The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-09
'NAGGED By
COLLECTORS
|lgnomiinious Exit
of Wilcox By
Sea.
SERVED WITH
TWO SUNNI NSES
Judgment Likely to Be Taken
Against the Delegate in Con.
gress by Default.

Delegate Robert W. Wilcox be-leied
and surrounded by friends, got away
for San Francisco yesterday afternoon
on the steamship Mariposa, and this
despite some men with bills.
He did not get his ticket until about
an hour before the vessel left the
take" he said, when he went below to
stateroom No. 80, and found that It
was already occupied by three ladies
who, while they We're happy to have
the honor of an introduction to the
great man during the explanations
which followed, did not feel inclined to
give up their berths.
There were many people on the
steamer long before Wilcox put his
foot over the gangway who were anx-
ious to see him. Among them were
gentlemen with little accounts which
they wanted him to settle. a couple OF
these people were accompanied by po-
lice officers who held in their hands
papers which they were to serve. Is
A thorough search of the vessel was
made before Wilcox went aboard.
Creditors heard that he was already
on deck, and that he was slowing away
somewhere.
The saloon and the steerage were
both examined. and the officers poked
their noses into every cabin that gave
any signs of being inhabited, and
which were not locked.
Finally, when the delegate stepped
aboard, a police officer was on hand,
and handed him summons as he
stepped clear of the gangway. Wilcox
was at the time accompanied by sew
eral prominent citizens with whom he
was engaged in conversation. He
looked at the summons without touch
ing it, whats this?" he said.
Take hold of it with your hands,
said the officer. Wilcox thereupon
placed the papers in his pocket and
proceeded below, followed by his
friends and the officer, saying: "Pll
attend to this by and by"
Another officer served papers short
Iy afterwards.
When Wilcox was questioned con-
corning the affair by a reporter he ex-
planned, with a merry jest, that it was
a trifling matter Of few dollars,
which he would settle when he re-
turned from the States.
1t seems that the first summons
served on the delegate was about a bill
for $156 and some odd cents which had
been running for the last eleven years
O. H. Berry, broker, wanted the cash
He was tired of waiting for it. He
many different occasions, but had al
ways failed to get anything. Finally
Wilcox gave Berry a promissory note
on demand, for the amount. This, how
ever, was no easier to collect than the
bill
Berry decided to sue. Hence the
summons.
Wilcox, having gone to the Coast,
will be unable to appear before the
court Judgment will probably be OBJ
tanned through default.
Perhaps Wilcox will pay when he re-
turns from Washington. Perhaps he
won't.
The bill for s156 against Wilcox has
history, as above intimated, extend
ing back over eleven years. In the
year 1890 Teresa, his present wife,
bought piano of the Hawaiian News
the instrument, and the rest was
charged. Teresa gave note for what
was DUE and Wilcox endorsed. Years
passed, as the books say, and the Ha-
waiian News Company, unable to col
lect, turned the note over to Q. H.
and Berry got it renewed. Ever since
then he has been trying to collect.
Lately he had the note again renewed.
On Tuesday, Fullerton, Berry's part
ner, who has beer doing a great deal
| of hustling to present the bill to Will
his memory approached the delegate
in the vicinity of Alakea and King
streets, asking him for settlement.
| Wilcox thereupon made speech in
which he said he would take particular
pleasure in breaking a club over the
head of the collector.
The collector, his ire aroused, said
that if Wilcox made any more such
remarks he would make it so lively for
him that he would be unable to find
gas tanks enough in the country to
hide in. About this time little fell
low in glasses and a Prince Albert
coat toddled up to the idol of his peo-
pie" and took him away. The collector
walked around the block to cool off.
One of the collectors who were look
| ing for Wilcox on the Mariposa yes
terday, had a judgment against the
delegate. But summonses and judg-
ments to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing, the be-leied and smiling Wilcox
went his way on the Mariposa to the
Coast, saying he would settle by and
| by-in the sweet mahope.