Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-06
CHINESE SNIPS;
MAY BE SHORT
G. Tai ehong Has Irregularities
with Theater &c. and Saw
inas Bank

G.. Tai Chong. president of the Con.
sOlidatef Amusement Company. q
clerk in the First American Savings
and Trust Company. heretofores a
trusted employe OF the institution. Is
fheiieved TO lie passenger In the Pa.
seific Mail liner Siberia. enreute 10
Shanghai or Hongkong. il being al.
legged that he Is short in his accounts
with the savings hank in a sum Dor
tdering upon q Thousand dollars.
Chong, who promoted the theatrical
company made up OF local Chinese
who Luilt Ye Liberty theater, Is I'm.
derst0od to be Fastening orienfward,
his ticket having been purchased al
the local agency through q fellow
Icountryman.
When the Siberia sailed for Japan
ports and China. shortly after Eve
O'Clock last Friday evening. one
Chinese who Is known 10 have been
an intimate friend of the former the.
Eatrical man and bank emplcye was
returned to shore in the pilot boat.
According to the story felated by
officials at the First American Saw.
Eings Bank and Trust Company this
morning, the tifst fntimaticn that
anything was wrong with the young
Hawaifan-C Chinese was brought to
light through his absence from the
bank. A telephone message from his
home was received last Friday to the
effect that the clerk was ~ and would
not be down to his desk on that date.
Saturday, inquiry was made from
the bank, eliciting the response from
the home of the young man that
Chong had gone to the other side OF
the island, but would be back ready
for work on Monday morning.
{ When Monday arrived and the EN-
ploye failed to appear, Z. r. Peck. sec
rotary and cashier, notified the police
with q view Of getting q line on the
missing man
Inquiry at the shipping Offices and
| in immigration circles this morning
developed the fact that 1t Is GENERALLY
understood that Chong was the pas.
senger in the Siberia for whom q 10.
cal Chinese purchased sec0nd-class
steamer passage to China port, and
who afterwards left the liner as she
steamed on the port, In the boat con.
tanning the pilot.
NThe Consolidated Amusement com
pany has as far as we have been able
to discover at this moment, lost lit
/ tie through the SUDDEN Disappearance
iof ehong,s so stated ]. a. Magoon
who but recently deiinquished the
management Of the Honolulu Amnse
melt company at the time Of the nier
ger with the newer company.
.Mr. Robert McCreef Is the treas
Iurer and general manager of the Con
/ solidated Amusement company, and
as Euch has, since the consolidation 81
/ the two amusement enterprises, had
the entire management OF the enter
prise as well as the sole handling d
I h receipts. Mr.. McGreer also attends
to the payment Of ell accounts. Chone
i'm his capacity as president of tue
IcompRny affixed his signature to the
| checks.
I'VE propose to so over the books
and accounts now that We have Just
Learned Of Chong's departure, : i'd
mited Mr.. Magoon.
we know of one item of little
less than one hundred dollars which
is missing. and may be chargeable tc
the disappearance of the officer OF the
[company," further stated Mr.. Mago0n
sAs far as any large sum is concern
led, Ian sure that we are not heavily
involved by his leaving the city
&C. T. Chong was a clerk In the
First American Savings and Truss
Company of Hawaii said Cecil
Brown, president of that institution
when asked about the matter this
morning.
He has disappeared. On Friday ere.
ming he left the bank, saying he wish.
ed TO 60 home on account OF the sick
! ness Of his child AS he did not re.
turn on Monday swe made inquiries
of his family, who reported that he
himself had been taken sick.
We are now engaged in q search
for him. His accounts show some #.
regularities and his books are nov
being exported. No, I don't thing he
las got very deep into the bank. He
was mixed up in some theatrical ven.
lures. including the Liberty Theatre
believe.
sChong has been with the bank for
fourteen years--in fact is it's Oldest
epploye. He went into the First Amer.
lean Bank of Hawaii at its start, that
being the predecessors of this institu.
ton"
Three hundred sacks of later ms.v