The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-16
WILL LOSE HIS FORTUNE.
ENnEzzLER LEOPOLD UNABLE TO
EyADE JAPANESE LAW.
Conveying Steien Property 4" His
wife VIII Probably Avail Moth
fng-steeraxe Passengers Have .

yokohaxsa's sensational e-n5ezzler. a
young Engisshran named Leopold. u quite
likely 10 Lose the n. q. yen that he So
cured from Earle & Co. accorss'ng 70 ai-
vices brought by the Nippon Ynsen hai-
saa sesaae- Yanaasszchf Aaru. He turned
everything over 20 Ms japanese wsfe. who
invested IL az his suggestion in japanese
property. Now the japanese government.
IL Is sid. has s!gntfed It's intention Of de-
priving her Of the property Oh the ground
that Il was purchased with stolen money.
The story OF the downfall Of Yokohama =
social lion and als escape from arrest o1-
ing TO peculiar consular avs and the
clever manner in which the thef<s were
carried out. was brought 70 Seattle or tire
kinshsu Mara arriving about the middle
Of June. At that time il was believed
mat Leopold had disposed Of the money
for him to Keep IL. as well as escape ar
rest He would have gotten out of the
country had he not been stricken with
serious Illness just as he was about to
leave. While in the hospital lis defa--
cations were discovered
Il rests entirely with the japanese gov
e-nment whather or not Leopold's Japa-
nese wife Is compelled TO give up the prop
erty. X IL said that Earle Il Co. have
been able 70 prove that The property now
held II her name was purchased, Tor the
gscst part. with money stolen from them.
The officers Of the Yamaguchi Maru IN
derssood before leaving Yokohama that
the authorities were going 10 institute pro-
ceedtngs against Mrs. Leopold.
The Storage passengers OF the Yama-
gachi Yesterday looked as IL they had
been sleeping in the clothes they wore
from the time they left the Orient There
were a number OF discharged sailors and
five or SIX Japanese em;grants. Their
clothes were wrfnklsd and creased In
thousand different places and directions.
IL was simply case Of fan1igation at the
Diamond Head quarantine station as the
government employees carry our their in
stractions- The clothes were not az bad
~ damaged as their SHOES. Several Of the
latter were 50 badly roasted IS to be prac-
ticaIiy useless THE leather cracked al
most rs badly as the hanneis wrsr.kIed.
The matter caused much complaint
among ils pass4DgeES II seems that the
clothes and baggage are put into big
iron tank az Diamond Head which. when
closed up. Is alright. Then steam is
turned On Tor an interval and the Storage
STUFF given thorough fumigattng 10 the
death Of al germs bns much 10 the dam
age OF the things fumzgated
The Yamaguchi's cargo was not a par
ncularly large or vaIaa bic one. 1t weighs
about 2.1D tons. 1t consisted chiefly Of
tea. and the government will derive con-
siderable war revenue when the heavy duty
on II IS paid. Besides the tea cargo, there
was considerable rice. mating and . num-
Der Of bales Of japanese curios.
The work OF unloading commenced early
yesterday morning. and was continued with
vsgor during the day. As there was no
cargo IN the forward hold. a second crew
OF longsaoremen began loading early IN
the day Several hundred bales Of crushed
shrimp shells were loaded during the day