The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-01
Gives Lecturers in Church and
SwindIes Congregation.
WINS HEART IN ILLINOIS.
Ohio Papers Expose the Man VIII
Visit Scotland for Sugar Sacks-His
Little scheme Worked Well.
wedding May Be stopped.

LIMA, Ohio, July S.-The Daily Ga
zette printed the following story of a
former Honolulu, H. l., resident:
On the 29th day of February of this
year, n. B. Breckenridge came to Lima
to see some of his old friends that he
sold lumber to some twelve or fifteen
years ago. He was then man who had
won the confidence of the lumbermen
of this city and sold them all large or
ders, amounting to thousands of dol
lars. He then was lost sight of. He told
his friends here that he had been living
in Honolulu for the past twelve years,
a year made trip to the United States,
but that this was his first trip to the
States since 1898, when he attended the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. On inquiry it
is found that he was on the Hawaiian
Islands only a few months and was en-
gagged as school teacher for a short
some young girls, and also a native
woman, was indicted and was out under
bond when he took the first steamer for
San Francisco. He went to New York
to be shipped to several of the large
firms of the Islands, and borrowed 5000
from a gentleman whose brother he
claimed to know in Honolulu.
He came to Lima and stopped at the
Lima House and remained for a week
or ten days, and visited the gentlemen
TO whom he had once sold lumber, and
told them how he had gone to Hawaii
tions and became one of the leaders in
wealth and prosperity of the people of
the Islands. He told of his rice planta
tions, servants, stock companies, and
owing to the fact that some of the most
careful business men of this city knew
him some years ago as thrifty lumber
dealer from Michigan, his story was
listened to and believed. He was also
we'll acquainted with Mr.. Summerville,
a lumber dealer of Mansfield Ohio, for
whom he travelled some years ago, and
renewed old acquaintance with Mr..
Summerville while he was stopping at
the Lima House.
He gave a lecture in the NJ E. church
on Honolulu and the beauties of the
Hawaiian Islands, and also gave a talk
in the Sunday school
He claimed to be a Government of
fetal and was interested in large land
deals on the Islands; and he told how
one could get rich there, and wanted
some of his friends to let him use their
names, and that he would pay one dol
lar an acre on a thousand acres of land,
and would pay the balance, which was
two dollars an acre, to be paid in three
years; then the Government would
give deed patent for the land; but as
one person was not allowed to own any
more than a section of $40 acres, he
wanted to use the names of some of his
friends in order to get the land, and he
would bear all the expense himself,
and would deed one-third of it to the
friend who would let him use his name.
He would, of course, buy the land in
their names, but he would pay for it
with his own money.
Two of our citizens, Messrs. Theo
Mayo and Baxter Trevor, were not sat
isfied with this and wanted something
better and Mr.. Mayo advanced $500
and Mr. Trevor 500 for him to buy land
for them, and they were to give Brak-
enridge a certain amount of the land
for the trouble he would be to in OBJ
tanning the desired land for them. There
were other-many of them in Lima
who were anxious to get in on the
ground floor but Breckenridge got out