The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-12-12
JULIAN D, HAYNE OUT OF
SING SING AND AT LARGE


few months ago there was released
from Sing Sing prison. New York. one
John ID. Hallan who was one Of the
three schoolmasters who tutored the
convicts In that penal Institution. Hal
Ian was once practicing lawyer In
New York city. before that an editor
In Honolulu. and friend OF the then
royal family OF Kamehameha and the
agent OF the late Queen Lilluokalani
and confidence man of about twenty
years assiduous and successful prac-
tice. Hallan, or Hayne, as he is some
| times known, had reasonable expecta-
tion OF issuing from his present re-
straint only, unfortunately for him, to
| enter upon another in Iowa, whence q
requisition had issued to return him to
| Usage. Mitchell county, to meet an in
dictment for forgery.
| But in conversation with Robert
Brush. the well-known ball player. of
| Charles City, who Is a son of the Mrs
| Brush at Usage, of whom Hallan or
| Hayne was once the husband, your
| correspondent was informed that the
noted forger would not be returned to
| Iowa at all. The Brushes at Usage
had supposed from conversation with
| their attorney. Hon. Willard l.. Eaton,
| that at the conclusion of his eight
year sentence in Sing Sing that he
would be turned over to the Iowa au-
| thorities and that the state would
prosecute. They afterward learned
that this was not the case, and unless
large amount of bonds were put up
to cover the cost of prosecution and
incidental expenses of transferring
Hallan to Iowa, he would be released
and so the Brushes did not feel like
going to the large expense, having
trouble and publicity enough already.
They let the matter drop and Hallan
was released last spring at the end OF
his sentence, and is at large when he
is free to return to his old practices
Hallan, while practicing at the New
York bar as the active attorney in the
firm of which Colonel Campbell dis
barred) Of Cincinnati was the head and
directing spirit. defaulted in 1884 in the
matter of trust fund amounting to
S27 900. The affair included forgery. He
fed, or. rather, he moved away from
New York, for to say that a dignifed
man like Hallan fled is scarcely fair.
He kept on moving slowly, visiting
most of the earth, and interrupting his
forgeries here and there to marry a
woman of fortune, making up in time
polygamous record of at least four
wives. He travelled far abroad and
pursued the study of history on the
spots where the events which interest
ed him occurred, and occasionally float
ed a scheme of profit and moved on.
In course of time he settled for "a
u while at Honolulu and established there
= the Hawaiian. a weekly paper opposed
to the revolution, which would not he
stayed and swept him out of the is
l. lands at last. He then travelled in
II America as Julian d. Hayne, and as
O. the advocate of the dethroned family
g posing as a man of wealth and leisure,
but as the devoted servant of his
s Queen Liliuokalani. In this guise he
d appeared at Melboyne. Fla, where he
e met among other guests, the widow of
p Jesse Brush, banker of Usage, Iowa.
Il and married her. Subsequently she
learned his true character and went
n home, but meantime Hallan had OBJ
tanned her fortune by forgeries said to
k embrace the counterfeiting of a seal
g making the crime its most serious
I, form
i Later on ne was arrested III New
York and convicted of his earlier for
J. geries. The Iowa people came in tc
: identify him and to assist in the prose-
2, cution. which resulted in the convic-
/. tiCn which enabled the school at Sing
|, Sing to profit by his fine abilities. Hal
|. Ian was born at Addison, n. Y. and
/, being orphaned at an early age, was
n adopted by a lawyer of Steuben county
| 1,a
= His protector dying, Hallan marie.
J. his widow and took UP his pra.uce
3 Subsequently he moved to New IcrE
and the general outline of his career Is
,r as presented.
r During the trial of the case in New
p York City, ex-speaker Eaton and tn,
J. late widow of Hallan went to New
York City to assist in the identification
At the trial Hallan denied that he evel
met the woman and attempted to max,
out that it was a case of mistaken
II identity.
81 The story of his obtaining tn
ie woman's money was sensational. II
had so enmeshed himself in the goo,
graces of his wife that she decided t
i him all her real estate in Usage. Thi
he quickly turned into money ant
then obtaining her consent to his with
70 drawal of her stock and securities hel,
for her in the Usage National bank, h
. visited Usage for the purpose of OBJ
4 tanning the money Avery Brush, thel
as now president of the bank, refuse,
- to give the money up, and proceed
ings We're threatened by friends of Mrs
Hallan, or Hayne, as she was known
to have guardian appointed for hei
'e Matters drifted along and finally tn
widow became convinced of her hus
90 bands perfidy, and was only too will
90 ing to assist in his prosecution when
30 came up for trial in New York Cit,
and would also have prosecuted hir
on similar charge upon his releas
MT from Sing Sing had he returned
nj Iowa.
Mt One of the ludicrous things in cor
or nection with the affair was that Will