The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-04
LUBECK AND KLEMME
THEIR LAST INTERVIEW AT THE
ALOHA SALOON.
Was I'm the Afternoon Not Evening.
Strange Testimony Of Albert Lubbock.
Was 1t Psychic Influence?

The statement that Herman cor /
Harry Lubbock was seen in Harry .
Klemme's Aloha" saloon near the /
Honolulu Iron Works at o'clock FRI /
day night though erroneous seems to |
persist in It's reiteraton. The testi-
mony of Harry Klemme at the coro- |
ners inquest seems decisive ON the !
subject
Klemme testified that he was prob |
ably as well acquainted with Lubbock /
as any man in town, Lubbock having |
been member of his company i'm the |
National Guard for four years. lie re- |
membered distinctly Lubbock coming |
into the Aloha saloon on Friday but !
IL was Friday afternoon before 3 !
O'Clock, because it was some little time |
before the Alameda, which arrived
| that afternoon, docked. The time Is
! fixed in his memory because Of the fact
| that Lubbock told him that the Ala
| media was coming i'm, and that he, Luz
beck had to go aboard her. This was
! the first Klemme knew that the Ala
/ media had been sighted, and looking
| out of the saloon he saw the vessel
1 i'm the harbor approaching her wharf.
There were not many in the saloon
at the time. Lubbock invited a couple
! of men to drink with him and when
! they had been served, Lubbock came to
! Klemme and said, THAT makes $500
|
me 10 cents and making it &c." Klemme
! testified that he complied with the re-
! quest and gave Lubbock two quarters
and two dimes.
Klemme further testified that Lubbock
while remaining in fact a mem
Der of the military company had
| while acting as Waterman for Cow
ernor Dole dropped out of active SER
vice When he ceased to be such
| Waterman he had come back to active
| service in the company but had been
| unable to get his uniform, because,
Klemme said, the government was not
now issuing uniforms. Nevertheless
Lubbock had been anxious to get his
uniform and some time before had
come to Klemme and asked him to see
if the uniform could not be secured
On this Friday afternoon, Klemme
testified, Lubbock spoke of the matter
again saying he had twice been to see
about it at military headquarters, but
had been unable to get 1t. Klemme
replied that he was not surprised that
Lubbock had been unsuccessful as the
government was not issuing uniforms
now.
Lubeck's desire to go aboard the
Alameda at once did not to Klemme's
mind, arise from an expectation of
getting work aboard her, but rather
to an expectation that the vessel was
bringing him something, or to meet
someone aboard her.
Lubbock at this time, according to
Klemme, was perfectly sober. In fact
Klemmes impression was that in all
probability the only drink he had had
that day was the one he had taken
over the Aloha bar, and rejecting that
Lubbock was out of work and probably
: did not have much money to spend,
klemme invited him to have another.
| To this invitation Lubbock replied,
| m
Lubeck's stay in the saloon was not
a long one and when he left, he went
out the back way alone, that being the
shortest way to the Alameda
Klemme testified that Lubbock seem
ed in good spirits and perfectly ration
al, and that afterwards he inquired if
Lubbock really had gone twice to mill
: tary headquarters to see about his
uniform and found that he had.
Klemme also testified that he had
made very diligent inquiries and had
| found out positively that Lubbock was
not in the saloon at o'clock that night
or at any time after the afternoon Wis
it he had related.
In connection with the statement
that Lubbock was at the Aloha saloon
on Friday, the testimony of Albert Lu-
beck one of the sons is interesting es-
pecially to those who believe in psy
chic Influences or mental telepathy.
Albert Lubbock testified that the last
time he saw his father alive was at
Thanksgiving dinner at home. Friday
morning Albert got up early and went
to work at the Honolulu Iron Works
taking his lunch with him. He work.
ed overtime Friday, until 8 o'clock at
night and then started for home.
Something told me-" he said ITO
look into the Aloha saloon as 1 passed,
but l didn't When I passed the Eagle
saloon something told me to look in
} there. l looked in sharp, but l didn't
, see my father and went on home"