The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-04
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the Beagle, to South America, though
a report had it that they went to Vic
toria.
Now it was bunch of newspaper
clippings in regard to the doings Of
Bloom and Douglas, a couple of merry
gentlemen outlaws, together with the
report that they had buried the bulk
of their fortune here, that inspired
the tall lady, above mentioned, to-
interest the eastern flnanciers in dig
ging gold away out here in the Ha-
waiian Islands.
While there was dissatisfaction be-
ing expressed by the men OF the party
who practically accused the tall lady
under false pretences, and while
things were looking cloudy for her
peace of mind, she went 20 a prom
inent local business man with a fin
ancial proposition. She wanted him
to advance her money and told him,
elso, about the buried gold There
was a prospect of those she had
brought here backing out of the
scheme and there vas the chance OF
her getting a local man into the game
with a few thousand dollars as CAPT
tai with which to secure property on
which she claimed the gold to be bur-
led. This business man threw up his
hands in holy horror at the mere pro-
position of putting up real money he
could see to finance d scheme to get
money he could not see and had no
reason to know existed. But he leak
ed" that is he mentioned the tall
lady's visit and the friend he told
passed the story along.
Then the two New York financiers
came to the conclusion that they had
been lured to Oahu to chase imaginary
wealth and they cleared out in the
S. S. Mongolia couple of weeks or
so ago.
Meanwhile the presence of the New
York financiers. the lady doctor and
the tall lady, the latter rarely if ever
appearing in the proposition except
as the string-puller, had stirred up
considerable excitement among sew
eral well-known Honolulu families all
connected by marriage. The New York
financiers were the occupants of a.
cottage in Kalihi. The owner of the
house and his wife and his brothers
and his wife's brothers, and their
wives, and so on, all more or less Sc
riously sat up and took notice of the
diggings and "goings-on" and did a
little hustling on their. own part to-
find out all about what mad leaked
out to be a search for hidden gold.
Each wanted a slice If there was to
be any pie to be cut, and when the
wind carried tales, and inquiries were
begun as to the individual and collec-
tive knowledge of all the interests,
there was a sudden and terrible 81
lence developed.
The Honolulu business man to
whom the tall lady had gone with
a request for financial help, most en-
phatically denied that she had ever
come to him. He feared the notoriety
of being mixed in the deal.
The local brothers and brothers-in-
law" aggregation severally referred
inquiry to each other in a loop-the-
loop whirligig, and the tall lady, we'll,
the tall lady was So ratified that she
told several different and differing
stories.
The tall lady makes the following
admissions:
She admits that back cas-. she told
the story of hidden gold near Ho-
nolulu.
She admits that the New York fin
anciers" came here with the eXpec-
tation of finding gold and that they
We're interested in its being discov-
cred.
She admits that they were disap-