The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-27
MRS. HOWARD GOULD
CHARGES FRAUD PLOT
S17.82 Suit Of George ]. Against
Brother Revealed by An
swcr In Court.
81. 100000 Is INVOLVED
Says Husband Used George as
Dummy to Deprive Her Of
Dover Right.

A suit by George J. Gould against
Howard Could for s17s2 owed on a
Fifth avenue site worth about $1,000. 900
II disclosed In the answer iiled in the SUI
preme Court this morning By Howard
Gould's wife. Katherine G. Gould, who Is
codefendant I'm the suit
In her answer. made through her at
torneys. Griggs, baldwin & Baldwin.
Mrs Gould. who has hecn separated from
her husband since scptember 1909,
charges that George and Howard Gould
have conspired to strip her Of her dover
right in the Fifth avenue property. Mrs
Gould indicates that her husband has
been trying for tho las; six years 10
prevent her ever getting her interest In
this land at hts death.
Howard Gould's income Is about 81
600. 600 year. His brother George J.
Gould. once testified oifhnnd To- knowl-
edge OF items aggrcgating 100000
year which form part OF Howord
Gould's income.
When Mrs Gould got her legal sepa-
ration in the fall Of 1903 the court
awarded her alImony AT the rate OF
50. 600 a month. but especially provided
that none Of the money payments mad"
by her husband should be Ia lieu OF Mrs
Gould's dover right in her husbands real
estate. The Goulds were separated after
little over three years Of married life
About this time e law was passed
permitting New York city 20 sell its in
terest In property ON which taxes re-
malned unpaid Mrs. Gould says that her
husband Immediately began to let go I'M
paid the taxes on the southcas; corner
Of FIN avenue and Seventy-,hrd street
Howard Gould bought this vacant lot
years ago for price s1id 20 have been
$500 geo Mrs Gould describes 1t as
being worth upward ~ 100000. II Is
said that SiOOOo0O would not he an
overnight valu1tion.
Nrs Gould cxpresses her belief that her
husband stopped paying taxes on this land
.Nnrcssly to defeat her decree 81 separa-
,lop and destroy hor right Of dover In the
land. she saws ihat to accomplish thus
her husband let the taxes ~ unpaid IN
1909. 1910, 1911 and 1879 50 that the city
mi2ht advertise lis tax licn for sale al
: though" Mr7. Gould remarks, during
such years the annual income ~ the de-
PENDANT. Howard Gould. was upward OF
the sum Of $1,000, 000.'
The tax lien was duly advertised and
sold Mrs Gould goes on, rrd was bought
? by George J Could for the account and
hencnt Of the said Howard Gould To- ;he
end that there might be created an appar-
cnt valid taN lion or transfer thereof
which could hc enforced to deprive this
1.xs. ,.f,vI,f - fAvNgr Id
premises
\; such sales the city. haVins no wish
to inf,ict undue hardship on the property
owner, auctions its tsN lien to the person
who will carry the lien at the lowest rate
Of interest Liens are bought generally
a, i. or per cent
Mrs. Gould says that when the c!ty's
I lien Oh the Flfth avenue property vas
,uctioucd ON November 10, 1913, George
j. Gould bought it on an agreement to
carry II At the interestingly .loN ate OF
one-fourth Of per cent, a year
ION January !, 1915" Mrs Gould's an
swcr SAYS. the defendant. Howard Gould
ostensibly became obligated to his brother,
George j. Gould. the plaintiff herein in
the sum of siT.S2 for interest at the rate
!
upon the amount OF the alleged tax lien,
to wiz. the sum Of s5t6O9 go And she
charges that further to carry out the
purpose Of deriving this defendant Of any
interest in the said real estat, the said
Howard Could ostcnsibly failed tn pay
the said sum of sl7,s2, and said plaintiff
George !. Gould because of such alleSec
default elected to declare tho entire lien
due and has accordingly commenced this
action for the foreclosure Of sad alleged
lien
Mrs Gould asks that the complain IN
dismissed ard that the acts OF her nus
band and hrother-in-law 10 declared to h'
colluslve and a fraud upon her rights
She wants the purchase Of the taS ',,r
adIud-ed a purchase for ana by her hus
band and prays the court TO make hcl
husband pay up all his taxes ON the Fiftl
avenue lot that her rights may be pro
, tccted.
CONFEsSES MURDER OVER PHONE