The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-30
DOCTOR kUEHN
BOBS Up AGAIN
Inquiry From New York Woman
to Find if He Was
Married Here.

Rolando Kuehn. NJ. D.. Is the subject
of an inquiry received at the Govern
ors office from Mrs. Emma Emerson
: West 92nd street, New York, who
among other things says:
Il would like the marriage records
/ searched all through Honolulu for the
marriage of Rolando Kuehn, NJ. D.
From information which comes indi-
rectly from his bosom friend. he is
supposed to have had a wife in Central
America. If this can be proved it
| would make him a bigamist and, as
an estate is at stake. much depends
on this information. DIR. Kuehn claims
he was well known in Honolulu and
was secret service man to the queen,
but fancy this is talk. If he was well
known there in 1890, 1894 or any time,
should think some light could be
thrown on his life, and I would like
every detail of his career"
Clippings from a newspaper of De-
| cember Is, 1906, containing a sensa-
| tional story about DR.. Kuehn are en-
| closed in the letter They contain a
| snapshot picture of him, captioned:
''Dr. Rolando Kuehn, globe trotter.
soldier and specialist, who is accused
| by her relatives of kidnapping his
fiancee, Miss Ida Miller, and prevent
ing all communication with the beauti-
full young heiress." A picture of a three
story house front has this captfon
''The Home of Miss Ida May Miller.
AT 1919 S. 18th st. Miss Miller has not
been seen by her relatives for several
months and they are much excited over
her disappearance
A fash head over the story, with the
portrait beneath il, reads: Crowd at
Home of Lost Heiress. Defied by DR..
Rolando Kuehn, who, Astride Back
Fence, Flourishes q Pistol and Makes
Speech. Intends to Hold Fort"
The back fence is found in the mar
rative to be at the house of Miss Miller.
There was a crowd of 200 people defied
by the valiant doctor, who is reported
AZ pdI DIS 1OLIONS ny dIl lniSINIeNSIs
i've grown this beard to frighten
people away from here" added DIR.
Kuehn, patting a three-inch growth of
grizzled hair upon his face.
With my dog Nellie-shut up, Nell
lie, don't bark so much-IIl defy the
world. Nellie's a good dog, boys, and
Wen stand off this mob together
Having told about Miss MilHer's |
mother kicking at the back door that |
afternoon, and being informed of a |
supposition that the lady mentioned |
was dead, this was his answer:
THAT cats out of the Bag said DR.. |
Kuehn explosively. "She isn't dead |
at ALL She is insane and has been in |
a sanitarium.''
He denied that he was Spaniard. /
his first name being given him after
a Spanish doctor, but was Of German
American descent and born in Phila-
delphia. Early in life he was seized /
with ''wanderlust' and he had been in
South American revolutions, from
which he went on to say as quoted:
And I might say here that if by
any trick of fate I do not marry the
girl J. love and whose interests I am
protecting even to the damage of my
own-in short, if I do not marry Miss
Miller, l win again return to South
America and there / will stir up
revolution and put myself in the front
rank at the first engagement and
place my body in front of the first
bullet and I will die on the battlefield
"a martyr to love"
An account of the career of DR..
Kuehn in the story begins thus, being
about as accurate as mainland papers
are in fixing Hawaiian royal
when It makes King Ka-
akaua's sister his daughter:
''Dr. Kuehn is a graduate of the
Jefferson Medical College of the class
IF 1882. He has been in South America.
For a short time he was medical ad-
wiser to King Kalakaua, father of the !
famous Hawaiian queen, Liliuokalani.
Then he went back to South America
where he was physician to leper
priest"
DR.. Kuehn told the interviewer Of
attempts made on his life while at the
Miller home.
Robert E. Henderson, co-executor
With Miss Miller of her mothers es-
ate. at the time had not seen Miss
Miller for six months. He said the
mother of Miss Miller had been dis ,
harged cured from a sanitarium and
vas then a music teacher, living in {
Iorristown.
Miss Miller was of age and some of
Ter relatives declined TO take any part
n the proceedings against DR.. Kuehn-
THE LOCAL STORY.
Last January the Advertiser pub S
ished good deal of matter relating i
O DR.. Kuehn. on the occasion of re-
ewing a Philadelphia paper of De-
enber IS that contained an article
thus:
Miss Ida May Miller, the half mill
ion dollar hefress whom DIR. Rolando
luehn. physician to Father Damien
nd Queen LfliuokaIani, is charged
18th hiding. has, in all probability.
cen in Philadelphia for the last two
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