Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — TWO OF A KIND, APPARENTLY. [ARTICLE]

TWO OF A KIND, APPARENTLY.

An Electrician and a Shoemaker Leave Town and Many Debts Behind. Rjay Delmer, the electrician, who seemed to be doing so well in his profession here employing as assistants, Louis Davisson and Roscoe Nelson, has absconded, witih , most of the electrical that he installed in the Leopold room on Van Rensselaer street, which he had bought with money borrowed from Davisson, Nelson and J. T. Randle. The stock was insured by Ray D. Thompson for S6OO and consisted* .of all kinds of small ellectrlcal appliances. Delmer did excelfeht" work, was very neat, and his services were in great demand, and he 6eemed to be enjoying prosperity. | Monday morning he sent his two assistants out to work on a job and said that he would pack ; up some of the stock that they had; ho use for and return it to Ghi-J (eagjo. He packed almost all of | the stock, leaving possibly SSO ( worth, and also leaving the empty! boxes on the shelves and thus avoid-1 ed discovery until Tuesday morning, when his two assistants learned that he had left, taking with him all of the tools, valued at about S2O, on thfe early train. He succeeded in getting out of town and leaving behind him debts that aggregate about S6OO. He borrowed $230 of James T. Randle, besides owing his assistants, Davisson SIBO for money borrowed and labor, and Nelson $l5O, the latter also being responsible for a sl3 board bill at Barne’s restaurant, where, before leaving he borrowed board biLl at Barnes’ restaurant, are only the largest and most important debts <that he left, many smaller ones could be added to the list. j A. J. Maisoneuve, the shoemaker who occupied one of A. Leopold’s rooms two doors south of Delmer, has also pulled out, Heaving behind nothing but a lot of bad accounts. He seemed to be an (industrious, steady sort of fellow, and by the quality of his work soon won considerable trade as well as the confidence of the people. He purchased about S2OO worth of furniture, when he began housekeeping here, on the installment plan of D. M. Worland, and paid only the iflnst payment down. When Mr. Worland heard that Malsoneuve’s wife was quite poorly and that she would have to be taken to Chicago, did not press him for his money. Conrad Kellner also accommodated him by going security on a note at the State Banh for S3O. A debt of about $25 was contracted with Simon Leopold, and toe left Dt. F. H. Hemphill sl3 to the bad for services rendered, besides a drayage bill with E. Warne and numerous other smaller accounts. It seems that Maisoneuve had told several persons that he was going to go to Kankakee, 111., where his father would start him in business soon. Saturday he had his

household goods put into a car and without Mr. Worland’s consent had the car bililted under Worland’s name. This was noticed by Everett Warne 1 and .he notified Mr. Worland who ordered the furniture to be held here. It iU reported that Maisoneuve consulted ian attorney to find out how he could leave town without selling with his creditors, which would indicate that' he is a dead-beat from choice rather necessity.