People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — Wisconsin Lumberman Absconds. [ARTICLE]

Wisconsin Lumberman Absconds.

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 25.— Chief of Detectives McGinn has received information that Peter McCarron, the wealthy Chippewa Falls (Wis.) lumber man, has sold his logging outfit at Moose Lake and has left for parts unknown. McCarron reported to the police here in February that he had been robbed of $5,000 while asleep at the Union depot. It now transpires that this money was not McCarron’s but belonged to the firm of which he was a member, and was to have been used to pay the employes at the Moose Lake lumber comp.