Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-10-09
ROBBED HIS SISTER.
WilletJs' Infamous Record Shown by
the Court Records.

WilletJs Infamous Record Shown by
the Court Records.
The following account of J. F. Will
let's Infamous action in defrauding his
own kindred. of their rights was re-
vealed in a telling speech made by
Capt. J. B. johnson made at Willetts'
own home last week:
When John F. WilIetts' father died
in 1879 he left 40 acres of farm land
and S35 worth of personal property;
John had himself appointed admins
tratOr-when there was none required
by law-and in that capacity beat the
other heirs including a widowed sister,
out of their just shares of the estate.
He presented, swore to and had allowed
a bill of 800 for taking care of has
father IN his last illness, thereby taking
that much from the sister who herself
did the nursing and the taking care of
the dying man and was herself so near
destitute, with five young and helpless
children, that the neighbors took in
provisions to her to keep her from
want.
The records also show that John F.
Willetts, candidate for governor on the
peoples party ticket, charged Sc for
appraising the estate, swore to the
bill and got it approved when the facts
are that the appraisers were neighbors
and declined to charge for their services.
Six dollars more taken from the
widowed sister!
Further, Willetts paid physician of
Oskaloosa some Sc or IS for medical
services to the deceased father but on
a plausible excuse got the doctor to re-
ceipt a bill of $40, then SCORE to $40
disbursement and got the bill allowed,
charging $40 up to the estate and thus
swindling the widow and her helpless
children 1.-THE oldest but or 10 years
old) out of that much mOrel
And again We find this man request
ing the neighbors not to lid against
him in the sale of real estate, as it was
his fathers home and he ought to have
it without a contest, and his wife
bought it in for S2OO-a farm worth
$1,000. His charges had absorbed the
entire estate almost, and the widowed
sister was left ''moneyless." Through
the encouragement of neighbOrs she
was induced to appeal to the law, that
this candidate for gubernatOTialh onOrs
SO vehemently denounced as oppressive,
and the court upon full investigation
rendered judgment in her favor. No
wonder he despises our laws, which
are based upon justice and protects the
poor from such robbery. The judg-
ment now stands upon record an the DIS
trict court Of Jefferson county.
OF course, if Bro. Rigbtmire had
been chief justice of the higher court,
he would have taken an appeal and
the widowed sister would have become
a beggar.
Just think of such a record in addi-
ton to his getting out of paying his
honest obligations when the Grange
store failed by Skulking behind bis
wife's skirts, letting his fellow endorS-
ers pay the bills, while he made bogus
transfer of his farm to a man without
dollar in the world and this stool pigeon
in turn decided it to WiilettS' wife that
the peoples party leader might swindle
his creditors.
Will the farmers of Dickinson county
support such a man for governor Of
Kansas? They will not unless they
have less intelligence than we give
them credit for. No wonder the peo-
ple's party manipulators are trying to
mUzzle the farmers and dictate what
papers they shall read and what
speeches hear for fear they may learn
the truth.