The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
OFF TO CONEY TO FORGET 1T
JARS BEFORE MRS. r. j. GOULD
GOT REALLY STARTED.
First the French Maid and a Butler Had a
Row which Ended I'm Then the
Chauffeur stirred IN Things and He's
coins to Court when lie Gets Back.

Row which Ended I'm COurt-Then the
chauffeur stirred Ip Things and He's
Going TO Court when lie Gets Back.
GREENWICH, Conn. July 6.-There was
trouble for Frank Jay Gould's family, who
are summering at the Mrs. }. p. Latin place,
The Mornings. at Belle Haven to-day,
before Mrs. Gould and a party of friends
started for Coney Island to forget all about
1t. The trouble started this morning when
Mrs. Gould missed a gold bead purse con-
tanning cash and sent her French maid,
Rose Basseaud, TO the garage to see if she
had left it overnight in an automobile.
The front door has a snap lock, and when
the maid returned to the house. not having
found the purse, she rang the bell to get in.
One of the three men servants in the house
came to the door. saw who was ringing,
and vent away without letting her in. She
had to go at least twenty feet further to
another door, and as she passed through
the hall she remarked that it was too bad,
with 80 many men employed, none could let
her in the front door.
The maid went 10 Mrs. Gould's room to
report and there found Miss Scoville, a
guest. Henry Guerney, an English butler
| who travelled all over Europe with the
maid and Mr.. and Mrs. Gould. came in to
get a tray and was ordered out by the maid
because he had not let her in the front door.
The maid declared to Prosecuting Attor-
ney White this afternoon that the bruises
she had on her arm snd a scratch on her nose
were caused by Guerney grabbing her.
Guerney's face was scratched as If by a cat
and he saws the maid did it.
Mrs. Gould say nothing, she nc bother
with U.S." said the maid TO the prosecutor.
| and as there was no apparent evidence for
the maid no arrest was made. At moor
| Mrs. Gould with Miss Scoville and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles A. Moore, Jr., started for
! Coney Island to spend the afternoon and
Ar the post Office the chauffeur stopped
and let Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Moore out
AS they returned the chauffeur started
70 back his car, and ran IL near the wheels
of a runabout owned by Assemblyman F.
Dewitt Wells Of New York, which was
waiting for Mrs. Wells's brother. John
Jay Of New York. Mr.. Wells's driver
told the chauffeur to be careful. where
upon he reversed his car and came back
into the carriage with greater force push
ing the horse across the street.
Mr.. Jay was about TO step into the car
riage. and he spoke to the chauffeur, who
then reversed his car a third time and
slammed into the carriage. knocking
Mr.. Jay down. Bystanders, among them
Burgess f. W. Lyon and Capt. Seamon A.
Mead. ran out to the chauffeur and ordered
him TO desist, ~whereupon he said something
about the carriage not getting out OF his
way, and drove away rapidly. Later the
chauffeur apologized TO Mr.. Jay and said
IL was an accident.
Burgess Lyon, however. made a COM
plant to Prosecuting Attorney White apd
ask ed that the Gould chauffeur be lock ed
up, Sheriff Ritch went after him, but
found he was at Coney Island, so his arrest
will follow when he returns.