The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-31
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ROBBED AND
RAN AWAY
Vivian Smith Left on
the Gaelic.
TOOK EMMELUTH'S CASH
Marsh Authorized to Bring Him Back.
The Marshal Silent in
the Matter.

Among the passengers who went away
from Honolulu by the last Gaelic was a
young, well dressed, well appearing
young man who had hardly attained his
majority. He had but little baggage and
did not go aboard the vessel. which Law
at the Pacific Mail dock, until it was
nearly time for her to cast loose and get
away for San Francisco
| The young man was in a nervous frame
| OF mind and constantly kept his eve on
the gangway, watching each person who
| followed him aboard, with evident excite
ment. His actions were peculiar enough
to excite the suspicion of a detective of
the Police Department who was watching
| the Gaelics departure. The officer smeIt
rat, although he knew of nothing nor
could learn from people on the spot of
anything wrong with the young fellow
! he had his passport and his ticket all
| right and there was no one on hand to
make any complaint or object 10 his GO
| ing away.
Not until the Gaelic had left the dock
on her voyage to the Coast did the mys-
FERROUS youth cease his strange behavior
he police officer who had noted his agi-
taton and general embarrassment re-
ported the matter to police headquarters,
| his information proving of value later on
| Vivian Smith was the young mans
name and he was formerly employed by
j. Emmeluth & Co. as a collector He
left on the Gaelic for good and sufficient
reasons, and he is wanted and wanted
! very badly by his former employers at
this moment.
| Smith took with him something between
| $l,5G0 and $1,000 belonging to r,mmeluth
| q Co., money which he had collected
! from time to time and which he had neg
| lected to account for.
| On the night of MS departure for the
| Coast Mr.. Emmeuth was informed or
| the event by the Advertiser and he was a
/ thQ
/ mist he had heard of the affair.
! Smiths case is the same old story of a
! thousand others. he was trusted by his
employers and took advantage of the
/ confidence placed in his honor. When he
! hrst used money belonging to the firm he
! had no idea of stealing it; he simply
! meant to borrow it for a little while, in
! tending to repay it soon. but he was al
! ways short III cash and he needed con-
siderable money to live in the way he
wanted to. He had a host of female
! friends and the continued friendship of
/ the class of women referred to necess-
/ tated the spending of money. Bad women
were not his only troubles. He would &C.
casionally become respondent and con-
! science-stricken at the thought of the
/ money, adding up from day to day, which
/ he had borrowed and which, as he
was coming to realize, he could never
make good. To- help HIM to forget these
! things, he would drink and drink cost
| hIm more money.
| AS his secret debt became larger and
| larger Smith became more and more des-
perate. Perhaps he could make up the
dehclt by gambling, he thought, and so
| he gambled. He Played poker with some
friends" only to throw more good money
away.
| Then he tried his hand at Craps he
| tempted fortune with the dice but it was
| seldom when the bones fell to suit him.
and sometimes he would lose as much as
twenty five and fifty dollars at a throw.
| At last Vivian Smith made up his mind
that the only thing for him to do was 10
get out OF the country. He evidently
planned the affair several weeks before
he left and weighed the chances ana
prospects one way and the other before
taking any final action.
His idea, as nearly can be learned
was to collect as much money for the
firm during the last week of his stay here
as possible and with the greater portion
of this, as we'll as all he could borrow,
to get away on the Gaelic unobserved.
That he carried out this idea almost to
the letter has been proved.
About week before his departure,
Smith announced to his friends that he
thought of attending the Worlds Fair at
month or two, see his father, who is at
present in San Francisco, and then go on
to Paris. He was not taken seriously in
this statement, however.
The young embeZZler was getting about
Sl5 a week as collector. Monday is pay
day with that firm and Smith was sup
posed to get as much money as possible
ready for that day. Collections were gen.
orally pretty good and Smith always man.
aged to turn in enough cash to avoid any
suspicion on the part of his employers.
He succeeded in raising a neat little sum
among his friends before skipping, by Dor
rowing ten or fifteen dollars here and
there.
" hen the Hongkong Maru left for San
francisco the other day a merchant who
knows Smith was passenger. He goes
to the Coast to bring back the absconder.
II Is known just where hands can be
laid upon him, and the merchant ex-
poets to be successful in his mission. He
goes with the authority of Marshal
Brown.
After securing the above facts, the Ad-
Vertiser reporter saw Mr.. Emmeluth
do you expect to find Smith and have
him punished?" was asked.
Il intend to do my best" replied Em-
meluth. We know where the man is
and think We can secure him.
Has Marshal Brown the case in
charger"
Yes, he authorized a man to arrest
Smith, but l won't have anything to saw
IN the matter, for if the thief gets to
know that we are his track he will
give the Slip
lnasmuch as the merchant went on the
Hongkong Maru and this article cannot
get to Smith for several days after he
has reached the Coast, it is not likely
to obstruct the proposed capture