The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-22
NOT JAY GoULD,s DAUGHzER.
A Young Woman Who Claimed to be
Ordered Large Bills of Goods.

| A young woman who gives the name
of Miss C. B. Cobb and who says that
| she was with Dalys Belle Of New York
company until about a year ago, has
| been causing New Haven merchants
considerable trouble during the past
week. She came to New Haven from
| Providence last Monday and last week
| she called at several Of the principal
! dry goods stores of this city and or
| dered large bills of goods which she di-
| rected be sent G. o. D. to various ho-
| tells in each store giving the name of a
| different hotel. At one store she gave
| the name Of the hotel at which she was
| staying and the goods were sent there.
The proprietor of the hotel paid for
the, goods, and when Miss Cobb came
in he informed her that the goods were
there for her and asked her to take
them and pay the bill, the amount of
which he had advanced. After consid-
cradle trouble he secured his money. At
the other hotels where she ordered
goods sent she was not known and the
goods We're refused.
Last Thursday she went to the place
of business Of well known ladies' tall
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golf suit made, representing that she
was stopping at the New Haven house;
that she had a brother in college, that
her name was Gould and that she was
a daughter of the late Jay Gould. The
suit was cut out, although she had left
no deposit. In the meantime the ner-
chants who had been bothered with her
orders to have goods sent to hotels
where she was not staying and where
she was not known, made complaint to
the police and Detective DAILY was de-
tailed to look up the matter.
The young woman was been very
friendly with students during her stay
in New Haven and DAILY found her
about o'clock last night with a stu
dent at the corner of Elm and Church
streets. The detective requested her to
go with him and took her to, the cen
trail police station, where he questioned
her closely. The information was there
obtained from her that while playing
here with the Belle of New York com
pany about year ago she became ac-
quanted with student and became
infatuated with him, and left the COM
pany and came back here to see him.
She could give no satisfactory reason
for ordering goods at the dry goods
stores and having them sent to hotels
where she was not staying.
The tailor from whom she had order
ed the S65 suit was summoned to police
headquarters and when she gave him a
$40 deposit on the suit he refused to
press any charge against her. The 9TH
er evidence against her was not suffi-
cient to warrant the detective having
her locked up and she was allowed to
go with warning that it would be
best for her to leave town. While she
was in the detectives office a student
who said that he was a friend of the
one she was with when the detective
took her to the police station. called at
the station house and asked what was
the charge against her, presumably to
give bonds for her If required. When
told that she was with the detectives
he left without further explanation The !
young woman is about twentv-two
years of age and is good looking. She
told the detectives that he home was
in Richmond, Va.