Blackmailing Jay Gould

From the New York Tribune, Nov. [4. The editor of the Wall Street News late in the Hl'ternoon of October 17 received au envelope coiituiniiig au anonymous note and a soaled letter adüressed to Jay (Jould. The note was brief, and oontained the simple request tliat the editor would dcliver the inclosed letter to Mr. Gould. Tlie lonimunication had been malled at Station E, in Eightb avenue, bout noon. The editor sent the letter to Mr. Gould' office, with tlie accompanyiug nole. The letter addrcMed to Mr. üoukl was an anonymnui comoiunlcatlon of a nirprlalng character, and evidently had been writteu by a per8011 or iiilelligence and education. It containeü some erron in punctuation and iu spelling inconsistent with its general charatter, as it the writer had attempted to OOnoeal his identity in part by stmulatlng Ignorance. The phraau nsed wew nut unlike those used b' the assassin Guiteau. The letter read as follows: v im.sou Honx, Oct. 15, I8.sl. Jay Gori n: sik,- It is iny palnful duty to luform you that witliiu six days from the date óf tlilN letter your body wül have relurned to the dusl from wbence it came. I thereiore entreut you to jnake your peace wlth Ood and prepare tor the fa te which awalts you. Thls Is no wlsh of mine to take your Ufe but I am lnspired and requestcd by llie All-Llvlng God to do ho as a public necessity and for the benefit of the community at large. You must undoubtedly be ¦ware that you have been a rogue of the flrst water all your llfe, that through your artful cunntng and decett you have robbed thouHand8 of people of their blrthrlght. You have bad no inercy. You have robbed the rleh and the poor, the fatlier and the faitierless, the wklow and the orphan, Indiscrlmluately, of their last dollar, and through your vlllaluy have brought ruin and destruolion upon thousands of families. All thls you have done under a cloak, by circulating lalse reporta, briblng Dewapapen, niaking fulse slatemenlH, coiniiiiiiiii- purjury, and by artful cuuntng and deceptlon. 1 u im't, you have robbed both great and vmall, aud dow the Lord says you niut pay for all, that your deatb Is a public' uecessity in order to save tbouuinda 01 oiliurs from p;un and distruütlon. Yourdeath wül be au easy one, for I purCosc- shooting you tlirough the heurt, lf possile, and if my llrst shot is uot Instant death I wlll give you a coup Ue yruce with the aecond sliot, no tnat yourdeath wil] becjuickand easy. Don't hold out any hope that thls Is a threalenlug letter nor lor ütock-Jobblng purposes, lor Ido nol own a single share of stocks of any kind, nelther am 1 luleresied iu auy. This is simply the wlll of God. and He has chosen me tu oarry UUl out. lle luis applicd to me In a dreaui and reiuested me to 8lay you as a publlo 11 ulty, and in doingsoGod has ussured O that It Is by Divine l'rovldence that I urn ehoseu to do this act, and that by dolng so I shall beconie a public benefactor, and 1 have sworn and taken a solerun oath belöre the AllLlving God that 1 will put you to daatb. I lutended to have shot you last Kriday (yestorday) when I saw you with Dillon and Sage. t had my pistol ready and cocked, but a volee from the Lord sounded in my ear, saying, "Hold on; glve hlm time to repent, lest he desceud lnto everlastlng punishment." Now inake your peace wlth God and prepare for the fate that awalts you, and inay the Lord have uiercy on your soul. 1 am only the agent of the Lord. Tae Lord appeared to me agaln last uiglit and tiaid : "Jay Gould must surcly die," and when 1 rtiaannnti with the Lord iu in v cl nam I told him my life would also be required and I would be hanged. The Lurd assuitïd me thal no harm would beconie of me, that the rope was not made, nelther was the temp grown lo make the rope to hang me wlth} and that He would dellver me out of the hands of my ciieinics. Thls is by the express wlll and commaud of God that I am chosen to put you to death, and I have sworn before the All-Llving God, the graat Jehovah and Kedeemer of the world, and laken a solemu oath and kisscil the Holy lilble, that I will carry it out within six days from thls date if opportunity occtïrs. Therefore be prenared to meet your fate at any moment, and may God have mercy un your soul. i reiualn, sir, As Old Victim. N". H.