The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-15

MIN ana DTOuRl liih uoND w Nv pfi'ofS
entrance to the Detective Bureau.
After | had u talk with him l tele-
phoned TO Mr.. Niooll that Hawley was
perfectly willing to come down and tell
all he knew. Mr.. Nicoll said he would see
him that afternoon and ] let him out OF
the side door. | told him to meet me at
Cedar and Nassau street,. when is uIs;
he asked Hawley IL he had been married
to Mrs. Gould. He said he would neither
affirm nor denyit and ven on to tell u lot
Of stuff about travelling in Europe. He
said he worked ships. using Mrs, Gould
al a decoy to invelgle mon into games OF
chance" 49,,
"You knew he was a convict. didn't
you?" asked Mr.. Shearn. ~.
Yes. ! knew he had served time az
Daunemora."
Did Hawley tell Mr.. Niooll anything
elsey" ,
no. He got on his high horse and
wouldn't remain any longer, He hared
uD and went out -,
Mclaughlin said that the name OF Ed
Sholes came out through Hawley and
, that he sent Or Sholes and had him
brought to the office. He knew Sholes
was a freuuenter Of gambling houses and
that Peabody brought him In.
The former inspector said thai he aiso
guided Sholes to Mr.. Nicol's OH &c
SnOleS SdlO ue hau ovep 49,"
Buffalo Bill.
NO RECORD OF PREVIOUS MARRIAGE.
aSboles said he heard that Mrs. Gould
had married a man named DAWSON u
IA ltimore in 1882, but | didn't place much
faith in what he said. Peabody was
going on his vacation then and ! told him
10 stop of at Washington and baltl'
more and search the records. When mt
came back he gave me a verbal rspor'
and said he couldn't find anything
Then | sent him to See MIR. Ncoll and ina
ended my connection with the matter,
Mr.. Nicoll started in to cross-exam'ne
Don't YOU recollect my telling yot
that Miss Helen Gould had received
M ,sr,er Heward GoSld'-
You told me she had received ar
anonymous letter.
me, wasn't it?'
Don't you recollect that I showed
II don't remember that you did =,
please read this and see II you don
recollect seeing 1t at the time, said hr
Nicoll, handing the witness %hat ~
said That Mrs. Gould had been, married
,1aLan to be Woodward. Mclaughlin
said that he didn't believe he saw it.
Didn't I tell you that Wilkinson hat
investigated the story on a, previou
occasion and interviewed Hawley az IN
Dannemora prison and Hawley admitte'
contracting this marrisge?. Didn't, =,
tell O that Wilkinson hadn't been abb
To run this thing down and on That &C
count I asked you to run 1t DOWN
Yes
his ms and outs. didn't you?'
Laughter
Mr. Shearn objected to leading ques
tions and the Court, ordered that Nc
Lauphlin tell what he knew bou Hawley
Il knew him as a green goods ma
and sure thing man who got none
away from people by cheating. Hear
that he robbed a man Of s25o;ooo wort
Of rubies in Ceylon. He had a plac
outside OF London for the purpose c
robbing men at cards and made a lo
of money there. He had told me the
he worked ships in the Mediterranea
with Mrs. Gould as a decoy and tha
at the proper time he would tell all h
knew about her. go.
You recollect, don't your" said Mr.
Nicoll. that [ told Hawley that ha
heard these stories and when | aske
him fatty about them he refused t
answer? You remember my telling hiI
that as an e1-conv let and criminal HI
word was entitled to cry little credit
Was not that the occasion OF his takin
a huff and leaving the Officer
Yes"
Didn't | tell him that il he had anythin
10 say to tell it to a la wyer first and the
the lawyer could tell me and ! woul
'%uaggssss'.
Aren't you in error in saying ths
Peabody was there with HawleyT'
Il think he was there. I'm sure he wa
there when Sholes vas there.
Didn't Hawley say that before he woul
talk he wanted to get MIR. Gould to inves
in a gold miner
Yes"
Mr.. Shearn took up the cross-examina
ton of Mclaughlin and asked him II tn
anonymous letter to Helen Gould was nc
dated in May. 1905, a year previous. h
said he didn't remember seeing the dat
and didn't remember that MIR. Nico
told him il was an old lettor.
did he tell you why the Wilkinson de
tective agency had investigated the Hav
ley storyS Did he tell you it was nan
, years before. at about the time OF HoNar
Gould's maria &c. and that the investiga
ton was made at the Instance OF Georg
Gould?"
mo, he didn't say when it was, II
merely said Wilkinson hadn't been alb
| to accomplish anything
) DIDN'T THINK CRIME oUTLAwFD.
l sYou say you were investigator il
see IL a crime had been committed. Don
t YOU know that the only crime possib
= was bigamy, and that the statute OF linn