The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-24
SKIPPED THE COUNTRY.
GOERING DID NOT KNOW THE
ROPES, MOST SURELY.
Gets In Debt, His opium Was Seized
aud He Had to Leave-Probabiy
Helped on.

L. Goering, late employee of D.
Hoffschlaeger & Company, is quite a
bird, to use a slang term. He has flown
to parts hence and has left some deli
cate matters here to straighten up if
perchance he should pass this way
again.
While here he had the reputation of
being industrious, and certainly gained
the high confidence of the firm with
which he was associated, from all
accounts. He made friends far and
wide, and many of them will doubtless
feel grieved to learn that he left with.
out goodbye.
While here. too, he borrowed money
which he failed to return. Among
o hers he gave Mr.. f. Klemme of the
Merchants Exchange note for $50,
representing as much silver placed in
his hands by the saloon keeper. This
was small amount, and as Mr.. Goering
was, of course, honest, Klemme thought
little about the matter.
But another feature of the case
cropped out last Thursday evening
when the Alameda arrived No sooner
had the liner docked than Goering met
Mr.. Klemme and wanted the loan of
$40, saying at the same time that he
had ten pounds of opium on the Ala
media, and that Custom House officer
had agreed to pass it through for him.
Mr.. Klemme refused to advance the
money and at the same time told the
smuggler that he would not abet or
sanction any such dirty business as the
scheme proposed. Goering went out.
The opium really cropped up in the
Alameda's freight and Goering was
Immediately singled out as the owner of
the stuff. The matter was, however,
left over until the next day when con-
tirmatory evidence was secured. The
police were notified and the proper
papers were ready.
| But in some way Goering learned
what had been going on and before the
plans of the officers could be put into
effect he had skipped by the Alameda
for the States.
As to how the smuggler learned that
he had been spotted and why he left,
two stories are told. One if that he
was notified by his friend, whoever
that may be, in the customs depart
ment, and was helped out of the
country to save both of the men. The
other is, in effect, that small business
house of Honolulu was cognizant of, if
not interested in this and former deals
in opium made by Goering, and an ex-
pose of the matter at the present time
would force them into financial diff
culties. They, so the report runs,
agreed to smooth the matter over with
the customs authorities by shipping
Goering out of the country. The cor
rect story as to that is not yet known.
At Hoffschlaegir's this oining the
statement was made that Mr.. Goerinl
had gone to Germany and had not lef
his address. The firm evidently knew
nothing OF his intended departure unit
after the Alameda had sailed. Then ;
note was received from Goering stain,
that he had been made very flatterini
offer to enter business in Germany by ;
friend who was a through passenger oil
the Alameda, and had decided, at thu
last moment, to go with him. His rea
destination, however, is thought to b
Pacific States, somewhere in which h
will again branch out in the second
hand furniture business.