The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Mrs. Howard Gould is Again to be
Sued.
MYsTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS
Eo.s scares Master, But Loses His Own
Litc-Nlan Who Wants His
Wife to Support
ii j M.
DISAPPEARS

NEW YORK. May 5-speefaL-Mrs.
Howard Gould is again being pestered by
tbs law. The suit this time is not about
shirt waist. but about a theatrical con-
tract. which she is said to have made
when She was on the stage. The papers
We're served On Mrs. Could yesterday
while She was on her husbands yacht.
The suit in which she was served dates
back TO 1898. and grows out of her last
season on the stage She is sued under
her maiden name. Kathrine Ciemmons.
and Colonel William f. Cody, Buffalo
tBill, is Il co-defendant. The plaintiff is
Clifford Leigh, an actor who recently play
ed in "Oiiyer Goldsmith at the Fifth Ave
nue. Theatre. He demands about $1.400 for
breach OF contract. He says after he had
played one season with Miss Clemmons,
she personally re-engaSed him for the fol-
lowing year. When he reported for duty
at the first rehearsal of a Lady of Ven
ice ne was informed that his services
were not required, hence the suit.
Mrs. Gould puts in a general denial
plea
MYSTERIOUS DISAPFEARANCE-
DC. Graene NJ. Hammond rushed into
. the West Thirteenth-Street Police Station
last evening and reported that one of MS
patients, about forty-three years Of age
and Weighing one hundred and stXty-three
pounds. had disappeared. II turned out
afterwards that the patient was his sis
ter. the NIarquise Clara di LAMA. When
DR. Hammond found out that the matter
world become public he asked to have the
alarm recalled The AiarGuIse WAS found
at the Waldorf-Astoria visiting a friend.
She was before her marriage Miss Clara
Ct. Hammond the well-knOwn surgeon of
the United States Army. Just why she
mysteriously disappeared is not known.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society
has begun to foreclose the mortgage.
which it holds upon the home OF William
III. Maloney, better known as Billy Ma
loney. Billy Maloney is remembered as
the man who was credited with having
handled the enormous corruption fund
which was used in obtaining the passage
of the Broadway Railroad franchise
through the Doodle aldermen 1t Was
supposed at the time that he secured a
large sun, of money, but the acton CT lie
Equitable Company in foreclosinG would
indicate that he is now in financial straits.
WANTS WIFE TO SUPPORT HIM.
Michael Healey, of Hoboken. applied to
the Poor Master yesterday for an order
compelling his wife to support hIn- In
less my wife supports me- said he. u
will become a charity on the city. Inc
corporation attorney will look up the law
and see If there is any provision under
which a wife can be compelled to support
her husband
Sadie Parsy. twenty-four years of age,
and maid in the family of Albert Pey-
ser. of No. DIG East Sevenfy-eiSh'h Street,
was saved yesterday by her hair. she
fell from the fire escape or the tolIr.a
flour. In some way strand OF her hair
caught in some of the ornamental. IRON
work of the balcony on the first floor and
For a moment she hung suspended i'll mid
air. The hair soon parted but in the
nean time some men had gathered under
meath and caught Sadie as she fell.
DOG SAVED HIS LIFE
Adam Helminger owes his life to his
faithful dog, q big Newfoundland, named
Rex. He was sleeping in building in
Newark The building took fire and Rex
went in and by repeated barking aroused
slis master The man escaped. but the deg
was caught in the house and perisheG IN
tbe. flames