The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-19
BAKER FOUND At
PALA|MA HOSPITAL
SeIf-Styled Son OF Former Gov.
ern0r Located by
Police.

The mysterious man who, under the
name of John K. Baker, Jr., bunkoed
the Young Hotel, flint TANNED large
number of the Japanese and Chinese
stores of Honolulu, took joy rides ad
lib. in automobiles for which he neg
lected to pay, ate $57 dinners, gave
dinner parties, and generally trod the
primrose path in one glad whirl of joy
John K. Baker, Jr., alias Kaualii, alias
John Bright, the last being his true
name, has been found. Yesterday af-
ternoon he was lodged in the tanks by
Chief of Detectives Joe Leal.
And the short but by no means sim
pie annals of Mr.. John Bright might
tie BRIEFLY entitled ''from the insane
asylum to the Young Hotel, or how
to be happy though crazy
John Bright, to tell the story briefly,
put OF his hat and walked out of the
pnpule house straight to the Young
Hotel, registered there as John K.
Baker, Jr., son of Ex-Governor John K.
Baker, ordered the best the house could
furnish, and started in to have the time
of his life. And he certainly had it.
Bright was captured yesterday at the
Palama Hospital, where he had been
as patient during all the time the po-
lice were so diligently looking for him.
And if he saw the newspapers during
that time he must have smiled might
lily In his sleeve at all the commotion
he was creating.
Sheriff Jarrett has for week been
1rlx A1aA 4.
ed himself off here as son of John
K. Baker, of Hilo, was John Bright,
but he wanted to be absolutely sure
before saying anything about it. That
his suspicious were correct was proved
yesterday when Bright, tangled in a
net of his own prevarications, and un-
able to extrieate himself, confessed
the truth.
The story of Bright's apprehension
Is no less strange than the rest of the
tale in which he is the central figure.
On the day that the mysterious Mr..
Baker so suddenly dropped from sight,
the superintendent of the Palama hos
pital received telephone message
from man who said that his name
was Williams and who stated that he
was the same Williams who had re-
Gently been patient at the institu-
ton. He stated that during the day
young man would arrive at the hos
pital for treatment. This young man,
he said, was the son of Sheriff Saffrey,
of Maui. ''You take him in and take
care of him until he is cured" said
the voice over the telephone, "and /
will be responsible for the BILL -
The same afternoon the supposed
young Saffery arrived at the hospital
and was given room there and treat
ed for rheumatism, from which he was
suffering.
All might have gone well with the
enterprising youth if it had not been
for his unconquerable desire to talk. He
talked too much and to such purpose
that he got himself into trouble. In
conversation with the nurse he yolun-
teered the information that he had
been staying at the house of Sheriff
Jarrett! And Sheriff Jarrett was at
that very time industriously looking
for the man who said he was his guest.
Meantime, Mr.. Williams walked in
to the hospital and was told that the
young man he had sent up there was
still in the institution. Mr. Williams,
of course, denied ever having sent any
body to the hospital. He was taken
in and shown the spurious Safery, but
insisted that he had never seen the
man before.
~ All this seemed very queer. and the
nurse called up Sheriff Jarrett and told
him that there was man at the hos
pltal who said he was son of Sheriff
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