The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-26
NEVER MARRIEDJAY
G0ULD'S MILLIONS SURVIVE TIE
ATTACK OF SHARPERs,

Bubble Explodes In New York When Mr.
Angel, Supposed to Have Been IN Ear
Wife Of the Rich Man, Comes o.
squsrely and Declares That She New,
Did Marry Him-she L. Honest and b,
Been offered Large Bribes -Qoes
Circumstances Which Gave Rise to ii
Claim-Mrs. Angels Story.
New York, July 25.-The Herald say:
About two years ago runor was start
ed and was taken up to the effect tina
q woman living near Rouse's Point, \
Y, claimed to be and held proofs tina
she was Jay Gould's wife; that she Ia
married him in 1853, when ne was bu
seventeen and she fifteen; that he hai
deserted her; that she had a child by hin
a daughter fnow grown TO womanhood
and that she, Sarah Anne Brown An
CELL. was the widow, and she and he
daughter, Mary Jane Pierce. We're tn
only heirs Of the Gould millions.
The Herald will today present the tru
facts OF this now worldwide case to it
readers, and at the same time expose on
! of the most gigantic frauds Of this fl
de steele period. The attempt to invali
date Jay Gould's marriage to Ellen Mil
Ter, and the dastardly effort to besmirci
! his children with the stain Of illegiti
| macy is more incredible from the fac
| that the instrument chosen for the con
summat ton Of the scheme was a woman
| entirely uneducated, utterly inc1pabl
| Of realizing what the Gould millions
| meant. and. stranger than any fiction
strictly, rigidly honest
This poor, ignorant cats paw Of the
whole gigantic scheme by which a party
Of lawyers and a female detective
thought to reap harvest Of gold while
she received but few crumbs from the
rich pickings has spoken at last and has
solemnly declared, II NEVER WAS
MARRIED TO JAY GOULD" and
thinks, (only thinks, remember) that she
only saw him once or twice in her girl
hood when he was surveying in the
neignborhood Of Lake Champlain.
The case has been before the public
on account Of number OF hearings dur
AAio Vic PAST LAOiitii, anu ICotiiNOHy fcio
been taken here, in Canada and In the
west. Things were looking rather bright
for the claimant, but the testimony was
very contradictory and Judge Brown,
who acted on behalf Of Mrs. Angels
daughter, had said that Mrs. Angel had
told him that she had not married Gould.
SO, to solve the enigma, Herald rep
resentative left New York for Rouse's
Point to see and interview the pivot
around which all this mass Of lies or
truths, assertions and contradictions re-
volved. To-Day the Herald states on
the authority Of Mrs. Angel that Jay
Could was not bgamist, the Gould
children are not Legitimate, and Sarah
Anne Brown Angel was never married
to Jay Gould!
HOW THE FRAUD BEGAN.
A brief synopsis of the beginning Of
this famous case will serve to enlighten
follow it in all its details, and yet, if
they will take the trouble to carefully
read the following they win agree, upon
finishing the story, that no dime novel
of disputed inheritance was ever so ex-
citing. so full Of strange happenings as
that which has really happened, and had
its starting point in a little village on
the shores of Lake Champlain.
Into this peaceful community about
two years and half ago came a woman
calling herself Mrs. Cody, spoken Of by
all today as that detective woman" by
many as the divorced wife Of a well
known actor. She was looking for a
woman called Sarah Anne Brown. Now
there were many Browns living in that
section Of the country, and it was hard
to locate that particular Sarah Anne
Finally. she discovered traces Of a GER
tain Mary Brown. who had in her youth
been known as Sarah Anne Brown and
who was then the wife Of John Angel.
Slrs. Cody proved 20 her entire Satisfac-
ton that Mary Brown Angel and Sarah
Brown Angel were one and the same
person. and so she went TO see John An
CELLS wife, and that was the beginning
Of the conspiracy
Mrs. Cody declared that she had au- |
-hentic proofs which went to show that |
Mrs. Angel, when she was girl be- |
.ween fifteen and sixteen years of age,
had married certain Jason Gould, who |
had been surveying in that part Of the |
country at that time. that she had a |
hid by him and that he had deserted |
Ter a few months after they had been |
married. Jason Gould. the poor boy OF |
seventeen, an apprentice to a surveyor,
md the millionaire Jay Gould. were |
proved 10 be one and the same person. |
Therefore, II Mrs. Angel had married !,
Jason Gould. she was the widow OF Jay
Iould, who had been a bigamist and his |
therefore, were illegitimate.
These possibilities opened out vista OF
;pirators and Mrs. Cody set to work TO
,ather up her threads.
How well she has gathered them UP
my one who has followed the case
,nows. She found the minister who had
married them. she recovered a copy OF
he destroyed certiAc3te Of marriage,
ne found men and women living in the
immediate neighoorhooi who remem-
'ered Jason Gould, remembered him
marrying Sarah Anne Brown. and even
ne man in Canada. about eight miles
cross the line, who made an affidavit
hat ne had stood up as the best man
With Jason Gould when ne had married
arab Anne Brown.
STARTS THE BALL ROLLING.
When these threads were all gathered
p, Mrs. Cody was ready - start the
Machinery, and lawyers were retained
n behalf Of Mrs. Angel Amasa J.
'agher and Amasa J. Parker. Jr. o.
loany. and Lewyer Stearn. OF Rouse's
'oint. attended 70 her side OF the case.
he little hut on the Champlain road be-
ana a Mecca for these iearnAi man OF