The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-20

JAY. uECEMBER ~, 19OO.-S
guessed it would come out all right
ne was friend and was helping out
with the expenses.
Bennett was not melancholy, and I
never would have thought he was the
kind of man to commit suicide My
opinion of the matter is, judging from
my own personal knowlede of his char
acter, that If he thought he had been
directly or indirectly the cause of an
other persons death he would, in ac- |
cordance with his old school ideas of !
honor, take his own life. / think that !
when he heard that Miss Schneider mad |
committed suicide he thought it was
because he had been unable to return
the money to her when she asked it.
and, therefore, judging himself to be the
cause, direct or indirect, of her death.
there was nothing left for him to do
but to kill himself
He was polite gallant and strictly
honorable in every way and that the
'ory strikes me as being the only ex-
PLANTATION of his act. All his letters and
papers pronounce him a man of integ-.
irity, dauntiess courage and unimpeach-a
able honor. At one time Gen. Chaffee,
in introducing him to some. one, said
'Fere Is a man who has associated
with ,frontiersmen all his life and has
taken UP none of their bad habits
"Benenttv always claimed that il was
possible to lead that kind of a life and
keep away from incorporate and bad
habits. j never in all my association
With him, heard him use any language
that would be offensive to any one
under any circumstances. He seemed
TO have no friends out of camp and I
never heard him mention Clara Schnei-
der or any other woman. except as re-
lated about Mrs. Ottmann. I did not
know that he frequented the Orpheum
theater, and 1 never saw him under the
influence of liquor in my life.
H. w. NJ. CAMPBELL.
/ knew Clara Schneider First met
her at the Honolulu Hotel. where she
was employed, as housekeeper. had a
room there. / only knew her slightly
She was lonely and I was lonely, and
so We spent some time together. She
, only talked of her brother, her folks
and her trip over on the Columbia
that IL, on general topics. Afterward
had business relations with her. L was
thinking of investing some money in the
shipping business. and as she had q
great deal of confidence in me she ask
ed me IL would not invest some mon
ey for her. She let me have three hun
dred dollars to invest. / had this mon
ey only about three weeks when she
came to me and wanted it back. saying
: she had chance to invest il with an
: other friend, at better rate of inter
e est. L returned the money to her aftel
. few days notice. She would not say
. who the friend was. or what the in
yestment was, although 1 told her t,
btscausfous and invited her confidence
She safd1 1t vas all right. She was al
j ways very reticent about her affairs. A
. another time / invested money for her
a ! bought the sugar shares that hav
7 been spoken about, and which she own
ed at the time of her death
Yes. i heard her speak of Bennett
: The first time was about a year age
when he was trying to pay some at
= tentions to her. She said his atten
X tions were distasteful, but did not sa
why. She came to see me once whe
] was sick, to find out if there was any
. thing she could do for me. We chatte
?. and she stayed an hour or SO in tn
d evening. She called on me severs
3 times after that. and one evening whe
n l was recovering We walked down Fol
street together, and met Bennett. II
=. bowed to her, but she would take T
y notice of him. That was last Octobe
l. a year ago. Never heard her speak
n him since. and did not see her any MOI
ID until she came to my place Of busines
a about four weeks ago, and wanted
% know if could lend her $780, She sa
"A II she could not raise that sum 81
W. would lose a lot more money. I cou
a. not lend her the money, but offered
pt help her in any way l could. She wei
T. away and / did not see her again. 81
Id did not say what she wanted with Il
money.
:, / gave her one Of my pictures wh'
:" she begged for it. during one of h
w visits to me. She was q lively jol
Nv girl and did not seem troubled or me
SO ancholy. There is one thing that
I'd might say looks strange. She was q
n ways very methodical, in her busine
nv and every way else. and it seems o'
-, to me that If she were going to comm
." suicide she would have made sor
"a preparation for il.
NJ MAJOR ENNIS SPEAKS WARML
NJ William Ennis. Major of the Six
ne Artillery, u. S. A, spoke at some lengt
no addressing the jury at the invitation
ny Mr.. Chillingworth, in general story
ut his association with Bennett, and VIII
cy he knew of him from others.
he II have known Mr.. Bennett" said
= since February last and have been
10 intimate association with him. He W
ue not a drinking man, and never to r
ne knowledge. or to the knowledge of a.
vn one / ever heard speak of him. took
m. drink Of intoxicating liquor. except
np one occasion, when he had been bad
,is injured by a horse he had been ridir
-. and / induced him to take a drink
oi whiskey. He was a man of fearle
courage. as history will tell. His SEQ
ne life offers many instances of that.
We was a man of the most admirable cha
as acter, and his honesty and integri
AZ were never doubted by any one til
80 ever had anything to do with him.
was gentle, quiet and tender-hearted
We never heard of his playing cards in
life, and never heard of his taking
as drink. Anything of that kind was G
vs.. tirely foreign to his disposition. | ha
th questioned the soldiers rigidly and
Re cannot find among them a man to s
= he ever saw him touch a drop of liqu
~! or a card. He always took soda wat
OF root beer. or something of that XII
lth when social association demanded it.
in has frequently been seen drinking Shs
yer Ia water or root beer. but never VIII
ar key or champagne. He was tempers
- in all ways, and / have carefully qu
toned the sentinels as to his rect
hs movements. They report that he "
nearly always in his room early. a
his this know myself, as 1 have often