The record-union., 1898-01-12
EDWIN K. ALSIP is MISSING.
THE REAL ESTATE MAN rs EVIL
IDENTIFY IN TROUBLE.
His Wife and Office Employees Deny
Any knowledge of His
Whereabouts.


idea of his whereabouts, according to
their statements, and it is doubtless so.
Neither does Mrs. Alsip know where
he is.
The last seen of Mr.. Alsip by any of
his business associates was on Friday
last. in San Francisco. He was then
in the office Of Coody & Slaven, who
have been attending to that branch of
his business, and did some writing, af-
ter which he babe the attaches of the
place good-by in his usual off-hand,
hurried manner, and they supposed he
had started for Sacramento. They ex-
pressed surprise yesterday on learning
that he had not come to this city.
Just Why Mr.. Alsip should disappear
thus suddenly and mysteriously is not
known. 1t is understood, however, that
he had become deeply involved through
his extensive real estate ventures, and
that he could see no escape from finan-
ciai eH1barrassmentS. He has been
leading figure in the affairs of some Of
the local building and loan associations,
and has been blamed by many of the
stockholders for the present unSatisfac-
tory condition of things. The fact that
the affairs of the Union Building and
Loan Association are now undergoing
inspection may or may not have some
thing to do with Mr.. Alsip's sudden
departure. So far as can be ascer-
tanned, it has not.
Mr.. -tsip had a one-third interest in
the Fair Oaks or Sunset Colony enter
prise, and was in fact its leading spirit.
He mas been very active in the effort
To ole
this city to the colony. and had an
appointment for last Saturday with an
attorney representing prominent cap
italists who are interested in the mat
ter Of the proposed road. Of course the
appointment was not kept.
Events show clearly enough that AL
sip himself was not taken by surprise
in his sudden leave taking, for he had
evidently been laying his plans for sew
eral days. On Friday Mrs. Alsip re-
ceived from him Che being then in San
Francisco) deeds covering all of his
real and personal property in this coun-
ty and Placer. These documents were
at once filed for record by w E. Brown,
an attache Of Mr.. Alsips Office in this
city.
Mr.. Brown then filed for record
mortgage given by Alsip in favor of
Mrs. Caroline Swinnerton to secure an
alleged loan of $500. The mortgage,
singularly enough, is made to cover
certain properties in this county which
apparently is included in the deeds
made TO Mrs. Alsip.
Stranger still, Mrs. Swinnerton is
quoted as saying that she has no rec
objection of making any such loan to
Alsip, and knew Nthing of the mort
gage till informed of it yesterday. She
says Mr.. Alsip had always attended to
her husiness-collected rents, made
loans, etc, and made a monthly report
to her. Her husband had had full
faith in Mr.. Alsip, and just before he
died advised her to have him (Alsip)
attend to her business affairs, and she
had such confidence in him that she in
trusted him with power of attorney
to transact business for her. She was
10th to believe that Mr. Alsip had
abused the trust, and believed that he
would yet explain everything
Alfred Olsen, who is connected with
Mr.. Alsip's office here, was seen last
evening by Record Union reporter
On being asked if he could explain AL
Sips action, he said:
''T cannot. The situation is as much
a mystery to myself and the others in
the office as it is to the public We
fully expected Mr. Alsip to return from
San Francisco on Friday last On the
preceding day he had written instruc-
tons, as usual, regarding certain things
to be done, and there was no intima-
ton of anything unusual being about
to happen.
'The situation makes it very uncom-
Portable for all of US. People for whom
Mr. Alsip transacted business are con-
stantly calling to inquire how their af-
fairs with him stand, and we are at
a loss to know what to tell them. OF
the real cause of his departure we are
wholly in the dark, but presume that
he must have been involved in some
way. 1t will take some little time to
straighten matters out SO that the real
condition of affairs can be known"
The general opinion is that Alsip owes
his troubles to the affair of a year
or so ago, in which he became involved
in an affair with a woman and was
blacamailed out of thousands of dol
lars by an attorney who had entered
into conspiracy with her for that
purpose. The heavy drain this made
upon his purse is supposed. to have
seriously crippled his finances and in
volved him so deep that he has been
unable to extricate himself.
In order to keep the business going
Messrs Olsen and Brown, who have
long been connected with Mr. Alsip's
analfs mere, have formed a copartner-
ship to take up the business where he
has so abruptly left it, open new ac
counts with customers in cases where
there IS any confusion, and carry on
the business in straightforward man
ner. They have had long experience
and ara fully competent to look after
the interests of their clientage.
WHAT NOTARY ENGLISH SAYS
Last evenings San Francisco Post,
contains the following in reference 70
Alsip's disappearance, obtained from
his business associates in that civ.
inquiries at Sacramento to-day de-
veloped the fact that Alslp was in San
Francisco early last week, and on
"Wednesday, 1t seems, he wrote to his
wife that he would be home on Fri
day. 1t was no uncommon occurrence
for him to visit this city, for he form
erly had an office here Lately. how
ever, he has transacted all his bust
ness through his office at Sacramento.
His wife paid little heed to the fact
that he did not return on Friday "a
promised, but when Sunday arrived and
he was still absent and had failed to-
account for himself she began to fear
that he had met with some mishap.
inquiry sent to his friends ~, +b;c c;4,,
brought the response that he had not