The San Francisco call., 1897-09-06

Morton, living in Rdgeway, Canada, and
they brought her up as Mary Jane Nor
| ton, and she is married to very good
man and wellto-do, living out in Wvom-
| ing.
| "How did l ever come to hear Of the
| Goulds? Well, this wav; some twenty
years ago | heard that very dear reia-
tive of mine was in trouble, and | went
| out to Caldwell. Mo-, where she was, to
see her. l fount she had been betrayed,
under promise OF marriage. and that the
| father of the child was near relative OF
| the Goulds. Then when they came to
me to prove myself Jay Gould's wife L
I'never swore that mad ever married Jason
| Gould, never said that | had, but L telt
| that / had right to some of that m oney,
! and if George Gould would only come 10
see me-he should come-I would explain
| it all, and this thing would die out. You
| see, to save the other party they put 1t all
on my shoulders"
"If Mrs. AngelI said that" said Mrs.
Fillmore to- night, ''she is crazy. She is
evrn childish. l know that woman is his
daughter. 1 met her last three years ago
when en- route 10 New York to attend the
wedding Of my granddaughter. We had
stopped a Rock Springs, Wvo., when Mr..
Fillmore sent for me 10 come into the
dining-room. | was IN the sitting-room
of our special car at the time. When l
went in there sat a woman with Mr.. Fill
more. He said: Did you ever see this
woman before?
Never / replied.
"'Well look C o e and see if you know
her. he insisted.
"'Well | never saw her l replied
Why don't you introduce me? Don't act
So
''Look at her closely and see who she
looks like he said, and they both
laughed. With that | turned ana looked
fnIl in her face for the first time. Take
did SO. 1 said, Why, that is a Goud'
never saw any one look so ike Jay Gould
in my life. There were the cowlicks on
her forehead, the coarse hair, and even
Gould's nose. l then learned from John
Pierce that he did not know who his wife
was when he married her. They had
been married six years. | was in Lara
ME, Wyo., a. bout that time when my SON.
in-law, Mr.. Dawson, was drowned. John
C me in 10 see me. We had not seen him
for nine years, and he told me OF his mar
rage. bout year after she told him
all about it. She was then about 40 years
of age.
''As l stated in my deposition, the posi-
ton OF John Pierce is remarkable one.
Fifteen years ago cold, hungry LAD came
TO our home in Laramie from Council
Bluffs, from which place he had run away.
He told US he was ira amping to California,
but, although only Is years old, he was as
bri" ht lad as ever met. He lived with
US for nine years and then went back TO
his old homI. When l next heard of him
he was married to Jay Gould's daughter,
Miss Angel, as she was then known.
John Pierce is now in charge of the
Rock Springs Coal Companv's works at
that place at salary of $175 per month.
He has often said to me: What would |
have been had 1t not been for your would
have been on the gallows.' l brought him
up as Christian and he has honored me
in his life. He never would do anything
that was not perfectly square.
al have known Mr.. Gould intimately
since 1857. 1t was then that he told me
that he was married TO woman in North
ern New York and that he had daughter
We were riding together in a caboose on
one of Mr.. Fillmore's trains when | was
introduced 10 him. II was a cold night
and We were sitting around a roaring fire
in the ca5oose wnen the conversation
turned upon my family. He remarked
that l was too young TO ave family. |
asked il he had any and he said, oh, yes;
l have wife and child in Northern New
York joker him about his wife know
ing Of him keeping company with another
woman, but he did not answer ] have
seen him often since and know every fea-
ture and peculiarly about him. In 1862
| saw the announcement of his wedding
10 Helen Miller in New York, where he
had gone and engaged in the stock busi-
ness. l asked Luther when mis- wife mad
died and he said he did not know. When
l first met Pierce after his marriage was
when my son-in-law, Mr.. Dawson, was
drowned SIX years ago. Then he showed
me his wife's picture, which had been
taken when she was girl. paid no at
m fho1
something over it for Johns sake.
Now Mrs. An .ell says Mary Jane
Pierce was daughter OF hers by man
named Derusse, to whom she was married
before she married Angel, and that the
girl was adopted by the Mortons. Well,
she IS parly right. Mary was taken
when years old and cared for. clothed
ana educated by family of Mortons,
who promised that when she was IS she
should come home. AT that time she did
go to her folks. John and she were mar
rlcd later and ca me out 10 Rock Springs.
where they still live.
"Pierce once took his wife down to the
train when Could AID Sidney Dillon were
passing through Rock Springs over the
Union Pacific. He found Mr.. Gould and
said to him, This is your daug hter, Mr..
Gould. Gould is sad to have given the
woman one look and said, Y es yes, see,
L see, and hurried into his car, with in
structions to the trainm n to leave town
al once. That is the only time any of the
family were ever known to bother the
Gouids.
IF any doubt exists as to whether Mrs
Pierce is the daughter OF Jay Gould, she
has only to be looked at by those who
knew Mr. Gould and they would at once
see whose child she was Certainly no
one else was her father. Neither can any
story told by woman evidently crazy
make me believe that Mr.. Gould was tell
Ing deliberate untruth that cold nic ht
In 1897 when he admitted TO me that he
had q VIE and child"
Mrs. Fillmore is a great friend of the