Mr. Gould’s smartness was never made more apparent than in his manner of pretending to restore the money which he had misappropriated. He had to make restitution of this stolen money--“stolen” is the word used by the Hepburn Committee. After he had left Erie, the new management sought to ascertain how large was the plunder carried away by Gould. This information could be obtained with complete accuracy only from Morosini, the auditor of the company, and he refused to make up the accounts, leaving Erie to join his fortunes with those of Gould. Morosini now became inseparable from Gould and a notable figure in Wall street. He was a tall, athletic Italian, shrewd and faithful, an ideal private secretary. He had served with Garibaldi in the wars for Italian liberty, and was proud of his service under the great Italian patriot. He had been a sailor, too, and had a wide experience with the world, which, while not making him overscrupulous in his methods, made him invaluable to a man like Gould. When the firm of W. E. Connor & Co., of which Gould was a special partner, was founded, Morosini became partner, and when the firm dissolved, and Morosini retired from business, Gould said that his private secretary was worth $2,000,000 or $3,000,000. A way was opened, however, by which the new Erie management gained some proof of Gould’s wrong-doing. Gould, in company with Horace F. Clark, had engineered a corner in Northwestern stock, one of the most famous and successful corners in Wall street history. In after years, Gould gave a unique account of this corner to a legislative committee which was investigating corners. “I was interested,” said Mr. Gould, with that charming frankness which he sometimes assumed, “in the Chicago & Northwestern corner. The stock was selling at seventy to eighty. I considered it very cheap,” so he bought. He soon had bought a great deal more than there really was to deliver, and the shorts were cornered. The price went up to $250. “I was induced,” said Mr. Gould, with most exquisite humor, “to part with some at that price.” Among the shorts caught in this famous corner was Henry N. Smith, who only a short time before had been Gould’s partner in the firm of Smith, Gould & Martin, and who had supported Gould in his great conspiracy to corner gold. Smith is another noted Wall street character, whose life is linked in that of Gould. He was something of an “exquisite,” and had the reputation of wearing corsets, but he was for many years remarkably successful in Wall street. After renewing his relations with Gould he became chiefly distinguished as one of the bear leaders, and was thus continually in antagonism with Gould. Woerlshoffer, Cammack and Smith were a trio that once nearly drove Gould to the wall, but the latter lived to see one dead, the second his associate in certain speculations, and the third involved in irretrievable bankruptcy.