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The Chronicle Telegraph (190101), 19 Jan 1911, p. 11

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According to the statements made by Mr. Leyes, the old man has nothâ€" ing like the amount of money he is said to have had in the house. It has been published that his wealth _ was anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000, but his opinion is that less than $300 will probably cover all that the murâ€" derers got, while this, added to what is presumed to be buried in the nearâ€" by woods, will not total more than $1,200 or $1.500. . Rudy Leyes, the next neighbor to Lobinski, was on the most intimate terms with the old man, whose eduâ€" eation was of such a limited characâ€" ter that Leyes acted as his clerk when it became necessary _ to â€" take notes for the money neighbors _ borâ€" rowed. Detective Boyd and High Constable Huber are not here toâ€"day hut are in Berlin gathering information in conâ€" nection with the case. The inquest will be resumed at the village hall here on Wednesday aiterâ€" moon at 2 o‘clock with _ Coroner Glaister presiding. It is expected that Crown Attorney Bowlby will repreâ€" sent the Crown. Quite a number of witnesses have been summoned to give evidence. in an old stocking and this he would throw beneath the bed or under the furniture. On other occasions . he would sew a few of them in his coat, some in the mattress of his bed and at other times he v/ould dig a hole in the garden and place them there. He never saw him count his .money, but Lobinski always took pleasure in showing it to others. He did . not think that he had more than $600. Lobinski told the priest that he had often bid his money in _ the hay loft, saying that he didn‘t think that any person would ever think of looking for money there. The gold pieces he is said to have strewn about the house. Sometimes he would wrap a few pieces in paper and place them Your correspondent endeavored ~<to ascertain from the officers what was the amount the boxes contained but they refused to divulge. The â€" newsâ€" naper man was advised to get a comâ€" mon ‘corncan and fill it with 25, 50 and $1.00 silver pieces and he would be able to get an estimate. The sug-i _gestion, however, could not be comâ€" plied with as your correspondent has not been hoarding his money. Funeral Toâ€"morrow. __ The funeral of the late Franz Loâ€" binski will be held on Wednesday morâ€" ming from the uhdertaking _ parlors t Wellesley to the St. Agatha R. C. Church and cemetery for burial. A postâ€"mortem examination was made <on the body on Monday. ‘‘The dead man is said to have attendâ€" ‘wd mass occasionally and the _ last time he was seen at church was on All Saints Day on November ist. * Would Not Bank Money. Father Sobszak who saw the murâ€" A@ered man at his home some _ time last March spoke repeatedly to him | asking him to bank the money, . but | the man always tried to change the |! subject, it being apparent that he did | not like to speak about it. He had very little faith, he said, im banking |! institutions. & ~.>*: Containing Coin in the Stables found a can containing a considerable amount of silver quarter, â€" halfâ€"dollar and American ‘"cartâ€"wheel" _ pieces. The drivingâ€"shed was also investigatâ€" ed and a small tin box was found which was also filled with coin. The police officers were making a search of the stables during the _ aiâ€" termoon and in the barn where _ the horses and cattle were kept they emâ€" ptied out the hay in the loit where *he three pairs of shoes had â€" been found and to their astonishment they Wellesley, Jan. 17. Detective Boyd and High Constable Huber made an important discovery on the premises of Franz Lobinski, who was brutally murdered last Wednesday night â€" at his shack two miles west of here which proves that the murderers did Rot get all the money which the old man had hoarded during his _ lifeâ€" time. Ready for the Inquest The Miser‘s ‘"Hoard." dagh DIAGRAM OF THE SCENE OF THE MURDER ‘S MURDERERS DID ALL OF VICTIM‘S M (Continued ffom page 6.) BRANTFORD.â€"Joun C. Milligan, atout 50 _ years old, a prominent lodge man, expired suddenly at his aome here on Sunday. _ He was carâ€" cying a dinner tray io his sister, who was ill in bed, when he fell siead from heart failure. _ Only the _ iwy were in the house. ’ Mr. Leyes then waid that he â€" was not aware of Lobinski‘s death until he saw the people down at the house, and thought the old man was having a sale. He looked at his paper and when he did not see the sale _ adverâ€" lised, he went over and found that the old man was lying at his back door dead, and frozen stiff, in â€" his clothes, but in his bare feet, with one leg wired to the post near the kitâ€" chen door. _ _. i SISTER ILL IN BED BROTIER DROPS DEA D. _ ‘‘Yes, that‘s right, but I got money from him without any interest. and the last time was only a few days before he was killed. I saw a load of corn and bought it, and got a few dollars from him, without a note or ‘anything else, to make up the _ price when I didn‘t have enough money. But whoever should get his money will get it." ‘"‘Did he charge a big rate of intverest of the money loaned?" ‘‘No. Some he charged six per cent. and others five." ‘"Did he loan much?"