The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-30
Almost Known That He Left
With 100000.
TRAINLOADS OF STOCK
Shipped to st. Joe and the Pro-
ceeds Were Pocketed.
Victims of Gillett Are Studying
the Law of Exemption.
Cattle Napoleon Was a POliti-
cian-LegislatiEe Ambition.


has come to brighten the hopes of the
creditors of Gilett as to his where
abouts. But in the meantime the cattle
on the ranch are being sent out to mar
ket, trainload after trainlOad going out
over the Santa Fe, Rock Island and
Union Pacific.
The most of the shipments are being
made to the Kansas City stock yards
The brand inspector will make careful
record of all the brands and it will be
just as easy to differentiate the various
claims from his books as from the cattle
hemselves-especially as the cattle are
few of them tit for market, except as
feeders. They will as a rule be sold to
farmers and it will be a simple matter
to look them over at any time disput-
ants may think it desirable to do So
Two trainlOads OF twenty cars each
carried 1000 head of GiIIett's cattle to
Kansas City yesterday One train was
consigned to Siegel & Sanders and the
other to the National Bank of Com
merce. The twenty carloads sent to
Siegel & Sanders are to be sold and the
proceeds divided among those creditors
who agreed to distribute Gilletts as
sets pro rata. StOckmen say that Siegel
& Sanders hold none of GiHett's paper.
1t is said that Frank Siegel, president
of the firm, was offered the bunch OF
cattle which Chester a. Snider bought
from Glllett a month ago, and for which
Snider, 1t is alleged, is out 1925, 000- Com
mission men say that Snider will not,
however, lose a dollar by the transac-
ton, as all the cattle on which he
loaned the above amount to Gillett are
herded together, and Mr.. Snider is for
tunate in holding a first mortgage on
them.
is interested financially in the Gillett
paper said today that he believed firm
" that Gilett carried with him when
he left fully 100000, and the develop
ments he feared would later warrant
the belief that the sum was much
larger 1t was reported here yesterday
from st. Joseph that for the past month
Gillett has been selling very large
amount of stock there. TrainlOadS have
been coming in there and going to mar
ket- Some of the stock was slaughter
ed in St. Joseph. some purchased, ship
ped to Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago
for sale and slaughter, and others scat
tered among the feeders all over the
country. Some of the herds thus sent
to market had been mortgaged twice
and it is certain that all were mort
gagged once. Gillett thus stands to clear
the amount of the mortgage and the
amount OF two mortgages, if that num-
Der were used, and also clean up the
proceeds of the sale.
Had the Mortgage Habit.
He had no bad habits. except that of
making mortgages and selling cattle,
and it is hard to account for his dispO-
SitiOn of the cash, except on the theory
that he gathered up a large sum and
carried it away with him for his future
needs.
An incident showing his methods of
raising money easily was told among
the commission men here The last
time he was at the Exchange he went
to one firm with which he had extern
sive dealings, and said to the senior
member of the firm:
Il want $4,000 this afternoon and
will have some cattle in here inside of
a week Cash my check for that sum
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The check was cashed. and the firm is
out just that sum. as it still holds the
check and can not find Gilett. There
was nothing whatever behind the check
and the firm must stand the bump. He
could have done the same thing with
half a dozen other firms there, it is
claimed. and it is possible he did so.
This left him with $4,000 currency with
which to make the start of his journey.
A legal question that has risen to
matter of deep interest in the last few
days is the exemption from judgment
under Kansas laws. A man is allowed
to hold free from execution his home
stead and 160 acres of land But this
land must be in one piece. about his
home-he must be actually living upon
it One of Gillett's relatives. who is
very anxious about his situation. owns
two farms. very near one another. One
comprises so and the other 100 acres.
His home is on the S0-acre tract and he
is fearful that he may lose the 160
acres. He thought of moving at once
sured it was too late.
Gillett Was a Politician.
The Republicans of this county are
congratulating themselves that they did
not nominate Gillett for the legislature
last fall. position to which he as
PRED Three years ago he wanted to
run for sheriff. but gave il up on ac-
count of his profits in cattle Since
then he has desired to go to the legis-
lature and went so far last summer as
to have an announcement of his super
iOr fitness printed in an Abilene paper
which had been unfriendly to him. His
plan was to take his band into the
campaign and carry things with rush.
But suddenly he changed his mind and
evidently became frightened at what
might result if the opposition investiga-
ted too closely his methods of doing
business. So he refused to run and
was not nOninat ted
Attach Cattle at Omaha.
Omaha, Nov. 3O.-At the Union Stock
Yards hotel yesterday the sheriff at
tached $50 head of Gillett cattle at the
instance of J. c. Bohart Commission
shipped here by John c. Morton, secre-
tary for Czillett. consigned to Clay, Rob-
inson & Co. The Bohart company has
two mortga ges aggregating SIS 600 on
the cattle. The papers were served
just in time to prevent the sale of the
steers to Armour
Breidenthal Scores Gillett.
Kansas City, Nov. 3O.-John w Bred
enthal state bank examiner Of Kansas.
arrived in this city last eGening from
Topeka. Speaking of the Gillette fall
ure and its effect on cattle paper as an
investment, he said: "Gillett set about
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