El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29
Z. B. CLARDY
RETURNS
From a Flying Trip to Homo
lulu
ACCOMPLISHES HIS END

a. Monroe Who Left Ell Paso Last
April Owing Thousands of Dollars-The
Creditors VIII Receive Almost the Full
Amount of Their Claims.
Zeno B. Clardy, prominent lawyer
in this city, has just returned from q
most Interesting trip to Honolulu.
where he went in the interests of GER
tain creditors of E. A. Monroe, who for
eight Or ten years kept q general
merchandise store ON Ell Paso street
be.nw me opera house.
Mr.. CIsrdy met with great success
and recovered nearly the full
amount of the claims of MOnrOe's cre-
ditors.
Mr.. Clardy in speaking of the man
ner In which he discovered Monroe
whereabouts said:
"On the 10th of last April Monroe
left the city for parts unknown, and
o ebts amounting to over four thousand
dollars owing to creditors from all
parts of the United States from whom
he had bought goods.
81 received $4,000 of these claims
from the creditors and set to work to
locate Monroe.
upon receiving the claims soon
learned that two months before he
left the United States he had rented
several rooms below his store
to which he would carry goods and place
them in trunks which had been crat-
ed. He employed different express
men to haul the goods aud had the
goods consigned In their names TO W.
D. Earl, of San Francisco.
1.-The last shipment was made on the
eie hteenth of April two days prior to
his departure.
upon learning this 1 employed
parties in San Francisco, and sent de-
scription of the man to whom the
goods had been delivered, and learned
that man answering Earl's
description had represented himself
to be w. D. Earl, also learned from
the expressman who had hauled the
goods from the railroad depot to the
thirty-six cases had been consigned to
w. D. Earl.
SIN San Francisco I associated with
me Jellett and Meyerstein, leading
firm of lawyers, and they obtained the
information from Honolulu, that a man
answering Monroe's description was
doing business there under the name
of w. D. Earl.
81 left Ell Paso on the twenty-fifth
of July for San Francisco and had an
interview with the man who bad haul
ed the goods. Earl represented to him
that he had been In business in Ell
Paso, and was shipping the goods to
his sister in Honolulu.
O"Belleving had located .sthe man,
1T the instance of creditors l left for
Honolulu on the 5th of August and ar
rived there on the night of she |
eleventh.
"After going to my hotel 1 walked |
around to the Orpheum block where |
Earl was said to be doing business, and |
passing on the opposite side of the
ttreet recognized him standing near
che doorvav
Next morning I employed photo
grapher and took his picture, anticipat-
Ing that he might deny his identity.
Next day being the anniversary of
she American flag and nothing could
be done, remained on one side of town
while he was on another.
son Monday afternoon with as
sistance of Castro and Weaver, a firm
of lawyers there, 1 secured writ o.
attachment against Monroe's stock of
goods. In the evening I went with
the deputy marshal to make
the levy and on arriving at the
store 1 spoke to him and said I was
glad to see him, whereupon he said Il
don't know you SIR 1 told him he had
known me for eight or ten years in Ell
Paso and he looked sstonished and
asked where Ell Paso was.
He told the marshal TO make the
levy, which he promptly did and
secured one hundred and sixty seven
dollars in cashland took possession OF
the store.
Gail efforts to get Monroe to admit
his identity failed. L c,used his arrest
under the laws of Hawaii, as fraudu-
lent debtor. After being in Jail
the advice of his lawyer,
to turn over all his goods at
cost price in settlement of the debt
and expenses. We then took an in
ventory of stock, which amounted in
Guiding the cost to $4,000.
''After. the inventory of the stock was
taken, Monroe made bill of sale to
the creditors and confessed judgment,
which was entered and Monroe re-
leased.
1.-THE goods were turned over to a
mercantile firm to be disposed of and 1
sailed for home on the night of the
eighteenth for Frisco and arrived
there on the 25th and made my repor9
to the creditors.
"Monroe sent his regards to all his
friends and says he will be back within |
six months to engage in business again. |
'While in Honolulu I met Mr.. and |
Mrs. offlsy who formerly resided here.
Mr.. Offiey is engaged with Col. |
Ruhlen, who is favOrably known here,
on some government work on the |
island.
"Mr. and Mrs. Offley wished me to
express their kindest regards to all |
their friends in Ell Paso and hoped that |
some day they might return and make |
their home here.
"Honolulu is city of beautiful |
homes with population of over 80, 900. |
1t strikes anyone as being an Amer
lean town, and the American and En-
glish residents number over five thou
sand.
1.-The principal industry is the rails