Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-12-03
OBTAINED COIN ON
FALSE PRETENSi5

\ force of detectives was busy this
morning watching the steamer HilO.
man previous To her departure for San
Francisco. thcil object being to pre-.
vent one r. Amcs from leaving In her
This individual did not. however.
make any attempt to depart. and he
was found little later at his room by
Detective Reeves and placed under ar
rCst on charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses.
The arrest was made on a warrant
sworn to by William BCllina, who al.
legged that Ames had obtained S. from
him by exhibiting to him check for
SIPS on Bishop a Co. made out in his
favor. This happened on November
"a, but although Amcs promised to
lay Bcllina within two days, he has
not done so yet.
The police state that AmCs has
been borrowing money from several
parties. using the check as an open
Sesame, bu, that in no case has he
made good. Most of his al.
legged victims Soon to have been con.
nected with the Club Stables When
Amcs was arrested he told Chief Of
Detectives Taylor that he had at no
time possessed such check as th2t
referred to by Belma.
As far as the police have been able
TO learn Amcs came here as sailor
In the revenue cutter Manning. but
EFT her In this port. He went later
On to Maui, where he was employed
at SprCckelsvile, but some time ago
he returned to Honolulu, where he
entered the employ of the Associated
Garage Co, from which he was dis.
charged las. Saturday.
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to have his first word doubted. will
make a new statement within two
months time that he will not again be
u candidate, and there will be no go
ing back of this statement, no matter
now iinical some of tho dOubters Of
the Presidents word may be-
People with Roosevelt.
1t Is entirely probable that dele.
gates from several States soon will be
chosen and told that the first choice
Of the State which sends them to the
''llN'lNl'l 10 llNbNlplt lNODNtNtll I.
Mr., Roosevelt may acquiCsce in this
without saying one word that would
lead one to suppose that he Is not en-
tlrely willing to profit by the votes OF
these delegates.
The selection of Roosevelt dele
gates means simply the selection of
delegates who will uphold the Prcsi.
dents policies. As said before in
other dispatches, Mr.. Taft bas weak.
ened himself by Il sort of halfhearted
attitude. The President believes in
him and believes that he will do what
The present President of the United
States has been trying to do, and II
almost certainly Is the Roosevelt pro,
gram II Congress insists on confirming
Itself this winter to the passage of
appropriation bills to the ignoring of
certain vital corporation legislation,
10 force through his own delegates.
which he believes will 90 to his Sccre,
tary of War. a plank in the platform
| of the Republican party which will BE-
AN uneQulvOCal endorsement of that
which he asks and which Congress
refuses to do.
II may be that Mr.. Roosevelt Is
:cckoning without his host, ii Mr.
Taft be considered his host. but there
Is only one feeling in Washington a
mong the men who stand for the Ad,
ministration policies and who think
that they stand for the feeling of the
people at large, and that Is that Mr..
Roosevelt will get what he wants in
Congress at the coming session, or
falling it, will get what he wants
through his successor from the next
Congress after the people in a Nation,
| al platform have administered re,
Duke.