The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-17
A STRANGE TALE.
A RECENT VISITOR HAS A
RECORD.
She is Accused of Forging the
Name of a millionaire for
Large Amount,

The Monowai arrived from the
Colonies on the Goth of last Aug
ust and among the passengers for
this port was woman who APP
peared in great distress. She had
a ticket for San Francisco but pre-
ferred to end her journey here.
She had a scant wardrobe but was
evidently well supplied with money
and her reckless disregard for the
same excited no little comment and
wonder among the people with
whom she came in contact.
She went to the Hawaiian Hotel
and registered under what subse-
quently proved to be an assumed
name, and she was not under the
roofof that hostelry but little while
before the attaches discovered that
she was possessed of an inordinate
appetite for alcoholic stimulants,
which at times caused her to act as
though she was demented. She
carried on In such a manner and to
such an extent that Hamilton John
son, the then manager of the
Hotel, looked about for some plan
to rid himself of his unwelcome
guest, but the problem solved itself
on the following day when the
Mariposa arrived from San Fran
cisco en- route to the Colonies, The
strange woman, who was still I'M
der the influence of liquor, kept
repeating desire to return to
Sydney.
A rebate was allowed for. the I'M
used ticket to San Francisco, and
with what money was left from her
debauch, ticket to the Colonies
was purchased and the woman was
sent on her way.
THE STRANGE STORY.
The Samoan Weekly Herald con-
tains long story about the same
woman, and if it is true she has
had remarkable experience.
1t appears that her proper name
was Mrs. Clara Amy Parker, and
she was the wife of a respectable
engineer of Melbourne.
The wife formed a laiason with
millionaire of the same city
by the name of Joseph Clarke.
During their intimacy she forged
Clarke's name and received $25, 900
for the stroke of her pen. She was
arrested, and about three days be-
fore her trial was to take place, she
was visited by an attorney who was
willing to bail her out, providing
she would leave the Colony, to
which proposition the woman
readily acquisced. She was liber-
ated and taken in charge by a
keeper, who kept giving her liquor
until Sydney was reached, at which
place the woman changed her mind
and wanted to return to Melbourne,
when her keeper threatened to pro-
claim her a lunatic, and to have
her sent to an asylum. She was
finally placed on board of the
Monowai and informed she was to
receive large sum of money and
was to go to San Francisco.
"She was booked by the Mono
wal in fictitious name, but got no
money, and the steamer sailed.
There was still a keeper with her,
but he went only as far as Auck-
land. After the steamer left Auck-
land money was given to her by
the purser, who told her he had
been informed that she suffered
from alteration of intellect, and
that her peculiar Authorization was
that she was to die by being
drowned. This was at Apia. But
when she reached Honolulu she
determined to return at all haz-
ards, and for the little money she
had put together and the unex-
PRED part of the ticket to San
Francisco, obtained passage back
to Sydney in the Mariposa.
"Mrs. Parker's story, in short,
makes it appear that she has been
the victim of one of the vilest con-
spiracies of modern times; that
she has been unwillingly taken al
most the length of the Australian
continent, then across the ocean,
and that it was not until she found
herself alone and without her per-
secutors at Honolulu that she was
sufficiently in possession of herself
to be able to return to Melbourne. y
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