The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-03-26
THE GLOvERS SKIP.
Canton Contractors Leave the City
Suddenly.
Several Creditors Left Behind to Mourn
Their Departure.--Those who viii Lose
By the Flight.

The small house at the corner of Bluff
and Arch streets no longer has any ten
! ants. There lived there family consist.
ing of nine persons and they lived in -four
| rooms. There were four brothers, Ben,
Ed, Doris and Will Glover, and they were
doing business as contractors under the
firm name of Glover Bros. The latter,
Will, was married, and his wife and four
children were also occupants of the house.
On March IA, Glover Bros. made an as
signment to j. A. WaDn of the law firm of
Wann and Bow. Ben and William also
made individual assignments TO the same
assignee.
Yesterday morning between seven and
eight o'clock, the family of Samuel Harvey
residing near the house where the Glovers
lived, noticed team and dray standing
in front Of Gloyer's house. The team be.
longed to John Hostler and the driver was
Samuel Walk. Soon the Glover brothers
appeared laden down with goods, and the
wagon was quickly loaded with everything
the house contained. After all had been
loaded, the goods we're driven quietly
away, the inmates OF the house following
soon after.
A NEws-DEMoCRAT reporter called
at the house this morning but there was
no sign OF life about the premises, and the
Harvey family did not know where the
Glovers had gone. A call was made on
Mrs. Elizabeth Hoover, who owns a gro
cery store at No. 127 Washington avenue,
at the corner of Gibbs. 1t was found that
William Glover had obtained goods at
the store to the amount of $293.74, and
that the entire bill had been contracted
since November.
U. r. Reinbold's grocery store in Wash
ington avenue was also visited, and IL
was found that groceries had been obtain
ed there to the amount OF s215. This bill
was contracted since the middle OF Janu-
ary. Glover was in the habit of sending
his working men to Mrs. Hoover's store
with orders for groceries, paying them for
labor in that way. He, no owever, neglect
ed to settle with Mrs. Hoover. These or.
ders were presented at least twice, and
the balance of the goods must have been
for the Glover family. It would be an
impossibility for the family to use all the
groceries thus obtained, and II is there
fore probable that they disposed of them
in some other way. 1t seems to be clear
case Of fraudulency from beginning to
end, and great indignation Is ex-
pressed by the neighbors and friends
of the proprietors of the grocery
stores who have suffered through
the trickery of the dishonest contractors.
No one knows where the Glovers have
gone but it is presumed that Mrs. William
Glover and the four children have gone to
the home of her father in q small Pennsyl-
vania mountain town, called Miners
Point.
Attorney j. A. Wann, assignee for the
Glover Brothers, was interviewed by a re-
porter this afternoon. He stated that he
knew nothing of the whereabouts of the
contractors, as he had not been informed
of their intended departure. He said that
William had told him that his wife in
tended to go to her fathers home for a
few days but there was no intimation that
the rest of the family would leave the
city.
The assets of the contractors as stated
to the reporter by Mr.. Wann, consist prin-
cipally of real estate which is mort0a Red
almost to its full value. There is one
house which may bring few hundred
dollars more than the mortgage calls for
at private sale, but he was of the opinion
that the creditors outside of those who
hold the mortgages on the real estate,
would not receive a cent. There might be
a small dividend, he stated, but it is not
at all likely that the outside creditors will
ever realize anything from the sale of the
former