The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
DOOdy's Confession Will Figure
 In Coming Weeks Trial
SPED UPON IN THE HOTELS
Work of Detectives In Spying Upon Mrs. Gould Will Be Taken Up In Course of the Trial
 This Week.

New York, June 12.-(Special.)- There were indications today that the separation and alimony suits of MT. and Mrs. Howard Gould will bristle with developments this week when the trial is continued before Justice Dowl- ! ing in the supreme court.
 According to papers put on file in the county clerks office chiefly in the form of affidavits, Howard Gould will be charged with an attempt to manu- facture false evidence against his wife. | Employees of the Hotel St. Regis, where ! Mrs. Gould has lived since her separa- tion from Howard Gould, are said to be involved, including J. D. Kennedy, a former house detective and one of the best known hotel detestives in the country.
 In the signed confession of Michael Doody, now on ale with the court, De- tective Kennedy is said to have offered the door boy $2000 to keep track of Mrs. Gould's movements and write her down as coming back to the hotel intoxicated.
 The confession was first made to Mrs. Gould after Doody had gone for advice to his parish priest, the Rev. Father Joseph G. Murray of St. Agnes Roman Catholic church.
 It was intimated today that George Gould's examination may involve more than inquiries as to Howard Gould's inheritance form the estate of his fath- CT, Jay Gould, his investments and the present figure of his fortune. It Is said that Il years ago George Gould began searching for some flaw in Mrs. Howard Gould's record.
 At that time she was a beautiful young actress playing under her own name, Katherine C1emmons. Big Bill'' Hawley, then serving a term in Dannemorra prison in upper New York; is said to have gotten into communication with George Gould through a warden of the penitentiary. He declared he could prove that Katherine Clemmons was already married and that he would do so if assured that he would be pardoned through the Gould influence at Albany. He furnished the agents of the Goulds with names, dates and alleged facts There was a thorough investigation of Miss Clemmons' part but it came to noth- ing.
 Big Bill'' Hawley served his term and Howard Gould in the face of the family protests married the actress.
 Notwithstanding Hawley's Tirsr failure, it is said that he has been Tn the em- ploy of the Goulds since Howard and his wife separated. This time he promised to prove Mrs. Gould a bigamist but thu name of the man she is alleged to have married not that which Hawley gave out at Dannemorra. Howard Gould's chief defense, 1t was said today, will lie in charges of drunkenness on Mrs. Goulds part. To prove this a host of former household servants, hotel employees and private detectives have been called.
 Mrs. Gould charges that she has been continually spied upon ever since her husband left her. Even in the Hotel St. Regis which has long been her city home she has been under surveillance She would not have minded the spying so much had the reports of 1t been hon. estly made. She now charges that no end of false evidence has been prepared against her.
 She might never have known the ex- tent of the false evidence plot, she says, had not young Doody become conscious stricken and confessed his own and Ken nedy's part in it.