The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-01
MRS. C0DY'S TRIAL.
Evidence Tending to Show She Tried
to BIncIxmaiI the GOuIds.

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov 30.-James B.
Stears, of Rouse's Point, was examined to-
day in the trial of Mrs. Margaret E. Cody,
accused of attempting to blackmail the
heirs Of the late Jay Gould. He told of pre-
pairing and acknowledging certain papers,
which comprised an agreement between
Mrs. Cody, Mrs. Angel and Amasa J. Par
ker, jr., relative to the claim of Mrs.
Angel as the alleged widow of Jay Gould
to dover in the Gould estate. This witness
and James D. Lindsay testified that Mrs.
Cody was the mover in the preparation of
the paper in the case.
Nicholas T. Dack, who acted as Mrs.
Cody's secretary while she was in Albany,
was recalled and gave further testimony re-
garding the letters he had written to the
Goulds at Mrs. Cody's dictation. Mr.. Dack
testified that before he was hired by Mrs.
Cody he was asked If he knew how to write
several differeRt hands, and one Of his let
tiers, written in backhand, was presented to
snow that at Mrs. Cody's request he had
tried to disguise his handwriting 1t de-
veloped that Dack had written several die
tated letters to the Goulds under different
names, and that Mrs. Cody had taken one
or them to OsWego to mail. In this letter
the writer told George j. Gould that Mrs.
Cody was responsible woman and could
David j. Carvalho. an expert in chirog-
raphy testified that letters purporting to be
written and signed by Mrs. Cody, Mrs
Angel and others were all written and
signed by Mrs. Cody. Judge M o. Brown
OF Laramie, Wyo., who was counsel for
Mrs. Angels daughter, Mrs. Pierce, in an
action instituted by the latter to establish
her rights as a claimant to the Gould es-
tate, described an interview with Mrs. Cody
and Mrs. Angel, in the course of which he
told Mrs. Cody that Mrs. Angel had said to
him that she was never the wife of Jay
Gould. Mrs. Cody wrung her hands and
said, II shall be advertised and denounced
as a blackmailer." At this Mrs. Angel re-
iterated her disavowal of any claim upon
satisfied Judge Brown that there was no
case for his client, Mrs. Pierce, and he with
drew from the litigation.
Mrs. Emma Lewis, at whose house Mrs
Cody boarded while stopping at Rouse's
Point. testified that she wrote letters for
Mrs. Cody; that on one occasion while she
was writing a letter the question of the al
legged marriage of Jay Gould to Mrs. Angel
was touched on, when Mrs. Cody exclaimed:
II don't believe she was ever married to
Tecited another instance wherein Mrs. Cody
had told her that Mrs. Pierce was not Jay
Goulds child, and that she could tell who
her father was If she wanted to-
Miss Helen Gould was the last witness
called by the prosecution, after which Dis
trict Attorney Cook notified the court that
the people rested it's case. Miss Gould teS-
titled as to the dates of her parents deaths,
identified two letters sent to her signed by
Mrs. Cody and swore that she never an
swered them
Counsel for the defense Will open to-mor-
row morning and expects to have it's tes-
timony in by the recess hour, which is /
O'Clock. If he succeeds in doing so the case
will reach the jury by nightfall, the after
noon session being devoted to the sum-
ming I'M.