The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-20

Il' proposition OF 7 theodore IhIllUIN.
to release the sol distant Colonel Lake
for gross cheat is not cordially received
by those who have had dealings with
the man. Mr.. Richards stated at the
Associated Charities meeting yesterday
that he believed Lake had been grossly
misrepreseuted and had not been given
a fair show while he thought that the
sentence being served by Lake was
practically imprisonment for debt, an
obsolete law nowadays. The matter
was brought up at the meeting unOtli-
Cially i'm relation to the fact that Mrs
Lake had been left destitute by the
Colonel and was now a subject for
charity. The Associated Charities took
no action i'm the matter.
Lake was arrested and sent to jail
through his having collected some thirty
five dollars from Miss Willard a tenant
of DR. MCGrew, representing himself as
duly accredited agent. Lake stated
that the money had been stolen from
him or lost i'm some way but his evidence
was as hating as his explanations and
the sentence was given him in accord
auCe with his having been found guilty
of the charge of gross cheat. He was
fined $50 and the money not being forth
coming is obliged to work out the
amount at the rate of fifty cents day
i'm oahu Jail.
mic which was widely advertised as be-
ing rich i'm events and prizes the pro-
misses not being realized, resulted in
lusty crop of debts contracted by the
colonel and no addition to either Of the
funds named as benettciaries. The firms
from whom Lake obtained the printing
and lumber for his picnic on credit with
others to whom money was owing for
household expenses are not at all in
clned to see Lake released. One of them
stated this morning that he thought
that Lake might be released and imme-
diately sent out of the country which ac-
ton would be a happy release to his
wife and the community.
Lake seems to have thoroughly mtsre-
presented himself in the general COM
munity. On his arrival in the Islands
about year ago he posed as an ennis
sary of socialism the proletariat and
preached a scheme to enroll the wage
earners of Honolulu into grand Fe-
deratiOn of Labor. on being interview
ed the colonel's plans seemed somewhat
vague and the scheme melted into thin
air.
Lake then seems to have started
sewing machine exchange where ma
chimes were snapped, presumably with
something to boot, during this time the
picnic was certainly brewing in Lake
mental cavities ia a month before the
all the elaborate announcement OF
prizes and sporting events, including a
dance by ancient ladies in native cos
tunes and many other amusementS was
on the press.
Frank e. Nichols of Wall Nichols and
Company states that Lake had ettec-
tually hoomalimalfd the native in
charge of the printing department who
had SCI up the matter for the posters
and tickets and had them on the press
before the office was cognisant OF the
fact,
Asked to give some assurance of pay
ment before he took the printing away,
Lake drew his insuted khaki clad form
up and informed his nearer that he was
colonel Lake a real estate dealer with
an office on Emma street. Mr.. NlchOls
not seeming to be duly impressed with
this fact, Lake added that Mrs meal
pine. a wealthy widow was ldenuhed
with him in the matter, and finally got
the printing Needless to say 1t was
never paid for, neither had the Colonel
been seen in that store since the picnic
Miss Il. l.. McAlphine's name seems 10
have been used freely by Lake as a
sesame to his responsibility and credit
while he completely deceived her as TO
his intentions persuading her to place
her piano in a furniture dealers WIN
dow, where it was exhibited as prize
and furthergetting her to put up $50 Sc
curity to the railroad people that they
would be reimbursed for their fares, the
tickets having been sold on the car
| fare-and- entrance combined plan. Lake
was to have bought the piano but the
races not coming off the instrument was
not needed and it was sent back TO It's
owner.
The Mckinley Memorial end of me
profits was to come out of the children $
picnic to take places earlier in the DAY
| but Lake succeeded in impressing Gov
/ ernor Dole with the fact that he wanted
the band to play as an assistance TO
that fund, getting the executive con-
sent for the afternoon and not the night
The band went out and unknoWlngly
played for the benefit of the poor Boer
families in the concentration camps.
The picnic was not success either in
point of attendance or the promised
program. The fat men and rat LADIES'
failed to appear The ladies in ancient
custom who were to kui to the sound of
native instruments stayed away and
Colonel Lake announced later that
there were no profits TO be divided
among the Beers or for the Mckinley
fund.
one hundred and fifty one coupons re-
presenting $751; in tickets, were taken up
by the Rapid Transit Co. and Lake
seems to have promptly pOuched them.
His printing bill and a trihe of $50 or so
at Levers and Cooke was left over un-
til a more suspicious moment The lat
ter through a timely lien secured 500 on
their hill but others were not so for
tuuate.
Then came the McGrew episode of col
lecting the rent and several other mat
ters intimately connected with the colo
mel came to the front He claimed to be
a veteran of the civil war and named
an Ohio regiment that had never been
I'm existence. The local G.. A. r. dis
owned him as a COmrade.
w O. Atwater of the Hawaiian Elec-
trio Company was applied to i'm connec-
ton with the case Of Mrs. Lakes desti-
tuition and while heartily sorry for the
woman felt no sympathy with the man.
Lake incidentally owes a bill at the
electric company for ice but that fact
had nothing to do with Mr.. Atwater's
ropiniOn of the man which was formed
on his utter misrepresentation of af-
fairs Similar falsehoOds were plausi-
bly, told it is claimed at Levers and
Cooke while all the merchants who had