Hutchinson gazette., 1898-12-01
DID GILLETT GO TO SPAIN2
A Telegram From Now York Saying
That Ho Did.

A Telegram From Now York Saying
That Ho Did
ABILENE, Kan, Nov 20,-Grant G..
Gillett, the defaulting cattle plungor,
may be on the Atlantic ocean to.day
on his way TO Spain. The following
telegram was received yesterday In
Woodbine by the brother OF Glllett'
New York, Nov. e.
/ will leave to-day by steamer for
Spain, Cable me ut Cadlz how are my
wife and baby. q. G. GILLETT
Grants brother believes that the
telegram Is genuine. Others here who
have seon the telegram believe IL Is
from Glllctt and that he Is bound for
Spain,
The telegram was shown to Mrs,
Gllett, the wife of Grant Gillett.
What she said or did cannot be learned,
because her brother-in-law showed her
the telegram, and he refuses to talk.
A reporter saw her yesterday after
noon and talked TO her, She denied
having seen the telegram and said she
did not believe such message had
come, There are great many cattle
men here who believe that the tele-
gram is u fake" They say that Gil
lett was not fool enough to send u tel
cgrnm which would reveal his where
abouts. A combination Of commission
men have agreed to engage detectives
to trace Gillett. This Is known, and
hence the telegram might be to throw
them off the track
Opinions vary as to how much cash
Grant took with him, j. w, Gillett,
his eldest brother, the leading mer-
chant OF the town, said to-day; ~ do
not think Grant took over 81, 200 or
SO, 600 lie borrowed some Of me and
drew out all OF his balance in Abilene,
but paid some debts and had not so
much left as many think"
j, II, Hollinger, president of the
Gillespie Commission Company, said;
"lIc took not less than 1000 in cash,
and was preparing for II for SONS days.
think the estimates OF the amount
of paper he had out are too high. l
believe Sl,OO0,OOO will cover It, and
half will be n loss to the commission
houses and TO Eastern investors"
Few agree with these figures, for,
in addition to the $3.50, 900 on record in
his name in this county, there will be
found considerable quantity in Mar
ion, Morris, Wabaunsce and other
counties, in Oklahoma, Nebraska and
Colorado Fully half million of pa
per signed by his relatives is really his
own, and the total will not be far
from million and half. The loss
will be half of this, ard the commits.
sion men are clearly worried,
A story was current also that in
connection with G. II. TroXel, a young
attorney Of Abilene, who has been
signing good deal OF paper for him,
and who has been in Utah and Nevada
much OF the summer, he has been send
ing cattle across the Rocky mountains
TO hide them until the storm blows
over. As matter of fact, TroXcl fol-
lowed him to Fort Worth, and was
with him Thursday last there, trying
to get from Gillett some return for the
work he had done as an employe, He
failed, and 1t Is not known where he Is.
The creditors spent the whole Of the
Lords day struggling over the wreck,
II has been case OF every man for
himself, and the result is worse snarl
than ever Each commission firm in
volved seems to devote most OF the
time to checkmating the moves the
Others make, Everything is at u stand"
still, in spite OF all the work. And
meantime losses are piling on losses,
wind, with slcct ending in n heavy
snow, made 1t severe on the cattle at
the ranch, A couple Of hundred have
died since the storm began u week
ago, and others are dying daily. The
little army of cowboys has quit work
because no ono would pay them, and
the farmers who contracted to bring
feed have refused to do so, because
they have not received money for that
already furnished,
All day, in the cold wind, a trai n
load OF 500 cattle stood on the tracks,
while the Gillespie company and the
Bogart company contested their rights
to them. They were finally sent out
to Kansas City.
The Gillespie company has tied up,
by legal proceedings, the cattle at If
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