The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-09
JULIAN D, HAyNE OUT Of
sing SING AND At LARGE
Was to Have Been Sent to Iowa to Answer to
Charge of forgery, but Good
Luck Saved Him.


three schoolmasters who tutored the
convicts in that penal institution Hal
Ian was once a 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 Liliuokalani
and confidence man of about twenty
years assiduous and successful prac-
tice. Hallan, or Hayne, as he is some
times known, had reasonable expecta-
ton of issuing from his present re-
straint only, unfortunately for him, to
enter upon another in Iowa, whence a
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
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
thorities and that the state would
prosecute. They afterward learned
that this was not the case, and unless
a large amount of bonds were put up
incidental expenses of transferring
Italian to Iowa, he would be released
and so the Brushes did not feel like
going to the large expense, having
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
$4,000. The affair included forgery. He
fled, or, rather, he moved away from
New York, for to say that dignified
man like Hal1an fed is scarcely fair.
most of the earth, and interrupting his
forgeries here and there to marry
woman of fortune, making up in time
a 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 Il
while at Honolulu and established there
the Hawaiian, a weekly paper opposed
to the revolution, which would not be
stayed and swept him out of the is
lands at last. He then travelled in
America as Julian D. Hayne, and as
the advocate of the dethroned family,
posing as a man of wealth and leisure
but as the devoted servant of his
Queen Liliuokalani. In this guise he
appeared at Melboyne, Fla, where he
met among other guests, the widow of !
Jesse Brush. a banker of Usage, Iowa. i
and married her. subsequently she |
learned his true character and went |
home. but meantime Hallan had OBJ |
tanned her fortune by forgeries said to |
embrace the counterfeitfng Of seal, |
the crime its most serious |
'orrn.
Later on he was arrested in New I
York and convicted of his earlier for
geries. The Iowa people came in to |
Il let IN h
.ution, which resulted in the convic- |
ion which enabled the school at Sing
Sing to profit by his fine abilities. Hal
an was born at Addison, n. Y, and !
being orphaned at an early age, was
adopted bv a lawyer of Steuben county, |
whose name he took and still bears.
His protector dying, Hallan Marie |
,is widow and took up his pratt
he moved to New YER, /
md the general outline of his career is
S presented. /
During the trial of the case in New
York City. ex-speaker Eaton and the /
ate widow of Hallan went to New 4
York City to assist in the Identification.
,t the trial Hallan denied that he ever Il
net the woman and attempted to make
,11t that il was case of mistaken
IDENTIFY.
The story of his obtaining the
money was sensational. He
ad so enmeshed himself in the good
races of his wife that she decided to
i'm all her real estate in Usage. This
e quickly turned into money and
hen obtaining her consent TO his with
rawal of her stock and securities heId |
mr. her in the Usage National bank, ne
listed Usage for the purpose OF Oh
aiming the money. Avery Brush, then
8 now president of the bank, refused
n give the money up, and proceed
,es were threatened by friends OF Mrs.
Iallan, or Hayne. as she was known,
, have a guardian appointed for her.
Iatters drifted along and finally the
-idow became convinced of her hus-
and's perfidy, and was only too will
% TO assist in his prosecution when he
anne I'D for trial in New York city,
nd would also have prosecuted him
!, a. similar charge upon his release