The San Francisco call., 1908-04-11
GABRIEL HINES
EvADES SERVICE
OF INJUNCTION
Federal Court Mandate Scares
Slippery Bargain Faker
Into Hiding
Papers Served on Trustee and
"Workingmen's Store"
Is Closed
Dummy Sale of Stock to Wright
Being Probed by Victim-
lied Creditors

Gabr1el Hines has fed into n1dtng
to evade service of federal court in
junction ordering him to close down
Kragens' store. The mandate was
issued at the instaAce of eastern cred
itors, who have brought charges of IT.
regularities in the creditors sale.
With Hines has disappeared also w.
H. Wright, the dummy purchaser of
the defunct department. store. The
fight of Hines and Wright did not,
however, accomplish the purpose of
the slippery pair in their effort to fur
ther mulct the creditors, for the in
junction was served upon Charles r.
Havens, trustee of the committee ap-
pointed by the board OF trade. The
store was Immediately closed down, the
fake bargain sale of shoddy goods
brought to an abortive end and Kra-
gems ''workingmen's store" will work
for workingmen no longer, at least un-
til April Is. when the petition of the
eastern creditors will be heard before
Judge de Haven.
All day yesterday deputy United
States marshals sought Hines and
Wright. Inquiries at the store were
met with the statement that neither
Hines or Wright were there. had been
there or would ever be there so far
as the man in charge of the place
knew. At his house Hines had left
word with his house keeper that he
had left town, the time pf his return
being indefinite. The city was secured
by the deputy marshals. but the sly
quarry. had vanished. Late last night
Hines was seen sinking along Van
Ness avenue. watching his house
where the deputies were waiting, in
an effort to slip in unobserved.
CREDITORS INVESTIGATING
That the board of trade creditors OF
Kragens have been carefully investi-
eating the manner in which Hines
made away with the large amount of
cash he took in before the bankruptcy
and that criminal charges were likely
to be brought against him was stated
yesterday by an attorney who has
been quietly conducting the probe in
dividually for one OF Hines heaviest
creditors. Added Significance was
given this statement in view of a re-
mark made later by Trustee Charles
had not been released by the board of
trade from any of his obligations to
his creditors through the auction sale
of the property and that the board OF
trade was not yet through with Hines
by any means.
This attorney declared that it was
true that Wright had been merely the
dummy purchaser of the stock. He
intimated that the real financiers of
the undertaking were some of the
leading local creditors
BREAKERS AHEAD
I'VE have considerable yet in store
for Hines said this lawyer, "and when
we have carefully sifted the evidence
we are collecting OF what seems TO be
his trickery we shall certainly make
him sweat for it. We allowed Hines to
take the management of the business
because We thought he knew best how
TO manage a sale OF the goods to the
public, but we have bitterly rued this
since the public sale was begun. We
have tied Hines tightly, he can not get
away. and having gained nothing by
the sale he is still where we can put
him through, as We have all along in
tended to do"
Another version of Hines crooked
ness was given by Attorney Bert
Schlesinger, who secured the injunc-
tion for the eastern creditors He also
intimated criminal proceedings. He de-
clared that he believed it would be
proved, when the charges were
aired in court. that the sale to the
dummy Wright had been for Hines and
that Hines had been the sole person to
profit thereby.