The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-03
KAPEA IS
Gull TY
Brought Back From
London He
Confesses.

"Oh, I'm guilty and have come bach
to take my medicine. IF they want t.
put me in prison, or hang me. or TAX
me out and drown me, Orwell, I sup
pose I'll have to take what L get.
will plead guilty"
So said Henry S. kapea, the young
Hawaiian, and former trusted clerk OF
the Hawaiian Trust & Investment
| Company. who absconded about a year
ago with valuable securities of the
company, valued at about $4,000. Kapea
had just ended trip around the world
half of which was done in secret and
| under assumed names, the other hall
being as prisoner in charge of Deputy
| Sheriff Henry Vida, who went to Lon
| don for him. Kapea paced up an6
down the corridor of the police station
| thoughtful and sad-faced, but his face
| lighted up when he saw old-time
| friends, and the newspaper men We're
received with smiles. To them the
| story of his travels. On a table near
| him was an English cloth bag con-
tanning all the belongings he has-all
that remains of the $4,000 he stole.
Kapea does not mince words in talk
ing of himself stole is a word he
freely uses in discussing his own case.
n hot
sins found me out"
Say, it makes me laugh to read in
the big newspapers away from here
that 1 stole $40, 0O,OOO and gave cham
payne suppers, etc. said Kapea,
chuckling at the remembrance. II wish
L had that much, but look at mel
haven't a penny to my name, and 1
didn't have when 1 was arrested"
''Oh, L saw the story you wrote about
me when L left Honolulu and sailed
away in the China said Kapea,
porter. Il saw all that was said about
me and how / left Honolulu and stow
ed away. Well, 1 didn't exactly do
that. 1 paid my way there. At Yoko-
hama 1 located some copies of the Ad-
vertiser and read all about myself.
How did l leave Japan? Well-I left
there all right. Yes, 1 left on a Ger
man S. S line. All this talk about my
giving champagne dinners in Sicily and
in the Mediterranean-that makes me
laugh. 1 was short of money I tell you.
when 1 got to London 1 was not
very rich. Then I began to feel that
my sins We're finding me out. 1 didn't
see anybody from Hawaii over there.
Then I went from bad to worse finan-
cially, and finally 1 didn't have any
thing left
lone day 1 was playing billiards,
hoping to win some money, when a
man tapped me on the shoulder and
told me he had a warrant for my ar
rest. 1 asked him what for and he
said it was something about money.
told him he had the wrong man, but
he said 1 could explain all that to the
magistrate. Well. L went along with
him to Bow street where l was charS-
ed and then went to Brixton Jail.
Then. finally, / heard that an Of
ficer was coming from Honolulu TO
take me back? l wondered who it
might be. When I got into court 1
wondered whether it would be High
Sheriff Henry, or Billy Rawlins, or
Sam Leslie or Charley Chillingworth,
but when 1 saw Henry. Vida in the
room 1 knew he was the one sent after
me.
1--WE had a pretty good trip across
the Atlantic on the Cedric and in New
York 1 was taken to a jail-not the
Tombs-I don't remember what it was.
Then 1 saw big stories about me in
the New York papers. with big head
lines. how 1 had stolen 100000 900. 1
didn't care so much about that over
there. because nobody knew me. Then
Henry took me on the train and we
came straight across to San Francisco
We only stopped in Chicago long
enough to change cars.
Say. that story in the San Fran
cisco paper that Henry Vida took me
to a room in the Occidental Hotel. to
keep me away from people, was fake.
Henry got that put in the papers. but
1 was taken to place they called
the Tanks Looks just like a tank,
too. 1 yelled to the keeper there, not
to turn the water on me.
w men we got TO hOIOiulu ttAiS
morning 1 could see people on the dock,
squirting up at the deck and at me.
and then pointing at me saying That's
Kapea there. that's the man that stole
all that money and so on.
But I'm back home now and am
glad I'm here. I want to face the
music Kapea admitted to having
stolen as much as $500. the amount
named in the extradition papers. He
says he will plead guilty.
Kapea says he has lost flesh. but he
is much stouter than when he fed
from Honolulu. He is pleasant spoken,
! but whenever he is alone his face sad
dens. and he becomes nervous.
Kapea said he tried to keep pace
| with the local news and at one city
subscribed TO the daily Advertiser get
ting a receipt for So therefor, but he
never saw a copy of it afterwards
Kapea said he sent the story to Homo
| lulu signed by Henry Kalani Kent
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