The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-03
NEW LUBECK THEORY
MEN FROM THE MEADE MAY BE
GUILTY ONES.
Lubbock Possibly Mistaken for Special
Police and Done UP" by Men who
Had Overstayed Shore Leave.

The investigation into the mystery of
the murder of Herman, more commonly
known as Harry, Lubbock, has led to the
pretty settled conviction that whatever
the motive for the murder was, it did
not arise from past events or troubles
the man may have had, but from some
thing arising at the very time of the
murder.
A theory that has presented itself to
the police is this. At the time the mur-
der was committed the transport Meade
was in port and due to sail the next
morning. She had a large number of
men aboard her. Friday night great
many men who had overstayed their
shore leave were being rounded up by
the police on warrants issued by the
ships officers. The police both
that night and on previous nights had
had some trouble with some of the
overtime men, 1t is thought quite pos
sible that Lubbock may have been stand
ing Sround on the waterfront, and that
some of the men who had overstayed
their leave and were seeking to avoid
the officers out after them, may have
mistaken Lubbock for a special police
out rounding them up, and have at
tempted to do him up. OVERRIDING the
"doing up" process, and finding an un-
conscious and severely injured man on
their hands they threw the limp body
into the water where it was found
floating some hours afterwards. The
Meade sailed the next morning, Satur-
day, at about 10 o'clock, which was not
long after the body was found and be-
fore investigation had had time to take
shape.
Mrs. Herman Lubbock requested this
morning that certain statements that
she wished to make should be publish
ed in the columns of the Star. Reiter-
ating the story of her husbands good
ness to her and that they had never
udarreled as his children and the neigh
bors would prove. She said, she wish
ed to deny the evidence as given by
Rooney at the inquest and published in
the morning papers particularly with
regard to the assertion that she enter
ed his house and drank beer with him
that night
Mrs. Lubbock also asserts that con-
trary to the evidence as shown else
yhere in these columns in the account
Of the inquest, Rooney and Lubbock did
not part friends on Wednesday when
Lubbock is said to have called his wife
blackmailer, but that Rooney asked
Lubbock to go down town and have a
drink which Lubbock refused, turning
his back on Rooney.
The most important statement made
this morning by Mrs. Lubbock as to the
effect that there had been bad blood
between William Leighman and her
husband, the latter having she admits
shown jealousy on account of the job
secured by Leighman as watchman at
Governor Dole's residence. This trou-
BILE had been brewing for some time
between them although she was never
the witness of any of it herself but
judged the matter from what her hus-
band told her. Leighman testified last
night that he was not on bad terms
with Lubbock and had seen him one day
last week.
Several fantastic tales have been
brought to the Lubbock children by other
youngsters none of which have however
stood repetition and are evidently only
the results of a vivid imagination.