The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-09
MERE SPECULATION.
Attempted Bcsmirching Of q Dead
Mans Name.
THE CUPIDITY OF VAMPIRES,
Under tho Guise of Lawyers, who
Pounce Upon Anything That Will
Fattcn Their Eerie Stories OF Ghost
ly Pasts-1Irs. Cody and Mrs. Angel
Give Such Attorneys n Very Black
Eye in the Blackmail Case Against
the Estate ofthe Late Jay Gould.

ALBANY, n. Y, March S.-The fifth
day Of the Cody blackmail trial opened
with the defendant still on the stand.
Her counsel. Mr.. Dugan. finished his re-
direct examination with few Ques-
tions concerning the letters which had
passed between her and Mrs. ]. +.
Pierce, Jay Gould's alleged child and
her husband.
District Attorney Dyer cross-eSam-
ined, reading number of letters writ
ten By Mrs. Cody to Mrs. Walker, Mrs.
Pierce's aunt, to Mrs. Beebe, who fur
nished her with funds with which to
urge the claim of Mrs. Pierce and Mrs.
Angel and to others. In the letter to
Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Cody said that Jay
Gould had told Sarah Ann Brown (AIrs.
AngelD that her marriage to him was
Illegal since 1t had been performed by q
Presbyterian clergyman, while she was
Catholic. Mrs. Pierce had told her
this, said Mrs. Cody. After counsel for
Mrs. Cody, to save time, had admitted
the authenticity Of the documents, Mrs.
Cody was then excused but Immediately
recalled to the chair TO answer the ques-
tion of one of the jurymen.
Why did you not contradict Judge
Brown?" he asked. when he first told
you that Mrs. Angel was not Jay
Gould's wife, in Mrs. Angells pres
ence?"
Because was so surprised" she an
swered. ''and he did not give me time.
l had to leave the room at once. as he
wished some private conversation with
Mrs. Angell."
She went on to say that she after
ward contradlcted Browns statement.
but not with Mrs. Angel us witness.
Attorney Stearns, who drew up the
power OF attorney between Mrs. Cody
and Mrs. Angel, took the stand for the
second time, and told what he knew
concerning a number of legal papers
Mrs. Angel was then put on the
stand. She gave her name as Mary An
gell. Asked to repeat her conversation
with Mrs. Cody at Rouse's Point, she
said:
She asked me II had ever been mar
ried TO Mr.. Gould. I told her that
had never been. She gave me the name
Of my first husband, and his looks, and
asked me IL l was married to that man
and said tina. l was.
Q.-"The Frenchman?''
Yes sir; the FrenChman: let that
name be buried. lzJaa-lt~f.i,ss.a.
daughter living. 1 said ! had. She
said Your daughter Is worth millions.
said That's news to me II she is"
Q.-"Did you ever tell Mrs. Cody that
you were married to Jay Goud?"
A.-"No sir
o.-"Did she tell you so?"
A.-"Yes SIR
did you evec see jay Gould?'
mo SIR"
What did Judge Brown say to Mrs.
Cody?"
HE said: Where there are no facts,
what are you going to build the case
on?'"
Cross-examined by Mr.. Dugan:
You say you never saw Jay Gould.
When you We're girl of fourteen at
home did not man come to your house
for water one day? Now don't you
know who he was?"
mo sir"
The witness admitted that man had
come for water. and that she knew that
he was employed on one OF the railroads
then being built Her mind, she said
was not exactly clear concerning what
had taken place when she was so
young. After few more questions.
however, the witness recalled the up-
pearance of the man. He was about
seventeen years old, short and dark
Continuing her statement. she said
that she had married the old French
man. De Roussa, and had a child by
him who was bound out to q Canadian
weaver. Two years after It's birth, she
had gone west.
David y. Carvalho, 4 handwriting
expert. identified as genuine letter
signed by Mrs. Cody and addressed TO
the son of the clergyman who was al
legged 10 have married Jay Gould and
Mrs. Angel. The letter offers $4,000
FOR copy of the marriage certificate.
The taking OF evidence was conclud-
ed to-day. and counsel will begin their
closing arguments Tomorrow.