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Show WANT WODLLEY TO GO THROUGH BANKRUPTCY Salt Lake. Oct 6. A creditor s pe tition seeking to have Ernest R Woollev. well know ii mining man, de clarea an Involuntary bankrupt was filed late yesterday afternoon in the United States district court by At-torni At-torni George N. Lawrence. representing repre-senting John Q. CrltcblOW, D W. Ad-' Ad-' amson and J. E. Johnson, all of Salt ! Lake. Tho petitioner aver that Mr ; Woollev has resided in this city for the past year and that he owes them 1 nn aggregate of 55060 on promissory' notps which he is unable to pay-Up pay-Up to a late hour last night tho petition had not been served on Mr.l Woollev, who said, however, that he understood that it had been riled. Mr. Woollev declared that the action is only an outgrowth of the litication in which he has been involved durinp; the past three years in both Utah and New York. He said that approximate ly $250,000 has beeu involved in the different lawsuits which resulted in the returning of an indictment against him by a New York grand Jury and the subsequent wrecking of his financial finan-cial affairs. The petition details that Mr. Crttch-low Crttch-low is the holder ot a note for $5000, dated April 1. 1913, and payable five months after date with interest at the rate of 7 per cent a year; that Mr. Adamson is the holder of a note for $15. dated January 16, 1913, payable pay-able in sixty days after date with interest in-terest at the ratp of 8 per cent a year; that Mr. Johnson is the owner of a note assigned to him by J M-Howell, M-Howell, the note being for $35. dated October 20. 1913, and bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent The date of maturity of the latter note is not given in the petition. The petition also alleges that on September 25, 1914, Mr Woollev admitted ad-mitted in writing to Mr. Critchlow that he was unable to pay his debts and expressed a willingness to be adjudged a bankrupt on that ground |
