The morning news., 1897-01-06
SHERIFF ROMAN IN CHARGE.
THE BUSINESS OF p. TUBERDY IN
THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER.

Mortgages Given TO Secure PrOmis-
sorry Notes Aggregating S13,7O0.
The Petition For Receiver Filed by
One of the Largest Unsecured
Creditors-Thc Petition to De
Heard saturday-L. T.. CuIIOden Ac-
| auitted-A Negro Given 10 Years
For RObbery-Mrs. Kate DAILY Civ
en- nAIimOny-PensiOn Papers Ready
| For Signatures.
The business OF P. Tuberdy. the we'll
known shoe man on Broughton street, was
placed In the hands of a receiver yester-
day under petition flied by the Bay State
Shoe and Leather Company of New York,
! through its attorneys, O'Connor &
! OByrne.
Sheriff John T. Roman was made tenn
porary receiver and took charge of the
stree and contents. He will retain possess
sion at least until Saturday when there
Will be a hearing before Judge Falligant
on the question as to whether the receiv-
ership should be made permanent.
The petition of the Bay State Shoe
and Leather Company alleges an indebt-
edness of $9,5a.54, besides an account
amounting to S526.s9, which is not yet due.
| The claim of the plaintiff is not among
! the secured liabilities. 1t is alleged in the
petition that the defendant is indebted to
various parties in various amounts and
is insolvent.
The secured liabilities Of the firm amount
to about $lS,7O7.64 as follows: To the
! Southern Bank, S9l2. 40; to Maurice Flynn
Of Lynn Mass $61l 80; to the Miller & Ober
| Shoe Company. $l3195; to Meinhard Bros.
& Co., $4OO; to E. A. We'll & Co, S5S9.SO; to
| T. NJ. Consodine, $780, TO W. d. Harden
and L. II. McLaws, $500; to Packard &
Field of Brockton, Mass. 5000; to Joseph
| Resenheim & Son, $2S9S5 to John Bren-
nan, $500; to Batchelder & Lincoln, $500;
and to Dan A. Tuberdy, 1880.
All of these amounts are secured by
mortgages. which were drawn by Messrs.
Harden and McLaws and filed in the su-
perior court. The mortgages are on the
stock of goods in the Broughton street
store and the mortgage to Dan A. Tub
erdy was further secured by the open ac-
| counts. 1t is not known what the unse-
cured liabilities will amount to, but it is
| supposed, from a consideration of the
| recevership petition, that they will go at
least to $4,000.
John Grimes, colored and L. p. Culoden
white man, were tried ir The superior
court yesterday on a charge of larceny
/ after trust preferred by Joe Morris, the
/ proprietor of the Turkish ba IN establish
ment on Drayton street 1t seems when
/ Morris was out of the city last summer
Culloden was left in charge of the estab-
| lshment in which were number of arti-
/ qtpe Of ring Of
! When he returned some of them were miss
| ing, and he had Culloden and the negro
| arrested. Culloden admitted he had pawn
| ed one or two articles to pay off a wash
| erwOman belonging to the house, and to
| get himself something to eat at a time
when the establishment was not paying
expenses. Further than this he denied
having done anything further than this.
! The jury acquitted the defendant in very
few minutes
George f. Bell pleaded guilty to the
! crime of robbery, the charge having been
preferred by Annie Cooper, from whom he
violently took a pocketbook containing 25
! cents. Judge Falligant sentenced him to
! spend ten years in the penitentiary.
John Bigley was tried for larceny after
! trust the charge being that he appropri-
| ated TO his own use $35 which had been
entrusted to him by Florence Griffin. The
| jury found him not guilty.
The indictment against Robert Gordon
for larceny after trust was quashed by
order of the court on a showing made
through his attorney Mr.. William Pease,
to the effect that he had been in former
jeopardy for the same offense.
Judge Falligant decided the alimony
case of Mrs Kate Daily against w. ]. DAILY
by directing the defendant to pay his wife
SO per month alimony on the 18th of each
month until the further order of the court,
and also that he pay her $25 attorneys
fees. This case was a closely contested
one, and occupied the court about three
days. The plaintiff was represented by
Messrs. Gigniiliat & Stubbs, and the de-
fendant by Mr.. r. r. Richards.
The sealed verdict in the case of ]. B.
d. Woodburn against c. ID. Baldwin On
a contract was opened in the city court
yesterday, and found in favor of the de-
fendant. The amount sued for was about
1925.
John Grayson pleaded guilty in the city
court to the charge of carrying concealed
weapons and was sentenced to pay a fine
of $40 or spend three months on the chain
gang.
Clerk f. E. Keilbach of the court of
| ordinary has been busy Of late fixing up
the claims for pensions for widows Of
confederate soldiers. The claim papers
have been fixed up for several days, and
are ready to be signed by the benefi-
! earies. About nineteen, including be-
sides, several of the disabled and invalid
soldier class. Those who desire to get
their claims in early would do well to
call at the Office of the ordinary and sign
them at once.
} II. b. Hamilton was granted a short
homestead in the court of ordinary.
TO CONTEST IN THE SECOND.