The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-03-13
WRAy TAYLOR
WANTED
(From Thursdays daiiy.)

a special representative of the police
department left in the Alameda yes
terday to find and bring back to Homo
lulu Wray Taylor, formerly Commits
sioner of Agriculture and Forestry
Secretary of the Board of immigration
and incumbent of other positions OF
trust and influence in the Kingdom
Republic and Territory. The warrant
for his arrest charges him with the en-
bezzlement of $3.50.
For more than two weeks the ex-
animation of the accounts of Taylor
has been going on, the work being done
under the greatest difficulties. owing to
the absence or illness of so many of
the force of the Auditors office, and the
involved condition of the accounts of
finally located in the Chinese fund
which has once before furnished the
cause for flight, and consists of the
amount drawn from the First National
Bank on one check. The clue was fur
nished by the stub, and investigation
OF the affair seems to leave no ground
for belief that the money, or any part
OF it, was used for the purpose for
which ostensibly it was drawn.
The whereabouts of Taylor at the
present time are in question. He left
San Francisco some ten days or two
weeks ago, and though the Chief of
Police Of San Francisco was able to To-
cate him once. in the East, the trail
was lost and now 1t is question
whether or not he Will be easily found
and returned to answer to the COM
plant, which has ueen sworn out
against him. 1t Is rumored that he was
located in New York, though on that
point the police officials are quiet, pre-
ferring to keep dark his last known
address until there has been some def
mite news as to his capture or his relo-
cation. The police of San Francisco are
hard at work, using their connections
in the East to assist the department
here and it seems certain that If Tay-
Tor can be traced he will be found, even
if he tries to put another ocean be-
tween him and the court before which
he is to appear.
The taking of the sum of money with
which Taylor is charged was accom-
plished by reason of the system of car
rying on the business of returning the
Chinese. who under the ola system
deposited a portion of their savings in
the Postal Bank, to pay their return
passages. When the organic Act oiu
away with the Board of immigration,
its business was still carried on and
the hundreds or thousands of accounts
with Chinese, were kept intact, the
money being drawn from the amount
provided for the payment OF Savings
Bank deposits, and placed in the Ma
tional Depository to the credit OF the
Board of immigration. 1t was from
this sum that the money used by the
during the shortage in the
Treasury was drawn, and something
more than $4,000 was left in the Bank.
From this money was checked out by
Wray Taylor whenever there were
number of Chinese to be returned. ON
the check book stub the names of the
and the amounts drawn
were noted, so that in connection with
the list of the deposits this furnished
a complete check against duplicate pay
ments, though there was no system
under which the accounts of each chi
nese were kept and closed on his de-
parture.
Inc checks We're " NC va
rect up to December "a 1902, when the
stub showed only the number of the
check and the amount. The check was
found and is as follows:
No. SO.
Honolulu, Hawaii, December a. l902.
First Nantional Bank of Hawaii, at
Honolulu: pay to self or order, eight
hundred and fifty (sS50) dollars. Sign
ID, Board of immigration, per (signed)
Nray Taylor, Secretary.
Or the face of the check was endors-
"a Nippon Maru," as well as the
,ank's stamp showing the check was
,aid on the day it was drawn. The
,ack of the check bore the endorsement
# Wray Taylor. Investigation seemed
O show that nothing in the ordinary
curse of the office had been done with
he money, and there were no entries
anywhere which would show that the
ash lad been used for specific passage
payments.
Immediately the search for Taylor
egan. The police of San Francisco
ouk it up and located the man in the
last. He was ordered arrested but the
Message went on too late, and conse-
uently the police here are still in doubt
ne has Deen 1Ounu. Inc oTuerS "eie
UGH. however, that If he is located he
iii at once be taken and held to await
xtradtion. AS coon as the shortage {
ras located Colonel Fisher, the Auditor,
'ent before Judge De Bolt and swore
D complaint, of which the following
the substance: ,
That one Wray Taylor. being Com ,
Missioner of Agriculture and Forestry,
I the Territory of Hawaii, and being {
istudian of certain moneys which the I
holds as trustee for vari-
US Chinese immigrants, and known as a
lie Chinese immigration fund, intrust- 4
! by said government with the care, \
Istody and control of said moneys, r
i'd, on the Gath day of December, 1902, 2
Ike certain moneys from said fund. a
! wit: the sum of $780, which the gov
of the Territory of Hawaii
I'D as trustee. and did then and there
feloniously, and fraudulenty =
,nvert the said money to his own use
"a hapnht - ="