The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-23
kIDNAP RICH MAN
TO HOLD FOR YEAR
Detectives Spirit Dillon 8.
Hutchinson to- Canada ct
Family's Behest.

Chicago, May 21.-One day last Feb.
uary-it was about the 18th, his friends
say-Dillon b.. Hutchinson. q wealthy
real estate dealer at Sc Washington
street, left his Office.
81 will be back In ten minutes he
said to Thomas Jubb, a contractor, who
had an Office In the sarne suite, n
Robert G.. G~arrabrandt, q retired cap
ttalist. BE sure to wait for me-"
Mr.. Hutchinson did not return In ten
minutes. Neither did he return in ten
days or ten weeks. In fact he q
never returned.
Hardly a minute after he stepped out
of his Office two men entered n In
CURED for him..
'He has been called home suddenly
for a particular reason" was the mes-
sag 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 office, 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 q whole
year according to his wife. His only
hope of escape Is to resort to the law.
He Is a virtual prisoner placed in the
sa%nitarium for his own good, his friends
say, with the knowledge and consent
of his wife and immediate relatives.
Deals Hold Up.
ID. B. did drink a good DEAL, said
Townsend Smith. whose office is al 100,
Washington street, referring to Mr..
Hutchinson, but he was certainly able.
to attend to his business. I 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 500, 900 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 be was X away. I saw him
only two or three days before he left.
ID. 3. made three big sales just be-
fore that time. One was for $40, 1000, to
clean up a subdivision at Irving Park.
Another deal for - 5000 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 l ever knew, and owned several
good ones. He got to work earlier than
any other broker l know of. He was
almost invariably at his desk before
8 o'clock in the morning. He had a
wonderful m and it was never
necessary for him to loo up the de-
s%cription Of a piece of property. IF he
told you it was so-and-so, you accepted
lis word as truth"
Daughter Is Cranes Wife.
Mr.. Hutchinson's only child. who was
MISS Emma Hutchinson, is the wife of
7. Crane, ST., the multimil-
lionaire founder Of the Crane
Mrs. Hutchinson, who resides at 1881
Mlehigan avenue, Went to Pasadena.
Cal. last November and remained
until ten days g According to the
belief Of the friends Of Mr.. Hutchin-
son, there was a family understanding
before her departure, and Mr.. Hutchtn-
son was taken in charge at a time when
his condition seemed to demand It.
Jubb & Eshelmann. contractors. sub
leased offices from Mr.. Hutchinson in
the Cisco building, sc Washington
street. where he had been in business
for twenty years. A month ago, Mrs.
Hutchinson wrote to the firm that she
would no longer be responsible for the
office or anything connected with it,
and last Monday, after her reutrn from
California, MI. Jubb went to see her.
His firm took over the lease and the
name OF ID: b: Hutchinson has been re-
moved both from the door and the Of
flee bulletin down stairs.
In the meantime thousands of dol
lars in commissions due to other men
are tied up because he is not mere to
q the necessary papers, and men
handfuls of money to pay to Hutchin-
son are turned away because there is
nobody to receive the cash.
Robert c. Garrabrandt sale yester-
day:
MI. Hutchinson was personally &C.
quainted with more people than almost
any other man in Chicago. He was re.
garded as an authority on real estate
Values, and acted as principal witnes.
for the Northwestern and nearly all o
the elevated roads in ~demna
proceedings. He also testified FIRE.
quently for the school board in sinilal
cases"
SPANISH HEIR EAPTIZED
Madrid, May 21.-The baptism OF tn,
heir to the Spanish throne took plac,