The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-02
THE LUDECE MYSTERY
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no use for him" said the sheriff
The case presents little IN the way OF
definite clues, but the police are not by
any means without material 20 work 7
upon, and a few days may see impor-
tant facts laid bare The inquest to-
night will bring the conflicting state
ments Of Mrs. Lubbock and oscar Lewis
squarely out. Hackman Rooney is an
other important person in the investi-
cation.
Mrs Lubeck's statements concerning
events Immediately prior to her hus-
band s death, tends to direct inquiry
toward shipping master Oscar Lewis.
This inquiry has its starting point in
an alleged statement of her husband
/ that Lewis would be the one TO be held
responsible If anything happened to
him.
This alleged statement of the dead
man was apparently based on some
quarrel that he had had with the shin
ping master over "A job that had been
promised TO him by the latter but had
not materiaized. According to Mrs
Lubbock her husband told her that Lew
is had threatened to lay for him and
do him up"
on Monday night, to follow Mrs. Luz
DECKS statement, Oscar Lewis and
hackman named Hugh Rooney came TO
| the Lubbock house on Hotel street In
a rig with a double team and Lewis
states that there was job for Harry
meaning Lubbock, at Brewers wharf.
waiting for him This was about =
clock and the fact that the Lubbock
was required TO go right down and fiji
tne position at such an hour aroused
MIS- Lubecks curiosity to such an ex-
! tent that she got into the rig with her
husband, thinking that she would en-
JOY the drive. Mrs. Lubbock does not
remember conclusiVely whether Rooney
was the worse for liquor at that time.
! Lewis did all the talking.
The rig drove down Union street 10
1 the back entrance of the Criterion
where Rooney went into the saloon re-
/ appearing with two glasses Of beer for
! Lubbock and his wife Lewis seems IN
/ nave disappeared at this stage OF the
analr but Mrs. Lubbock does not seem
certain as to when he left them.
man, possibly Lewis is said by her to
nave come along and shaken Lubbock
10y me arm telling him to hurry up to
the wharf If he wanted that Job
Duke McNichols Of the Criterion
came out of the saloon and stated that
a telephone message had come for Lu-
! Deck 10 hurry to the wharf Mrs In
beck describes him as being excited.
| Arrived at the wharf Rooney is said
10 have told Lubbock here is your
| chance, jump out" Lubbock left the
!
wife home. This Rooney did not do.
driving her instead to Kewalo 10 his
own house where he put the horse m
ana lett her to her own devices Mrs.
Lubbock states that she asked Rooney
10 let her out nearer her own road but
mat he declined to do so.
Lubbock was at home when his wife
arrived after walking all the way and
told her that Lewis had played him a
dlrty trick for which he was going IA
can nm TO account early the next
morning. He was disappointed at find.
ing no job and was crying.
on Wednesday the trouble with Lew.
- eliminating In the threat Is alleged
10 nave taken place. Mrs IubecL
states that from that time on her nus
band appeared TO be worried abou
Lewis threats and said to her Minnie
II anything happens your know who
ana IT, also telling his son to tell hi,
mother that Lewis was responsible i
anything happened TO him but nor I,
scare her by mentioning IL beforehand
on Thursday Lubbock was at home al
DAY being visited by Captain Flint VIII,
came 10 see him about a watchman'l
position on board some ship.
On Friday morning he got up earl,
10 look for work. He returned at
o CLOCK IN the afternoon and went on
again AT TO go to the post Office.
That was the last seen OF him allv,
by his wife. man whom she doe
not know visited her yesterday after
noon and told her that he had seen he
husband at o'clock that night IN
hIemme's Aloha" saloon near TN
o. iron Works, apparently not the wors,
for liquor.
Other informants have visited Mrs
Lubbock with indefinite Information
about having seen her husband and he
nelghbors have assisted her I'm remem
herring the various Incidents of the dayl
preceding the murder. Mrs Lubbock 4
greatly affected by the drama but tell
20 a connected story frequently corrobor
ated or added to by sympathizinl
nelghbors. Her suspicious run entirel,
IN the one direction and II is quite DOS.
slble that her Imagination and Tn,
shock OF the affair aided by sympathe
nc friends have helped to color hel
story towards that end
she states that her son Frank saw
ms rather outside the drill shed n
haIf past seven on Friday talking viii
a man whom he did not know but feel
confident Of his ability to recognize a
sight. The father gave the son a quar-
Ter 10 take home to his mother II,
had not apparently been drinking.
captain Flint Of the water front DO
ice states that he went TO Lubbock,
mouse on wednesday 10 advise him OF
I a possible job for him on the Beniamlr
packard which was to be taken over I,
the Quarantine wharf for fumigation
Lupecks luck was against him how.
ever as the crew Of the shin desertef
her ana on Thursday Flint went agar
10 the murdered mans house and told
MN that the opportunity was lost.