THE MISSING BANKRUPT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 119, 11 May 1908, Page 2

THE MISSING BANKRUPT.

WAUHAXT FOR ELLIOTT'S ARREST.

Per J'rnss Association. Wellington, Niihirdi'.y. A win-rant for the arrest of ,\." (!. Elliott, tlie missing Wellington I auk • rupt, has been taken out by a. J. Wicks, a eralj/or, for £l2 ir have been collected by Jiiliolt 011 Wicks' account and converted to Vs own use. Action, however, will noi be taken by tile police unless Wic;.- .11 some oilier creditor guarantees Hio expenses, and so far this has not bei.-n done. At the request of the Jf ,• Zealand police, the Sydney authorities, are making inquiries as to the P i-j„'.n whereabouts of Elliott. Elliott kkivuxs to .new ZEALAND. 'iIVKS HIMSELF L'l' TO THE POLICE. Auckland, Last .Night. Albert Clarence Elliott, the bankrupt land and estate agent, of Wellington, walked 111L0 the police station this morning and gave himself up to the police. He arrived from Sydney bv the -Moana to-day, Wellington, Last .Night. Tile police are advised that Elliott intended to come on to Wellington, but he ran short ol funds. He will be formally charged with theft, at Auckland tomorrow morning and remanded to Wellington.

A passenger wjio travelled to Sydney recently by the Maheno 6 tates that several Wellington people recognised the missing bankrupt Elliott (who was travelling by that steamer as a. steerage passenger) when he "was attending the church service held on .board. Two ot thorfo on board, who knew the circumstances of Elliott's bankruptcy, made a wager as to whether lie would* be apprehended by the police on arrival at Sydney, and much interest centred in the arrival on that account. It is not unusual for police officers to be about the wharves on the arrival of passenger .steamers, and there happened to be two 011 the Union Company's wharf when the Muheuo was berthed. Elliott, with* out any luggage, went down the gang-; way, the cynosure of many eyes, bumped accidentally into one of the officers of the law, Iregged his pardon, and, waving his hand to several of his fellow-' passenger* on the steerage eud of the vessel, went oil' the whai'l. Later iu the day he is known to h'ave met a theatrical manager well known in New Zealand. whom he asked to back his application for a clerkship iu the Post and, Telegraph Department. The manager acceded to the request, tout it is understood that Elliott failed to avail himself of the favor.—Dominion.