BOXSHALL THE BOUNDER.

NZ Truth, Issue 150, 2 May 1908, Page 5

BOXSHALL THE BOUNDER.

NO HOPE FOR EDWARD HOPE.

The Blasted Impudence of a Revengeful Spirit.

A Christchurch Cricketer's Curious Cipers.

The deplorable conduct of Charles Boxshall, cricketer, and boss of tne Booklovers' Library, Cathedral-Square, Christchurch, is herewith published to the world m warm type, with the charitable hope that it will do him good. Rightly or wrongly, Edward Hope, dentist. Colombostreet, is impregnated with the firm conviction that Boxshall has been engaged m the pleasant process of ruining him i for some time Dast. Boxshall is one of those personages whose financial methods are singular, but who is constantly overreaching himself and never gets ahead of | things. He was employed by Hope as accountant and collector, and during nine . months the sum of £~iß2 passed through his hands, but of that amount, it would appear, only £216 was actually accounted for. At least, that is the statement of an accredited accountant employed by I Hope to go into the matter, but the brilliant Boxshall had many years' experience as an Inspector of an Insurance Company and what he can't do with figures isn't worth mentioning. At anyrate, although Hope didn't have the cash Boxshall professed to show that it was fully accounted for, and as Hope was actually fool enough to allow Boxshall to run a trust account at .the Bank on his behalf, and permitted him to manage the Hope affairs generally, • . j

THE. TANGLE WAS SO HOPELESS that Hope's solicitor advised his client to throw up the sponge and confess iudgtnent, when Boxshall had the unspeakable nerve to come at ~liim with a commission claim for £40 on top of the. above coin manipulation. According to Boxshall's statement, £20 went into Hope's house m on* week for domestic exes. Boxshall ran Hope's affairs into such an awful mess that' the dentist (one 'of the best at his profession m Australasia) was compelled to compound with his creditors, and put up £115 at the. composition meeting, where Boxshall accepted tho terms with other creditors m respect of his miserable £40,- but suddenly produced the names of a lot of unsuspected creditors that Hope had ho knowledge of and swamped the proceedings with their claims. It appears that Boxshall wanted to come into what was an extremely remunerative business, according to, Hope, and piled financial embarrassment on to the devoted gumdigger with that ' Object. Hope wasn^t having some, however, and dumped Boxshall 'out into the cold world. ,MoreoA 7 er, he adyertised m the public press that Boxshall wasn't, authorised to receive moneys on his behalf, and as the announcement appeared simultaneously ,w x ith the visit of the English cricketers, Boxsbalhwr.s wroth, particularly as he was.^nade the subject of.corfimiseration amongst his friends m the' pavilion. He never forgave it, but has been hounding friend Hope down ever since. The nigh£ man earns greater popularity than the debt collector, which was (Boxshall's occupation at this time— collecting, not the other. Now, the Farmers' Co-op., one' of .Hope's creditors, stood out of the composition and promised )not to press him for a consideration that needn't be meotioned nere ; but the brutal Boxshall got the 'Farmers' accounts to collect. Nosing .around one day, he discovered a bill of sale m Hope's name m favor of the Farmers', and entirely on his own responsibility he wont out -to Hope's place while that gentleman's wife was ill m bed and seized almost every stick of furniture m satisfaction of a claim which. the Farmers' had agreed not to press. In fact, tho thing was done without the knowledge of the creditor and m satisfaction of the debt-fiend's private reven c. This is only a small item of the subsequent persecution of Hope, who attributes his Joss of practice m three suburbs to tho unspeakable Boxshall. This peculiar personage still held his wretched £40 claim, over the head of Hope, although the cash' was available to be lifted at the meeting of creditors aforementioned. There appears to 'be no process of compelling a person to. lift money if he doesn't want to be paid. BoxsSall would rather have it owing because it gave him an opportunity to

HARASS THE UNFORTUNATE HOPE by getting hold of his most remunerative patients and serving them with attachment orders (interlocutory) on the cash they might happen to owe the dentist. He did this with three different persons m the three different suburbs mentioned, with the result that people out that way refuse to become Hope's patients, if that experience means the service of an attachment order upon them at the instance of the blood-thirsty Boxshall. At time 'of writing a lady m the city, one of Hope's best patients, ii> looking with indignation upon an attac/ment served on her by the beautiful bully, and if this sort of thing goes on Hope will have no * patients left to attach, which is apparently the consummation ardently" desited by his wretched enemy, who is trying to force the dentist into the Bankruptcy Court £y means of various firms for whom Bozshall ' is the* collecting' imp of Satan. But the most astounding 'part of the villainous drama is to come. Boxshall absolutely refuses to give up Hope's books. George Harper, Hope's expensive solicitor, has written for them and applied for them, but Boxshall apparently told Harper to go to blazes, or words to that effect, for Hope is still minus the books, and although they show £380 or £400 owing to the unfortunate molar artist, that longsuffering individual is unable to collect the wealth because he doesn't kn6w the particulars. The lawyer seems to have ; given: up the books as a bad 'job, although there appears to be a terrible lot about them m his COMPREHENSIVE BILL OF COSTS, and this paper would like to know what he means by it. If a discarded collector got away with- "Truth's" books, and refused to return them on demand, no time would elapse before there was an inter-' view with a policeman. Meantime Hope is materially hampered m what would bo a highly prosperous business if; the beastly Boxshall were not so much in 1 evidence. He spies on his enemy and follows him into places of business to hear all about him, and leads him the life of a dog geuerally/ These remarks are published to go on with and are liable to be added to at any momeut. .