Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-03-08
Story That Has Shocked the
Service Revealed In Init
mate Correspondence.

MAJ ID ID, nay wen hh'"h ~ 49,
oluu from his former residence here
only a few years ago as army pay
master. Is now the center of one Of
the biggest scandals the army has
seen FOR a long time.
For some months past there have
been whispers that Ray was involved
in some ugly charges. and at last the
AFFAIR famed ont in way that has
set the service afire.
Honolulu people have heard within
the past few days that the man
who is responsible for pressing the
charges, the man whose wife Mai.
Raw is declared to have corrupted. Is
also well known here. His name, how
ever, has been suppressed throughout
So far as the public prints are con-
Cerned.
A Washington, d. c.. paper has
gone into the matter with some thor
Oughness, and publishes the following.
including some interesting letters:
Charges concerning the alleged con-
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the army. toward the wife of a former
clerk. made in the form of letter
from the clerk to Paymaster General
Whipple, were read yesterday before
the House committee on eXpendi-
lures In the War Department, which
Is investigating accusations of polti-
cal activity against Mai Ray. Other
letters and orders bearing on the
case. which were not put in the rec
ord last Monday. also were read by
George F. Downey, deputy paymaster
general.
The letter from Mai Rays clerk To
Paymaster General Whipple was writ.
ten from Atlanta. Ca, June %, 1919
and In II the clerk, whose name has
been suppressed. declared that Mai
Ray had corrupted his wife. He nm.
burdened to the general story char.
acterized by him as "sickening." and
applied for n transfer from Mai. Rays
Office.
Graphically describing how hi,
wife, whom he described as little
more than child, had repulsed tn,
advances of Mai. Ray until the latte
continually annoyed and importunet
her, making all sorts of promises an,
threatening that he would ask for
different clerk and make me lose m
position II she did not comply wit
his demands" the clerk wrote I
Gen. Whipple that every time n
looked the major In the face h
wanted to kill him."
Complaint Of the Clerk.
The letter from the paymaster'
clerk. srmbltted as evidence. follows
ATLANTA, Ca. June %. 1910.
my Dear General: Circumstance
have arisen that make It absolutel,
necessary that be relieved from
duty as personal clerk to Mai. u. n
Ray at the earliest possible date.
Before proceeding any further
first desire to impress on you my de
sire for absolute secrecy relative {,
the Information contained herein.
have father SO and mother 10, VIII
celebrate their golden wedding ami
versary In October; also two children
and ! would brave any circumstance
or conditions rather than bring sham
and disgrace upon them.
have loved and honored my wifi
above everything else on earth: hav
trusted her as implicitly as | woul
my mother, and you can readily Sc
to Just what desperation | have bee
driven when write this communica
tion. ] have probably been partly /
blame for what has happened by al
lowing Mrs. to be In Mai Ray
company to the extent that she has
but In extenuation OF that fact, | hav
only TO say that ] trusted her.
Says His Wife Confessed.
within the past few DAYS some
thing, which cannot mention, force
me to the belief that there was some
thing wrong. Last night had an a
night talk with my wife, and she fin
ally confessed to me that she had o
several occasions been intimate wit
Maj. Ray-that from the first fe,
months that ! was assigned to him h
forced his attentions on her, ha
done everything In his power to max
her untrue TO me; but that up to tn
Time of our leaving Honolulu she ha
repealed him, thinking she could eas
lily keep him at distance, and nc
telling me becnuse sha cnnoido,o