The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-25
MCLAUGHLIN IS OUT.
Police Inspector Retires in Time to
Escape Gould Mixup.

New York. May 25.-Captain Will
liam M. Mclaughlin. former Inspector
one of the best known officers in the
New York police department, thirty
years in the service. retired from the
| force at midnight. He made applica-
ton for retirement on half pay
$4,000 a year. and as he has served
his twenty-five years and no charges
against him are pending. Commission
er Bingham has no alternative but to
grant it.
This retirement, too, will remove
Mclaughlin as figure in the investi-
cation of the alleged Gould con-
spiracy. The captain had been i'll with
bronchitis, and it was understood that
he was soon to have been officially ex-
amined by a headquarters physician to
determine when he would be able to
appear before Deputy Commissioner
nection with the affair. of which Lieu
tenant Frank Peabody told Mr.. Han
son. However. as the application for
retirement forestalled any possible
charges, Mclaughlin may be said to
out of the case.
While Mclaughlin was preparing
his application for retirement, Deputy
Commissioner Hanson was continuing
his inquiry at police hea dquarters, and
1T was learned that both Howard
Gould and his wife had been served
with subDoenas to appear and tell
what they know about the participa-
Gould's search for divorce evidence.
big HawIey'' Active.
Edward Sholes. the former circus
rider who is credited with having
started the report that Mrs. Howard
Gould. while Katherine Clemmons,
had been married in Baltimore to
Samuel Dawson before she came to
New York, was before the commission
er and threw still more light upon the
connection of the police with the
Gould family troubles.
He was put on the stand by Com
missioner Hanson and, after relating
conversations he had had with big
Hawley'' in regard to the alleged mar
riage, and their investigation of it in
Baltimore. said:
Later on 1 was summoned to In
spector McLaughlins office He put
me through a long examination and
cross questioned me very closely. He
asked me if I was sure that the woman
who married Dawson was Mrs. Gould.
I told him all 1 knew about it, and
then he said:
Nov you come with me down to
Delaney Nico1ls office.
81 went with Mclaughlin to De-
lancy Nicoll's office and told Mr.. Nicoll
lust what 1 had told the inspector and
Peabody and Big Hawley' and others
That is all had to do with the affair"
All Proper, Says NicOn.
Sholes was asked if Inspector Nc
visit the district attorneys Office. He
replied in the negative.
Delaney NicOll. upon whom. as
counsel for Howard Gould. Mrs. Gould
served notice of her suit for permanent
upon grounds of desertion,
and inhuman treatment, in
Guiding a police conspiracy against her,
made a statement setting forth his
with the alleged con-
spiracy.
In brief, Mr.. Nicoll explains that
there came to the ears of the police a
report that a crime had been commit
ted in that Katherine Clemmons,
while having a husband living, mar
ried Howard Gould. Very properly, he
holds, the police looked into the mat
Ter at his suggestion. When they had
themselves that the gossip
Mrs. Gould was baseless.
hey dropped their investigation, he
says.
''There was nothing done.'' Mr..
Nicou adds, ION behalf Of Mr.. Gould
which was unusual. other than any
Other citizen has right to have done
for him"
1t was said that the retirement of
and the explanation of
Nicoll would not stop the course under |
way at police headquarters.