The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-11-07
some OF J. D.
HAYNE' 5 HISTORY
A MAN HERE WHO KNEW THE AD-
VENTURER IN YEARS AGONE.
Julien d. Has Been Always the Same
"A Rascally Swindler With Most
Remarkable Native Assurance.
A READY BORROWER AND \
WOULD-BE LEADER. d.
Editor and Boomer-Matrimon Ven
tures-Suave and Inscriptions
Sidelight on His Later Days.

There is a man in Honolulu who
knows more about Julien Darwin
Hayne than those people who were
engaged in looking up his pedigree
and record were able to obtain after
a search of many months.
While everybody in this city, or on
the Islands for that matter, who had
met Hayne was satisfied that he was
type of a foreign adventurer, and
possibly a bad" citizen, still they
could learn nothing of his previous
life to justify them in taking the
stand against him. That Hayne was a
great deal of annoyance to the Hawaii
an Republic during the two periods
that he took up his residence in Homo
lulu, everybody was thoroughly con-
vinced.
Mr.. y. r, De Alba, lumber man Of
Baltimore, who is in Honolulu on a
pleasure trip. and perhaps to embark
in business and locate permanently,
nolle, Va, in the fall of 1889. Mr.. De
Alba became quite intimately ac-
quainted with Hayne shortly after his
arrival there and got interested with
him in business way, greatly to his
own sorrow and loss
'Do J know Julien Darwin Hayne?
Nall I { Il :
more gentleman in answer to a query
put to him this morning.
'Probably if | hadn't known him
at all, it would have been much better
for me, financially But then I am
like a large number of his victims i'm
America, glad to get off as easy as I
did,
You see, continued Mr.. De Alba,
in getting down to the story, 81 went
to Roanoke in September, seven years
ago. 1t was during the big real estate
boom in that place Among the first
men | was introduced to was Hayne.
He was then highly esteemed in Roa-
noke and apparently prospering in the
real estate business.
shortly after my arrival in Roam
oke Hayne started the publication of
daily newspaper with the aid of
Eastern capitalists. The paper -four
ished and Hayne had everything in
his favor. But from all evidences this
was not what he wished. He got into
financial difficulties by his eXtravagant
living and the paper was short-lived.
Hayne skipped out, defrauding the
men who had launched him into the
newspaper field, and bilking every
man or woman in Roanoke with whom
he had an acquaintance and who had
allowed themselves to become his
creditor.
"His hurried departure from Roa-
nolle and the ungrateful way he had
used his friends, was very surprising
to me. However, / was loath to be-
leve that Hayne was guilty of these
things. | had got to know him very
well before he took his leave from
Roanoke and ] had failed to picture
him out the scoundrel that some of
his creditors would make it appear.
But | got to know him still better
few months later and | fully agreed
with his former Roanoke friends that
he was first class high-toned cheat.
"ln 1890 | moved to Buchanan, u
prosperous little town i'm the South
western part of West Virginia, down
near the Kentucky line. To my ut
most astonishment discovered
Hayne. He was right in "the swim"
in everything. In fact he was one of
the most prominent men i'm buchanan.
He received me very cordially and ex-
planned that he had been bounded to
earth by his enemies i'm Roanoke and
that he was now beginning to get n
good start again. And, indeed, it was
good start that he had But his
nature rebelled after n brief spell
against earning an honest living and
Hayne departed from Buchanan, leav-
ing behind him one of the most ro-
mantle careers | know anything about.
During the years of '01 and '92
layne was one of the prime movers
in a number of wildcat schemes in
buchanan. 1t was his company that
was about to build fine hotels. con-