The record-union., 1893-08-05
THE KINNPEL FAILURE.
Some Interesting Developments Are
Looked For.
The Creditors Endeavoring to Prove
Fraud-kinspel and His Friend
Solomon-The Case in Court.

There bids fair to be some very inter
esting developments in the matter of the
petition of Mrs. Bertha Kinspel to the
Superior Court asking to be declared in
solvent,
Mrs. Kinspel and her husband until
recently conducted grocery store on K
street, near Seventh. Although the hus-
band appeared to be the head Of the
house, attending TO all the buying, sell
ing, and so forth, it now develops. ac-
cording to statements made in court and
in the petition, that the wife was the
owner of the establishment.
Several OF the creditors who were billed
to lose by the failure of the grocery de-
clared that they believed the Kinspels
were making deliberate attempt to de-
fraud, and. as was announced in the
RECORD couple of days ago,
they hired an attorney and asked the
Superior Court to summon the kInspels
SO that they would be examined. The
principal firms who lose by the failure
are Wood q Co., Lindley IL Co., and Cur
It's Bros.
Judge Catlin complied with the request
OF the creditors, and the matter came up
for hearing in his court yesterday after
iOOAls A-OulS AIns POI WAS Oh manu-, DuI
MS wife was absent on account of illness.
kInspel was placed on the witnes-stand
and subjected TO searching examination
oy Albert Johnson, attorney for the cred
itors. He stated that he had simply been
the manager of the store for his wife, and
the failure was due to "hard times" He
admitted that within the past fortnight he
had disposed OF the greater portion of his
stock-that he had sold it to a friend
named Solomon, who has a store and
warehouse at San Pablo. He permitted
Mr.. Solomon to take his horse and wagon
and the goods for $3.50 Two bills Of sale
were made out and signed by the witness
because, he saiu, she could not write,
The goods were sent to Solomon in five
different parcels ana on five different
dates. The last parcel was sent the day
before Mrs. KinspePs petition i'll insolv-
ency was filed. The witness denied that
his idea in sending the stock away by
piece-meal was to avoid attracting the
attention of his creditors. His expIana-
ton was that he boxed up the goods and
sent them whenever he could spare the
time.
What did you do with the proceeds of
that sale?" asked Attorney Johnson.
,"Oh, paid off some Of my debts" re-
piled Kinspel
You knew you were insolvent when
you sent those goods away, didn't you?'
kinspePs reply was that he didn't
know how much he owed. He couldn't
keep books.
In was also brought out in the examina-
ton that just few days before the in
solvency proceedings were commenced
kinspel sent an order to Harris Bros. of
San Francisco for about $500 worth of
groceries, but the firm became sus-
plclous and would not deliver the goods
Owing to the absence of Mrs. kinspel
the investigation was not concluded. The
case will be taken up again next week,
when she will be questioned.
Sheriff ONell, who was appointed re-
ceiver in the case went to San Pablo and
recovered twenty-six cases of the stock
from solomon. The latter. although it
was said that he bought the goods, sur
rendered them with only verbal pro
test.