The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-07
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mobile company just as soon as word
was received there from Washington
OF the arrest OF GodsoL
when the New York raiders enter
Cd the offices they found only Miss
Zelda April, a stenographer, and a
rooms was sumptuously furnished.
There was no business being done
and none OF the officers were present.
Letter files and desks were all
found to have been securely locked.
but the essential furniture was piled
into a van and, with the employees,
was taken to the attorney generals
office.
Claim Se.OOoyoOo Collected.
There the young woman and the
man were examined and ordered to
return today.
The New York officials said that
information collected by them there
showed that Godsol had received COM
missions amounting to $4,000. 900 on .
b. lis of from ~ to IS per cent
It was also said by the New York
Investigators that the French govern
ment is expected to bring charges
against Godso's associates in Paris.
Ever since Godsol left New York
February % for Palm Beach. agents
Of the Now York attorney generals
office have been shadowing him. They
tell a story Of much gayety and wild
extravaganza by Godsol and his wife.
GodsePs wife was Constance Elise de
We're. They were married suddenly
and quietly in Newark, n. J., last De-
cember.
May Have Suspected.
Whether or not GodsoI suspected that
he was being Swallowed IL not known.
but II 80 he did not allow the fact to
interfere with his pleasure at the
Florida resort. He quit = $50 day
suite in the Hotel Vanderbilt. in New
York TO 20 to the Hotel Royal Poin-
ciana, at Palm Beach. There he
laughed while he whiled away thou
sands of dollars on the roulette table
and entertained magnificently.
He IL said TO have lost $4,000 In
single night at roulette.
Godsol was engaged in the general
merchandise business in Paris when
the war started. He entered the army
a. q private In the infantry. but nm
ally appeared In the much-desired
post of chauffeur to one &C Frances
principal generals.
GodsoI then decided to take up the
sale Of motor trucks. and the hrst
NEGOTIATIONS were made for the Fiat
Automobile Company OF Turin, Italy.
With the aid OF w. F. Higgins. Godsol
sold 500 automobile trucks to the
French government. Godsol told the
New York attorney general that the
French government knew he was act
ing as intermediary for the automo-
bile manufacturers.
The other companies Godsol rep
resented were the Jeffery Motor Com
pany, Of Moline. Wis; Velie Motor
Company OF Moline. Ill: the KnoxE
Motors Corporation, the Republic
Motor Truck Company. the Walter
Motor Truck Company and the
Pieroe-Arrow Motor Company.
| Godsol emphaticaily denied the 70
ports this afternoon that he was en-
ragged in the diamond business with
| his brother In this country. He said
his brother, Louis H. Godsol, is now
/ in South America. Whether his
brother was ever engaged in the dla-
mond business Godsol did not know.
81 was never in business in this
country with my brother" he said
81 have not seen him in eight OF
ten years. For seventeen years ]
was not in America until March. 1911
The report that my brother and
operated o diamond business In this
and other countries is not true"