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Show (' "1 EOEGE GOULD, defendant iu I sensational suit brought by relatives in connection with immense j estate left by Jay Gould, famous financier. k M l" V v V " u - v. 4 !, y V- V M GOULD ESTSTE FRM1DCHAHGED George J. Gould, Trustee, Attacked by Brother in Court Order. NEW YORK, May 8. The heirs of Jay Gould, the railroad financier, who accumulated one of America's greatest private fortunes, are in a quarrel over the administration of the $53,000,000 estate he left them. His son, George J. Gould, chief executor of the estate, is required by a state supreme court order signed today to-day to show cause why he should not be removed. Gould is charged with frauds "perpetrated "perpe-trated by him even on his own brothers and sisters," and which "resulted in an aggregate loss to the estate of $-5,000,-000," in affidacits filed in the supreme court by his brother, Frank J. Gould; his sister, the Duchess de Talleyrand, formerly for-merly Anna Gould ; Countess do Caste 1-lanc, 1-lanc, and the guardians of a number of the Gould children of tho third generation. genera-tion. In an answering affidavit George Gould denies the charges and is supported by a deposition made by Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, his sister, formerly Mi.-;s Helen Miller Gould. Mrs. Shepard "declares that the charges are "inaccurate and distinctly distinct-ly misleading." The affidavits were filed in connection with a petition by Frank Gould and his associates to have George Gould re--moved as executor of the est ate. lie was appointed under the will of his father, who died in December, lS9!i, and who bequeathed him $;00,000 in cash and $4,500,000 in securities as a reward for ills services. This was in addition to a sixth share of tho main estate, which was vested in a trust fund for the benefit of his six children. |