The evening times., 1897-08-23
NEVER Welded JAY COULD
Old Mrs. Angell Confesses to
the Fact.
A FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY
Scheme tn Wreck the Dend Million
aires Estate Comes to Naught.
Having Husband Already, the
Old Woman Asks, "Hew Could
Have Married Gould?"


| New York, Aug. 23.--Mrs. Sarah Anne
| Brown Angel, of Rouse's Point. n. Y, .snot
| the widow Of Jay Gould as she has so long
asserted she was The woman herself ad-
mits it and I'm the confession is disclosed oLe
| Of the most gigantic attempts at fraud OF
modern times. a crime that carried with it
a heartless attempt To besInirch Could )
children with the stain of illegitimacy.
A reporter who visited champlain, y. ",
in search of any proofs that might exist OF
the Illegal marriage, had the opportunity
Of examining the church records OF 1883.
the date at which the marriage ceremony
was alleged to have been performed and
there was no Iioticc Of any marriage between
Sar all Anne Brown and Jason Gould Inc
Presbyterian minister at that place said that
Mr.. Leighton, the former minister, was nos
living in Pennsyiv ania; that he was yer old,
In fact, childish. Hesaidhe might have kept
a private record of the marriage. but IL he
had IL was lost He said Is was only within
a very few years that ministers had been
Obliged to register marriages, and in that
way man y records of past years were either
net recorded or had been lost
The next day the reporter who had
previously interviewed her without sue
eessrul results called again on Mrs. Angel
and urged her to tell the truth.
He began by lying: Now, Mrs, An
ceH. / have stopped over and have come
out IT, see you today to get you To ten
me the truth. You Will, won't you? IL
would be better for you. And why
should you keep silent when everyone
connected witt the ca aseis probably making
money out OF it, while you re sitting here
in poverty"
Well" she said, shaking her head and
half closing her eyes, partly whispering
her great secret.
II never vas married To Jay Could
No. / married a man named Derusse, in
Charnplain, In 1853, and a fine bit of a
man he was, too. lie came from Europe,
and he came near having five millions II
I had been married to Jay Gould. how
could i have married John Angel while
he IiveI2 What kind OF a woman do they
take me for, anyway?
tS. a AuBlh Il Sd NiOoib ObSt u ~'@N-
when / was young girl, and he was look
ing around these parts. Well. how about
my dauyhterg just this way: Inever had
any education. and made up my uund she
should have learning and be brought UP
lady Afler her father died ! gave her 10
a family by the name OF Morton, living In
Ridgeway. Canada, and they brought her up
as Mary Jane Morton, and she is married
to a very good man and wellto-do, and
living out In Wyoming
How did | ever come TO hear OF the
Goulds? Wei, this way: Some twenty
years ago / heard that a very dear rela-
tive of mine WAS in trouble, and / went
out TO Caldwell, Mo. where she was, 10
see her. l found she had been betrayed
under promise of marriage, and that the
father OF the child was a near relative
OF the Goalds Then when they came
to me to prove myself jay Gould's wife,
/ never sw ore that l had married Jason
Golfid-uever said that ] had-but / felt
that I had right to some of that money,
and il George Gould would only come
to see rne-be should Come-would explain
Il all. and then this thing would die out
You see, to save the other party, they put
1t all ON lay shoulders
How did it come my name used TO be
Sarah Anne Brown, and POW 1t is Mary?
Well, I never was baptized and when
was, I Cid not like the name of Sarah
Anne. and took that OF Mary. l became
Catholic, and my daughter was baptized
one Derusse was one, too. J cont go
to church, but am good woman, for all
that
NO" she said. 81 never married jas
Gould. You tell George or Helen Gould
20 come aud see me and / viii explain
everything. and then this will die out.
She stood Ia the doorway Of her little
house as 1 drove away. the reporter con-
tinues, and I turned and looked back at
the womsn whose name was known in two
continents and who had been the unwitting
tool Of lot of sharpers- i had practical
proof that she is thoroughly honest.
saw u large sum OF money offered her;
money which would have provided many
little necessity during the coming winter
and which she sadly needed. but she shook
her head in a determined manner and re-
piled firmly: mo. / won't take any
money" And she did not, in the face of
many wsll-advanced arguments as to why
she should.
So the great scheme to get a gOodly slice
or the Gould millions has finally exploded
like soap bubble, and poor old couple
in Rouse's Point nave had the even tenor
OF their uneventful lives disturbed and q
jarring element of unrest and expectation
ntrod lced which can never be satisfied
or pratified.