Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
Uncle Sam Seeks Arrest of
Fugitive Bailey,
WHO FLED TO HONDURAS
Wanted on Charge Of Withholding
Merchandise.
NO EXTRACTION TREATY oTHE1
How the Ascending Head Of Export
Shipping Company Carried
Away Ship and Cargo.

As an act of courtesy and comfy. there
being no extradition treaty between the
two countries. the United States govern
ment has asked the Honduran authorities
to arrest and extradite F. G. Bailey. the
president of the Export Shipping Com
panv of New Jersey. who is wanted to
answer charge of secreting and With
holding from the receiver of the COM
pany certain goods and merchandise. Bal
ley is reported to be on the steamer Colds
boro now i'm Honduran waters.
The request to Honduras was made
through Mr. Dodge who is United States
minister to Honduras as we'll as to Saliva
dor. and the dispatch to him was sent
to the capital of the latter place. where
he now is.
Today the State Department made pub
lie an unsigned dispatch from Puerto Cor
tez Honduras. probably sent by the
American consul. giving an account OF
the recent doings of the Goldsboro. the
substance of which has been published.
1t is dated June / and is as follows:
The Goldsboro yesterday registered at
Cortez under the name of Atlantida, nag
OF Honduras. sailed to Tela. Honduras:
cargo apparently complete; registered at
custom house. CorteZ: discharged at TEA;
American aboard Reported charterers.
H. II. Meyers. A. W. Bailey, F. G. Bal
ley
No Doubt About Ship and Cargo.
NEW YORK. June News was re-
ceived from Honduras last night which
leaves no doubt as TO the whereabouts OF
the steamship Goldsboro. her 100000
cargo Of merchandise that is not paid for
and her star passenger. F. G. Bailey the
president of the Export Shipping Com
pany of this city.
The Goldsboro. rechristened the Allan
tida and flying the Honduran nag. is now
making her first trip coast trader In
the employ of the Honduran government.
Her passengers on the sensational Noy-
age from New York were F. G. Bailey.
his brother, A. w. Bailey. and myster-
ious II. H. Meyers, who figures as the
consigner of her costly cargo. to which
scores of American merchants and manu-
facturers, yet unpaid. contributed liber-
ally
Baileys Got Busy Quick.
Reports from Honduras reveal that Mr..
Bailey and his two associates have been
extremely busy. They landed from the
Goldsboro at Puerto Cortez May IL. about
the time that curious New York creditors
of the Export Shipping Company began
Investigations with lawyers and Pinker,on
detectives.
Within forty-eight hours of the arrival
in Honduras the Bailey brothers had
purchased a 2OOO-acre banana farm at
Tela and had paid $4,000 in cash for 1t.
With equal expedition they next disposed
OF the Goldsboro TO the Honduran govern
ment on terms which are not made public.
All that the British consul at Puerto
Cortez could do under his cabled fnforma-
ton that the Goldsboro's British registry
had cancelled To hoard the shin
and lower the British flag.
Change Name at Once.
This he did and as the union jack came
down from the masthead the Honduran
flag went up and the new name OF Allan
tida appeared in fresh white paint on her
black hull
According to latest cable advices. the
Atlantida is now making her first trip
as passenger and freighter along the
HonduTan coast
The vessel is bound from Belize to
Bluefelds. She will stop at Tela and
there unload the cargo gathered from
too-confiding American merchants.
The suppe ttion is that the costly as
sortment of merchandise. including about
everything mechanical from dummy
engine TO a nickel-in-the-slot machine
will be carted to the new banana planta-
ton of the Baileys. there to be distributed
among Honduran cash purchasers.
Edward P. Boise. the New York re-
ceiver of the defunct exporting company,
will at once get busy.
At recent meeting the Manufacturers
Association appointed committee to de-
eide upon q course of action and several
members advocated the equipment of an
= armed vessel to capture the Goldsboro
her cargo and the resourceful Mr.. Bailey
Bailey's Master Coup.
The State Department at Washington
has promised its aid. and Great Britain.
through her consulgeneral here has
intimated that II necessary a warshp
may be dispatched on search for the
vanished Goldsboro. This was before
the HonduraR cables of last night re-
vealed the true state of affairs.
Instead of playing the fugitive on the
high seas, Bailey has openly settled in
Honduras. bought property and converted
banana plantation into a storeyard for
his American merchandise.
He did this with the cash obtained
from New York banks on the drafts OF
the deceived merchants. who had unsus-
pectingly sold goods TO Bailey's mythical
principals In Queensland. Australia.
From the beginning of the investiga-
ton the lawyers have insisted that Bailey
had made every move in his daring VEN
ture under the direction Of astute legal
advisers.
Legal Ruse Protects Him.
While the defrauded creditors were de-
nouncing Bailey as pirate who cut loose
from civilization and civilizations laws.
the legal Investigators predicted condi-
tfons that would make II extremely DIM
cult TO reach and punish him.
This prediction has been fulfilled and
one of the most difficult situations has
been created for the American authorities
and the individual creditors.
Already criminal action has been taken
in this city against Bailey This was
upon complaint OF Robert J. Ball. local
manager OF the Keystone Drilling Com
panv of Beaver Falls. Pa. and on his ap-
pl.cation a warrant for Baileys arrest
was issued.
Recently officials in the United States
customs service and consular officers of
the British government sent out cable
messages seeking To learn the where
ahouts of Bailey. who is wanted to an
swer to charge Of secreting and with
ceiver for the company. goods and mer-
chandise claimed by petitioning creditors
IN an action in Involuntary bankruptcy,
The matter also has come before the
State Department in Washington
The hrst proceedings against Bailey for
criminal prosecution were taken a few
DAYS ago in New York on complaint of
Robert j. Bole. local manager of the
keystone Driller Company of Beaver
Falls. Pa. and on his application city
magistrate issued a warrant for Bailey.
The paper charges grand larceny. Meet
ings of the creditors of the Export Ship
ping Company have been held in New
York. claims against the concern to the
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