The times., 1897-12-07
JAY GOULD'S HEIRS WIN.
Sarah Ann Angel Loses Her Suit
Against Them.

New York, Zee. SIN compliance with a
recent order obtained by counsel for the
defendants, the action brought by Sarah
Ann Angel to establish alleged dover
| rights in the real estate of the late Jay
Gould was heard today by Justice Freed
man, III the supreme court. Miss Helen
Gould WAS in court Mrs. Margaret e.
Cody, who, Mrs. Angel asserts, induced
her to bring the suit, was also present. sne
is about sixty years old. She was without
counsel.
Wien Mrs. Angel first instituted the
action, it was asserted on her hehalf that
she was married to jag Gould on April
16, 1853. A mass of testimony has been
filed in the supreme court to refute this
assertion, and Mrs. Angel has testified
| that sue was never married TO Could and
lever saw him in her life. She has ad-
mitted that she was induced To let her
name he used by others without fully
understanding what was to be done. She
is very old.
Elihu koot, for the Gould heirs, open
ing, made a summary of the case and pro-
nounced as utterly preposterous tile aIlega-
tions Of plaintiff. He explained now the
plaintiff had desired to withdraw her
clinel to allow this, preferring chat, once
and for all, the case be considered. so that
at no other time could the plaintiff bling
suit, or il any way hlacken the reputa tion
OF dead man. or annoy his heirs.
Mrs Cody was called to the stand by Mr.
Root. She testified TO having sent "a letter
TO He:eI and George Gould respecting the
case. Regarding some letters put in eyi-
hnr. Oh. 2
member whether She had written any of
them.
Mrs. Cody filed with tie clerk OF the
court az affidavit setting out in detail
the part she hadtaken inthe case. IT con
clndes by saying that III ter intercourse
with Mrs. Angel She was nothing in her
Conduct or conversation to Indicate that
she Was other than an honest woman
and the cnly way she Can account fer
her So. called confes sion is to conclude
that she hes been subjected to some un
due influence, the nature of which time
alone will discover. Mrs. Cody tells how
she met MTS. Angel for the first time
and how sue met Mrs. Pierce, who, il
has been alleged, was Mrs. AngeIl's Child
the father being the late Jay Gould.
Mr. Root read list of afndavits which,
he said, would account for almost every
day of Jay 6ould's life, from his infancy
until long after the time when il WIS
alleged that he was married 20 the Angel
woman, and that they oonciusively proved
that jay Gould had never been in the
place where il was alleged the marriage
was performed.
The Justice then directed the iurymen
10 return verdict in favor of the de-
fendant, which they did
Thus is ended a case which has attracted
much attention since Mrs. AngeIi's IIim
was made public, several years ago.
From the fact that Delaney Nicoll was
associated with EIIhu Root as counsel for
the Gould children, there were reports that
criminal proceedings against Mrs. Cody
might follow. This belief was strength
ened later in the proceedings when Mrs.
Cody then under examination, asked per
mission TO introduce some letters az rast
oi her testimony. To this Mr.. Root re-
Piled significa ntly: In another tribqna :"