The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-10
.NAGCED BY
COLLECTORS
Ignominious Exit
of Wilcox BY
Sea.
SERVED WITH
TWO SUMMONSES
Judgment Likely to Be Taken
Against the Delegate in Con.
sress 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
wharf, and, There must be some mis-
take" he said, when he went below to
stateroom No. 80, and found that 1t
was already occupied by three ladies
/ who, while they were happy to have
I the honor of an introduction to the
great man during the explanations
which followed, did not feel inclined to
give up their berths.
There We're 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.
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 We're not locked.
Finally, when the delegate stepped
aboard, 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. What's 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: I'll
attend to this by and by"
Another officer served papers short
| ly afterwards.
When Wilcox was questioned con-
corning the affair by reporter he ex-
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 bill
for $156 and some odd cents which had
Q. II. Berry, broker, wanted the cash.
He was tired of waiting for it. He
had presented the bill to Wilcox on
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
a history, as above intimated, extend
ing back over eleven years In the
year 1890 Teresa, his present wife.
bought a piano of the Hawaiian News
the instrument, and the rest was
/ charged. Teresa gave a 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 c. II.
| Berry. In 1896 the note was outlawed
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 been doing a great deal
of hustling to present the bill to Will
/ cox often enough to keep 1t fresh in
/ his memory, approached the delegate
( in the vicinity of Alakea and King
streets, asking him for settlement.
/ Wilcox thereupon made speech In
I which he said he would take particular
/ pleasure in breaking a club over the
4 head of the collector.
| The collector, his ire aroused, said
that IL Wilcox made any more such
remarks he would make II so lively for
him that he would be unable to find
gas tanks enough In the country to
hide I'm. About this time a little fell
low In glasses and a Prince Albert
coat toddled up 10 the Idol OF his peo-
pie" and took him away. The collector
walked around the block TO cool on.
one Of the collectors who were look
ing for Wilcox on the Marposa yes
terday had judgment against the
delegate But summOnses and Judg-
ments 10 the contrary, 1twishstand-
ing, the he-leied and smiling wilcox
went his way on the Marlposa 10 the
Coast, saying he would settle by and
hy-in the sweet mahope,