The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-06-16
CLAIM LEWIS
IS IN MEXICO
ARTILLERY OFFICER OF PRESI-
do WHO MADE A SENSATIONAL
ENJOYMENT IS AT LAST LOCA-
TED.

SAN FRANCISCO. June 4.-Lieuten-
ant Victor c. Lewis, the dashing young
officer of the Twenty-eight Company
of Coast Atilley, who caused a seven
days sensation upon the occasion Of
his disappearance and fake Suicide
story which he perpetrated, did not go
to Canada, as was at first snfmised.
According to friends of Miss Elizabeth
Bergman, the nurse with whom he was
believed to have eloped, he is at pres
ent domiciled in small town in Mex
leo, where he and Miss Bergman are
living together as man and wife.
April 23rd Lieutenant Lewis, after
writing a letter to the Chronicle" In
which he disclosed his intention of GO
ing out to the old Fort Point and
committing suicide dropped completely
from sight of his family and his Army
friends and associates, and for few
days opinion was evenly divided as to
whether he had made good his threat
to commit suicide or had left the coun-
try. A hasty examination of his can
teen accounts, which he had just turn
ed over to his successor, showed no
shortage, and the motive for his strange
flight was utterly lacking until the
name of Miss Bergman was brought
into the case, and it was definitely
known that a mad infatuatiOn for the
handsome blonde girl from AmadOr
county had lured the handsome officer
to cut his Army bridges behind him.
Behind the sensational elopment there
hangs the romance of a lifelong at
tachment for him by Miss Bergman
according to friends of hers of
LOVERS quarrel, and the subsequent
making up and resumption of rela
lions after a marriage tie had come
between them. Miss Bergman was
an unsophisticated country maiden
from Jackson, but girl who had been
living in this city, off and on, as clerk
saleswOman, even collarmaker and
lastly as nurse an probation, for three
years.
Always it was because she desired
to be in the same city with the man
she loved. Time and time again she
vowed to her friends she would some
day have him. And have him she did,
although it was only after her re-
peated efforts to make him secure a
divorce had been met by refusal that
she consented to run away with him,
on money which he had secured by
negotiating his share for cash in a
legacy left by rich uncle in Canada.
This story led to the conjecture. backed
up by Lewis statements to friends
that he wanted to contest the will, OF
/ hf- q,
1t seems, can be eXtradited from Gu.
NADIA, while, so far as can be ascer.
tanned, there is no provision in treatie,
with Mexico which provides for the re.
turn of Army refugees.
The story of a frierd of Miss Berry
man is that she and Lewis were child
hood lovers and had been engaged tC
be married at one time. They ouar.
relied and subsequently Lewis became
married to his present wife After his
marriage his relations with Miss Berry.
man were resumed and have continued
during the past two years during which
time the girl has lived i'm this CITY. witt
occasional trips to her jackson home.
she had position in the employ O
the Government as q stenographer
said to have been secured through m,
influence of Lewis but she lost that
ana was salesWoman in "A store. Dur
ing all OF the time, however she wal
| IalthtuI to Lewis. When all else haC
failed the girl took to making collar.
by the piece. When she could No
longer pay her rent she determined T,
/ go to some hospital. She had in thi,
/ the assistance Of Lewis, who desired rs
/ ne mad expressed to friend to "xnov
where she was" She had no intention
| OF training to become a nurse. her only
desire being to secure a place to board
and where she could earn a few doIar,
for pin money.
Lewis it Is said, had kept her sun
phed with the most stylish and axnen-
siVe Of tailored garments A noint
that was in the dark entirely duri,,g
the previous history Of the case is now
''laue plain. Lewis, during his man
asement Of the tailoring companv
winch had failed to dlsastrouslv had
had thousands of circular letters typed
ana written at "a certain house on Ird1,,
street. 1t was the house whore NJ
bergman had stopped for a while a.
though the fact was not known ur,u
iast night, and Lewis was FURNISHING
fei with work II come lion with his
tailoring scheme.
ne present status Of Lieutenant
Lewis Is that of being absent without
leave from his post Of duty. Provided
ne can be reached, which is douhtful
ne Is liable to court-martial. An Of
hcer is granted three months before
ne Is dropped from the rolls ana brand
GU as ueserter so that Lewis has n
considerable time to go before being
u'oPped but even should he come back
before his tin Is up he win come nm
Tor Cyurt-mar .iaI
TOMBS OF CARS.