Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-06-29
.GkANYG|LLET'rS
CATTLE PLUNGER TALKS OF
HIS TROUBLES.
Says He Was Forced to Depart by
the Raid Of Cattle Msn-Expscts
to Pay His Debts Some Day-Going
Into Business.

The Herald Of the City Of Mexico
Of June q published an interesting
interview with Grant G. Gillett, who
visited the capital Of the land Of the
Montezumas in the interest Of a bus.
mess scheme he is about to launch.
When asked whether there was any
truth In the renewed statements that
had been made to the effect that steps
were being taken to secure his extra
dltion he said emphatically:
There is no truth whatever in the
statements to which you allude. They
are malicious fabrications. My cred.
itors have never applied for my ex.
tradition. Nor is there any truth in
the statement that the grand jury Of
Kansas has found several new indict-
ments against me. There is nothing
on which they could indict me. II
they did indict me it would have to
be on false assertions. The fact is
my creditors don't want me to 60
back. They know that | paid every
every dollar that could and as long
as could, and they also know that
II ever get the money will pay
every cent that owe"
"What do you think, Mr.. Gillett,
precipitated your catastropbe"
1.-The hurry people were in to
pounce down on my assets. If my
estate had been iudiciously handled
the loss would have been far less, or
perhaps there would have been no
loss at ALL When | left | intended to
90 back, and most of the commission
men were willing to put up money to
see me through"
He then relates how the crash
came and he had to skip and abuses
various commission firms, also the
sheriff, alleging the sale Of his prop.
erty seized by creditors was not
properly conducted.
"My belief u.s." continued Gillett,
"that my real creditors want to let
me alone. Those who are troubling
me are a lot of buns on the outside
who have tried to get money out Of
me and failed. know they couldn't
put me in Jail il go back and If they
will leave me alone | will pay them
Just as fast as | can. | have no in
tention whatever Of beating them.
Many of my creditors have been to
chihuahua to see me and have talk
ed me in as friendly a way as you and
| are talking now. just broke up as
other men have done before. | was
attempting to carry too much. | was
doing business of 81, O0O,OOO a year
and was working twenty hours a day.
! was farming 5000 acres, which is
good deal in that section and my
only fault was that perhaps ! at
tempted too much.
"When a man loses his money, he
borrows, expecting to be able to pay
it back. This is what did, and |
also helped many Of my friends, who,
| suppose, expected to pay me back,
and il they had done so would have
been able to pay my creditors. You
can say in your paper that | never
owed poor man cent. ! suppose
il bank had broken and plunged
hundreds OF poor families into misery,
the matter would have been dismiss
ed in the newspapers with half doz-
en- lines, whereas my trouble has
created as much newspaper talk al
most as the Hispano-American war
| should think that people by this
time would be tired of seeing my
name in print"
care you contented at Chihuahua,
Mr.. GillettP" queried the reporter
"a man who has led as active a
life as have can never be contcnted
unless he is buster than ! have been
Of late. But apart from that ! am
delighted with this country.
There is one thing | would like to
say, and that is in regard to the state
ments that we're made in the Kansas
City papers to the effect that justice