The herald., 1895-07-13
NOT KNOWN By HIS DEEDS
Some Peculiar Real Estate
Transactions
\. \. ELLIOTT IS NOW MISSING
He Sells Lots and Gives No Deeds
to Them
WILL COST MANY DOLLARS
A Possibility That He Was Overcome by
Mental Strain
Charles Victor Hall, the Owner, Will Act
LenientIy
Elliott Sold Tract on an Agreement But Did
Not Live Up to 1t His Family
Thinks Him nentally
WILL COST MANY DOLLARS
A Possibility That He Was Overcome BY
Mental Strain
Charles Victor Hall, the Owner, Will Act
LenientIy
Elliott Sold Tract on an Agreement But Did
Not Live Up to 1t His Family
Thinks Him nentally
Deranged

Henry N. Elliott, manager of the Semi.
Tropic Homestead company, has been
missing since April Goth.
There are many sensational circumstan.
ces connected with his disappearance, but
the general impression is that he has
levanted with quite large sum of money
PACKED away inside his grip.
This most mysterious disappearance
has aroused more than usual interest
from the fact that Elliott had been con.
nected with a big real estate scheme and
his constituents. to the number OF 125,
are left high and dry without the sign of
deed to any of the purchased property.
He has left affairs in most complicated
state, and it will probably cost his GUS
toners thousands of dollars to extricate
themselves from the critical position into
which he has thrown them.
Public opinion is naturally intense
against the missing man and he is
severely condemned by nearly all of those
who had business relations with him.
Many of the persons who purchased prop
erty are women, and the extra assessments
that seems to be the only solution of the
difficulty will fall heavily upon them.
1t is not precisely known why Elliott
disappeared. Some of those most inter-
ested and who have closely studied the
various details of the affair are 10th to be-
lieve that he has done any thing wrong.
His family advance the theory that he
wandered off while mentally deranged.
this condition being caused by the great
strain under which he has labored for the
past three months. Be that as it may,
Elliott is short in his accounts between
S2500 and $4,000, which is the amount that
the purchasers of his lots will be required
to pay in order to hold their property.
The land in quest ion is the Adams
street Homestead tract No 2. and is the
property of MIR. Charles Victor Hail. 1t
comprizes LA lots occupying SIX blocks,
bounded on the north by Adams street,
on the east by Pioneer. the south by
Twenty-ninth and the west by Western
avenue. Elliot obtained control of the
tract by an agreement to sell, entered into
by Mr.. Hall with j. Duncan two years
ago and afterwards assigned by the lat
ter to Elliott. By the terms OF this agree-
ment Mr.. Hall agreed to convey the LA
lots for the sumo of 500, 500. 1t ran for
two years with interest at 6 per cent.
There were naturally othe- conditions
EN- braced in the document which, by the
way, Mr.. Hall states later, have not been
fulfilled.
Although the boom had become vener-
ated relic years before, the most pyrotech.
nical methods were adopted to place the
property on the market. Brass bands
paraded the streets, highly colored post.
ers were dispiayed the advertising COL
umns of the dailies were loaded until
they groaned and the finest of rigs were