The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-12
GOULD CHILDREN
ARE KIDNAP Ed
II -
Seized by Detectives Af-
ter Their Mothers
Wedding.
flF1ilsf a-
RUSHED AWAY
IN AUTOMOBILE
Frank and Helen Gould Run No
Risk of Their Being Taken
Away by Mother, Who Be-
comes Mrs. Ralph Thomas.
AN Outrage" Says
Mrs. Kelly.
Especial to The Times plspa

New York. July il.@Heien and
Dorothy Gould, the children of Frank
Jay Gould and Helen Kelly Gould. who
was married to Ralph Thomas to-day,
were taken away from their nurse
and Addison Miner. appointed their
special guardian for the day by the
mother soon after the wedding. They
Were taken In charge By private de-
iectives In the employ Of Miss Helen
Miller Gould. to whose custody the
children We're to have been committed
late this evening by an understanding
between the parents.
Before the wedding ceremony Miss
Helen Gould's detectives were con-
hpicuous abou, the church. They were
at the time believed to be agents OF
Frank Jay Gouid.
Detectives Follow.
After the ceremony. when the we'd
ding guests were departing a woman
who seemed to be governess and
Addison Nizner helped the two chill
dren into a tAxicab and started away
from the house. The detectives. after
hurried consultation. pushed one OF
their number into a touring car, which
they had been using throughout the
afternoon, and Set chase to the tax
icab.
"
from the house. and one of the de-
tectives waved a paper at the taxicab
chauffeur. He pulled UP and ths children
were transferred to the touring car,
which went at a rapid speed to Miss
Helen Gould's home at Fifth Avenue
and Forty-severth Street There they
were transferred to closed car be-
longing TO Miss Gould and started up
town. L, was said that they were
-
at Tarrytown.
When Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould
Thomas was informed over the tele-
phone of what had occurred she bcs
came very much excited.
THE detectives OF Helen Could" she
said, have been watching me and my
children for a week. They nave been
at our home at Sands Point and here.
They have followed US everywhere
The children were to have been turned
over to Miss Gould this evening. There
IS no excuse for the way her men have.
acted. Because 1 was afraid that the
children would be interfered with
engaged MIR. Mizner to go with the
children ali day until everything was
over. ! cannot understand such ac-
tions as these people have been guilty
Of"
Mrs. Kelly Wroth.
Mrs. Eugene Kelly, grandnother or
the children, was waiting for the chill
oren at the Hotel Gotham when she
was informed that they had been ta-
ken to Miss Gould's home by the de-
tectiyes.
There Is only 0ne man In the
world said Mrs. Kelly. who would be
guilty OF such an outrage. There is
only one man in the world who would
be capable of such a seizure of the
children. He is Frank Gould II he
has done this thing he shall pay for
II. and pay dearly
The touring car in which the Gould
children were carried away bore the
number "s5604 n. " II was big
Packard car, owned by Kennedy G.
Schrader. who nave an automobile llv-
cry at the Times Building. at Forty
second street and Broadway. Repre-
sentatives OF the firm said that the
car had been hired from the stand by
men unknown to them.
When asked late to-day about the
Incident, Paul Fuller, of the law firm
of Nicoll. Anable, Lindsay & Fuller, 81
Nassau Street, counsel for the Gould
family. while DENYING that the chill
dren he'd been seized by Miss Helen
Gould after the wedding of their
mother to MIR. Thomas. said: THE
children have been staying with Helen
Gould. and only came In to spend the
weekend here and go to their moth
ers wedding After the wedding the
children were delivered to Miss Helen
Gould at her town residence, with the
full knowledge and by the orders OF
their mother. Then they went to Miss
Helen Gould's country place at Irving
ton -on-the- Hudson, where they are
now"
Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould and Ralph
Hill Thomas. son of the late sugar
millionaire, We're married at noon with
marked quietness in Mrs. Gould S
apartments a $40 Park Avenue.
Ceremony Performed.
The marriage ceremony was per-
formed by DR.. Webster, of the Brick
Presbyterian Church.
Joseph Thomas, brother Of the
bridegroom, acted as best man, and
the bride was given away by her
mother. Mrs. Edmund Kelly.
The wedding party was confined to
the Immediate friends OF the couple,
among them being Miss Eleanor Miller
and Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Prime.
According to the present plans, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas will sail for Europe
to- morrow on the Kaiser Wilhelm Der
Crosse
The presence Of the Frank Gould
children at the wedding. and the pres
ence Of detectives. who admitted they
were in the house, early gave rise to
report that the father OF the chill
dren had issued instructions not to
let the children accompany the newly
4 we'd couple abroad.
I'VE are here to follow those chill
dren wherever they CO. one of the de-
tectives admitted, I'VE are not to les
them out of our sight. Yes, Mr.. Gould
l,.~.~
to follow them out 5s.
While the, ceremony was in prograss
theaGould thildren made frequent ap-
pearanees at the windows and waved
to the crowd in the street, Mrs. Io-
seph BssThomas, mother of the bride
groom, who has all along objected tic
I. the alliance. was not present at the