The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-05-23
KIDNAP RICH MAN
TO HOLD FOR YEAR
Detectives Spirit Dillon 3.
Hutchinson to Canada at
FamiIy's Behest.

Chicago, May 21.-One day last Feb
r,ary-it was about the 18th, his friends
,ay-Dillon B. Hutchinson, wealthy
real estate dealer ut SO Washington
street, left his Office.
IT win be back in ten minutes, ne
said to Thomas Jubb, contractor VINO
had an office In the same suite, ana
Robert G. Garrabrandt, retired cap
ttalist. BE sure to wait TOT me 49,,
Mr.. Hutchinson did not return IN ten
minutes. Neither did he return In ten
days or ten weeks. In fact ne mas
never returned.
Hardly a minute after he stepped out
Of his Office two men entered ana IN
Quired for him.
HE has been called home suddenly
sage they left.
Mr.. Hutchinson is now In the Home
wood Sanitarium, at Guelph. Canada
not far from Detroit. These two men
took him there. They were private de-
tectives.
They seized him on the street a short
distance from his ONCE, hustled him
| into an automobile and hurried him
| away to the Grand Trunk railway sta
ton. From there the journey to Can
ada commenced.
Mr.. Hutchinson will be gone whole
|
hope OF escape is to resort to the law.
| He is a virtual prisoner placed In the
sanitarium for his own good, his friends
say, with the knowledge and consent
| Of his wife and immediate relatives.
Deals Held Up.
| I'D. B. did drink a good DEAL" said
| Townsend Smith, whose Office Is at 100
| Washington street, referring to Mr..
| Hutchinson, "but he was certainly able
to attend to his business. have been
dealing with him for twenty-five years
| or more, and had on two big deals with
him at the time he was taken away.
One was a deal for 100000 worth of
property at West Madison and Robey
! streets and the other for thirty seven
acres of land at Elmhurst at $500 an
acre. These deals were prevented be-
cause he was taken away. 1 saw him
only two or three days before he left.
ID. b. made three big sales just be-
fore that time. One was for $4,000, to
clean up a subdivision at Irving Park.
Another deal for $50,00O was closed at
the same time. but the third sale which
was still bigger. could not be put
through because Of his absence.
He was one of the finest judges OF
horses 1 ever knew, and owned several
good ones. He got to work earlier than
any other broker 1 know of. He was
almost invariably at his desk before
o'clock in the morning. He had q
wonderful memory and 1t was never
necessary for him to look up the de-
scription Of a piece Of property If ht
told you 1t was so-and-so, you accepted
his word as truth"
Daughter Is Cranes Wife. .
Mr. Hutchinson's only child, who wal
Miss Emma Hutchinson, Is the wife o
Richard T. Crane, sr., the multimil
Iionaire founder OF the Crane company
Mrs. Hutchinson, who resides at 1853
Michigan avenue, went to Pasadena
Cal, last November and remained
until ten days ago. According to tn
belief of the friends of Mr.. Hutchin
:, son, there was a family understandinl
before her departure, and Mr.. Hutchin
, ION was taken In charge at a time wffe'
I his condition seemed to demand II.
Jubb & Eshelmann, contractors, sub
; leased offices from Mr.. Hutchinson i
the Cisco building, SO Washingto
s street, where he had been I'm bushes
I for twenty years. A month ago, Mr.
1 Hutchinson wrote to the firm that sh
would no longer be responsible for tn
office or anything connected with !
and last Monday, after her reutrn frol
California, Mr.. Jubb went to see he
His firm took over the lease and II
} name Of D. B. Hutchinson has been rt
moved both from the door and the o.
Ace bulletin down stairs. 4.
In the meantime thousands OF do
: lars in commissions due to other me
l. are tied up because he Is not here
l. sign the necessary papers, and me
= who have called at his office wit
% 1andfuls Of money to pay to Hutchil
% son are turned away because there
nobody to receive the cash.
Robert c. Garrabrandt said yeste
lay:
Mr.. Hutchinson was personally a
r luainted with more people than almo
! any other man in Chicago. He was r
garded as an authority on real esta
values, and acted as principal witne
lie for the Northwestern and nearly all
In the elevated roads In condemnati
Id proceedings. He also testified fr
- quently for the school board In sinil
-, | cases" 30
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