The herald., 1896-02-25
Like Japhet, Fails to Prove
Her Paternity
SOME EVIDENCES OFFERED
That Jason and Jay Gould Were the
Same Man
Bring the Vast 0euld Estate Int
the Courts
Associated Prem Special Wire.

Associated Prem Special Wire.
---. -oEH, Feb. 24.-Wheth6r Jky GouId
mad q wife living at the time he married
the woman who became the mother Of
George and Helen will probably be decided
in court very soon, if the lawyers can estab-
lish as q fact that Jason Gould, who mar.
ried Sarah Brown, was the Jay Gould Of
later years. The lawyers have made stren-
uous efforts to keep their case secret. This
much, however, has become known through
Mrs. Angel, the claimant, and other per-
SONS.
Saran Brown was one Of a family Of four
in the neighborhood of Rouse's Point. Her
parents were poor and illiterate, and she
was brought up without a knowledge Of
reading and writing. She was q particu.
larly handsome girl, and in her old age
years old. met Jason Tor jay Gould, and
after q brief courtship they were married.
Four months afterward young Jason
Gould's business called him elsewhere, and
he never returned to his wife. to whom .
child was born. After her desertion by
Gould the young wife's parents turned hcr
out of doors, and she went into service to
support herself and little girl. When the
child grew up Sarah bound Mary over to .
man named Weaver, who became the girls
foster father, and upon the removal Of
Weaver to Canada the mother and daughter
were practically dead to each other until
recently.
Mary Brown Gould grew up to be AZ
good-lookipg woman as her mother. She
married and has children. She and her
husband settled down in ono of the north
western territories. One day . richly
preliminaries told her that she was her
mother. But Mary did not lind any re-
sponsive filial feelng-in fact, she was
skepticaI. The newly found mother was
received rather coldly by the family. AL
though the woman told her certain things
about her early life, still Mary doubted,
When she had gone Mary pondered over
the information impaired by the visitor
that she was the daughter of the million
aire, Jay Gould.
Some time after this Jay Gould was
making a trip through the country and
would soon be in her neighborhood. She
decided to make an effort to speak with
him. She ascertained that the Gould train
would halt near Sulphur river, near Green
River City, WYo. She took along with her
a friend of her husband, United States
marshal. Mr.. Gould was informed that
lady wished to see him. He went TO the
steps of his car.
''Mr. Could" she said, III am your
daughter, and my mother was Sarah
Brown"
Gould looked at her sharply and asked
her some questions.
..If you are my daughter and can prove
it, he said, II will see what 1 can do for
you."
The brief conversation between tho two
WAS heard by the United States marshal
already referred to, and it is embodied in
an affidavit, which he subsequently mads.
1t will figure in any court case that may
follow.
What is considered to be very import.
ant affidavit is said to have been made by
one of the richest men in California, who
is said to have been q close friend Of Jay
Gould. This affidavit, it is said, is to the
effect that on a certain occasion Mr.. Gould
told this friend that he had married q girl
in the northern part of the state and be-
lieved she was dead. Mr.. Gould made the
acquaintance of the mother of George
and Helen IN the same informal way he il
alleged to have made the acquaintance Of
Sarah Brown. The only thing that retartls
the suit from recognition by the executors
of the Gould estate is lack of proof that
Jason and DAY Gould were the same.