The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-02
HE WANTED BILL.
Bill Was "a Ladies' Man, and He Was Miss
ing.


us this the place that people come to
relate shameful cases?' he asked as he
walked into the Central station at 10
o'clock the other night.
The sergeant raised his head and
sized the caller up as a man on the
downward side of life from back
township and quietly answered.:
Eyes, we listen to shameful as well
as other kinds of cases. What have you
got to tell?"
MY hull fam'ly has bin shamefully
treated by Teller named Bill Hoyt,
and l want him arrested"
well, what did Bill Hoyt do?'
He cum along to my place last May
n-sellin wire clotheslines and was Token
sick. My wife she tended him as if he
had bin her own brother, and / sot up
with him and waited on him as would
my own father.
II see. "
bill was sick and layin around fur
three months, and all the money he
ever offered me was $40. He had chick
en- soup and custards and mashed taters
and the best in the house, and | told
him he needn't worry about what he
owed. T'other night, when | was milk
! in, he came out in the barnyard and
asked fur the hand of my darter Mary.
He'd fell in love, he said, and he want
ed to marry her right of. "
I'm listening, said the sergeant as
the old man paused.
"Waal, he talked so smooth and nice
and made SIGH promises that told him
/ to go ahead. He said he was a leetle
short of cash, and l lent him $50 to go
ahead with. Next day he started fur
Detroit to git his clothes, and we hahn
seen hide nor hair of him since. We've
heard of him, though"
What did you hear?"
'Tvegot three gals-Mary, Sarah and
Jane. The blamed scoundrel was en-
gagged to marry all three of 'em.
"Nor'
True as you live! There are five
other gals in the nayburhood, and h,
: had three of 'em on the hook as well,
maxim six gals he was goin to.marry.
He was hustler, said the sergeant.
Eyes, he was. Yesterday my wife
owned up that he tried to coax her into
elopin with him, and the wife of one Of
my nayburs says he writ her three love
letters.
well, declared
"And we suspect he was also engaged
to the schoolteachc n love with two
hired girls and had h.5 plans all laid tc
ketch wilder. Isn't that shameful
case?"
81 should say it wasr'
"There's sighin and weepin and jaw
in and lamentin fur six miles up ant
down the road, but Bill Hoyt, he cometl
not. "
"And you want him caught"
Eyes; l want you to ketch him.
think he's right here in town and en-
gagin hisself to different woman ever,
day. If you ketch him, want to b,
locked in room with him fur about II
, minutes.
"For what reason?"
Fur the reason that want to tax,
off my coat, spit on my hands and max,
: him a speech. want to say to him
Bill Hoyt, durn yer picter, you've go
to produce them $50 you borrowed o
me, or I'll hammer We within an incl
of yer lifep "
But about his lovemaking?" asked
the sergeant.
WAL, | dunno. Sometimes kinde
think / orter lick him fur Dustin tn,
hearts of my three gals and again
kinder feel sorry fur poor cross eyet
Teller who has never known a mother
, care 1t will sort of depend, guess "
Depend on WHAT"
IF he hands me over them $50 ant
) about So fur my trouble and sorte
cries and says he's sorry and wishes h,
hadn't done it, I'll probably let him off
but, sir-but, sir"--
but what?" asked the sergeant a
the old man pounded on the desk witt
his fist
But, sir, / shall give him to EN-
phatically understand that the mex
time he asks one of my gals to marry
him-one of my gals, sir-the very mex
time, sir-he's either got to walk up t.
the rack or-or"--
"Or WHAT"
cor I'll hunt him down and take hin
by the throat and make it cost him a
least $24 to settle the case. Yes, sir
I'll do it, sir, and good night, and ketcl
him if you kin, sirp'-Detroit Free
Press.