Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-19
BLACKER, AND MORE OF IT.
Nright's Defalcations Date Back to 1883.
and Some are of Good SHELLS
Friends Losing Faith.
pecial to the Gazette.


PARIS, TEX, May 1s-The Wright
| defalcation grows blacker in featare and
larger in amount each day. His specula-
| tons have extended back three years,
| some of the heaviest being made in 1883.
| Public sympathy, at first much with him,
IS turning, and his most loyal
friends are shaking faith. Wright's
| gal estate interests amount to
to $4,000 or $4,000, and is mortgaged for
about $1,000. One of his recent deals was
an exchange of half of 3413 acres of pine
land for an equal interest in two saw mills.
| But there is an heir of $500.
The following creditors have attached
First National bank, GAINESVILLE, $3.50: j. B.
Lassiter, s51; Mrs. Mamie Lee, $50; Red
River county bank, 500; William McElroy.
| 5000; Marshal l.. Sims, S4696.
kilograms from loan companies repre-
sented by Wright give their mortgages in
Red River county amounting to 100000,
and say that there is q good deal of princi-
pal and interest overdue, and u detail
search will be necessary to learn how much
of it has been paid TO Wright.
John Watson, reported by Wright of the
Galveston loan company as dead, returned
yesterday from Taylor and informed your
correspondent that the Galveston loan of
$500 was dated May 5, 1855. and the Mid
dleseN for loan of so, 600 was dated Septeu-
Der "A, 1889. This extends Wright's loan
company operations back in 1850.
One OF the new discoveries this morning
was that l.. c. Stiles, one of the wealthy
farmers of Red River county, was heavy
loser. About year since Mn. Stiles pur-
chased the Anderson farm, which was
mortgaged TO. the security company
$1,000 for the lands, and assumed
the mortgage. He instructed Wright
to learn the amount needed To redeem and
draw on him for it. In short time Wright
drew in the name of Sims & Wright for
S23l9, which Stiles paid. He made several
inquiries for the notes and mortgage, but
being told that they We're in England and
would be along after a while, and having
every confidence in Wright, thought
nothing of it until this matter
broke loose, when an inquiry of
the loan company aScertained that they still
had the mortgage. Wright just pOcketed
the money, although the loan agency bust
ness was conducted in u separate office
from that fthe law firm of Sims Il Wright,
and Capt. Sims had no connection with it.
1t is developed that Wright constantly used
Sims name in these transactions.
VIII Golf paid $500 on loan, which was
kept by Wright, and Gcff will have the note
to pay over.
Evidently cotton futures are not to
blame, as it is known that he cleared over
$4,000 in 1889.
Yesterday Albert Weaver, q brother-in-
law Of Wright's, entered the law office of
Sims s. Wright and took from closet
a trunk full of letters and papers. and
carrying them into back yard burned
then. He was found at it. and when asked
what it meant replied he had been told by
Wright TO secure them and destroy them.
II is believed from this that Wright is in
communication with his femily, and the
first opinion OF suicide is nearly
abandoned. Indications which are not /
yet definite enough for print point 10 |
Il confederate, and to more sensational de- !
velopmerts than any which have been |
made. There is a mystery Of I parsonage |
who has for two Years been mixed up IN /
Wright'S dealings, and efforts are being di- |
rected to him or his unmasking. and when !
this is done the whole story can be told