The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
MRS. GOULD IN FEAR
Declares She Knew of At
temptS to Poison Her.
TELLS OF ANONYMOUS NOTES
Abe HummeI Said TO Have sent Her
Letter-Reports How EpistIes
Worried Her, that Move Would BE
Made on Life-Left In Automobile,
Complains 20 p. o. Department.

New York. May G.-The statement
which Mrs. Howard Gould made to Dep
uty Police Commissioner Hanson on Fri
day night has created a situation which
viii not be cleared by the mere retirement
Of Capt Inspector William Mclaughlin
on pension Of &2.590 a year
II developed to-day that Mrs Gould
told the commissioner. among other
things that while the central office de-
tectIves and others were making her life
almost unbearable by shad0wing her
everywhere. she had received anonymous
notes cautioning her against drinking
coffee OF liquors or eating anything in
strange places The writer feared that
an effort would be made % drug Mrs
Could Mrs. Gould told the commission
er she believed that il was the purpose
Of the persons conspiring against her TO
get her under the influence Of some drug
and place her. when IN this condition, in
o compromising situation.
She has no idea who the anonymous
writer is. She described the fandwritng
as that Of an uneducated person. Mrs
Gould, it was said needed the warning
and took extra precautions to safeguard
herself whenever she went out.
Commissioner Hanson is interested in
these anonymous warnings. but not so
much so as in the letter which Mrs Gould
says she got from Abe HummeL
Letter from HummeI.
The letter which Mrs. Gould received
from Hummel wasn't the first intimation
she got from outside sources that IN
spector McLaughln's men were on her
trail Several anonymous letters. so she
told Commissioner Hanson. had come 20
her, warning her that the city police were
after her one Of these notes. which was
dropped in her automobile when it was
standing in front Of the Wsldorf-Astoria
ended with these words:
Keep faith with me by destroying this
note and by leaving the fragments Of IL
i'm the automobile the next time YOU 60
out"
Mrs. Gould complied with this request.
but she was satisfied from the context
that the person who sent her the note
was one who had constant access TO her
car
There was at least one man in New
York who was mighty sore over the
statements made by Mrs Could to the
commissioner and that was former In
spector Byrnes. under whose wing Nc
LauChlin was reared i'm the police depart
ment.
duplicates ByrneS.
Mrs. Gould charged that the detective
bureau. when Byrnes was active in the
police department. was used by the
Goulds 10 search out her record. That
was before her marriage to Howard
Gould when the match was being op-
posed by George }. Gould and other mem
bers of the family
Inspector Ryrnes denied to-day most en-
phatically that he had ever been reSponsi-
bic for any action by members Of the Ce-
tective bureau in regard to the present
Mrs. Gould He declared that he mad
never been asked 70 inquire into her rec
ord. and that he knew nothing whatever
about her, except as ne had read Of her at
the time of the marriage i'm the newspa-
pers
Inspector Byrnes said that he intended
TO sue Mrs Gould for the statements
which she made before the commissioner.
=. o. Department Aroused.
The Post-ofice Department will also in
vestigate the charges made by Mrs How
ard Gould that her mail was tamperod
with for months. if Mrs. Gould will pro-
duce the letters which she told Police
Commissioner Bingham had been opened.
Tracngs had been made Of the addresses,
she also informed the commissioner.
Whether Mrs Gould was in town or
not. her mail was tampered with" said
a friend of Mrs Gould. who was present
at the interview She has discovered
that many letter sent to her never
reached her hands. Tracings were made
of addresses. and she saw the blur of
the tracing paper, or where an attempt
had been made 10 take an impression Of
the writing Of the sender by means of
copying paper"