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Toofany Bros. Run Away

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Day
28
Month
December
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Toofany Bros. have been doing a rushing restaurant business on Huron 3tröet f or several months and this week they rushed out of town owing a number of our merchants small suma ranging from $8 to $130. One of the brothsrs came here from Sault Ste Marie, whsre he had been engaged in the same kind of business for treatment of nis Byes. He shortly, with the other brother opened up the restaurant business and had thirty or forty regular boarders. It was supposed that they were dhing well, until the merchants, who,were promised their pay last Wednesday awoke to fiud them gone. The eider brother went to Chicago a couple of weeks ago and he has since been receiving boxes of good shipped from here under the name ot f. Veneziam. The youngest brother, with nis buxom sister-in-law, attended the opera house play Christtnas night and the next morning were not to be found. As no train for the e ast left here after ten o'clock that night it is supposed that they, of course, went west. Eight attachment suits were at once commenced on what little stock the Toofany's left behind. This was covereid lirst by a chattel mortgage given to Thorpe, Hawley & Co., Detroit wholesale confectioners. The eight attachment suits amount to $445. Much of the local indebtedness vas incurred for Christmas presents purchased on Monday to be paid for on Wedne3day. Indeed Wednesday seems to have been the day settled upon by the Toofany'8 for settling all their debts. Goods shipped here from Detroit, including new show cases were at once reshipped over a different line. They didn't even settle with the drayman who paid their freight bilis. Deputy sheriff Sutherland took charge of the stock left in the store for the benent of attachiug creditors. Some of the goods shipped off were interupted at Milan. JBut the merchants were not the only ones left. Toofany Bros. had induced several of the students to buy tickets ten weeks anead by givingthem reduced rates.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News