Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — Sold Mortgaged Cattle and Skipped [ARTICLE]

Sold Mortgaged Cattle and Skipped

Is the Bnmor About Billy Tanaer, Barkley Township. Great excitement has beencaused in town by the intelligence that William Tanner, better known as Billy Tanner, tenant of the Mrs. Elizabeth Brown farm, in Barkley Tp., had sold and shipped large numbers of mortgaged cattle and had left for parts unknown with the proceeds. He has been buying up cattle all the season, some of which he was keeping at the Brown place, and others in different places around the county. After buying cattle he would borrow monkey to pay for them, giving the lenders mortgages on the cattle. Accord-' ing to common rumor he lately owned some 450 head of cattle, bought in this way. He shipped the cattle Sunday night, making shipments from Pleasant Ridge, Francesville, Reynolds, Kouts and perhaps other places. He may come back and fix things all right yet, but these facts are certain: He has shipped away, without permission, large numbers of mortgaged cattle, and his present whereabouts are unknown. Even his wife does not know where he is.

The Halligans northeast of town are said to be his largest creditors, rumor placing the amount in their case at from SIO,OOO to $13,000 Tanner also owes Mrs. Brown a large sum, on rent, but it is thought the crops still there will pay that. Mr. Halligan is in Chicago, and has got track of some of the mortgaged cattle, it is said, so his loss will not be so heavy as reported.