New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-08
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N OFFICIALS INDIFFERENCE
,ppuANS' MONEY WITHHELD FOR FOUR
YEARS
.N1E TALE DISCLOSED IN GUARDIANSHIP
YRoEEDIsNes IN NEwARN-A UNITED
STATES coNsrDs PECULIAR MAN
NER OF DOING BUSINESS


NER OF DOING BUSINESS
WITH an application TO Surrogate Jackson In
x.rars Yesterday for letters of suarNiianshtp to
.',-s.u.v Title and Deposit Company OF Newark
:. the estate OF Catherine and Elizabeth Gauld was
x,.closed an interesting story,
~. Gauld, the wife OF Thomas Gauld. a car
..r,ar lived at No 100 Thomas-st>. Newark. On
vi. 1872 she sailed In the steeraGe on the City or
go for GLASGOW, with her two children, Lizzie.
80, years old and Catherine. two years old Mrs.
c.uM died on the steamer on July s. and was buried
80 a,d the sympathetic saloon passengers
,saa a nurse OF $40 for the children At the meet
49,. ~ passengers John Mackay was cha'rnn IL
= sa,ised 10 place the money In care or Levi W.
-, United States Consul at GLASGOW, WHO
.houla send the children back to America ana mo
80, balance Of the money was TO be given by
- ~ Mayor OF Newark or g duly appointed
49, a., 60 N. invested for the children. -he name
49, ,oother as understood on the steamer. vas
Gould. ,-,.. S..o.
rha children were returned to the United states
l., - ,s, DAYS and Mr., Brown wrote TO the father at
~ -, aAAy,ss,ng him as Mr.. Gould. carpenter,
rhonas-st Newark. saying that ne "ouio De IN
80 ahout September 10 and dispose Of the bal
-. ~ roon.y as directed There was NsS Left
a. -o,,-n ~ the children was without expense
- =, 1,~ouy, I'D not appear in Newark, and Mayor
J,,as wrote 10 him on December @, and received
ra,l,, on January ), 1873. saying that Brown fao
..-,.,s, twice 10 Gould ana hau hau no 'ep'y
~, horcbt he had written to the wrong person
,,.vo- HAYNES then wrote that the father Oh the
49,, had been found and Brown inslosed to him
-. ~ the resolutions passed By the City OF
o. messengers. saying that II the Mayor would
-, Guardian appointed he would forward the
- There was some further correspondence
o,d then Assistant City Counsel Samuel j. Nc
Donad wrote 10 Brown for the money. getting
-, -a,l, saving that he would sail for New-York
hor, 1une Is and would visit Newark and pay
or the money he failed TO materialize.
In the following August, on inquiry at the sec
rat1rv Of states office in Washington. IL was
is~,..d that The ex-COnsul lived at Wauseon. ONO
Mcdonald wrote TO the postmaster OF the tO"n anu
a. ~ Ssntsniber . he received a letter from Brown
sa,ing that ne mad been trying 10 reach some or
he Subscribers OF the money 10 get their consent
10 ceposi,ing Il In savings BANK he mao, ne
s,xtv DAYS notice TO get II out. Then the Newark
MAYORS secretary communicated with John Mac
VINO lived AZ Bay Ridge. ana MaSkaE w. Hee, d
sharp letter Brown, saying that ne had better
send on the money at once or his oiiciai sNo''
Your evident purpose, wrote Mr. Mackay, mas
been 10 hefOg the whole matter. so that you might
hold on 10 the children's money as long as pos
Brown replied to this singing rebuke in a letter
IN which ne asserted that he had been libelied ne
went over the history OF the case. and held Mayor
HAYNES responsible for not getting guardian APP
uointef lie said that he had become suspicious
when he learned that Mcdonald was a subordinate
% MAYOR HAYNES. He closed Il should expect no
Response 20 this II you were low-ived contempt
huia ruprv or II one a reteration Of the FOUL IN
situation OF your former letter; but II you are the
gentleman I believe you TO be, you VIII send me an
with sent check for SIS inclosed. II was
made out 10 Mackay. who sent II BACK, curly m
on November s. 1898. sixteen months after the
money was handed 10 Consul Brown at GLASGOW
BY City Of Rome c5nc for fI the amount W1 WAS
received by Mayor Haynes.