St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-07
RAY is HERE.
He Arrives in the City This
Morning Early.

He Arrives in the City This
Morning Early.
Night before last Inspector James
Howard left Montreal with Enoch Ray,
ex-license inspector, in tow, and. barring
accidents, will arrive at the union depot
this morning at Gas. The question now
arises, what will be done with Ray?
After he is landed in Minneapolis some
charge must be made against him, else
he cannot be held. The city cannot
prosecute him, as he did not appropriate
any of the city's funds If he is arrested
at all it will be on warrants sworn out
by the saloonkeepels who iutrusted him
with their license money. 1t is under
stood that several warrants have already
been sworn out for Rays arrest, and they
will he served. or some of them at least,
as soon as he lands in the city. With
him once under arrest, the victimiZed
saloonkeepers will be in position to
treat with him for return of their
money. 1t is extremely probable that
should Ray be willing to turn over the
money to the men to whom it belongs,
they will agree to let him go without
prosecution. That is the most probable
outcome of the affair. The saloon
keepers who had paid money to him
belong to the poorer class, who
lump. and they ale not likely to insti-
tute a prosecution which would avail
them nothing, and might cost them
something. Even admitting the prop
osition that Ray had lost some of
this money in speculation. it is be-
lieyed that he made enough out of the
blind pigs to enable him to square"
the saloonkeepers and still have money
left. AS for the possibility of Ray be-
ing prosecuted by the city, his case is
analogous to that once begun against
Tommy Kelly, which was dismiss
ed, Kelly not having been
authorized to collect money for the
city, and being, therefore, incapable of
stealing that money from the city. So
with Ray. He did not take the city's
money. There is also good deal of
doubt as to the ability of the saloon
keepers to secure his conviction. His
running off with the money which they
had paid into his hands was merely a
breach of trust. They gave him the
money to keep for them until they could
make up the full $1,000. 1t will be a
most interesting case. Rays pecula-
tionS amount now to something like
S, 1000.
The eX-license inspector still has a
good many friends who swear by his in
nocence. They don't believe that he
meant to steal the money. and, as
ground for their belief, cite the fact
that he left his property unencumbered,
when he could have put big mortgage
upon it; that he left considerable
amount of monty in the treasurer's
office which he could easily have taken,
and that he is SO willing to
come back as to waive extradition
proceedings. They are firm in the be-
lief that he will clear his name of the
faint of suspicion even. Then, on the
contrary. there are those who believe
Ray guilty, but who unhesitatingly pro-
nounce him colossal chump into oming
back without making fight. The only
way his willingness to return can be
explained to their minds is that he lost
his nerve as soon as he clapped his OPP
tics upon Jim Towards familiar feat
ures. Judge Emery processes 10 have
looked into the law very closely since
Rays departure, and to have found
that Ray could not be eXtradited on the
charge of embezzlement. Much less
could he have been brought back when
lis not at all certain that he embeZZled.
But he seems to have ''caved" and
that's all there was to it. What will be
done with him remains to be seen.