The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-05
COLMAN ISN'T HERE
A Number of People Would Like Him
to Come Back From he East.
HE is ANxlOUSLY AWAITED
II May Be All Right. of Course, But
II Seems That the Ex-Judge
Raised Considerable
Money Off and On.

Money Off and On.
Butte. June 4.-For several weeks the
friends of Charles NJ. colman. ex-judge. |
ex-candidate for sheriff and ex-very |
smooth all-around worker, have shown |
considerable anxiety regarding MS |
wherea bouts and personal welfare. |
There were others, not especial friends, |
who have also been particularly anxi- |
Gus as to his whereabouts. though they .
did not care so very much as to ms
personal welfare. Thislatter class or
anxious people are creditors, great and
small, and quite numerous. Mr.. Col
man has been absent from Putte
two months, and all sorts OF stories
have been told concerning his absence,
but his friends always claimed that he
was on a business deal and that he
would turn up all right. Recent devel-
opments, however, are not such as TO
give any great weight OF assurance TO
the hope that he will ever return TO
Butte.
Affairs were precipitated this after
| noon by an action brought in the dis
/ trict court by Attorney Paschal for An
| drew Chrisman and against MIR. Col
man and c. S. Warren, to recover $3.50
/ and interest due on a note executed
4
| surety on the note. Mr. Paschal as
| covered that Colman owned % lots IN
| the Northern Pacific addition about a
| mile and a half from Butte, but or
doubtful value. and they were attach
! ed Mr.. Chrisman is only one OF
| score of persons who have loaned
! money to Mr.. Colman in various sums
| since the election of last fall, and on
| various representations. one we'll
| known young man advanced him 81 100
| L.. all a
| greater part of a million with ii on
! mining deal. He claimed that he own
| ed an ir terest in a mining property,
and that IL was necessary TO buy out
several partners after which he could
| sell the whole works for a Dig inquire.
His plan was so plausible that the ST.
100. the whole possessions of the young
man, were paid over An Upper Main
street banker advanced considerable
sum on the same representation. "A
professional gentleman gave UP 500 In
| money he borrowed for the same pur-
pose, and various other persons pun
gled" on various other representations
The total sum borrowed. so far as
heard from, is about $500.
After Mr.. Colman got the money TO
buy out his partners he went to Hell
ena TO make the sale. From Helena
he wrote that 1t was necessary to make
a trip to st. Paul. From st. Paul ne
wrote that he found IL necessary to go
, |
that he had to go to New York in or
der to close the deal, and from New
York he wrote that he could not tell
when he would return to Butte. Ihat
was about two weeks ago. and all ei-
forts to locate him since that time
. have been fruitless. although the SER
| vices of a detective agency nave been
called into requisition. Some OF the
: anxious ones in Butte are threatening
2 to prefer criminal charges against MIN
| ! as soon as he is located.
A South Main street restaurant man
= | and several other persons who gave
> | Colman a lot of collections to make
| while he was running collection
| agency are very DESTROYS of having an
I | accounting with him. 1t is stated that
Z he left town with fully $1,000 if not
| | more. Since the campaign last fall he
: | has pleaded poverty, but men most IN
Q | innate with him say that he did not
spend a cent of his own money on his
campaign. but that he worked his
friends and made money out OF the
election.
n Another means by which he raised
Q about $500 was on his representation
= that he had an interest in an estate II
> st. Paul A woman died in this city
: some time ago whom he had betrlend
ed and she gave him a paper assign
/ ing to him her interest in some ST
d Paul property after paying the doctor
q | bill of $500 which she owed. Mr. Col
V | man represented 10 a bIOduNdS Ai1h'
Is broker that he would get $1,000 out o
y the estate and got him to go on not
: for $500 and then gave him an order Oh
= the doctor for the difference between
Il the amount of his bill and the receipt
Is from the estate. He then borrower
y $50 on the same proposition from an
le other person, and il developed tina
IN there was not enough coming from IN
II estate To pay the doctors bill. rms
however. may not have been the faul
of Mr. Colman.
Mr.. Colman also represented to
number of friends, for the evident pun
= nose of establishing his responsibility
:, that his parents owned large propert
On interests in California, but that IN
Sc | property had been heavily mortgage
n and he had paid it off. Ia considerable
:, of which the property had been deco
- ed TO him One of the numerous pei
sons in Butte who loaned money
NJ Colman heard of the California PROF
p erty and wrote to every county cler
" in California. and at an expense
s. S45 secured the information that n,
IN in all the state was there any propert
40 i'm Mr. Colman's name. The informi
ton proved more costly than Valuabl
Mr. Colman was secretly married 10
girl at Dillon several months ago, D'
as she did not live with him in But
of his friends don't know whether 81
ny accompanied him east or remained
no her home in Dillon. 1t Is only right
no saw that there are some people
m BUTTE who believe and hope that NJ