The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-08
REGO TO HAVE
SOME COMPANY
IN MISFORTUNE
Ills Friends Try to Get Him Bail and
Marshal Hendry is Called
Suddenly to KoIoa.

The steamer ". G. Hall, sailing for
Kauai last night, had among her pas
sengers United States Marshal Hendry,
whom. It is said, was answering hurry
call. When he comes blackwell, when
he comes back, Manuel A. Rego, held
in Oahu Jail to answer a charge of rob-
bing the mails by "kiting" bogus
money orders, will be very apt to have
company IN his misery.
1t viii be remembered that when the
first story of the shortage at Koloa
was printed, it was said that while
Rego was the postmaster, he had many
other interests, and entrusted the ad-
nlinistration of postal affairs largely to
the hands of the assistant postmaster,
John P Spalding.
When the expose came, Rego blamed
7Spalding for the condition of affairs,
and SpaIding blamed Rego. Rego was
the responsible head, as being the post
master. and he was arrested and held
to answer to Court Commissioner Judd.
Up to the present moment, Rego has
been in custody alone for the offense.
After Marshal Hendry has been in Ko-
loa about FIVE minutes, it is probable
that Rego will be alone in custody no
1cager. Spalding cannot get away from
Kauai. That is one more of the awk-
ward consequences of island wrong
doing-awkward, that is, to the doer
of wrong. The officers of justice often
find it distinct advantage.
All day yesterday the Portuguese
friends, and other friends of Rego
were striving to secure his release on
bail, and if they failed at the last 1t
was not for lack of good will and the
offer Of money. Never before has the
good will of the Portuguese community
of Honolulu seemed to 90 out with
more unanimity to fellow IN mlsfor-
tune The lower corridor of the judi
ciary building was thronged with Por-
tuguese of all degrees, carrying cash and
title deeds to property and other pa
pers showing the possession of wealth,
and all this was to be freely poured
out to prevent Manuel Rego undergoing
the humiliation of a second night in
Oahu Jail.
The story of that attempt to give
bail is in itself a good one. 1t seemed
that the friends of Rego, rallying to
his support, were prepared to pledge
all that they had in the cause. They
formed. in fact, kind of hui to put
up the bail money, it being agreed that
they woula deposit their cash and Sc
-curities in the hands of some response
BILE man. who would hold them to Sc
cure himself, and would then sign the
bail bond and set Rego free.
The first attempt to form the hui did
n3f succeed. and then the smaller Sc
curities were carried to United States
Distries Attorney Breckons, together
with an amount of cash to cover the
sum that the securities did not reach.
The District Attorney, however, could
not take cash bail.
"'Neither myself nor Mr.. Hendry J
would know what to do with it if We
were to accept it, he said.
Then the friends of Rego began skir- y
mishing for more securities, and al
though the required amount was made ,
up. they could not be examined and ;
accepted by the closing up time OF
Federal offices. And so Rego had to ,
get into the patrol wagon and go back t
to jail for another night. 1t is more
than likely that he viii be released on
bail today.
While the friends of Rego were try
ing their best to get bail for him, the
afternoon papers came out with the
following cablegram sent out from
Washington by the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. =
NJ. \. Rego, the postmaster at Koloa,
Kasai, has been removed from office
by the Post Office Department on ae-
count Of serious defalcations in his Of
fee l. Kahlbam has been made acting
postmaster at Koloa in place of Rego.
The new postmaster is deputy sher- :.