The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-04-07
Of CONSCIENCE
FOR FRAUDS
NEVER DISCOVERED.
Large Sums Returned to Business Men
and Companies After Years-Curious
Instances of Tardy Honesty.

There are some really wonderful CT
riOsties in COnsCienCes, says an eX-
change, but magistrates are not the
only men who have to deal with the
conscientious"
The manager of great insurance
company has received a letter in which
the writer states that eight years ago
he insured his business premises for
$500 pounds, and subsequently set the
same on fire to obtain the insurance.
With this he commenced another and
more profitable business, al which he
succeeded beyond his dreams, and for
him to become a happy man only one
thing was necessary, and that was to
clear his conscience of the fraud he
had committed He therefore returned
the $500 plus G240 which was 10 per
cent interest per annum upon the Car-
ital With this he thought the defend
ant company should be more than sat
isfed.
A short time ago strange letter was
received by a guarantee company of
many years standing from well
known city man. This letter sets out
the fact that some years previously
the company had guaranteed his hon
esty for 600. He subsequently OBJ
tanned a position of trust, and one day
went off with precisely the amount for
which he had been guaranteed. He
started in business of his own and also
prOspered.
Ever since, however, he had been a
prey to conscience which at last he
resolved to appease by forwarding to
the company the amount it had lost by
his msdeed, together with the bonus
of 500 which he thought would cover
the cost the company had been put to
in endeavoring to bring him to justice.
The company accepted the money but
promptly, and perhaps wisely, refused
to renew the guarantee of three clerks
who were in the employ of this con
scientious gentleman"
Dear sin" writes a man to a depart
mental manager of a railway company,
three years ago l was a poor clerk,
earning a miserable salary of twenty
three shillings, and | made it a habit
to cheat your company out of fifteen
pence daily. | have recently come into
a sum of money, which assures me
comfort for the rest of my life, and |
hasten to satisfy the demands of my
conscience by here inclosing you the
equivalent of the total sum out of
which l have defrauded you in the
past. | also enclose a bank note for
five pounds and shall be glad if you
will forward it to the most necessitous
of the charities connected with your
railway, as a small mark of regret for
my dishonest conduct"
a DevOnshire clergyman was once
visited by a miserable looking begger
who, with tears streaming down his
cheeks, confessed that nine months be-
fore he had robbed the parsons poultry
house of fat and tender fowl, which
had, nevertheless laid heavy on his
soul ever since" He could not replace
the hen devoured, nor could he scrape
up money enough to pay the price of
the bird. The only solution was this
Would the gentleman, then, as a
Christian man, allow him to do work to
the value of the robbery, just to salts
fy his conscience and make him feel
that he might hold up his head again
The parson recollected the robbery
and, struck with the honest fellows
appreciation of his sin, agreed to the
proposal and thought that the lesson
would be twice as effective if the re-
pentant one were set to clean out the
very poultry house he had previously
robbed. The rogue has another hen to
work off now.