The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-28
G]ULD'S REPLY 10 HIS WIPES SUIT A HOT ONE His Counsel Says It Will be Filed Within Ten
 Days. HUMMEL FORECLOSURES May be a Great Help to Po- lice Commissioner
 Bingham.
HUMMEL FORECLOSURES

New York, May 27.-Howard Goulds reply to his wife's complaint in divorce proceedings is practically ready, and his counsel, Delaney Nicoll, said to- day that it would be filed within ten days
 MT. Gould's answer Is expected to in- clude startling charges, and a counter suit is not unlikely to be brought.
 While the central office detectives whom Inspector Mclaughlin loaned to MT Gould for the purpose of investiga- ting Mrs. Gould's previous life, appar- ently have not turned up just what MT. Nicoll expected, the millionaire and his lawyer have had other agents in vestigating. and the results of their in- quiry will appear in the answer.
 MT. Nicoll has said that So far Mrs. Gould has had everything her own way, so far as making charges for the de- fense to explain away, but that MT. Gould's formal answer would vindicate him.
 Deputy Police Commissioner Hanson said to-day that Mrs Gould would be requested 10 call at police headquarters at such time as number of the detec- tives attached to the bureau, or who have been detached from there and worked on the case could be present to be identified by her. She requested that the men be arranged so that she could see them without herself being seen.
 Deputy Hanson said that although Mclaughlin was out of the department and beyond the commissioners 1uris- diction as a member of the uniformed force, yet he was still subject to a subpoena to appear at headuuarters and give testimony in furtherance of the Investigation Mir. Hanson said that as vet he had made no arrange ments to interview Howard Gould.
 Commissioner Bingham declined to- day to give out the sharp letter he sent to ex-Inspector Mclaughlin, granting the latter's request for retirement. Us- ually some commendation is recorded when so high a police official retires. Mclaughlin was once deputy chief of the department
 "McLaughlin is now out of the de- partment and I think there is no use publishing the letter sent him acced- ing to his request to retire." said the commissioner. It is reported that a singing rebuke was contained in the letter.
 As a result of Abraham H. Tunnels disclosures to MT, Hanson, General Bingham will find his work of clearing up the detective bureaus share in the Gould scandal much lightened. It is said in Mulberry street to-day that Hummel had imDarted to Hanson many secrets which he has been gath Iering for years about ex-Inspector Mo- Laughlin, and other high officials of the department, and has thrown a bright I light upon many matters which have hitherto been a mystery to General Bingham.
 It could not be learned whom Hum mel had mentioned in his revelations but the fact that he was willing to talk and had talked to the investigators of the Gould scandal was sufficient to put lconsternation into the ranks of 'the system"
 { Hummel was glad to testify, and re- Ivealed more than can be made public at this time He volunteered his ser. vices to Police Commissioner Bingham in the campaign now on to smash ''the system" He said:
 q did write to Mrs. Gould that ] knew detectives were on her trail.
 From information that had come tC me concerning the break between Mrs Gould and her husband I knew that this would be the first thing Gould would do.
 ''I had done some work for the Gould family at various times and had alst served Mrs. Gould. I learned to admire lher as a woman of splendid character and would have done anything then t, aid her and will do anything now t, aid her. I am familiar with a goo( many circumstances.
 ] q haven't the least fear of the sys tenn will help General Bingham il any way that 1t is possible for me t aid If I know anything about the de tective bureau I will tell it.
 Mclaughlin has hated me for years Ever since the Lexow committees in vestigation he has hated me I happen ed to be a witness against him. srha was sufficient to fire Mclaughlin hate. He never had any use for m from that time on, and I never had an! for him."
 The activities of the police in tn Gould case are believed to fall within the provisions not only of the statute invoked in the Dodge-Morse divorc 1 prosecutions, but also within the mean ing of section AS of the penal code
 That section is most explicit in it Language. It says that any public off cial who uses hls office for private pur lposes, personal gain or advancement i guilty of a felony and shall be subiec
 to 8 penalty of not more than tei years imprisonment or a fine of no
 more than S4.000. or both.
 THE WOMAN IN BLUE