The Republican journal., 1899-09-14
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. =
District of Maine, S.
In the United States District Court in and for
said District

In the United States District Court in and for
said District
In the matter of No. 7. In Bankruptcy
GEORGE A. BAILEY, ! Creditors Petition.
To the Honorable NATHAN WEBB, Judge of tile
District Court of the United States for the
District of Maine
The petition of the Beckman Company, cor
poration of Cleveland, County Of Cuyah0ga ami
State of Ohio; The Aquila Rich Company. a cor
poration established In New York, in the County
and Sta of New York; The kilmer Wire Manu-
featuring Company, corporation established in
Chicago in the County of Cook and State of I'LL
nos John A. Shells x Co. of Ameshury, in the
County of Essex and Commonwealth Of Massa-
Chusetts; The starr Bros. Bell Company, a cor
poratlon established i'll East Hampton, in the State
of Connecticut, and Il. F. Decker 4 Brothers,
partners, of Albany, IN the State of New York
mat George a. Bailey of Belfast, County Of
Waldo and State OF Maine has for the greater
portion of six months next preceding the date Of
filing this petition resulted Belfast, in the
Countyof Waldo and State and District aforesaid
and owes debt to the amount of 81 900.
Ihat your petitioners are credltorsot SAID George
A. Bailey, having proNahle claims amounting in
The aggregate in excess of securities held TN Them
to the sum of $500 That the nature and amount
Of your petitioners claims are a. follows That
OF your petitioner, The Beekman COMPANY. is an
| open account for merchandise sold and delivered
70 the sad Bailey on the twenty first day Of sep
temher, A. l.. 1898. amounting Ia one hundred
ana twenty-Uue dollars ana twenty five cents
which became due ON the first day OF October, A.
h. SOS; that no note has been received for said
account, nor has any Judgment been rendered 0r
pay mcnt made thereon.
That of your petitioner The Aquia Rich Com
pany is promissorN note Tor the sum of fifty two
dollars and tWentYthlee cents signed 10y The said
George \. Bailey, payable to the order of your
ieSltlQner and Endorsed by II said note being
dated at Belfast, aforesaid, and PAYABLE three
months after August %, 1898, at the Belfast Ma
tional Rank with one dollar and seventy seven
cents, costs ct protest; that the consideration
was merchandise sold and delivered by Your
petitioner to said Bailey, and that Judgment
has been rendered ON payments made thereon /,
also an open account of merchant Use sold and de
IIYered to said Bailey by your petitioner from
April IL, 1898, to September I /. Sis, amount
ing, exclusive of payments to seventy Two dollars
and siXtytwo cents that the same became due hi
sixty days from such sales; that mo- note has beeu
received for said account: nor has any INDICTMENT
been rehdeled thereon, OF any payments made.
That Of Your petitioner, the kilmer Wire Manu-
J featuring company, Is Judgment recovered
against said Bailey at the supreme judicial
Court, holden for said County of Waldo. on the
third Tuesday of April, A u. 1899, for the sum
of seventy nine dollars and sixty-six cents. debt
or damage and seventeen dollars and ninety.tOur
cents. cost of SUIT; that has been received
tor SAID Judgment, nor any pay ments made there
on.
That of your petitioners. John A. Shiels Il Co..
is promissory note Signed by said Baiey, dated
December 49, lS9S, payable three months after
date, for thirty dollars and seventy cents with
Interests, and indorsed by your petitioners that
the consideration of said note was merchandise
sold and delivered said Bailey by your petition
ers. and that no judgment has been rendered on
payments made on laid note.
Company is an open accoant for merchandise sold
and delivered to said Bailey by your petitioner
November 81, 1896, and December II, 1897
amounting to siXty-two dollars and ninety cents
that the same became due thirty days from the
dates when said sales We're nVOiced; that no note
has been received for said account, nor has any
Judgment been rendered or payment made there
on.
That of your petitioners, E F Decker x Broth
ers is an open account for merchandise sold and
delivered to said Bailey by your petitioners, Sep
TENDER 8, 1898 amounting to seventy dollars and
seventeen cents; that the same became due April
l, 1899; that no note has been received for SAID
account, nor has any Judgment been rendered
payment made thert
And your petitioners further represent that said
George A. Bailey is lnSOlyent and that within four
months next preceding the date of this petition,
the said George A. Bailey, while insoIvent, com
united an act of bankruptcy, in that he did here
tofore, to wit on the second day of March, \. ID.
$50, transfer portion of his property to wit,
me sum of three thousand dollars received from
the sale OF his stock i'll trade not in the ordinary
course of business, to the Belfast National Bank,
a National Banking Association and corporation
organized under the laws of the United States
and located at Belfast, aforesaid, SAID bank being
one OF his creditors, with intent to prefer such
creditor over his other creditors.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that service
OF this petition, with subpoena, may be made
upon said George A. Bailey, provided in the
acts of Congress relating to bankruptcy and that
he may be adjudged by the Court to be a bank
rupt within the purview of said acts
THE BECkMAN COMPANY,
by William Liebing, Sec'y.
THE AQUlLA RICH CO..
A. E. Bayreuther, Treasurer.
KILMER WIRE MFG CO..
a. Chase. Treasurer.
DECKER BROS,
E. F. Decker
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, Attorney for petitioners
THE STARR BROS. BELL COMPANY
by JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, its Attorney.
United States of America
Northern District of Ohio IS
State of Ohio, County of Cuyahoga, J
The Beckman Company, bv VIM. Liehing, its
Secretary, thereto duly authorized; said Beckman
named, do hereby make solemn oath that the
statements contained in the foregoing petition,
subscribed by him are true.
WIN. LlEBlNG, Sec'y, Petitioners
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th
day of May, A. D. 1899.
lLsl TT. QUlGLEY, Notary Public
III State of Ohio. I -,
Cuyahoga County, 90
l, Harry L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, a Court of Record of Cuyahoga County,
aforesaid, do hereby certify that T. f Qugey, be
fore whom the annexed acknowledgment was
taken was at the date thereof Notary Public in
and for said County, duly authorized by the laws
of Ohio to take the same, also to take acknowl.
edgments and proofs of deeds conyeyances for
land tenementS Entertainments situated and
well acquainted with his handwriting and believe
his signature thereto is genuine; and that the
neXed instrument is executed according to the
laws of the State of Ohio.
Commission expires September IL, 1901.
In testimony whereof, hereunto subscribe my
name and atfix the seal of said Court, at Cleve-
land this 10Th day of May. A. D. 1899.
[L.s.l No. 1921. HARRY l.. VAIL, Clerk.
s,s. - IS so4tssTn District Of New York, IS.
State of New York, County of New York,