The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-06
CHICK AND GEORGE GOULD.
THE CRANK sTILL FOLLOWING Up
7HK MILLIONAIRE

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| Meant to Asst HIrr to Send 20 New York
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LAKEWOOD, Jan. Edison @ Chick the
| crank who Is down here waiting as he SAYS
TO receive his promised 500 900 from George
Gould, Is very much disappointed over an un-
successful attempt to connect" with Mr..
| Gould this morning at the depot as the latter
was about to depart for the city with Mrs
| Gould. Chick was on his way to the depot
when he saw tho Gould carriage approach. aud
| thcn started on n run to meet il ne the
inmates alighted Mr.. Gould was not in this
| carriage, so Chick waited for him. Mr. Gould
had left his cottage earlier than his wife and
gone TO the offices he has opened In the Times
aud Journal building hero to superintend tho
unloading OF the fixtures which had Just
arrived.
He left hero and rode to the depot In the ex-
press wagon. Chick did not seem to recognize
him whom lie alighted but as soon as he saw
him go TO meet his wife. Chick started after
him. telling him. It is said. that he wanted the
100000. Mr.. Gould paid no attention to him.
but turned away. laughing and got aboard the
$3.50 train. Chick wanted to bonrd the train.
but the conductor. Charles Wyatt. warned him
OF Chick loitered about the depot on aud OF
all day. only making occasional trips between
train times rast tho Gould cottage and to the
telegraph offlces. where he has been trying to
send dispatches all day long. At the depot
Station Agent Parmentsr had TO lock tho door
TO keep him out OF the ticket office where the
operator Is stationed. lie wrote letter from
there to II. P. Baldwin, passenger agent OF the
jersey Central. asking for pass. Later In the
day ticket to New York was offered to him by
tho agent He became very indignant at this
and said: Young man. when l want ticket
l will ask you for it," Chick was talking to
nearly every one about town. so that most
everybody knows him now.
Last night about IL o'clock Chick entered
the drug store OF G.. A. Bye few blocks dis
tant from the Gould cottage. and said to the
clerk:
Il want to send message to Gould. you
know the pay will be all right, for he owes me
100000"
He was told TO take II himself He did so.
and he succeeded In arousing the house. but
as soon as they found out who IL was they shut
the doors Chick had n message he had writ.
-. publish stories about him from Lakewood.
His object in going to Gould was to have him
had attached from his oiilce here to his office
In New York. all telegraph operators here hav-
mttef Last niset he caed on your aS corrs
snondent and gave him some bulletins, as he
called them Two p them were as follows:
when he and parted this morning"
He also says, You have one side Of n story
twenty -four hours old, and have the. other.
twelve years old. which | can confirm through
two Brooklyn newspaper managers"
This morning when he saw the account OF
his doings In THE Sun he threatened to do up
THE Sun correspondent with gun. lie said
he had spoiled his chances OF getting the
100000.
lilo expresses great desire for pictures OF
the Gould children. and offers to sketch them
II he cannot got photograph OF them. II was
thom. hut that would he almost IN possible, as
every one in the village knows them, and they
are always accom- panied by n nurse girl
Chick has registered himself at all the hotels
X. ClouRh. In second street. he has been
asking the price Of everything about the village
Chick says he Is in daily correspondence
with President Cleveland and may visit him
will be of great interest to the public as soon
rs his schemes are carried out
Chick tonight gave out the following letter
rnrportinG to bo from Brooklyn physicians.
From examination OF Mr.. Edson C. Chick
can find nothing to Indicate any form OF iu-
"A. &. BRUSH. NJ D., 800 Lafayette avenue
To . reporter in this city yesterday Mr..
Gould said. In regard to the meeting at the
i think Chick attempted to say something
TO me but ! have no Idea what it was |
paid no attention TO him at all. He was not
very close to me when got on the train. and
after that saw nothing more OF him"
ton OF taking any steps to have the man APP
pretended.
regard him as n harmless crank" he said. |
and am very sorry for him"