The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-11
HOW WRIGHT.
MADE HIS
ESCAPE
Went to the Coast
Under an
Alias.
WAS DETAINED
IN QUARANTINE
information That lie Meant to Go
TO Tahiti But Started
for Mexico.

! Treasurer William Harrison Wright,
| who was generally supposed to have
!! absconded from Honolulu and gone to
| the coast in the Alameda on her last
trip, was certainly passenger on that
!, vessel. He was a stowaway who ap-
i peared the morning after the vessel had
| left this port He paid SIS for a first
class passage, $65 of which was in gold
and $40 in Hawaiian silver Purser
! Smith giving him the ticket in ex-
/ change 1t bore the name of "W Har-
! rison,' and under this cognomen the
strange passenger was carried to San
Francisco as the occupant of stateroom
| No. z. The ticket not being counter
signed by the United States quarantine
officials here, wv. Harrison" was turn
ed over to the Federal health authori-|
ties at San Francisco and sent into
brief quarantine on Angel Island. Just
what became of him after that no one
seems to have heard up to the time the
Alameda left.
Treasurer Wright had no mustache
and his hair had been c1ose-clipped
when he appeared before the steamers
officers.
Capt. Herman of the Alameda was
asked last evening upon arrival of the
ship in port whether w. H. Wright had
been passenger.
Il can't say whether he was or not"
he replied. "There was a man who was
found the next morning after we left
Honolulu who gave the name of w.
! Harrison, and the purser gave him a
ticket for which he paid SIS. 1 did not
see much of the man afterwards for he
remained most of the time in his room.
Did 1 know Wright? Well, I've met
him here that's all. No, l don't know
whether this w. Harrison was Wright
or not. Even If he was it was none of
my business
| Were you notified by the police to
look out for Treasurer Wright on the
] ship?"
| mo. No instructions were left with
me at. all. 1 know they held the ship
an hour looking for some one
| Purser Smith stated that on the morn
| ing after the Alameda left Honolulu
| his attention was called to the presence
| of stranger in a stateroom.
He was sick said the purser. II
went to him and asked him for ticket.
He said he had none, but offered to
pay for one. He gave me $65 in gold
land $40 in Hawaiian silver. I did not
see much of him afterwards. He kept
much to his room and if he came out
at all it was after dark. He was a very
| sick man. AS his ticket had not been
Icountersigned by the health authorities
| here we had to turn him over to the
| doctor at San Francisco and he was
taken to quarantine. l suppose he
| would remain there couple of days"
MAY BE IN MEXICO.
Has William Harrison Wright fed to
| Mexico?
! Credible information to that effect
was had last night aboard the Alameda.
After being in quarantine at Angel ISL
and three days Wright went to San
Francisco remaining there day and
then took train south" His desti-1
nation was said to be Mexico. He was
advised to go there, but whether the
advice was given on the steamer be-
fore reaching San Francisco, or after
leaving quarantine, is not certain.
Wright had thought of going to Ia
hiti, but was advised not to do so. 1t
there because he would feel more at
home, the Tahitian climate, scenery and
tongue being similar to that of the Ha
waiian. But it was evidently pointed
out to him that by going to a small ISL
and group in the middle of the Pacific
ne would place himself in an embarras-
sing place if he wanted to avoid arrest.
WHO GAVE AID TO WRIGHT?
Sheriff Brown stated last night that
he would endeavor to fix the RESPONSE
bility for any assistance given to Treas
urer Wright to get him away from Ho-
nolulu. He also states that he had not
been instructed to notify the ships Of
ficers when the search was made that
Wright had not been found.
The Alameda's officers say that
Wright's only baggage was a suit case.