The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-10
SENATOR wYCHoFF MISSING,
LEFT lSBURr, N j., WITH A sTE1sss
TRUNK ON THURSDAY

ne Made Invss'ments for Fsr-.r. W..
| Have Lost Throu-h ltiu- Large s,.
| Respousib's for s8s 600 OF Bond. Nvs,.,
Ives u ~ d 20 Have uspothets..s
Asbury is in western New Jersey. within
dozen miles Of the PENNSYLVANIA line. ana I,
isn't much to boast Of as a business cent.
The town is mile from the railroad static.
and numbers only 400 people 1t has cburch
or two and Post once. but no bank and a
manufacturing industriea
BY all odds Asbury's most conspicuou. c,,,.
zen has been ex-senator Martin Wvcbn1
lawyer for half the town. trustee in ms.
estates. and general adviser to inyes,os.
Senator Wychoff has lived oil his IN. 4,
Asbury. The q. A. II men called him Cat,.,,
for he served rs such In nine month";, Ne-
Jersey regiment and the others referred IA 49,,
as The Senator" Many Of the farmers aron.s
Asbury are we'll to do. When their 60.
we're turned into money they found II 80
venient to connde the money to the Senate, ;.
invest in bonds for them. or in stoct. II.
supplied them in private way with banki,s
facilities.
Ex-senator wychor left Asbur, On ia.
Thursday morning and he hasn't been bs.,s
from since. He said to his son-in.lav n "
Riddle. on the evening before leaving tba,h.
was ruined financially, and rather than ,,,,
and face his friends and acquaintance, vha
had trusted him he would 90 away
Just how much these may lose through hIr,
Is question which kent all Warren copnt,
guessing yesterday. His son-in.ay saws /,
will not be more than $4,000. In the adio,n.
ing towns It was said that the amount uoula
be nearer 100000.
Senator Wychoff Is a SHINY built man sbou,
90 years old. with sandy complexion and .
good deal OF energy. His neighbors say no
was . steam engine for work. and AWAY. ON
the CO. Every one liked him. In addltIon "
being lawyer, he was surveyor and ,nsc.
ulator Notwithstanding his reputed wea In.
he lived very modesty in an old.iashinnsd
n0 When ana Na soe 6O aii ipss VA,
Wall street, by his financial feats Senator
WychoII had great faith in him. The senator
In stocks and bonds Part OF these securities
belonged to relatives and the rest 10
when Ives went down senator wychof
Ssc0yersd this stoSEs ana bonds had been
ator Wychofr was SO proud OF his reputation az
2 flnancer that he did not tell his Old friends
fingers. He hoped to make up the loss, and
In the mean time he has been paying, Interest
securities This has f BEEN SsSSy n dTa ihs on
In addition to this loss. Senator wychonhm
story Mrs. Mary Carpenter gave him 81 500 10
Invest for her in Morris Il Essex stock.
Senator, Wychofr, bought the stock and
placed It In his hip pocket. In some way
speculated. unfortunately. in woodland Ills
neiRhbors say that he lost In this transaction
because he didn't watch closely enough the
men who worked in his wood yard. some men
Thought year ago that Senator wychoff was
them
When It became known In Asbury that Sen.
ator Wychoif had gone away there was q
great hustling around OF farmers who had
son in law told them that he would return,
and that matters would be Strengthened out
As far as he was able. Senator Wychon pro-
tected those people who could least AFFORD to
in-law and his daughter to secure them FOR
money that they had loaned him. He also
made transfers OF other property to poor farm
ers whose money he had invested. He had
die from her mother. Wychons first wits.
With samuel Carpenter he was q trustee for
William a. Mosson. and as such owed him
$4,000. This was not secured. John stats,
the proprietor OF the Commercial Hotel In
s SaTth ~ ssnatSs wyGhGG loSg4
mortgage bonds. and he doesn't know what
has become OF them. He had no security.
Robert Milroy. a farmer. loaned him $1,000
but before senator Wychofr left town he gave
are other smaller amounts to be accounted for
Senator Wychof bought . ticket for New
York and left town on Thursday morning. lie
took with him steamer trunk. The station
49, Senator: What have you got in the trunk
"Oh. nothing but some books and printed
matter that am taking to New York" was the
Nothing has been heard from him since he
went away