, 1877-08-01
GONE FOR GOOD.
Collapse Of the Western Gun.
Works.
No More Cheap licvolvcrs for
Three Dollars Each.

For several days past certain interested par.
tics haze bern lertlctllv solf,!tous az 10 the A.
fairs 1T the Western tjuu-Worka, al institution
with an otIlce in Room 10 Mccormick Bcck.
The institution has been doing IN extensive lot
OF advertising during tho two years of It's cx-
lstesrt, anu. Indeed, started paper Of it, nwt',
known u TIM Armory. The publishing Office VI
this valuable sheet was given as NJ. " Ran.
dupL etEEci, the oiIlce OF the !" Works" at M.
~ Dearborn. but curtously enough Il tnkcs both
these numbers TO make up the Mccormick
Bluyk, which Is on the corner Of the two streets.
A TRIBUNE reporter devoted part Of ycstcr'
day To seeing whist lta,l bccome OF the missing
gun. works, and found Kotrn 10 In posscsaIon Of
yuung fellow, who clat,nc,l to t,o the custodian
Of the pturwrty UT behalf Ut tho I'ol.leEa Of d
c,nttet mortgage. Acror!inE y, his stnry, silas
L. Sant,or,l nthl Thunas +. Kcator. l'oth ot
whom aTa described in the directory ny nd
July - neither Of these gentlemen ha;l BEEN
visible. hut varftt1s spee'ncns Of the Kind DC
scrlbcl hy Daniel Webster a. IN l,cast Wit. n
lill" h.d haunted t!le sta'rways. seeking Tor
fotl,u! then, nat. The young tnan In possession
!,a,l becu PLACED tlern hy l3ran.lt Il hoffman,
solicitors fur Mes.ra. AfcFwli1,, liulhcrt y Co,
ot Clambers street, Ncw Yark, WHY boil! .
trade. THIS ro,.ssstt. wien levied OIL last Mon
day week, of about 1u' rcvolvees tmany Of them
old md ulnlest uscess}, and a few rifles, sale,
and sbout lu.'hO eupscs oE tue Ar'notu.
INQUIRY DEMONSTRATED
that the rent VI Tic ot,irc sas rail up 10 Aug.
| 1; that all mail matter addressed to the Wcst-
ern tiun-Works WIS held by the Pusl-Oilltc au-
thurtttes; that sal authorities declined to pay
and that tho proprictors thereof la! not bceh
seen fur tel, days or 80. It vas also alleged
thai q considerable amount Of money WIS iue
10 advertising agents. The firm have ,adycF-
| tfHC1 ri r0tlntrY Ftt1uh Ia
spiuntiIi t'Butiao ij,li u and u Tramp Tcrror u
rcvolvtrs-nt u apiece. llnlt duzcn VI tho
only to explode IN the hands u IN urclin
on tic Fourth Ut Jnly~
Mr. Bratllt, Of tic lirm Of Brandt & IIotrman,
explained that lc was acting fur Merwin, liul-
close tho 5000 murtaage 9tvcu e them
On Juuc 4 to cover IN indebtedness
for gootis supplied. lie hvl[cved that Sanborn
y lcatos owed ut least o0 to Ills clients, nt1d
did not expect to realize $500 from. wI.at l,al
been seized Kcator Ind represented tnat l'c
hali list Of nusl,cs, comprising inoru than
lux, ,tNi, asil worth at least cent rart1 to al.
vcrtiEcrs. lls ltai found out tint thu va'lo of
wastc paper was l'ree et:nts per pound. md TINT
these lrttcrs, VI whril there were great many,
would probably bring thut nrcc. The gun
works liatl Gcc1 doing legitimate lnis.Arss,
and setlling nlung something wlllth looked llku
d revolver III exc|an.e fur thcrcn!ttanrcs Ut tho
Observation-Disclosures 0ruIgcr. but they .cc'T!-
I'd to llayc run behind. and ct'uld not ili thcEr
orders. kcator left ten days ugo, saying that
lc WIS go!ug 10 New York to sec asnut ar.
ranRcments for obtaining goods, altl eanhorn
| lad gone to Vermont. ostetsibly to iouk nlter
his sick rlothcr. liz knew nothing about What
debts might 1e due In tho city or elsewhere, but
thought Ills cllcnts were
/ MOTT BEAUTIFULLY LEFT.
II secrnH that letters by the scurc and Visitors
by the dozen have been received by tho ynutl, IN
possession, anu that Ills lile has becomb aburdtt1
to him by re2sun thereof. souo Of the parties
a thoy sent % aiong thcir money then 1 and want
the1r guns. Ono Of these haI q certificate from
tue Postmaster OF Chicago that the money
order iucluted by Inn on June II ,lad been uuly
lonorcd IN the 18th In favor Ut tile Wcsterr
t;un-Works. And It would appear from all tI.s
eyidcnce that Mcssrs. Sanborn u Kcator nrc IL
| har1l luck. ur cl4a tl,eIr creditors are.