- Should I not havo an opportunity withln slx days, 1 wlll surely do so the flrst opportunity tliat occur.s. Jay Gould was not overeóme with tour wlien ho read the letter. He leasoned tliat if any persou had deterniined to kill liim the a-.sa.--ni would not have taken so much pains to waru liim in advance. Tlie ferocity of the letter seeiued plainly assumed lor blackuialling purposes. ishiur to prevent any serious annoyance from the unknown writer, hmvever, Mr. Gould consulted wltb lii.s broker, Washington E. Connor, and empowered liim to take steps to have the writer of the letter captured and puniihed. Mr. Conuor visited Pólice Inspector Byrnes anil showed the commuiiication which Mr. üould had received. The Inspector inimediately undertook the task of detecting the man. Mr. Gould's office and house were waU.hi.-d lor a few days hj detectives, i the expectation that the writer of the letter would coinmit souie act intended to intimídate him. On October 29, with the consent of Mr. Connor, the Inspector eaused the following Personal to be published in the Herald : If the !""- - ¦¦' -'" ¦" anonymous com...unii-aUon, slgned "V'íctim," toa prominent Wall street operator, coinplttiningof hlu loases in stocks, will cali at liis omce, or state where un interview can be had, everything will be arranged to bis satisfaction. This notice was published on three consecutive days before any reply was received. At length, on October 31, another letter was sent to Mr. Gould's downtown address. The writer this time bad changed bis tone completely. He said that he liad lost several iiundred thousands of dollars through stock speculations. He implored Mr. Gould to aid him in re;aining some part of liis fortune, otherwise, be wrote, he intended to kill Mr. Gould, and then to destroy bis owu Ufe. The letter was sent to Inspector Byrnes, wuo published the followinft Personal the next day: Correspondent from Texas can receivo íulvlceon oue ecurlty that will mnkegood all he asks for, and name hls own way of coininunlcatliiK. I havo no desire to have personal interview. To this the unknown writer replied that he was "no fooi," aml tlmt the only way to coni muñiente with him or to aid him was tlirciiiL'li l'eisonals. He had requested tliat the Personáis should be addressed to " a man fioin Texas." He sent a list of securitics which he said he would like to ouy on a lalllng market, and he wished advice in the Personal column. The Inspector on November 2 published the followin: Texas correspondent must not look formueli more decline; seleut sume other manner of communtoatioQ ; this is uttractlng too inuch attentloti ; wuuld ralher glve a check. The unknown writer then sent a long ü-i of seetuities with cipber words to be Oled in l'crsiinals. If stocks were to be pnrehased by liim ha wantcd Mr. (Jotild to advise hiin Uirough personal advertlsements, and to si-rnily by the words "uptown" and "downtown" whi'ther the stocks were to go up or down. The Inspector, to nta time, publisheil the following Personáis on saooesaiva days : i. My Mand: Wlll greatly obllge me by stati]; i'uiw heavily yon propone t dm], importunt I should Kiiow before advislng. Sliy rcfuse money ? in. My frlend : Can receive the mlvice by We.lnexday t the lutest. Let me glve a privilege i,, proteet the operatloa, so tlmt all risk Is mine, us som., ftooldent nmy Inferiere wlth my plan; or let me niake the operatlou and glve you the result. How du I know but tliat you wlll glve lt to others ? v. My frlend : NothliiK tlmt lias happeni'd wlll pravent me helplng you lf you allow me to du il In my own way ; I am Horry for you, und wlll doax I suy ; you must trust me; what you nueii is a trille to mu, and you are welcomr to it ; DO oiie wlll ever know of the help you get. VI. My frlend: Your last Is unju.st. I warned you not to look for a further decline; ulso ui;aln8t the two youüald you had. Wliy ihould you not trust me ratlier Hutu a.sk me to trust you ? I aHHure you that all you have sent wlll be overlooked, aud you have my aympathy aud wlll have my alI cheerfully Iven In the wii I liitve named. This way of commuuicatIng 1 not qulck enougli to prevent accidenta. I do not luiend to desert you. Be more manly. Kvery day, in iinswer to the Personáis. ihc ¦nknown correspondent seut letters. These rpistles wvre tiiroatanlng and ImplorlnK Q) turns. Thelollowiiif; will.sliow thelr character : Nkw Voiik, Nov. 8. Your object In IriBOrtliiK theabove Purxonals surpaHses my coniiirilniihlni. Do .vou suppoae, lf our poslllons were revemed, iliut you ueiiUl thlnk of calllnx on meT If you clid, after what hasoccurred, you would be arrested at once, and 1 expect the same treatment from you. Therofore, thern l no other way of your atdlng me, If ym really desire to do so, as you Hay you do, thai In the easy and limpie way I havealready ut forth. I lear tluil tliis letter will not reach jn to-dy, umi tlits 1 deepl; reKrel, lor I mus! rtcelve Irom you h hToruble n'ply or moveit once if I do nut ro#lve web reply liy Thurüay. And I beg of vou agatn II' you do noiglvF il then to Innen none. I will kuII out the ie rumalulng stocks I have and prepare fur tlo worst. You will be too late In kWuik me thdealred Information lf you iiegleot tltls oppr,unlty. And lf you do, you will have no ou bul yournell to blume ior il and whul lf tu follow. W liile tle currcspondence was goin; om it was noted that uil the letters written by the blackiiuiler were sent throujrii tStutioii E. To facilítate tliu work of the pólice Mr. Opulc conseuted that all letters adtlrened to mu c.oniinj; throu'h Station E nhould be lelivered to Inspector Byrnes. The boxesju street luiups iu the district where the tiition is situated were wutclied tor scveraldays and niyhta by detectives, but it waá iot possible to detcct the rogue in that manier without the assistance of the post-otice officials. The inspector procurad a mij) of the entile district on lat Thursday, ind formed a plan by which he believed tle blackmailer could be captured. He ipplied to Postinaster l'wir.-mi tor the services of filty letttT-cairii-is tor one day. Jlter Consulting with Postmastfi-GeucralJ:niifS, Mr. PeafSOn sgreed (o turuish tberequlréü uumber of carriers to act Ue Inspector' oiders yesterduy. Accordirgly, at an early hour yesterday moruiug, tifty letter car'iers in citiens' dress ii8siinbled at Station E. They met tliere an i-qual number of detectives who had been iustructed cuel'ully as to Jhe work to be accoinplisied. 'l'he plan of operation was as folloVt A detective accoinpnied b3' a letter narrier proceeded to a .treet letter box nul loilered about withio one üundred feet of it. In this manuur uu-h of the letter boxee were watcheü by a etter carrier and a detective. Wbeil auyperson approached the box and put a lettr in it the carrier at once started tbr tlu box, while the detective kept a cióse .vatcli upou the person who bad depositedthe letter. As soon as the carrier leachel the box he opened it and glanced at tle address on the letter. It was arranged -bat if any envelope was found addressed U Jay (iould the carrier should mise his Jat as a signa) to the offleer, and the person Aho hal put the letter In the box ,-hotildbe arrested at once. Wheil the carrier fouid a letter 6ealÍDS another address he reurned it to the box after placing a rubLer band arouud it to distini;ui.-li it. Shortly aftir 3 p. m. yesterday. a feil, wellfonned nan, about tiO years óld. uitli saudy half nixed wlth gi'ay and a heavy gray uiustacie, walked up to the box at Seventh avei ue and 34th Btreet, and quictly dropped a later in the box. As he uirned and walked iway in the direc'ion ot Sixtli avenue he vas followed by detective Philip Heilly while John Hcah , the accoiupaiiyiiiK letter cirrier, stepped to the box and took out tlie letter. Healy read the iiaine Jay Gould on the envulope. Ue at once raised his iiat. The detective caught the signal, and started quickly iu potsuit of tbe man who had deposited the letter. On his way he pasücd Detective Woods, who was watching another box, and the two officers approacEed the blackmailer together. Wlien the man feit the bands of the policen.aii on his Bhoulders, and was told that he was uuder arrest, he nearly fainted. He stood tor a few moments, white and trenibling, before he could fairly comprehend that he 1 ad been detected. The letter which he had placed in tbe box only a moment before was put before his face so that he could read the iiuiiie of Mr. Gould on the envelope, and he was asked f he had writteu the letter. He admitted that he was the writer. The oflleers took thelr eaptive to pólice ueadquarters, where he gave iiig nitme as Colonel J.lloward Welles.and said that lie lired at No. 3U5 Fifth avenue. The letter that the prlnoner put in the box yesterday was intended to nssure Mr. Gould that lie had nut betmyed toothers any iniormation that