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reached Albany on the 30th of January. The next 

 day he was arrested for contempt of court, upon Judge 

 Barnard's process. Bail was fixed at half a million of 

 dollars, and it was immediately given, he being ordered 

 to appear at New York on the following Saturday. He 

 spent the interval in attending to the business on which 

 he had come, and the next Saturday presented himself 

 before Judge Barnard in New York, and was placed in 

 charge of the sheriff to answer certain interrogatories. 

 Judge Barrett, of the Court of Common Pleas, was re- 

 sorted to, and he granted a habeas corpus, by virtue of 

 which Mr. Gould was once more brought into court. 

 The hearing of the case was postponed. Judge Barrett 

 then consigned Mr. Gould to the care of an officer, with 

 the positive injunction not to lose sight of him for a 

 moment. Mr. Gould's presence was necessary at 

 Albany, and he at once returned there, accompanied 

 by the officer. Upon reaching Albany he pleaded ill- 

 ness, and declared himself unable to go back to New 

 York, although it is certain that he was well enough to 

 go to the capitol in a heavy snow storm. The upshot 

 of the matter was that, Gould declaring that he was 

 too ill to travel, the officer returned to New York and 

 reported to Judge Barrett that his prisoner had run 

 away. The judge was very indignant, but the matter 

 was hushed up, and Mr. Gould, though at Albany, 

 was theoretically returned to the custody of the sheriff, 

 but was allowed to remain at Albany until the restora- 

 tion of his health, bail being given for his appearance. 

 He employed his singular period of illness in prosecuting 

 his work with the legislature. 



" The full and true history of this legislative cam- 

 paign will never be known. If the official reports of 



