Alleged to be Appealing for Contributions Ju pursuance to a complaint received. by the Central Police Station, Recardo Maria Fernando Dates aged 62, was arrested on February 23 by ' Sub-inspr. A. G, Tilton, It was also ascertained fiom the Portuguese Consulate, when informed of the arrest by the police, that a warrant for the arrest of the man had been issued by the authorities, The complaint was to. the effect that somebody hed been attempting obtain money to enable him 10 go to a certain place to fill a posi ton. In support of his plea for subscriptions, 'a letter of "appeal had and at the bottom of ames of some of "the friends appeared together with the amount. of money Supposed to have paid by them, The complaint, coming from the otices of Btessrs. Mark L. Moody, reminded the officer assigned to the case of a similar complaint received some me ago, Subsequent inquiries resulted n the arrest of the accused, although the latter was alleged to have given some fictitious names and nationalities.
Ti would appear that the accused reading newspapers and is alleged to have gathered names which appeared events stich as a funeral wedding. Some these names would then be put at the bottom of the letter of appeal. This done, he then would approach those, whose names had appeared together in the same event, for contributions, Passengers for Southampton, sailing on Feb, 26 in the s, Gneisenau, included "Mr, and Mrs. F, E, Dobbs, 'Mrs. N. W. Hickling, Mr. and Mrs, J. Moffat, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ogilvie, 'Me. and 'Mrs. M, Reader Harris and 'Miss Reader' Harris, Mr. and Mrs.
Pilbeam and Dr, 8, K. Squires, Other passengers included Dr. and Mrs. J. E, Murray and the Misses Murray, for Rotterdam, Mrs, Newson and Mrs. A. J. Whitamore, for Bremen, may be a refusal by many to accept the books, The reported reason for their disapproval of such books are that it might mean discrimination in the employing of men by the companies, The Copeland BILL is the big marl time Issue on the Pacife Coast at the present time, The specification that eighty per cent. of the crew shall be citizens of the United States and that the remaining twenty per cent, shall have their first naturalization papers hag aroused much antipathy among non-American seamen who are re= ported to be fighting it on the Pacific Coast as they are the Copeland books.
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