Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-08
CREDITORS SEEK
PROPRIETOR Of
RUBBER SHOP"
II. R. Hare Removed Goods.
Said to Have Hurriedly
Left City.

About forty creditors OF the Rubber
Shop" at 6 Branford place, were hold
ing vigil over there today in the SEEM
ingIy futile hope that the proprietor
would come back with some $4,000
worth of rubber goods that he disap-
peared with last night.
used to live in Hill street, and some
friends of the creditors said that the
last they saw Of him last evening was
when he took a train for New York.
after seeing his loads of auto tires,
rubbers, coats, etc, bound in the same
direction. All he left in the store was
about two dozen pairs of boots.
The creditors include representatives
of the Hartford, the Morgan & Wright
Tire companies and the Goodyear
Rubber Company. It is also said that
among the missing assets is an auto
owned by the Orange Auto Company.
Hare started the rubber shop in
Branford place with Charles Siebert
some months ago. Later he bought out
Siebert, but the latter says he has re-
ceived but a small part of the purchase
price.
It is said hat Hare took his stock
away from the store at a very late
hour last night.
Mrs. Harry r. Hare, wife of the
missing merchant. appeared in front
of the store at 6 Brandford place, this
afternoon, and was Immediately recog-
nize1 by a number of the creditors. she
looked at the writ of attachment on
the door and appeared amazed. Look
ing around she beckoned to one of the
creditors and asked him what it all
meant They told her.
Mrs. Hare Ignorant of AFFAIR.
When questioned as to her husbands
whereabouts, Mrs. Hare said: DO you
think / would be around here if l knew
anything about this matter?' Ques-
toned further, Mrs. Hare declared she
had not seen her husband since she
left their furnished rooms at % Hill
street yesterday morning to visit her
mother in Brooklyn. Her husband re-
NAMED in Newark. as usual. she added,
and nothing out of the ordinary ap-
peared on the surface.
Mrs. Hare declared she had come
from the railroad station to get a suit
belonging to her that was being al
tered in an establishment near her hus-
bands place of business. A number of
creditors gathered around her in the
hope of learning something that would
lead them to the hiding place of Hare,
or better still the two auto wagon loads
of rubber goods he is alleged to have
spirited way late last night. When
the questioners were becoming insist
ent Mrs. Hare walked off, accompanied
by one of the men said to be interest
ed in the concern.
The writ of attachment against the
few rubber boots and other rubbish
which vas left in the store was occurred
today from Judge Thomas J.sLintott,
in the Second District Court. The
Record Publishing Company was the
applicant. Nathan Bilder, of the law
firm of Bilder & Bilder, who make a
speciality of bankruptcy cases, was
called on the scene by one of the
creditors and held a consultation with
a number of them on the street OPP
posite the abandoned shop. alter the
conference adjourned to Mr.. Bidders
Office. The latter declared there was
no use in trying to give details of the
matter at this stage, but there was no
left very little.