St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-03
MORE ABOUT RAY.
Additional Particulars Respecting
His Departure.

additional Particulars Respecting
His Departure.
The disappearance of License In
spector Ray with several thousand dol
lars belonging to the city concealed
about his person, as chronicled in the
morning papers yesterday, was the talk
of the whole city all day long. who'd
think Ray would do that?" was the al
most universal remark, as he was
looked upon as the last person who
would be guilty of crookedness. Some
of his friends are inclined to believe
that he will yet return, but the
police have given up all hopes of ever
seeing him again unless he should be
captured. Health Inspector f. E.
Briggs saw Ray last Tuesday in the lit
tie town of Lachine, about six miles
uniform, but wore his usual SLOUGH hat,
with the gold cord and tassel, however.
He told Briggs he was taking his wife
down East on a visit, when he would
return to Minneapolis. A good deal has
been said about the cleverness which
Ray exhibite d in allaying suspi.
cion as to his departure. 1t
was no difficult task for him
to collect the money as he did. but the
sending of that telegram from the
$500" and the letter from Montreal,
both admirably suited to throwing off
suspicion, is generally considered
clever piece of rascality. Moreover. he
left nothing i'll his house which, by
duplication and distribution, could be
used to identify him. No notes or
any pictures of him remain. He left
whole lot of photographs, but none Of
himself.
Just how much money Ray took with
him will probably never be known.
Another saloonkeeper turned UP yes
terday who had paid $500 to Ray. which
increases the amount received from
those sources to S., 100. 1t is believed
that he also made collections from ex-
pressmen. hack drivers and many
others who pay but a small license,
comparatively. But Rays great
graft" is now believed to have
been the blind pigs. 1t is a notorious
fact that several of these institutions
are running in the city, and have been
for some time. 1t is also fact that
Ray has made no complaint against this
class of laWbreakers for some time, nor
had he, in fact, been pushing any one
who came within his province. When
ever Ray did make complaint against
.sblind pgn keepers it was against some
petty offender. From recent develop
inents it is believed that the license in
spector Winked at the fattest sigbtless
porkers in consideration of receiving
some of the profits.
Who will lose that monep? is an i'm
pOrtant question just now. The city
officials say that as Ray had never been
given authority to collect the money.
the individuals will have to lose it.
There is question, however, in the
minds of others about it. Some people
assert that since the head of the police
department knew that Ray was re-
ceiving money in that way, that
sible, since it, to certain extent,
authorized Rays action. There will
undoubtedly be some legal fights
resulting from the matter. One saloon
keeper, Adam Koch, of 800 Cedar ave-
nue., has made an attempt to recover his
money by securing an attachment on
Rays property. The house and lot, at
636 East Sixth street, are worth about
$4,000, but are believed to be heavily
mOrtgaged.
A new story was started yesterday re-
garding the manner of Rays going. Ii
was at first supposed that he had gone
away with his wife. The nelghbors,
however, say that Mrs. Ray and the
children left on the 500 line for a va
cation at least a month ago. Just
before going himself he gave 1t out that
he was going away to bring them home.
Many household articles were. it is said,
sent away with Mrs. Ray. The house
has been denuded. Not a veStige OF
clothing of any value remains. Pictures,
brio -brac and the best of the bedding,
besides all easily movable articles of
furniture have disappeared. These
facts seem to prove that Mrs. Ray was
fully cognizant of her husbands inten-
lions, and that Ray had been planning
to depart for some time, both of which
friends of the family have been inclined
to dispute.