The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-06
He Was Unidentified By Young
Men Of Honolulu.
PAUL NEUMAKN A WITNESS
Evidence Of Mr.. VIM. RaWlinS-Re-
markabie Conduct Of Hayne.
He Was Convicted.

EDITOR p. c. A.-Julien D. Hayne
has turned up again, this time in the
General Sessions Part 1 in New York
City, where he is being tried before
Judge MacMahon and jury on an in
dictment for forgery in the first de-
gree, and I venture to write short
notice of the trial to you on the chance
that it may interest part of the Ho-
nolulu public.
Haynes true name is James David
Hallen. He is charged with forgery,
in 1893, of a mortgage which was dis
posed of by him to Mrs. Florence
Cauldwell, of New York City, for $16,-
800 Many of his crooked deals were
brought to light during the trial, and
a hurried estimate puts his stealings
at about 100000. Hallen came to the
United States from Chile and speaks
Spanish fuently. During the recent
Spanish war he passed himself off in
Pittsburg as a Spanish duke with Am
erican sympathies, signing himself
Juan de Hidalgo." He was arrested
about a month ago in Addison, N. Y,
where he was living quietly on farm
Of some sixty acres. The detective
who arrested him told me that the
agency had been shadowing Hayne for
about four years.
The case for the people has been
worked UP by Assistant District At
torney Osborne and his Deputy, Lau-
terbach. The former conducted the
trial. 1t appeared that the latter, In
discussing the facts of the case one
evening at dinner with a friend, re-
marked that he wanted someone to
identify Hallen, as having been in
Honolulu. This friend was an old
Yale man, whom 1 had met, and the
conversation resulted in the sending of
a detective to New Haven to call on
me. The next morning l went to New
York with Allan w. Judd and William
T. Rawlins, to appear for the people
and identify Hallen as the Honolulu
Hayne This we were readily able to
do, although he had grown gray
beard and looked a bit thinner. His
wife and step-Son were present IN
court and Hallen on the stand denied
absolutely that he had ever seen them
before.
Hallen denied having ever been in
Florida. The clergyman from Mel
bourne, Fla, who married him there
to Mrs. Brush, who was his wife in
Honolulu, was put on the stand and
identified him absolutely. He denied
having ever been in Vermont. A lady
of Vermont was produced by the pros
ecution who testified that she had en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. Hayne at din
ner and that the defendant was that
man. He denied having ever been in
Usage, Iowa, and two witnesses iden-
tilted Hallen as Hayne, whom they had
known in Usage.
Then he denied absolutely that he
had ever been in Honolulu. Allan Judd
and William Eawlins were then called
to the stand and identified him posi-
lively as Hayne.
The production of witnesses from
all parts of the United States was dra-
matte and there were many interesting
moments.
Hallen conducted his own defense,
and the old adage that ''the lawyer
| who is his own lawyer has a fool for
a client never was more forcibly IL
| Illustrated. He was assisted by two
| lawyers, Lansing and Marshall.
& sensation was caused when Hallen
| in his cross examination of Mr.. Raw
lins said Where did you first see this
man you call Hayne?" Mr.. Rawlins re-
| piled 81 saw YOU first when you de-
livered a lecture before the students o1
Oahu college, where 1 was studying ir
| 1894, on Success in Business Life.
The irony of fate was plainly apparent
HalIen repeated the words oahu Col
| lege" after Mr.. Rawlins and showed by
| his pronunciation of them that he wa:
not saying them for the first time.
| Hallen produced several photograph;
of the alleged being Hayne, TO show
that he was not Hayne, but neverthe
less all the witnesses said that they
recognized the Hkenesses as Hallen' S
One of the photographs produced b!
Hallen (who had said that he had never
| been in Honolulu) was Of Hayne in {
duck suit and the name of the photog
rapher j. J. Williams, Honolulu wa
| stamped on the bottom. No attemp
was made to show how it had been OBJ
| tanned by Hallen, who submitted it IL
| evidence, greatly to the delight of th'
| prosecuting attorney.
| Hallen'S manner on the stand wa
| consistent with his character. He re