hud been given t bina through the personáis. It vas w ritten in answer to the iollowing, which was published yesttrday morning : Canada : Have others followed you ? I feel thal my confldence lias been betraycd. You Imve done enough. Wliy dld you walt so long beforc Iollowing udvlce 1 S. In ttie prisoner's pocket at pólice licadquarters was found a copy of the key to stocks which he had sent to Mi. Gould, Welles took '" - " --v '" "'¦ apeoiKi Byrnes he said that lie would rathcr have killed himself than have been caught. He asked the Inspector to send tor Air. Gould, and if Mr. Gould was not williug to forgive hiin he would kill hiinselt. Mr. Counor vislted pólice headquarters yesterday afternoon and unid that Mr. Gould wovild prosecute the prisoner to the full extent of the law. A special offleer was detailed to watch Welles last night, as it was teared that he might try to take his own lite. Inspector Byrnes said last uight that at no prevlous time hud 90 niany persons been engaged at the same time in active M-ai-ch tor a criminal in this city. Had the blackmailer visited letter boxesin different parts of the city, far apart f rom eaeuother, it would have been a hopeless task to detect hini. Like many other rogues, however, Welles (bongttt be liad taken every neiTssary precaution. As it was, one liundred uien were kept busily emploved until li p. m. yesterday bcforc the man walked inln tlie trap prepured lor htm. The singular actionsof the detective and the letter carriers were noticed by many persons 11 the district uilen Stal loa E is siluated, and questions innumerable were plied by pedestrians and pollcenien who were not in the secret. The men roj(&ged In the work were loo discreet to give any but vague auswers until they were told that the work had been completed. Jay Gould was visited by a reporter las nighl, in his house at Forty-seventh street and l-'ilth avenue. He would not talk at great length. VVhat h dki say was eiitirely in praise of Inspector Hyrnes, who, he UioLijjht, had done the best piece of detretive work ever undertaken in New ïork, and had proved himelt cxcecdinlv skillful by the way in whicli lic bad hunted the blackmailer down. In speaking of Ml reasons for winning to work up the CMe Air. Gould said that he was accustomed to receive tlireateninj? letters of all kinds, but they had become so numerous and wrn sucli a uuisance that Mr. Counors had determined to make a test case uud try to put a stop, for a while at least, to the altempU at bluckmail. In this instuiuu the lirst letter had nol been niucli noticed, bwaOM H was believed to be the production of a onn man. Uut wheii the second one arrived, and was more legibly w ritten, then Mr. Gould thought it was a good chance to follow the thing up. So it was done, and the result was the arrest that was made yesU;rday. Mr. Gould exoressed astoiiishmeut that the peisou had proved to . be such a well-counecled man; he did not know hiin, and did not thiuk lliat Welles 1 could have treqiiented the streets very 1 niucli of late. Washington E. Connor, Jay Gould's broker, was fouiid t his house, No. 14 1 lia.st Forty-lilth street. He was williug to ] talk freely upon the case, becausf, as lic ] said, Ik; was proud of the success of 1 spector Uyrnes. In relaling the story, he i üaid : i ' 1' or miuiy VMn Mr. Umiltl luis roelvod threatenfng letter of all desorfp tloM, but he ba ptiW llttle or no tltentlon 10 t In-i 11. thinking Umi the lift iklog 1 c do, pertwpt, H BOt tO Mtir the matter up. At lu.it, lidwuvei-, we Ueteriuineü to bring ¦MM one to justice, it' possible, for the aaka of putting m end to what had beoonM n vcry gieat nuisance. So we began on tilia case." ' Why did you take thls particular onn ?'' "Tliere is no reusnn tliat 1 know of. It just happeued so. The ílrst letter we thought was wrltten by an iiisane peraon, so we diil not notice It. Tlien another one carne more correctly written, and the lungoage aeemed to prove tlmt the wrlter was adueated. Then wc luid the case before 1 Inspector Byrnes. At flrst we tried to get the fcilon tu ;ve iis gome addreN where we couhl leave u packajje. Failing Id that, we tried several otlier experimenta, bol the ulroitness of Welles outwltted us." "Did you encourage hlm by givlng him actual poluto P" " Yus, to a eertain extent, because I hoped to insten Che crime upon the man through bis broker." " üid you Iliid wul who his lirokorB were ¦" ' I wntclied the niarket, followed lip the poiuts tliat I gave thruugli the personáis, aml i made up my tnlnd that Decker, Howell & Co. were the brokers who were operatlng tor the man, whoever he was." " Did yon not suspect them personally ?" "Oh, DO indeed, because they are as reputable a liouse as there Ís on tlie street. 