Show MRS CODY TESTIFIES I Mrs Angel Told Her of the Gould Marriage Albany N Y March 7At the opening op-enIng of the court today In the trIal of Mrs Margaret F Cody charged Ith attempting to blackmail the heirs of Jay Gould the defenaant was called to the stand She was asked to identify a number of letters written to her from Rock SprIngs Wyo by Mrs J F Pierce the alleged daughter of Jay GouIll and Mrs Angell and from Mrs Pierces husband The letters asserted positively that Jay Gould was Mrs Pierces father and announced the intention In-tention or the writer to press the suit to secure a share In the Gould estate Mrs Cody was offered a large sum not stated to take up and conduct the suit Mrs Cody relates the circumstances connected with her search for the mJth er of lire Pierce Having found Mrs Angell In April iSIS the latter told her that Mrs PIerce was her daughter by an earlY marriage wIth Jason Gould the date of which she thought was April 2 1853 The issue of this marriage continued contin-ued Mrs Cody Mrs Angell told me was a daughter who was bound out to a Canadian weaver when 2 years old Gould deserted his wife after a short time I asked her if she had the marriage mar-riage certificate whereupon she related relat-ed that after Gould had left her and she had gone to live with her parents her father had taken the certificate from her torn it up and thrown it Into the fire I S |