‘ ‘‘No," said Mr. Leyes, smiling. ‘"‘It is said that he never made a loan of more than $50 to any one man and then the note had to be backed by two of the best men in the neighborâ€" hood?>* ‘‘Franz got one of them on a loan. A man borrowed $25 from him, and Franz got the gun from him for $10, when the man was short of cash." ‘"How much did he pay #or the guns he had?" ‘tracks in the snow?" _ ‘‘No, his money was hid before the snow came, and after the snow came he never went to the hiding place beâ€" cause it would leave a track, and that ! was why he never went. He couldn‘t ! have had much more than twelve hunâ€"| dred dollars." ' ‘ "It is said that he used to go to the bush, to the places where he used to hide his money, and that he _ left tracks in the snow?" ‘‘He never told you where he kept his money?" ‘"He never told anybody that." Mr. Leyes then placed his hands about ten inches apart, and said it was about that high, and _ so big around that he could hardly get it inâ€" to his pocket. _ ‘‘Was his pocket a big one?" ‘"‘Yes," said Mr. Leyes, showing the pocket of his own overcoatâ€" about seven or eight inches wide. "It was is big as that, or bigger." ‘"How big was the asked. ! ‘‘I don‘t know," replied Mr. Leyes, ‘but he kept it in a bag. Franz didn‘t keep anything smaller than a quarter. Most of it was quarters and fiftyâ€"cent pieces. There may have been a few silver dollars in it." ‘"How much money would he have in silver?" "I don‘t know, but I think be hid it n the bush, in two or three bushes." ‘‘Then he didn‘t keep it all in the one placet"* 4/ ‘*No, he would have some here and some at another place." ‘"It is rumored that his money is hidden in the bush?" Not First tu Learn of It Loaned Money at Interest Buried Under Snow. His Wealth in Silver V ILL AGE CHRONTCE®Eâ€"TECEGRXPH, THuUR BDAY, YANUARY TOTH, 1911. PAGE ELEVEN Travets Gets 6 Ycar Seni nce _ parsing sontonye Magistrate Denâ€" , Teropte, _ Jan. 16.â€""I shall sond you to the penitentiary for six ycars for theft, for six years for forgery, +and for five years ‘or making false returns, let all will run concurtontly, mak‘ng six yrors in all." This was the senience pastad by Magistrats Denison upon W. T. Traâ€" vors, gensral manager of the Farmers‘ Bank this metraing. 0 Unloss thers is a repricye, it cuts six yeats from the life of a man now 5% years of age From an early hour the court toom was crowded, and when Mr. Travers was led in by a stae deer bebin‘ the From an early hour was crowded, and wi wase led in by a stae macistrate‘s brnch, stared at him from all faces i1 free the coresficn. T miskt insf as o woll prnish a man ferâ€" feloniously woundâ€" ing, and then also for carrving a revelter on the street and for disâ€" charging firearms, the three are all mixed _ im together But sti?. this is a very ssrinus oofâ€" ence hscanso the hanl hoas bere wrecâ€" ison said:â€" ‘‘In this, Travers, you mnave pleadad clilty to three charges: false returns, tocft and forgery Of these, the more serious from the point of view of peralty, is the one of theft, but thov all in a serse have been mixed up tozother, the forzery and faise retutns being to cover the other. Of course, the statement thet is made about making corssontive sentences for the frll peniod is ontivelv ont of Cl wie ‘‘For otdinary burglaty a man may be _ sent to the penitentiary for life, but if there had been & hundred burâ€" glars about the country Breaking im toâ€" houses they might have broken inâ€" to hundreds of houses and not done so much damage as has been done in this case. _ Prople have lost the s&Â¥â€" ings of their life _ time; those thak art able to afford it may have to give a large amount of money more tham they hare sumscribed for, the whols propertr of the bank appears to have ed, practically looted and plundesed, a tremendots amornt of money gen6, wisappeared, belonging to the sbare holders, and it has been a most wide spread trouble that has been _ gfver to the prople, mwen worse than am otdinary case of the"* disapprared. Of course, this case i8 # mnst deplorable one

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