The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-24

as follows:
BEAUTIFUL WHITE DEVIL" WILL
PAY $4,000 FOR HUSBAND.
Fairest Woman in Hawaiian Islands
Cannot Find Man to Marry Be
cause Two of Her Former Spouses
Were Found Dead on Wedding
Night, Third Was Drowned, and
Natives Say She Changed the
Fourth Into a Dog.
Following is the veracious chron-
icle:
is there anything doing?" asked a
reporter of the clerk of the hotel after
he had closely scanned the register
without discovering any United States
senators or other celebrities.
Not a thing replied the clerk.
Tough luck" sighed the reporter,
Il need story bad
80 you are a reporter in need of
story" interposed an elderly gentle
man who had been standing near the
desk. We'll. young man, I am some
own an interest in the Hawaiian Star,
and if you care to listen l may be able
to help you OUT
| The speaker was j. c. De Parte of
Honolulu, who registered last night at
the Lenox hotel. Mr.. De Parte is en-
route for Hawaii, via Seattle, but as
the coast trains are blocked he was
compelled to stop over at Minneapolis
and to probably spend the time he
concluded to take Duluth in his timer
airy.
This is the story he told in his own
words
THE WHITE DEVIL
Did you ever hear of the White
Devil of Hilo?'-Hilo is a small, the
smallest, island of the Hawaiian group.
! No? Well, it is not strange, few
outsiders have, but the White Devil OF
Hilo' has been the subject of story
Conan Doyle's Mystery of John Bar
rington Cowles,' and has attracted the
notice of criminologists of three con-
tinents.
she is a woman-one of the most
DeauCl1Ql women lndl l. nave ever ocSH
and all women of her race are beau
tifuI She is of japanese and Hawaiian
blood. She is reputed to be immensely
wealthy-maybe she is and maybe she
isn't-but anyway she used to keep W
a beautiful house and live in elegant
style. She came to Honolulu nearly IL
wears ago and rented house in the
fashionable residence district. Save fo1
her servants she lived alone. l said
alone, but a huge Great Dane dog was
her constant companion. ] mention this
because the natives used to say that
the dog was formerly man, her nus
band. and that she had changed MN
into a dog. The natives are superstl-
tious in Hawaii.
ANTECEDENTS UNKNOWN.
mo one knew anything of the wo-
mans antecedents, but beautiful wo-
man wears her passport to society or
her face. and this is especially true II
Honolulu, where an air of bohemia
ism and informality pervades every
where.
ITO tell the truth I don't remember
the woman's name-it was Madame
something or other-but she had no.
been in Honolulu four months before
ii was rumored that she was going q
marry young French officer-an at
tache of the French consulate. wen
thew were married, society is liberia
on the island and many Europeans
marry half-caste native women
DEAD ON WEDDING NIGHT.
.sThe next day the Frenchman wa
! found dead in the front hall by ser
wants. He had never been i'll DAY
and of course the coroner held an IN
vestigation. AS far as could De deter
mined there was not one thing Wronl
with the mamie was simply deao
His bride of a day disclaimed al
knowledge of the affair. As | remem
her il she claimed that they sat u
until late and she retired. he was
!. ioin her alter smoking cigar som
of me servants asserted that as the,
were locking up some hours Iater the
found him talking incoherentiy, seem
instv demented. They thought ne Wa
drunk and said nothing.
| THE whole thing looked suspiciou
| hnt there was an entire absence Oh
motive for a crime, and aosolutels
proof to implicate anybody. l guesee
tha coronsr's jury called it heart fail
80 ana lei it go at that. OF cours
tbare was gossip afoot but the pupli
memory is short.
NEXT HUSBAND DROWNED.
..wen, in less than a year she mar
i rie1 again. and this time her huspah
g was found drowned at Sugar Lod
point. our famous summer resort
u the ocean. OF course this revived II
e old gossip of her first husbands aeat
a ana tongues wagged merrily Tor
tip1e. But as in the first case mel
we're no suspicious circumstances. ne
IT husband had ridden horse 10 u
/ ooin+ early in the evening, had druh
= bottle of wine, announced his inter
ton Of walking little to relleVe
n sIeenIessness. and was found dead u
lie next morning on the edge OF the pa
" Tba man was a wealthy Engllsnma
Of good birth, but nothing ever can
81 me matter. Again there was
a ,roof of a crime, no motive apparen
" and absolutely nothing to conne'
rho wife with her husbands death
was nroven at the time that she VIC
% miles away and their relations I'D
seemingly been happy.
SHE SEEMED TO GRIEVE.
take the natl