word
q il. isn't il =
Y, YES vour story l. straight
tnt YOU had better follow NV advice
and not print it. Now. wont say
another word, and don't want 10 be
quoted
Mr.. Sage turned to hi puts and
calls The reporter WAS quite sat
isfied.
Jim Kecne was the fellow who
had Gould down." explained The
Times informant-an ''insider' known
everywhere in Wall street-"and
Keenc was happy. Keene, you know,
come on here from the Pacific slope,
proposing to clean ont Wall street the
moment he arrived. But, somehow,
Keene got staggering more than the
street did. He met Gould in several
deals. and each man tried to con
vince the other that he had no other
gods before h::n but, my Boy,
THEY GoUGED ONE ANOTHER
right along all the same. Finally
came the biz Western Union deal
Gould was In with Belden, jim Fisk's
OF chum. who went headlong over
BOARD on Black Friday. Keene was
working with Shirle and Selover, and
Tie trio went TO other heavy operators
and whispered that Gould was badly
short on Western Union; then Sam
Mills got instructions to run up pool.
Over 100000 shares of stock were
bought. out Of an entire capital stock
Of $50, 000,0 GOO, and fellows on the
inside We're ahead, beginning to count
up points when kcene suddenly
deserted them, struck hands with
Gould. and the two walked off with
spoils to the amount of 100000. But
my bow, before that 100000 was
divided Mr.. keene was very. very
wroth-all but a few pennies of that
same 100000 had gone to the bot
tom of Jay Goulds pocket. He had
tripped Keene up ON a little private
game of their OWL Mr.. keene
bought a new pistol, and Mr.. Keene's
friend Seloyer chucked Gould down
An Exchange place. area way.
Gould went to dealing heavily in
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph. and
had borrowed an immense block for
speculation. Old Commodore CARR
son joined with Keene to form pool,
and Gould was admitted to it. The
market doomed, and prices shot up
from Is to 80. Gould went west, and
In the meantime Keene and the COM
modore went for themselves and
bought right and left. But somehow
the milk came out freer than they had
expected. More stock was piled on
them than they could stagger under.
They suddenly discovered that Gould
had been selling all the time they
we're buyinp. His trip wnst WAS