The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-24
HAS DISAPPEARED
AND NOW SUSPECTED
Carl Grossman, for Years Prominent
Resident of Proctor, Is Wanted
to Explain Some Perplexing
Situation.

Rutland, Dec. "a. That Carl Gross
man, for years prominent resident Of
Proctor and recently appointed consular
agent for Austria-Hungary having
charge Of the state of Vermont, has dis
appeared with large sum OF money
belonging to some Of his fellow country
men in the little village north of this
city, Is the belief Of both States Att0r
ney b. l.. Stafford of this city and the
authorities in this country representing
Austria Hungary. As result julius Z.
Stern, councillor to the imperial and roy
al AustrO. Hungarian consul general,
Baron Won Nuber OF New York City,
has been in Proctor for the last two days
investigating the absence from his post
of Mr. Grossman, VINO has not been seen.
in that vicinity for about two weeks.
Just what amount Of money is miss
ing cannot be ascertained but it will
probably be between $4,000 and $1,000
and possibly more. One man lost ST.
500, which he turned over to Mr.. Gross
man about a year ago. Mr.. Stern, who
has the power Of attorney from the con-
sui general. is making every effort to
locate the man but up to last night no
clew Of any kind could be found
1t ia supposed that Grossman left for
New York December o, and upon his ar
rival there he called at the Office Of the
consul general the following day and
gave the impression that he would re-
turn to Proctor SOON Mr.. Stern will
terminate The office OF the consul genera
at Proctor He viii tear down the coat
of arms OF the dual monarchy, seal the
official papers and ship them 20 New
York. lie will also place under seal any
other of Mr. Grossmans papers az the
Office in New York
lt is probable that no formal charge
will be made against him by the state
of Vermont until his troubles with his
have been settled and then
there is the question as to whether or
not he is exempt from any charges that
might be made here. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Grossman has some property
in the old country and the authorities
have plan TO first make retribution
to the poor people, whose money he had
in charge. Yesterday morning one WON
an was found who had lost about 5000,
all the worldly wealth she possessed
1t IA impossible to say just what
amount Of money is missing, but up
to Thursday night receipts had been
found OF more than $1,000 One man,
Frank Jacobs. gave Mr. Grossman 81,
900 last January and wanted him to
forward ii for him to the old country
His brother later came TO Proctor and
reported that the money never arrived
Recently he displayed the receipt signed
by Mr. Grossmsn and when asked II
he bad any proof that his brother did
not receive the money, he showed q let
ter from Mr. Grossman since he went
away saying that be would return 70
Proctor soon and at this time would re
fund the money This showed that he
had not forwarded 81.
Mr.. Grossman WAS we'll educated
man and among his accomplishments
was the free and easy way in which
he spoke in several different languages
His friends are Of the opinion that in
some way he has become unbalanced
in his study on the question Of perpet
ual motion He was also interested in
a big painting representing a battle
scene aud which covered thousands Of
feet Of canvas He had invented
motion machine, which he
claimed would work as he said he had
solved this problem