Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-05-05
WAS G. v. GOULD
A MILLIONAIRE?
People Who Knew Suicide
Declare He So Represen-
ed Himself
MYSTERY ABOUT HIS CAREER
1t Appears He Was Carpenter,
Contf actor and
Policeman.

Was George w. Gould, the man who
shot himself early yesterday morning
in this city. really related to the
Gould railroad kings or was he labor
ing under a hallucination that he
could claim kin with the Goulds of
great wealth and that he himself was
a millionaire?
These are the questions being asked
today as every letter and paper of the
dead man is being examined by those
who are trying to solve the mystery
that surrounds the suicides death.
That the suicide was the same man
met by B. F. Pankey and some of his
friends in California in January and
who then told them he had been a
physician Pinkerton detective and
mining man of great wealth, is the
belief of those who have compared
the description given of the California
tourist with that of the man whose
body now lies at the Wagner under
taking establishment ready for inter-
ment in a cemetery in this city.
If the suicide, however, is a million
aire or a man of any means there is
little trace of his owning property as
far as his letters show. Moreover a
telegram from Miss Lillian Gould who
was located in Butte, Montana, and
who is a sister of the dead man, would
indicate that neither Gould nor his i'm
mediate family are people of large
means. Miss Gould wired the under
takers here to hold the funeral here.
A telegram sent to Miss f. S. Gould,
81 State street, Boston, Mass, was
Iretuned with the reply unknown" 1t
is thought that she has gone back to
her home in Skowhegan, Maine.
The Rev. C. F. Lucas received
telegram from Miss Lillian Gould from
Butte, asking him to see that a prop,
er funeral is given and she added that
| she would send letter later. -..
Through the courtesy of Justice
| Garcia a reporter of the New Mexican
was allowed to examine the effects
of the suicide left in his valise. A
card was found indicating that Mr..
Gould was a contractor in Skowhegan.
Maine, and that he was a carpenter
as we'll A badge marked police"
and another deputy marshal; rap
id firing revolver with which he
| killed himself and many cartridges
were also found; also a black jack and
| a knife. There were many booklets
describing firearms and lot of bust
ness letters discussing the purchase
Of building material The sum of $3S
was found yesterday and was turned
over to Justice Garcia.
How He Died.
Interesting details were learned to-
day about the preparation Mr.. Gould
made for death. He came here Tues.
day and rented a room in the Ex-
change hotel building and left his
| trunk there. 1t is said he acted Pc
culiarly and there seems reason to be-
lieve that his illness deprived him OF
clear reasoning powers. He procured
another rom in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kennedy and when his body was
found it was evident that he had taken
extraordinary precautions that he
should not damage the carpets in any
lway by blood that should flow from
the wound he prepared to inf1ict 1t
appears that he held his rapid firing
revolver first to his forehead and af.
ter firing a bullet into his head, the
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gers still clenching it and four or
more shots were fired into the body.
Sheets were found placed all around
his lifeless body which was resting
on the windowsill
A reporter telephoned B. F. Pankey
who is on his ranch few miles from
Lamy John Pfueger at Lamy trans
mitting the message as Mr.. Pankey's
line is not yet connected with Santa
Fe.
Mr.. Pankey said that in January on
a trip through California he and mis-
companions had met man who gave
his name as Gould and whose descrip-
ton seems to tally with that of the
sdic:d He told him that he had bcen
S a physician and detective and had
f Travelled in the Philippine Islands, in
E Australia and all through this loun-
try. He said that he owned mining
interests in California" continued Mr.
Pankey, "and that he was related to
J. the Gould multi-millionaires" Mr.
1 Pankey thought the man talked some.
3 what erratically due perhaps to his