Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-21
GOULD PLOT VICTIM
Girl Bribed to Swear Against
Him in Divorce Case.
TWO TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
Affidavit Told of False Visit to
Chorus Singer.
SIGNED BUT NOT SWORN TO
Woman and Detective Charged
With Offering Money to Miss
MacCauslan for Manufactured
Testimony.

NEW YORK, July 21.-Henry s. Nous
ley, a private detective, and Mrs. Julia
Fleming, aged twenty-five, a seamstress,
of the Lincoln Hotel. Broadway and SD
street, were arrested yesterday charged
with subornation of perjury in connec-
ton with the divorce suit brought by Mrs
Frank j. Gould
The arrests were made at the direction
of Assistant District Attorney Smyth.
who charges that the two. together with
a woman not yet arrested. attempted to
bride Miss Mabel D. MacCausIan, aged
eighteen, millner's apprentice. to give
false testimony against Mr.. Gould
Mousley has been working up evidence
for Mrs. Gould's lawyer, Henry r.
Sprague to be used in the trial of the
case. Mr.. Smyth made it plain last night
that he did not in any sense believe Mr.
Sprague had any knowledge Of the al
legged attempted bribery.
Miss MacCauslan's Story.
Miss MacCauslan was sent to the dis
trict attorneys Office yesterday afternoon
by Cornelius j. Sullivan Of counsel to
Mr.. Gould, to whom she had made
statement. To Mr. Smyth, the young
woman declared that Mousley and Mrs.
Fleming had promised to pay her from
$500 to 200 to swear to an affidavit as
sociating Mr.. Gould with a chorus girl
who lives in an uptown apartment.
Miss MacCauslan said that Mrs. Flem-
ing, whom she has known for some time,
induced her to call last Saturday upon
the unnamed woman. who Is Ill IN an
apartment uptown. There she was tod,
she averred, that she was wanted to
swear that she saw Mr.. Gould. In March,
1903, at IL o'clock one morning leave
the apartment of the actress. attired In
his trousers and shirt, go to the bathroom
and return to the actress room.
1t was desired Miss MacCauslan de-
clared. that she swear that she witnessed
all this through key hole. Later. MISS
MacCauslan went on. MouSiey appeared
at the apartment of the sick woman ana
the affidavit was drawn up. Miss Mac
Causlan said she signed her name 70 IL.
She was to have sworn to the affidavit
yesterday, but her conscience troubled her,
she asserted, and on the ADVICE OF 1rlenos
she went to Mr.. Sullivan.
Affidavit Found.
According to Miss MacCaluslan, 5000 OF
the alleged bride was to have been paid
last evening at the Wyoming apartment
house. Mr.. Smyth sent Detectives Berry
and Roynes to the apartment house. and
Miss MacCauslan followed to keep the al
legged appointment. AS Miss MacCauslan
stepped up to Mousley and Mrs. Fleming,
the detectives arrested the pair and took
them to police headquarters. No money
had been paid to Miss MacCauslan.
In Mousley's pocket, when searched,
was found an affidavit signed by Miss
MacCausland. Mousley denied emphat1-
cally that he knew the affidavit to be
false. He admitted he had asked Miss
MacCauslan to sign 1t, but said he had no
part in it's preparation.
ir,f d.
quarters and Mrs. Fleming was sent to
the Mercer street police station
Il do not believe said Mr.. Smyth,
that Mrs Gould's attorneys had any
hand In this affair. They are men OF TOO
great standing and integrity for that. The
preparation Of this sort Of evidence was,
think, undoubtedly left to the detectives"
Mr.. Smyth Said the other woman In the
case was under surveillance and would be
arrested as soon as she Is able to leave
her apartment.
The police also expressed desire to
question Mrs. Ben Teal, wife of we'll
known stage manager Miss McCauslan
made a full statement of the part she
said she had played in the alleged con-
spiracy. The substance of the girls state
ment was that the matter was preached to
her ten days ago, when. it is alleged, Miss
Fleming who represented herself as com
ing from Mrs. Teal, tried 10 interest her
in the scheme.
Mrs. Teal went to the district attorneys
office today. Both her husband and her at
torney said Mrs. Teal is the victim Of I'M
fortunate circumstances:
There is nothing to 1t. and we are sure
it will come out all right said Teal.
Neither Mrs. Teal nor / know either of
the Gou!ds So, you see. friendship could
not have been a motive. and it certainly
was not money.
Miss MacCauslan came from ST. Paul
Mimi, with a letter of reference to Mrs.
Teal from Mrs. Teals sister. My wife
gave her work as a seamstress. and later.
only a week ago, the girl came to me and
asked me to place her as chorus girl"