13ut I knew that, they, in doing business in tlicir ordlnary way, would not Deceatarily kuuw anything about what tlicir eustoiiic'r was doing." What was the next step?" 'The next step was watching the postofflee boxea in tbe street. If that liad not provcd BUOoesaful we sliould have tried to lind out who the persou was throuKD Decker, Howell & Uo. Of courae, I am astooished to lind Who the man is, because I onderstand that he has sonie money; that be is an educated person, and that iie is very highly connected." Duiiog the convcrsation Mr. Connor vcrv otten spokc of the way In which Inspector Byrnet had woiked the case p, and declared tbat too inuch could not lc gald in tavorof that detective. Hi' cousulted with Byrnes every nlght, and w.is aatonlshed at the clevcrncss witli wliich the details had been worked op, J.S Decker, of Decker, Howell & Co., was astounded when he heard of the facts coucerning Welles. ' I have known Welles," he said, for a number of years, and always have believed him to be a wealthy man. He is an educated, relined person, who has always held a jrood posltlon in New York, and i lie story is almOBt beyond belief. Ourfiim has done a üoihI deal of Ini-incss at different times tor Welles. From what I knew of hlm 1 always thought thut he was a careful and operator, o f courae wedtdnot know that he was iloiiig anything that lic should not do." " Whiit wa bg temperament f " That of a hijrhly uervoua and excitable, man ; I never hcaril him spoken of as being insane. but 1 thiuk he must have b-n 80 to do what he bas been iruilty of. As to the issue, I have no idea what that will bc. I dini't ktiow whether it is a case that can be comprotnlsed." General Charles Koome, the ]resident of th Manhattan Gasliglit Compauy, marfjed a sister of Welles. At his house, No. 29 West Fitly-seeoiul street, the story was at first ili.-lieheveil, Wheu the reporter state.: soiue of the tacts and theu asked for a poMible cxplanation, it was asserted that Welles must have been out of hisheail; "1 we," saiil (Liieritl Hooiuc, " Wulles always liad considerable money. At one time lic was very wealthy. I eaunot unilcrstaml why he should want to go into Stocki to lach an extent as this terrible all'air would indícate. He has lived abroad many years. His wite is at present in Paris." General Rootne was 90 iifl'ected by the Story, whieh lie oould kardly believe was tiue, that he could not say muoh. He sent for a carriage. aud went to Judge Ambrose MouelJ's house, No. 154 Kast íiixty-lirst Btreet. Judoe Mom-H entend the oMriage, which was Uien driven to pólice hcadquarten, where a talk was liad with Welles. This was very affecting. Mr. Conner also had an interview with Weilus in his cell. The prisoner was very mueh agitated, and said that if the story was publislied in the newspapers he should kill himself. Judge Monell was said to be a nephew by marriage of Welles. At his house it was learned that Welles was in the quarterniaster's departraent of the militia of the State of Maryland, and had won his title of colonel in the rebellion. Ilis family ahvavs considered him just sane enough to be allowed his freedoni, hut his triends expected that "soniething would happi'ii." lle wu repeatedly urged not to go into stocks, he was so excitable. Only a yeur a;o he speciiiaic.i mi wikiiv and acted so -traniHy iliat brokers who were comparativa (traager.