The Washington times., 1907-05-25
GOULD SCANDAL
AIRED BY WIFE;
CHIEF RESIGNS
Mrs. Gould Charges
Espionage and Tamper-
ing With Her Mail.

NEW YORK, May 25.-There is to be
no cessation in the investigation Of the
alleged misuse Of the city detective bu-
reau in the effort of Howard Gould TO
discover evidence against his wife, de-
spite the retirement last night from the
department Of Captain Mclaughlin.
former chief of the bureau. who was
said to have put the detectives on Mrs.
Gould's track.
Disclosures Mrs. Gould is said TO have
made 20 Commissioner Bingham during
an interview arc reported to have fur
nished the basis for an investigation
along entirely new lines.
Bingham wants TO talk TO half a dozen
or more persons Mrs. Gould is said to
have involved. Most Of all. he is said
10 want TO interview Howard Gould.
May Be Misuse of Mails.
There is a possibility that the scandal
NAV even pass into the hands Of Post
Office Department officials. One Of the
charges Mrs. Gould is said TO have made
was that her mail has been system
atically tampered with. II this is true,
there is ground for an investigation.
II IS rumored about police headquar-
ters today that as the result Of Mrs
Gould's statement an effort is being
made to identify half dozen or so detec-
lives said to have had a share in trail
ing her. Mrs. Gould is said to have vol
unteered 20 go to headquarters to pick
out, II possible the men she says FOL
lowed her.
Began One Year ngo.
According to the published accounts Of
NTrg toll
persecution Of her by detectives began
in June or July last. months before the
public knew there had been a falling
out between the couple She says she
was-even followed on shopping trips and
every movement watched
Her suspicious were first aroused when
she found her mail was being exam
ined- one of the letters OF warning she
is said 10 have received. which Bingham
is particularly interested in. is said to
have come from Abe Hummel. the dis
barred attorney now serving a sentence
on Blackweli's Island for conspiracy in
the Dcdge-Morse scandal
Hummel Offered Services.
Hummel is reported to have offered
his services to Mrs. Gould. volunteer
ing to have the detectives called OF her
trail. His letter. it is said. was sent
at a time when few people knew OF her
estrangement from Gould. Bingham
wants to know how Hummel learned
the secret. 1t is expected Hummel viii
be brought over TO headquarters for in
terrogation.
One of the most startling statements
attributed TO Mrs. Gould is thas, before
her marriage relatives OF Howard
Gould who were trying 20 prevent the
match had former Inspector Byrnes put
detective on her trail, IN an effort to
prove she had a husband living.
New Features of Scandal.
A new feature of the scandal today
was a declaration that the district at
torney's Office may be called on 10 in
Nesugate the report that money was
paid for the use of the detectives The
law forbids this. and if money was used
TO incite the sleuths to greater activity
an investigation will be made.
Captain Mclaughlin is no longer a
member OF the police department. He
retired last night on q pension of s.. 500
a year Detective Frank Peabody has
also rendered MS resignation 1t has
been learned that Supreme .Justice
McCaI made desperate efforts 10 save
McLaughlln. He called upon Mayor
Mcclellan and Commissioner bingham
and pleaded to have the investigstlon
dropped.
Dispatches from San Francisco state
that detectives for the Pennsvlvani,
Railroad Company were used NV tho
Goulds to look up the record or I<sfb-
crime Clemmons.