The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-22
MAY REPAIR
BENz|NE CARS
R. M. Baker May Still Stay
in Honolulu for
Awhile.

R. NJ. Baker, whose matrimonial and
| financial experiences IN Honolulu have
| connected up with some peculiar inan.
eial transactions which occurred in
San Francisco just before he left there
| on the Alameda less than a month
ago, plans TO remain in Honolulu and
grow up with the country. He in
formed an acquaintance yesterday that
he would probably find employment
with George Wells, the veteran garage
owner.
The check which Mr. Harris endorsed
for Baker on Wednesday for 800,
which was the hundred Baker paid
over to the Young Hotel to meet his
obligation there and the transaction for
which he was arrested, was paid for
Wednesday night. Mr.. Baker was visit
ed by couple of gentlemen who dis
eussed his affairs and it was represent
ed to Mr.. Baker then and there that
before assistance was given him that
he had better redeem the Harris check.
Mr.. Baker said he had 800 but was
disinclined to pay over the amount.
He did, however, and the Harris check
was taken up.
1T is said that Mr.. Baker has es-
tablished his identity as son of C.
W Baker of Chicago, connected with
the Union Stock Yards Company, but
that he and his father have not been
on speaking terms for some years. He
is reported to be an expert chauffeur.
He and his wife, formerly Mrs. Eva
Wallace of San Francisco, are stopping
at the Seaside.
The San Francisco files which arrived
yesterday on the Alameda give more
stories of financial transactions which
Mr.. Baker figured in as a principal.
That portion of the news which tells
of money loaned by J. J. Sullivan of
the San Francisco firm of Calm, Mich
olas Company, is denied by Mr.. Sullivan,
who is guest at the Young. Mr..
Sullivan says that Baker asked him,
just as he was leaving for the Hilo
steamer, to identify him. Mr.. Sullivan
replied that he knew him as Mr.. Baker
and as a passenger on the Ala
| meda--that was all. ssMr. Baker did
not get loan from me at all as re
ported in the San Francisco papers,
said Mr.. Sullivan.
| The San Francisco Globe of May Il
has column story on the Baker cpl
sode. One paragraph says:
/ Baker is the son of G. w. Baker Of
the Chicago Live Stock exchange ii
| Chicago. one of the wealthiest men il
| the stock business in the windy city
/ Long since his father has ceased meet
/ ing the obligations of the young MAI
and the checks which were most re
Gently issued by the interIoper in tn.
Wallaee-Howard proposed marital ven
/ ture are coming back to those in who's
favor they were drawn with the rathe
| discouraging No Funds sign stamp
ed across their face in each case. Ap
| peals to the father in Chicago hay,
brought the repeated reply that thu
elder Baker will not be responsible fo
his son Is acts or transactions and it i
now that the district attorney has beer
| notified of the facts in the matter.
/ The San Francisco Examiner alss
takes an interest in Baker IS escapadei
| and in the course of its article states
| that Baker s father supports the charge
made that the man now here is a biga
mist. The Examiner says in part:
The father of Raymond Baker, wht
| is in Chicago, is authority for the state
ment that his SON has wife in thai
| city from whom he has never been di
vorced.
r. NJ. Baker came to San Francisco
three weeks ago. He represented him
self as an automobile man and sue
! ceeded in passing check for $45 upor
Milton Lands of the Hub Clothing
| Company, to whom he had letter OF
| introduction. The check proved worth
less and when Lands sought Baker a
/ the St. Francis Hotel the man was not
there. The police have been unable
! to locate him.
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