St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-02
WHERE IS ENOCH RAY?
Anxious Inquiry Being Made
for the Flour City's Lii
cense Inspector.
Rumors Abroad That He Is
Short in His Accounts
Many Thousands.
He Writes Supt. Bracket a
Letter From a Hotel in
Montreal,
Saying That He Is Detained
Out Of Town by His Wife's
Sickness.

ment and reform again, and another
shooting star of the Babb adminiStra-
tion has passed into the oblivion which
is beyond the dividing line be-
tween the United States and
Canada. If appearances count for
anything, Enoch Ray, the license
inspe ctor, has absconded, taking with
him cash paid to him for the
city, in amounts variously estimated at
from $1,000 to $4,000. Yesterday the
report began to be whispered about that
the model inspector was conspicuous by
his absence, and some reportorial prob
ing had the effect of causing Supt. Brack-
EFT last night to summon representatives
of the four morning papers, to whom he
impaired the details so far as they
were known to him of this last scandal
of the Republican administration in the
presence of City Attorney Russell,
Comptroller Calderwood and Treasurer
Modisette, Monday, the 21st," began
Supt. Bracket in a low, sad voice, 81
went to Duluth. The next day (Tues-
day. Ray told some one at headquar-
tiers that he was going
TO ESCORT HIS WIFE
and two children to the depot to take
the 500 train, and would probably ride
with them until he met the first train
coming back, and would return. He
didn't return, however, but the next
| day "wednesday we got the following
telegram from him, dated at Sault Ste.
Marie:
"Have concluded to go through. Wife is
sick. Want five days leave Of absence.
VIII write
"We didn't hear anything more from
him until Monday, when the following
letter, dated at Montreal the Oath and
written Oh the stationery of the Albert
hotel, was received:
MONTREAL, July "a, 199O-To W. M.
Brackitt superintendent of Foiice-Dear
Sir: You will probably be surprised at my
writing from this place. 1t is this way: My
wife concluded TO make a visit East
and home, and 1 intended going a
piece with them. After starting, she
was taken sick as 1 telegraphed to Fred from
Sault Ste. Marie, so, after arriving here she
abep and cannot tell when she can get
awaw. There are some matters
few saIoonkeepers have money deposited
| in thecity treasurer's Office IN tin box.
ca mot tell just their names, but you will
I ma We mislaid the key somewhere,
so you can break it open
when their applications have been
approved by the city council. don't know
being absent without first having obtained
leave, but it is all unexpected on
my part / wish you would let
me know what they will do under
| he present circumstances. would ask for
| cave for the present anyhow until my wife
| cts better so she can continue her journey.
! a GU can answer i'll care of above address.
gerry respectfully, ENoCH RAY
sThis Looked All Straight.
"We reported the matter to the police
commission at the Monday meeting. A
day OF so after that saloonkeeper ap.
peared vino said he had paid Ray $500
down on his license. l went to
the treasurer and got the box.
1t was open, and not locked, as
| Ray had written. In it | found
an envelope with the saloonkeeper's
name on, containing the money all
right. The next day | had an order is
sued notifying saloonkeepers who had
not put up the money for their licenses,
that they must pay by the first of Au-
gust. Then a man turned up who
said he had paid Ray $500
but the money was not in
the box. At least there was no enve-
lope for him. Then l looked for the
list Ray said was in his desk, but
couldn't find it. l telegraphed Ray al
Montreal, but got no reply. Then
telegraphed the Albion hotel people
and they answered that no one answer
ing to his name had stopped with them
Since then
Nine SaloOnkeepers
have appeared who claim they paid Ray
$500 each on their licenses, and one en-
ployment agent, who says he paid Ray
500. This makes $4,000 in all. In the
box there was 81. 400 in currency in en-
velopes and checks for S1.70O more
making So, 100 in all, being amounts
paid by seven Saloonkeepkers, one
employment agent and one peddlel
on their licenses. Of course Ray had
no business to receive money, but il
came to him from small Saloonkeepers
in the suburbs, who, being hard up
could not pay the full $1,000 then, but
deposited part of the amount to show
their good faith"
"Do you think Ray has absconded?'
81 don't say that he has, but it looks
nightly like it,"
allow do you suppose he came to leave
the 81, 400 in cash in the box, which he
might have gotten away with it?"
"Well, he might have acted upon i'm
pulse after he got on the train, but
don't pretend to fathom his motives"
"Ray called at the office the afternoon
he went away put in Treasurer Modi
settle here, and
And Asked for His Box,
which was in the safe. When he was
through with it he handed 1t back anC
hurried away. Mr.. Crosby noticed il
was unlocked, and called our attention
to it. | told him to tell Ray he mus
either keep that box locked after tina
or else put it some where else for safe
keeping"
"Perhaps Ray left the box unlocked
meaning to change that part of its con
tents which had been taken from 1t il
the treasurer'S Office some one sug
geSted.
Perhaps" remarked Mr.. Modisettt
senteniously.
No more details wese given out fol
publication, except expressions of sur
prise at the missing officers conduct
ana llllS surprise VIII Do greater 10 al
who knew him. Ray was to all appear
ances all exemplary officer. He wa.
quiet and gentlemanly in appearance
and had none of the faults tina
are apt to lead men astray wher
exposed to temptations. He belonged
to the Second Congregational church
and otherwise conducted himself in ;
strictly correct manner. So we'll ha
he stood that when an attempt wa
made to GUST Bracket by Commissions
Giertzen and others Rays name wa
the most prominently mentioned as hi
successor. He was appointed temper
arily on the force in 1885 by Mayo
Pillsbury, and is
A PIasterer by Trade.
but had just flushed five years. servic,
in the regular army. He was made al
assistant to Tommy Kelley. the licens'
inspector, and when the Ames admin
istration went out was given his place
Like the lamented Capt. r. R. Harvey
he has succeeded in maintaining a rep
utation for severely moral recti
tude, was a sufficient prOtec
| tiOu from even a SI1Snici0n n