The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-22
CONGERS ARE SUED.
Sensational Charges Against Widow
and Son of Deceased Manufacturers.

Akron Ohio. Aug. 22.-Sensational
charges of fraud and plots to defeat
creditors of the late Colonel A. L. Con-
ger, former national Republican COM
mitteeman and wealthy manufacture
are made against Mrs. Emily B. Con-
ger, widow of Colonel Conger, of Irv-
n-the-Hudson, New York, and her
son. Kenyon B. Conger, a prominent
engineer of New York. in a pleading
filed in common pleas court by A s.
Mottinger, administrator of Colonel
Conger's estate. Mottinger AYERS that
since his appointment as administrator
de bonis non in March, 1906, after the
resignation of the former administra-
tor, H. c. r. Wall, no assets or pro-
perty of any kind belonging to Colonel
Conger's estate have come into his pos
session. That Mrs. Conger and her
son, K. B. Conger, have taken possess
sion of stocks and property of Colonel
Conger and unlawfully and fraudu-
lently converted them to their own use,
is one OF the allegations made by Mot
finger. Colonel COnger's total indebted
ness at the time of his death, Mottinger
alleges, was 100000.
The Sequestered Property.
The value of the stocks and property
taken by them, Mottinger AYERS, is
much greater than the total indebted
ness of the estate. By their acts, Mot
/ finger says, Mrs. Conger and K B.
&onger have caused the Indebtedness to
~ wholly unpaid. Mottinger alleges
death he was the owner of stock in the
Pittsburg Plate Glass company worth
100000. One share in the Mathews
Tract Syndicate, dealing in real estate
in West Pullman. ILL.,. worth $4,000
2S5 shares of Whitman & Barnes Man
ufacturing company stock worth $685.
500; 100 shares in the ellison Asphaltum
company worth 800 per share, and
stock in the Elwood Land company, of
Elwood, Ind, worth several thousand
collars.
In April. 1897, as a part of their plan
to defraud creditors. Mottinger alleges,
the stock in the Mathews Tract Syn
dictate was transferred without consid-
Grafton to A. H. Pashley, an architect
at 315 Dearborn street, Chicago. The
following October, Mottinger claims, x.
b Conger organized the Irving Invest
ment company at Jersey City, n. J.,
with a capital stock of $1,000, and that
sfterward Pashley transferred the
stock to the company.
Alleges Specific Purposes.
He alleges that the Irving Investment
company was organized by Conger for
the express purpose of holding and
canceling the assets of Colonel Con-
ger The stock in the Elwood Lumber
company, Mottinger claims, was trans
ferred to r. c. Merony, of New York.
without consideration. Merony, it is
claimed. is a clerk in Conger's employ.
and it is said that, owing to some
trouble between the two, Merony has
divuIged the information alleged in
Mottinger's petition Mottinger says
that the Whitman & Barnes company
stock was transferred without consid-
Grafton to Chas. l. BrookhelIn, OF New
York, and then to Adolf Prince, and az
ter transferring the stock in the ellison
Asphaltum company to Merony, Merony
sold the stock for $S5 per share ana de-
livered the proceeds to K. B. Conger
and Mrs Conger. Mottinger claims as
damages 100000. for which he asks
Judgment.