Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-27
WILSON Oh THE RACK.
THE STATE HOUSE CREDITORS PRO
POUND SOME CONUNDRUMs.
His Partner Started East to Raise Money
to Pay on the Indebt-
edness

There was more of the State House
trouble at the Courthouse yesterday.
r. G. Wilson, one of the insolvent lessees
of the hotel, was summoned TO Judge
Armstrong; Court to be subjected to an
examination by the creditors and their at
torneys. There were many of both PRO
LESSONS present, particularly the creditors
G. G. Pickett acted as spokesman for the
party.
Mr.. Wilson was first asked where his
partner, Mr.. Kinney, was.
He replied that he was in Reno, New.
He was on his way East when the hotel
was attached, and the witness telegraphed
him not to go on till he heard from him
again. Mr.. Kinney started East, he said,
to settle up some business in Iowa. He
expected to get some money out of the
transaction, which he intended putting into
the hotel business to relieve the pressure
brought to bear on it by the creditors. Mr..
Wilson did not know that Mr. Kinney was
running "hokey-pokey" game at Reno.
Had anybody threatened you with an
attachment at that time ?" asked Mr.. Pick
ett
mo" was the reply, "Odell & Herzog,
them for meat, although we were paying
them as fast as we could
THEIR POSSESSIONS.
In answer to questions as to, how much
of the property and fixtures contained in
the State House belonged to him and his
partner, Mr.. Wilson replied that all of the
groceries, provisions and liquors were
theirs. He also said that there was con-
siderable linen and glassware in the house
that they had purchased since leasing the
hotel.
The witness said be did not know what
had become OF the money that should
have been in the money drawers on the
day the attachment was made. unless it
was paid out for bills that were presented.
He could not remember what bills, how
, ever, had been paid out.
Now Mr.. Wilson" said the questioner,
will you tell US honestly just what inter
est you and your partner have in that
hotel?"
Certainly. We are interested to the
amount of about So 600 We paid Mr..
jenkins $1,000 down when we took the
house, and have been paying him 5000 a
month rent regularly ever since. We ex-
pended considerable money-money which
we had borrowed-in renovating The place
and buying new linep."
THE INDEBTEDNESS.
The witness said be thought their entire
Indebtedness amounted to about 50. OOO He
said he owned a one-third interest in a
Colorado mine, and a piece of real estate
in Mendocino county. The latter he in
tended turning over to his creditors. Upon
being asked how he became broken up in
the hotel business in San Francisco, he ex-
planned that he had gone on the bond of a
man who fled, and in order to pay the
bond had to sell out his business.
He explained the recent transaction in
which he sold the State House omnibus to
an Oakland hotelkeeper. He said he had
borrowed $500 from the man, and being
unable to pay it, gave him bill of sale for
the bus. The vehicle, he said, belonged to
him and his partner, and not to Mr.. Jen-
kins, as the latter .claims. In conclusion,
the witness said he believed that there was
enough property in the hotel, with his real
estate, to pay all the creditors.