The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-18

Principle. Intrest
5000 per cent .................s s21 90
| 30 ...................... w
20 .,............,...... w
| 10 .....................
Interest ................. SSl %
Principle ............... 65 90
500 90
100000 at pr. ct. for Sep. and oct,
making 2S. pr month.
| This memorandum had doubtless
been given to Miss Schneider by Ben
nett, her sweetheart. Miss Lemke, the
wife of Tailor Lemke, who lives on
Punchbowl street, also knows some
thing of the finances of the dead
woman. Miss Lemke has ten shares OF
McBryde stock which she was keeping
for Miss Schneider Rather, Mr.. Lemke
has the stock, and he acted as a sort
of adviser in investments.
The revolver used by Bennett was a
32-caliber Colt, and had been borrowed
by him from one of the army officers.
1t was on Tuesday or Wednesday that
Bennett asked for it on the pretense
that he wanted to kill rats.
Just the exact day when he got 1t
tOulu UOL We doItl iuoI hi5ht.
Possibly he was intending to send
someone else out of the world with the
weapon. Bennett was familiar with
revolvers but apparently had not one
of his own. So far advanced in de-
composition was his corpse that DR..
Pratt had difficulty in locating the bull
let wound in his head, but it seemed
almost certain that he fired the bullet
. ,,rl, l., ityn nf Gi
chambers of the revolver were still
loaded when it was taken from the
dead mans hand.
AT THE NEUMANN HOME.
An Advertiser reporter called last
night at the home of Paul Neumann
where the mysterious death of Miss
Clara Schneider occurred last Wednes-
day afternoon, taking the first news Of
the suicide of Frank Bennett. Upon
hearing of Benefits suicide the resi-
dents of the place were much agitated,
as Miss Schneider was very popular in
the household and her death q cause
of sincere grief. Mr.. Neumann stated
that he could give no information ad-
ditional to that which had been given
at the inquest of the unfortunate girl,
DuI II was ltdlhtu llldI btUHtlI
several times called upon Miss Schnei-
der during the absence of the family.
Il knew nothing about him, or of
his calling upon Clara" said Mrs.
Neumann, except what | learned
through the servants. Our Japanese
gardener told the Japanese housegirl
that the cook, meaning Miss Schneider
had sweetheart-a big, fine looking
- l., Il.
in a uniform. He pointed Mr.. Bennett
out one day when he rode by, and said
that was the cooks sweetheart, be-
cause he had come to see Clara. She
had picture of him like the one pub
lished in the paper, hanging up in her
room"
, When asked about the money which
it was said had been borrowed by Ben
nett from Miss Schneider, Mrs. Neu
mann said she, knew nothing except
that the girl had said she could not
go to her home in Seattle, to spend
CHI istmas, as she had given all her |
money to Mr.. Bennett to invest for |
her. She seemed to have much conf |
deRce in him, and said that he was |
going to make money out of her money !
for heI. Being reserved and quiet. she
was HOl given W ulSCuSSlus ucl
affairs, and during the ten months she |
was IL the employ of the Neumann .
family they learned very little about !
her, except that she had come to Ho-
nolulu from Seattle, and that she had |
known Bennett before she came to this !
city. She was of a happy disposition,
and was very popular among the SER ,
wants and with her employers. 1t was
said by someone who knew Miss !
Schneider and her lovable disposition ,
that Bennett showed a great deal of
decency in taking his own life. His
act is regarded as sequel to the death .
Of Miss Schneider.
Mrs. Neumann is of the opinion that
there must have been clandestine
meetings between the two, as Bennett I
,nly called during Mrs. Neumann's alb
sence, and probably then upon receipt
Of telephone message from Miss
Schneider. The evening previous to
her death she had gone out to see
about her money, according to a state
ment of one of the servants, who said
he had heard her say So
Mr.. Neumann and his wife speak
very highly of the deceased girl, and
'egret that her moral character should
De reflected upon, as her conduct while
with them had always been above re-
Droach, and her disposition kind and
gentle.
His Idea of Justice.