The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-02-25
SEEKS 10 GET INVESTIGATION
Holds Unusual Methods Were Used in
Seeking to Collect Monies from Him
by Official of One of the Banks at
the City of Brotherly Love.

What promises to prove rather SEN
satlonal case when it comes to trial in
the circuit court was filed Friday in the
circuit court at Waukeganby Attorney
James G. Welch in behalf of Hyland
Emil Wilson, president of the Kenosha
Conservatory of Music, and directed
against Duncan Bellows, cashier Of the
Zion State bank Of Zion City, Mrs. Bel
lows and the bank itself, an institution
owned by the Marshall Field Company
of Chicago.
The bill as filed charges fraudulent
transactions on the part Of the bank and
misapplication of funds. Wilson charges
the bank cashier, with having pursued
tactics coward him after he had OBJ
tanned certain loans which are of the
loan shark variey. Some of the charges
are directed against Bellows personally
and some against him and the bank as
an institution Hence the latter was
named, with Mrs. Bellows as a party in
the suit.
The bill was one of the most compli-
Gated that has been filed in long time,
but the allegations are that on January
II, 1912, Wilson borrowed 1900 from
Bellows. The matter ran along, it de-
clares, for few months during which
Wilson charges Bellows went out and
bought outstanding claims against Will
son totaling sos; then Bellows bought
a mortgage of $500 which existed
against REQ auto which Wilson was
trying to pay for. These two latter,
with the original 5000, made total Of
sos which Wilson, in the bill, admitted
he owed Bellows as result of the
claims having been bought up.
Then, Wilson claims, Bellows suggest
ed to him WILSON, that he (Bellows)
had an r. G. H. worth $3.50 which he
would sell to Wilson for that sum; that
the deal was made and that Bellows
took back chattel mortgage for $3.50.
These two sums, sos and $3.50, to-
tai the sum Of @1,358, which Wilson,
through Mr.. Welch, admits he owes Bel
lows
But Wilson claims that Below, at
different times, through threats Of
foreclosing mortgages and duress, came
to him and "made him sign mortgages
on other property, including property in
Lake county worth 1888; a piece
worth 5000 in Kenosha was also re-
ferred to in the bill as one which Bel
lows asked for a mortgage on, the refer
ence to this piece, however, being mere
ly made in a general way
In the meantime, says the bill, Will
son had been paying Bellows various
sums. Wilson claims that Bellows sold
two cars for him (Wilson) as follows:
4 Ford, $3.50, a REQ, $3.50; that he
(Wilson) turned over to Bellows a pia-
no contract worth 1925 and that his
cash payments, through the autos, the
piano contract and cash, aggregated
ST, 800 in value.
The bill further asks the court to
have all these various mortgages re
leased and decide just how much Will
son owes Bellows or how much Bellows
owes Wilson.
The bill further alleges that, in Au-
gust, 1913, Bellows went to Wilson and
said in substance: 81 have a house
situated between two Voliva families.
/ can It rent them because I m an In
dependent; you are Volivaite, so, if I
transfer it to you and let it be known
that the transfer has been made, you
can rent it and we will split the rent. -
Wilson declares the transfer was
made and Bellows induced him to give
back three mortgages and also, within
two hours of the first transfer, to sign
it back to him (Bellows) and his wife.
Wilson claims that whenever he made
any payments of cash supposedly on the
chattel mortgages which Bellows held
and so told him he wished to have his
credits made, the banker put the cred
it on the real estate mortgages on the
Bellows house which Wilson owned but
about two hours, which of course left
the chattel mortgages unpaid.
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