The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-10

When Harry Hynes left Honolulu fol
San Francisco the town was rid of ar
Objectionable character who spentmuel
of his time in Oahu Prison. and tbs
brief intervals outside the walls were
largely devoted to cumming sleep
ing in Chinese lodging houses, and by
pothecating other. peoples property.
The last few weeks of Hynes stay in
Honolulu were with the BUTLER Com
pany at the Orpheum, as an actor. That
was one thing that Hynes could do,
act on the stage. He was included IN
the membership of the BUTLER Company
and departed with that organization on
the Alameda for the Coast. No soon
er had he arrived there than he ran
afoul of the police. On September a
he was arrested in San Francisco by
Detectives Tyrrell and Nolan of the
San Francisco force for stealing sew
eral dollars from his roommate, Frank
Baldwin, also an actor.
Hynes arrived here about year ago
and Immediately took to the primrose
trail. What little money he had when
he arrived was soon spent, and then
he pawned his wardrobe, and finally be
came vag and companion of China
town buns, and landed in the station
house almost physical wreck and was
sent to Oahu Prison. 1t was not long
after his release that he received a sec
ond sentence, and only the arrival of
the Buhier Company saved him from
another term in Jail for larceny. He
had been employed at the Art Theater,
from which place several articles mys-
teriously disappeared.
Hynes was a sort of property man
and behind the scenes at the Art made
/" noise.'' That is, whenever moving
picture brought horses galloping upon
the scene, Hynes initiated the noise of
gaIloping hoofs. In a humorous pic
ture Hynes announced the fall of a
victim by giving the proper noise. The
of a door, the fall of ham
mer, slaps, booming of eannons, slosh-
ing of waterfall these were done by
Hynes. His old stage training stood
him in good stead. The BUTLER Com
pany needed an extra man and Hynes
got the job.
In years gone by Hynes was with
some very good companies and claimed
to have appeared on the stage with |
many of the celebrated theatrical peo
pie of decade ago, when he was in his
prime. Drink and laziness brought him
Town. He claimed to be the son of a
Illinois jurist, and letters
found in his effects when he first ar
lived indicated that he had respectable |
parents who grieved much over his |
They would never send |
money to him direct, but forwarded it |
o some church for his use. They for
yarded $50 to Bishop Libert who paid |
lis bills for awhile, and then his pa
.nts refused to do more for him, even |
when the detective bureau took up his |
.ase with them in the hope of get
ing sufficient funds to pay his steamer |
are back to San Francisco, where he |
night get employment at his profession.
Even while Hynes was playing the /
oles of the brokendown tragedian in
.aza, the servant girl in "What Hap I
,ened TO Jones, and in Camille, and
layed well, he was under police surveil-
ance, or at least was watched by an
x-member of the detective force, be-
ause of his theft of camera from the |
Art Theater proprietors, and other
tens from various people, but as his
rrest and detention would have en-
the Orpheum company, the
barge was not pressed, but the proper
Y was recovered.