The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-07
Becky Panee Butted Into Law Office
of Her Former Guardian
During Conference.
Says She Saw Mr. and Mrs Wright, on the Fatal
Day, in Consultation With the Lawyer Who
Remembers Nothing About 1t.

Evidence continues to multiply rapid
ly and forcibly that the absconding Ter
ritorial Treasurer, William H. Wright,
was in the office of J, Alfred Magoon
but short time before the Alameda
sailed on September oath. Mrs Rebecca
COON, paid a visit to his office upon
the fateful morning upon urgent bust
ness She went to the door of Magoon S
private office and called the attorney
t out Within she says she saw MI w.
! H. Wright, Mrs. w. H. Wright, Mr.. j.
A. Magoon, Mr.. j. Lightfoot and Miss
Mary Low clerk in the attorneys Of
ifce. Becky Panee says further that she
! saw Wright leave Magoon's office alone,
| to be followed in few minutes by Mrs.
Wright and Mr.. Magoon, and she is
positive in all her statements.
Il went to Mr.. Magoons office on the
J day Willie Wright skipped" said Mrs.
| Panee to an Advertiser reporter yes
terday afternoon at her home on Mill
| lani street near Queen. Il went there
to see him about a letter which J. w.
! Lake brought to me and which, he said,
Mr.. Magoon had given him for me,
First 1 went to see Mr.. Kenake at the
postofffce and asked how Lake got my
letter, and he told me to see Mr. Ma
goon. 1t was between ten and eleven
o'clock in the morning on Friday that l
went to see Mr.. Magoon, The door to
his private office was partly open as if
someone had just come out, and 1 went
right up. 1 could see Mr.. Magoon, Will
| lie Wright on the side towards the win
dow, Mary Low was sitting near Ma
goon and Mrs Wright was further in.
/ Mr.. Lightfoot was right back of Willie
| Wright. 1 came right up to the door
which was partly open and all of them
were standing then, and called out to
Mr.. Magoon, I would like to speak to
you a minute He came right out and
I asked him Did you give my letter to
! asked What right have you got to give
my mail to that man. He asked
| Didn't you get it,? ! told him yes, and
! he said it was all right then. I told hin
that it was an insult to me to give the
letter to a strange man like that. He
didn't answer and shut the door then
AS l was going down the hall on my
way out, Cabby Brown called me in and
I went into his room. / sat there a
while talking over lots of things, my
{ case in court, and all that, and sal
/ way and everyone going down. Pretty
soon Willie Wright went past and a
few minutes later came Mr. Magoor
and Mrs. Wright was with him. Mrs
Wright was walking with her heao
, bowed down as if she felt bad, for she
always walked with her head well uI
| in the air. and I remarked, I wonder
what's the matter with Mrs, Wright
Cabby Brown never said anything in
Ireply and then Mr.. Magoon came VI
again. but I never saw him after that
II didn't think anything about it, until
1 saw in the paper that Willie Wright
/ had skipped out, and then about Mrs
Wright saying she had not seen him
since morning, for knew that was a
lie.
Il know Willie Wright was with Ma
COON on that morning between ten and
eleven o'clock and my hackman. Boz
Levi. will say the same thing, for he
was down at the foot of the stairs
waiting for me.
The letter which caused Mrs. Hume
ku to call upon Magoon was from the
States and addressed to Miss Beckie
Bishop, Honolulu, H. T.. Col. j. W
Lake sent it to Mrs. Humeku with a