The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-27
SEBECS ENTERpRISING YOUNG MAN.
His remarkable Business Career
AS Told BY His Creditors.
All Sorts of Goods For a Concern
Not In Existence.
A General Scramble BY The Sellers
to Recover Their Property.

BANGOR, May 96.-The Commercial prints
the following: Ayoung man hailing from
Sebec went west last spring and on his trip
visited Boston, New York and various
points west of these and in each of the cities
visited by him made large purchases of mer
chandise of various kinds. Among them
were included an electric light plant for his
town valued at some $1,000, large quantities
of the most elegant furniture. silver ware,
a steam engine, dye stuffs and large qunnti-
ties of other goods These goods were
shipped to Sebec in due season and the Bos-
ton and New York houses supposed every
thing was all right. as 1t was represented to
them, it is said, that wealthy resident of
Piscataquis county who had a first class
rating In Brad -te'-tswaS t-e head OF the
company. o.. bu,l q house, however, of
whom this Se'i man mad purchased about
$1,000 worth of fine dies made some inquiries
about the nature and extent OF his business
and suspected something was wrong. They
had the goods on the wharf ready to ship
hut took them back to the house instead of
sending them and thereby saved themselves
considerable annoyance and the trouble of
hunting them up later.
When these purchases began to arrive in
Sebec in carloads the local creditors of this
to them it is said to a considerable extent.
and they thought here was good
opportunity to square up accounts, as the
mans place of business had been closed
some time and they could not get anything
cssdeS ca f to h tacb They be naS pro
purchased goods before they were
unloaded. In the meantime it is said,
this. young and extensive buyer had
received large quantities Of goods and had
sent them off in rather quiet and some
manner hs to cIaStors parts Of
abroad began to look for their pay and be-
tween them and the local creditors the ex
traordinary transactions Of this young man
and his confederates, if he had any, have
come to light. The agents OF some of the
firms appeared at Sebec, their goods ould
not be found and they set to work to inve sti-
gate and hunt them up. 1t had been found
that the goods had been purchased in the
the name of the Kineo Manufacturing Com
pany. which company really had no legal ex-
istence. An effort was made last winter to
organize such a company, but the attorney
general refused to grant the parties who ap-
piled for 1t charter. What became of some
OF the goods is mystery, and as the Sebec
man has not yet been interviewed, we are
unable to give his explanation of their mys-
terious disappearance. 1t is said that Sheriff
Poole OF Piscataquis county has several car
loads. OF goods In his possession which
he seized for the local and outside creditors
some time ago and on which he paid the
freight amounting to some $500 in order to
get them from the railway company. When
the shippers of these goods appear on the
scene, however, they will undoubtedly de-
mand the goods as theirs. Some of the firms
have not been so fortunate as the Boston
firm who traced their goods to this city on
Saturday last and recovered them, and these
are making considerable stir over the matter,
alleging that their goods were clandestinely
shipped to other places frome Sebec and dis
posed of. Others have not yet become
aware of the situation, and it is said when
they do there will be more thorough inves-
tigation of this young mans startling bust
ness exploits, which have stirred up the
quiet people in Piscataquis cornty. His lib
eral ideas have rather am zed them. A
steam engine arrived at Dow for him the
CO Sebec, but 1t probably won't 10 any fur
ther. Besides the articles mentioned above
he bought carriages, double and single har-
nesseS, piano, mirrors, etc.
The agent of one Boston house traced
three carloads of goods to Bangor, where
they had been addressed to a fictitious
name.
The agent and attorney from Dover ar
rived in Bangor Saturday, at an investigation
found the goods, valued at $500, side tracked
here. The company refused to give them
up at first, but the case was laid before the
attorneys for the Maine Central here,
Messrs. Wilson and Woodard, and on their
recommendation the goods were given to the
agent, who re-shipped them to B0sto n.