Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-05-30
Howard Paid Detectives to
Attend Social Functions
to Watch Wife'S
Conduct.
CHIEF M'LAUGHL|h
HAD HIS HAND OUT
Skeletons in Closets of Millionaire
and His 5000 600 Bride Will
be Pdrdded Before the in
quisitive PubllC---The
SleuthS Were Coarse.

New York, May 30.-Far over
shadowing the domestic row between
the Howard Goulds themselves, is!
the sensational and dramatic story
that is receiving remarkable additions
every day. showing the scandalous
part the New York City detective
force has taken in behalf of Howard
Gould against his wife.
The evidence that Commissioner
Bingham is getting of the efforts of
the city paid detectives to besmirch
Mrs. Gould is simply astounding.
The disclosures alarm the ordinary
citizen. The power of these servants
of the public is startling, and opens
up the question if the police detectives
of other American cities are not also
engaged in such nefarious work.
The Bowery dramas and the 10
cent novels whose detectives are
ever the welcome guests at the ultra
exclusive homes of the members of
the Four Hundred have heretofore
been considered a bit yellow and
mellow in tinge. Not a bit of it.
They are true to- life, but it took
Howard Gould to show that
Detectives i'm Case.
District Attorney Jerome says "Bll
Mclaughlin is the wickedest man, the
most vicious that has ever been in
the police department" yet accord
ing to Mrs. Gould, he was the honor
ed guest at a dinner to which she was
invited. She insists that she now
knows that the sole object for which
one party was given was that she
might come directly under McLaugh-
Inns inquisitorial police eye. This
dinner was given by members of the
upper Fifth avenue set, and their
chief guest began life as a patrolman.
Detective Frank Peabody has spent
days and nights and travelled hum
dreds Of miles at public expense to
secure testimony for Howard Gould
that his wife was the legal wife of
another when she became his five
million dollar bride"
Jim" Valley, another city detect
i've, searched days before he got on
the track of big Bill Hawley, no.
torious swindler, who was supposed
to know of a former marriage of
Katherine Clemmons. other detec-
tives on the city pay roll followed
Mrs. Gould wherever she went.
The Goulds as a family have on
more occasions than one called upon
the services of the New York detec
tive bureau. This association dates
back even to the days Of old Jay
Gould.
Zclla Nicolaus Incident.
1895 when Zella Nicolaus. a hand
some girl, sued George Gould for
$4,000. She claimed that check
for this amount had been given her
by the oldest son of the Gould family
under peculiar circumstances. Later
the giver of the check destroyed it,
and she asked the court to aid her
in the collection of her debt. The
case never came to trial.
The girl was taken to police head
quarters. where she was put through
the terrifying third degree" and
finally given the choice of exile or
Jail. As she was friendless she chose
the former. and started Immediately
for Europe Later she began another
action and received, 1t is said, SO, 900
in settlement Of it.
1t was at this time that George
Gould became acquainted with Nc
I.aughlin. George Goulds appeal to
him in 1898, at the time of his broth
er Howard's first infatuation for the
California actress, was not in vain.
There was police effort at that time
to prove that Katherine Clemmons
was marrying without securing a di-
Vorce from a husband TO whom she
was legally bound.
big Bill" Hawley declares that 1t
was at this time that an effort was
made to get him to say that he knew
of Mrs Gould's former marriage. he
was i'm Dannemora prison at that
time, and he not only was 10 receive
100000 for his sworn aftidaVlt nut
pardon,
Seek Former Marriage Record.
Although Mrs. Gould has always IN
sisted that she was never married but
the once, the detectives have hunted
for a man by the name OF Dawson. IL
was in Baltimore that her marriage
to such a man was alleged TO have
taken place, and there the detectives
turned their search George Dawson
according to the records, did marry a
Harriet LOusdale in Baltimore years
ago Peabody worked under the in
struCtiOnS that Katherine Clemmons
usad various names at different times.
He found Dawson, who is bus driN-
er. and living with him i'm their mod
est home is the woman he made his
wife. and neither Of whom knew OF
the Goulds nor their tangled matri-
monial troubles
Colonel samuel W Dawson, a the
atrir9l manager. looked more likely
as n deserted benedict. When the de-
tectiyes approached him he declared
that he was single and never had
The eztremes 90 which the detec-
ffves raSorted may be understood
when according To Coluuel Dawson
they eudeayored % make him tall ln
lime with their suggestion that he was
I'm London with Mrs, Gould ln 1889
They were highly iuCeuse1 when me-
resented their iusiuuatiouS.
Even the boys around town knew
OF the detectives game against MiS.
Gould one day "a Waldorf bellboy
dropped this note into her motor.
"Pouce detectives are watching
YOU. Look OUT
Then the notorious little lawyer
Abe Hummel now iu the peuitenuary
had to get into the game. He wrote
her n note telling her Of the police
watch and Offering her his services.
IL is not hard TO solve the problem
how Hummel came by his know i
edge. Delaney Nicolls 60 whom
the city detectives reported, is How
-srdB Could's attorney. He nepre-
sented Abe Hummel when the little
lawyer was being tried for perjury
and his diminutive client was often
in his private office.