The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-07
GOULD CASE NOW ON
ATTEMPT TO SHOW BLACKMAIL rs
NOT PROVING AS sATIsFAC-
TORY AS HAD BEEN HOPED
MANY WITNESSES EXAMINED
None of Them Knew That Con-
spiracy Was on Foot to Secure
Honey From the GOulds--WOmHn
who Claimed to Have Been the
nate Seems Difficult to Locate.

ALBANY, N. Y. March 6.-Mrs,
Sarah Angel and John Angel. the
missing witnesses in the Cody case,
We're on hand at the opening of court
in the Cody trial today. Mrs. Angel
is the woman who, it was contended,
had been married to Jay Gould
and was the mother of his child.
The first witness today was Mrs.
Seguin, of Rouses Point, who testified
TO having written a letter to Mrs. Bee
be at the dictation of Mrs Cody, in
which she indirectly asked for funds
with which to prosecute her investiga
ton as to the marriage of Jay Gould
and Mary Brown. She said in the let
ter, that While it would be very diff
cult to procure a marriage record the
ether tbirth record was now all
right"
a second letter identified by Mrs
SeguiE as from Mrs. Cody to Mrs. Bee
be, asked for 500 and told that Mrs.
Pierce's lawyer had arrived in Albany
With Il deposition from Mrs Angel to
the effect that she was never married
to JAY Gould. The marriage, the de-
position set forth, was to a Frenchman
named Vidas, who starved her" Mrs.
Codys letter continues:
Il think the woman is crazy. I am
going to try and get an affidavit from
by Jay Gould Isn't it a shame that
the villain at this late day should fail
Us"
A third letter to Mrs. Beebe tells of
Mrs. Cody's anxiety to meet George
Gould personally, because as she says
she has the key of the whole situa-
ton" in her hands. IF the case goes
to trial." she proceeds, you and l will
be dead and buried, for that old fool Is
constantly changing her mind and says
she was never married to Gould"
Nicholas Dack had written some let
ters for Mrs. Cody in 1895, who had
asked him if he could write in more
than one kind of handwriting. One OF
the letters which he had written, and
which was dated Oswego, n. Y, and
signed H. S. Moore. was to Miss
Helen Gould and suggested to her the
ACCESSIBILITY of personally seeing Mrs
Cody. who had control of the entire
case" and was in a position to put
an end to the entire scandal"
Still another letter to George Gould
told of the case against the Goulds hav-
ing been placed in Mrs. Cody's hands
by Mrs. Pierce, the alleged daughter
of Jay Gould. 1t suggested q personal
meeting with Gould with a view to put
ting. stop to the proceedings which
threatened.
Emma Lewis, of Rouse's Point, tes-
tlled tnat Mrs. CODY boarded with her
five weeks in 1895. She haG written
letters for Mrs Cody in connection
with the Gould case. Mrs. Cody had
told her that she did not believe Mrs.
Angel was ever married to Jay Gould,
ard that she felt sure that Jay Gould
was not the father of Mrs. Pierce.
MRS. ANGELL APPROVED.
Mrs. Mile G. Hoyle also of Rouses
Point, had talked with Mrs Cody dur
ing the fall of 1895. Witness had told
Mrs. Cody that Gould could not have
married Sarah Ann Brown, because
that person had been at the time of
the alleged marriage a servant in her
NIrs.- HOyle's) family. She had also
told Mrs. Cody that the Sarah Brown
referred to was not the Mrs. Angel
who has figured in the present. case,
but that Mrs. Angel was in reality the
niece Of the woman who it was said
had been married to Jay Gould The
original Sarah Ann Gould, Mrs.
Hoyle says, is dead.
While this testimony was being
taken, Mrs Angel nodded her head
and smiled approvingly.
Mrs. Hoyle said that the original
Sarah Ann Brown was of dark com
plexion. while the woman who it is
contended now was the Sarah Ann
Brown of the birth record had light
hair and blue eyes
Mrs. Hoyle said that Melissa"