The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-04
WALLINCFORD HAS NOTHING ON c. H. KING
 J. P. CRAY
Law Partner of Missing Fairfelder Tells of His Optimistic View of I'm pending Financial Crash.
"It Will Be a Ten Days Wonder, Then Like Burr & Knapp, Soon Will Be
 Forgotten" He Told Gray.

t'J. Rufus wallingford has nothing on him." says John P. Gray, of his ab- sconding law partner, Clitus H. King. King has been missing from his home in Fairfield for just a week ,and long er than that from his offices on Fair field avenue. Although the state police are looking all over Connecti- cut for him. no trace of him has been found
 Various conjectures have been made as to what has become of King. Some say he must have committed suicide. His law partner, however, who knows him better than most men, says King takes his troubles too light 1y to kill himself because of them.
 His knowledge of travel to southern ports is believed by others to have come in handy. Some think he went to South America.
 Day by day more evidence of the tremendous scope of his ridiculous if nanc1a1 transactions is bobbing up. thousands after thousands of dollars are being charged against him as il- legally obtained or disposed of.
 MT. Gray indicates that King took a humorous view of his transactions
 John,'' he said, in almost his last words before parting with his part her, John, it will be a ten days won der, but like the Burr & Knapp fail ure, it will be soon forgotten
 Here is the list of transactions that are being brought forward by victims many of them persons supposed to be thee 1osest friends of the Fairfield advocate.
 Spurious mortgage bought by the Ridgefield Congregational church and given by King to the Ridge1eld bank for security on a loan of s1,7Oo. The names of Town Clerk J. l. Flint and Judge Bacon Wakemap of Fairfield were forged to it.
 Simeon Pease, county sheriff, Judge Fillmore s. Banks and Constable Heze- kiah R. E1wood endorsed a note for s 300 issued by King, which he failed to meet.
 Representative and Prosecuting Att torney Harry R. Sherwood of West port endorsed Kings note for $2oo and lost.
 Fraudulent securities given by King in Ridgefeld amount to $7,aoo.
 Constable, E1wood. once bosom friend of King, says he bought a piece of blank paper in an envelope gage for sa5o. His losses, he says are $1,350.
 Between s6.oeo and $1o,ooo. the capital of the. San Bias Co.,, organized by King and Gray and others, is missing.
 Mrs. Adel1ne Davis invested her | fife savings of $5,00o with King and expects to be unable to recover.
 F. w. S. Pickett, former postmaster of Fairfield, announces that $500 pro- cured in Judgment against the l American Cyclecar Co.,, for a youth 1 whose guardian was King, is gone. | Pickett is bondsman.
 While a. receipt for $7oO was given | John Chihal of Newark and Steve | Aurma of this city for property bought of c. F. Brinsmade of Trum- i pull. sBrinsmade says he has received | only $50- Gray says King took the s7Oo.
 That King was unsuccessful in his | mission to raise funos .mong his po- itical friends in the state is indicated by reports which come from Norwich | and Willimantic. It is reported that King approached Judge Barnes of the |, city court of Norwich and also Daniel Dunn, former state comptroller and former mayor of WilIimantic MrAI King is reported to have been seen on train going from Norwich to Wili- mantle last Tuesday. His aged par ents live in Wil1iIhantic. It was ex- oected his father would come to this ,ity today, but up to press hour he 1ad not arrived.
 President Bibbins of the San Bias Co.- said today that he hoped to reor- sanize the company and if he can accomplish this he was satisfied the 'eport of the disposition of the finances is not yet ready. No com
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