- .ulied upon General Iloonie and asked that Mr. Welles be looked alter. At No. 3C5 Fifth avenue, whicli Welles gave as his place of residence, it was learned lust night that he had not lived thcre since the latter part of' July, when Mr.nd Mrs. Mack, who owned Bb house, returned froin Europe after an absence of three years, and reoccui)ied it. Mrs. Harriet A. Barrett, who had rented the bouse durtng the absence of the owners, was l'iiund in the evening by a Tribune reporter at her uptown house. She was so inuch Borprlaed at hearinjr of the arrest of Welles, that it was several monients before she could recover herself. She then gave the fullowing facts to the reporter : H Colonel Welles hired a suite of rooms from me m May, 1MS0, at No. 866 Fitth avenue, and during the year or more that he reiiinined there his habita were so regular and his general manners so gentlemanlike that I can scarcely believe that what you teil me is true. I should not have been more astonished if you had told me that Dr.Croshy (Mrs. liarrett's pastor) liad been arrestad, lieally I can teil ymi notliing more about the man. Uur intereourse was ve: litht. Ho came to his roomi in the ¦vening and went out in the morning, and 1 seliloiu bliw hitll tOSpOak wiLll hilll. W'hi'li he came to engage rooms he was introduced by a friend of mine in Thirtytitth street, who had promised to rent liiin a suite of room.-, but was obliged to alter lier plans. He said that he was au old New xorker, but had spent most of his time in recent years on the Continent, and that his f.tmilv was there at that time. He added (bat he frequently went back and torth, aad would only want the rooms l'oi two iiioiitlis, as he eXMCted to return to his taniily In July tlmt his famlly, besldea bil wife, ooUMted l' three daughters, tüe Bldatt betng marrtod to a French nobleinun, and the next in age being engaged to aiiotlier nobleman. His jroungeet daughter did notllka Europa, and abe tooged (o come to the UnitedStataa and rejmaln lier?; but the other3 of the family would nut tome to the States. "Colono! Welles was engftffed in no business, be luid, excepting stock ipeeulatioH, aod trom expressious which he dropped I believeil him to be a heavy operator, as be often ipoke of loatag heavily and maldng t up tlie next ilay. One day he remaikcil tlmt he liad lost #20,000, and sccmed jfreatly deprenad, but he was in fjrind spirits affaln lu i few days. As the summer of IbSO wore along lie frequently spokeof the anxicly (it liis youn;íet cluujíliter to come to the United States for her edueation, and lie svi.shcil (hat becould gotot lier. Final ly, in September of tlmt ye nr, bis daugbtar arrivccl umler the charge of a memher of the lii tisli Parllament, wbo seemed to be very tonel of her. Mie carne to my house anil remalned a weck, and was then sent u Miss Porter's private aeademy, in FarmIngtOB, Oonn., whora I believe she now is. Sin' lias heen down to see her father geveral times -ince, nuil b alwayi apMand my tcinil ol lier, and could not do too much for her. "as very eareful in maklng bargalna, and woald pay no more thaii a l tii n jr was woith for hinisell. but he lavlshcd bis inoney upon hig dau{hter uti(il he thoaght she was gettlng too Americanied in her ideas. He thoiight nothing ol pending $."i0 or $00 for a dress for her. After a while she heiran to grow more extraragaiit, and wanted her dresses madeby Litter. líe protested, but sbe carrieil the day, saying that all the girls have their dresses made by him. " Colonel Welles aluays utpaaffled tobe i man ot lrg propfrty, and lie liad mauners wliich ImpreÑed me, and made ine tliink he must connected witli one of the lii-st familia of New Vork. Hm nt however, quii(! datnettlc In his bjkbJU, and hud no society appnrcntly ; nor was he conaected witli any if the Juba, wheri imy parades occurre'd 01 Fifth avenue two lailics in moiiriiin;;, bit (laten, 1 believe, earae to tlie house to view tlicm rroui his mom. I aluays observed lliat he was a wiy aervoui man, and I couUi alwaya teil when be lust on stncks as Uu appmired M) ilepreaMd; hut I (faougbt nocbingof tt, for, otlier people who gamble in Wall st., I thought he would cuake it iip the next ilay. Al the time of the exclteinent In tlie Western Union stocks I made sonie casual rcmark to him aliout it, and he responded in au oH'-lmnd way, 'Oh,! know all abOOt tb at, for l've got a lineor mv own lictween N'1 Vork and Washington.' Then when Presiden) larfield was shot be looksd mora di -proscd ilian ever for a trw da s, and oiic ilay icinaikcd to mu, Oh, thig i lei - rfbiel Stocks have broke, everythlng has goDe (lown, and I uu rulned.' Öe also sald he wished he could go back to Earope, and that he lmd never lived so kwg away kam his tamily Ijcloic A nol lier day 'hc reniaiked, 'I am sorry I brought my daughIcr over, as she Í8 getting spoiled wfttl these Anieiican notions.' He remained at my house untll the expiration ot my lease, Wblcb was about the lst ol &Ugl]8t and then he went lo board In 'J'hii ly-loiii th street."