The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-02
OONIE GETS
HER MONEY
Sick Hawaiian Woman
RENTS Large Sum
to Zionist.

There was no doubt a general sigh
of relief breathed by the more intelli-
Dowie. the Zionist prophet moved
on when the steamer carrying him to
Australia touched here, and did not
tarry to work upon the superstitions
of the susceptible class for coin.
Nevertheless it is said that Dowie,
at some time or another, did impose
upon the credulity of one of the most
unfortunate people of Hawaii, an in
curably sick woman, to rob her of a
large sum of money. The matter was
informally discussed at the Board of
Health meetin.s yesterday.
Mrs. James Feary, whose husband
died at kalaupapa, it was stated,
wrote to Dowie asking his prayers
that she might be cured of the disease
that carried off her husband
One statement had it that the widow
remitted S40O to Prophet Dowie, but
another placed the amount as high
as 1920.
1t was further stated, as a matter
of fact. that Dowie has paraded Mrs.
Feary's name in one of his publica-
tions as that of a person cured through
the influence of his prayers. The poor
woman is now detained at the Kalihi
receiving station, with every prospect
of hajncr sent n K1lanT,an3
Another pathetic story in Mrs
Fearys affairs was discussed at the
Board meeting. She has made a COM
plant to the effect that she has been
robbed of O,O0O alleged by her to have
been left by her husband.
1t appears that the matter was Of
fered to a large number of attorneys
to investigate, but all of them refused
to handle the principal exhibits, these
consisting of bank and memorandum
hooks. with other memoranda which
had been left by the dead man.
At length E. NJ. Watson investigat-
ed the accounts as presented to hlm
by Dr. Wayson from the original docu-
ments. The result was a conclusion,
in which the members of the Board
yesterday fully concurred, that the
$1O,0 900 was a myth.
All of the financial assets left 10
Mrs. Feary by her husband consisted
of the accounts already mentioned
which included a check book OF the
bank where he had an account. F'eafy
had signed receipts for everything
coming to him, and the check stupS
evidenced the rest of how his money
had gone. There was one stub, how
ever without any amount noted there
on. but it bore the same number as
the next one, which showed SOU aS
the sum for which it had been drawn.
Vet if seems that the widows be
lief that someone has done her out
of ten thousand dollars is based on
that stub, the one blank as to any
amount. To those who have 1nVes'l-
GATED the matter the stub represents
only a spoiled check.
Upon inquiry an Advertiser reporter
was informed that the deceased
Feary's estate does not appear TO
have been carried into a court OF
probate. Neither is the decedenI
known to have had a fortune large
enough to leave $4,000 of it lying
around loose. 1t is said that he own
ed two houses, one of which he gave
before his death, to his wife and the
o+bar 70 another relative
One explanation of Mrs. Feary's eVl-
dent delusion is that her husband had
been accustomed to tantalize her, on
of bad conjugal weather, with
statements that he possessed con-
siderable fortune and would not leave !
any of it to her. There are collateral /!
statements made bearing on the cou- !
pies affairs which, as Supreme Court !
decisions say. ''it is not necessary here |
to consider"
Yet it remains a pathetic circum-
stance that a woman in Mrs. Feary's
situation should have such |
a large worry on her mind.