The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-20
COMING TO
HONOLULU
.Absconder From
Utah on the
Way.
BROKE STRONG
BOX OF LODGE
Took Funds OF Brotherhood and
Borrowed" From Young
Lady Secretary.

e J. Jordan, erstwhIle organizer for
the Fraternal Brotherhood in Utah, Is
said to be heading this way to escape
meeting with his former friends whom
he Is alleged to have swindled for Il
small amount of money-not more than
SIS. The Salt Lake Tribune Of jan
uary T. prints a long story of Jordan'S
connection with the order, and the
chief organizer, concluding with the
statement, as follows, that he intend
ed corning to Honolulu to begin life
anew:
Friday night Jordan paid a number
of his friends farewell visits. saying he
was going to Honolulu. He related to
one friend that a misunderstanding
which he had the night before with
young lady whom he intended to
whom he intended marrying, was the
cause of his leave-taking. He said he
had made efforts to effect a reconcil-
liation, as the misunderstanding was
all on his own part, but, so he claim
ed, his flancee refused to accept his
explanations, and on that account he
meant to leave the country.
Lie ndl0ie VI Lie ttCociS
and begged the friend to explain to the
young lady after he had left that their
differences were entirely the result Of
a misunderstanding. He said he would
leave the next day without fail, and
he has not been seen by his friends
here since"
The case Of Jordan, who Is young
man. a native of England, and first
sergeant of Company B. National
Guard of Utah. seems to have been
that of man without means for court
ing a young lady of whom he was very
fond, and supplying himself with funds
at other peoples expense. The be-
havior that led to an investigation by
the lodge he represented in Salt Lake
City. was in connection with the for
nation of a branch at Bountiful. Utah,
a short distance from Salt Lake. He
was employed as solicitor on com
mission by w. S. Montgomery. general
organizer for the brotherhood, and IS
alleged not only to have secured $42
from Mr.. Montgomery. but $12.95 be-
longing to the Bountiful lodge, and
borrowed 81 from the young lady sec
rotary thereof. The secretary made
good the missing funds In order to
protect her bondsmen. The young lady
had given the strong box of the new
ly organized lodge to Jordan. and this
news was conveyed to Montgomery
when he asked for the dues Of the
Bountiful lodge. Montgomery saw
Jordan the same day, and the latter
told him the box was at his boarding
place in Bountiful. with the money in
1t. Montgomery went to Bountiful.
found the box, broke it open, and found
1t empty He returned to Salt Lake,
met Jordan, and gave him until
o'clock the next day to produce the
cash. That was the last the. general
organizer saw of Jordan, although he
heard that Jordan had hidden friends
goodbye, saying that be was going to
San Francisco.
Jordan was paying ardent attention
to the young lady secretary Of the
Bountiful lodge. Her mother did not
like him. and when she learned that
the lodge box was indirectly connected
with his business she took 1t over to
the hotel and left 1t for him. Later
the young lady's parents went home
to Idaho. after giving her some money
to follow them after the holidays. Jor-
dan persuaded her to give him the
money to place In the lodge box for
security" She came into Salt Lake
for the purpose Of marrying Jordan,
and waited In vain for him to put In
an appearance at Montgcmery's Of
Zee. When she learned Of the loss OF
the lodge money she promptly advanc-
ed the money herself. with the e1cep-
ton Of SIS cents, which will be the only
loss to the lodge.
There is also a bill of $12 for board
standing against the name Of Jordan
at Bountiful and bicycle he left
there Is claimed by both the landlady
of the hotel and a man In Salt Lake
who says II was borrowed from him.