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Show George Gould Forgets Details of $3,000,000 Coal Deal New York, Jan. 13. A verdict of $G07,159 was returned by a Jury last night1 in favor of John S. Jones, a railroad promoter, in the third trial of his suit to recover from George Gould, Jos. Ramsey, Jr , and "Win. fi. Guy damages for being "frozen out," as ho alleged, from the Little Kanawha Ka-nawha syndicate, organized by" the defendants de-fendants to develop coal fields in Ohio. Jones, at the two previous trials, had recovered verdicts for more than S500.000, which were reversed by the appellate division. Mr. Gould, the last witness to testify, tes-tify, said he had contributed $3,000,-000 $3,000,-000 to a total of $8,000,000 raised by the syndicate to take over options, but when questioned by Jones' attorney attor-ney concerning tho books and minutes min-utes of the syndicate, made the smiling smil-ing admission that tho matter was of such little interest to him that he had allowed the details to pass from his memory. v- Mr Gould said he presumed thore must have been minutes of the manager's man-ager's meeting, but would not say he had ever seen any nor could ho recall re-call who the secretary was. |