The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-07-20
BAKER FOUND At
PALAMA HOSPITAL
(From Monday IS Advertiser.)

name of John X. Baker, Jr, bunkoed
the Young Hotel, Unbalanced a 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 X. 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
be 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 on his hat and walked out of the
| pupule house straight to the Young
Hotel, registered there. as John X.
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 be 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
fairly sure that the man who had pass
ed himself off here as son of John
*. 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 Il
net of his own presentations, and un-
able to extricate 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 a telephone message
from a man who said that his name
was Williams and who stated that he
was the same Williams who had re-
Gently been n 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 L
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 volun.
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 takeI
!, in and shown the spurious Saffery, but
insisted that he had never seen the
man before.
> All this seemed very queer, and tho
y nurse called up Sheriff Jarrett and TOLD
>, him that there was a man at the hos
? pital who said he was son of Sheriff
- Saffery and that he had been a CUES
:, ut Sheriff Jarrett's house. Sheriff Jar
i. rett. of course, denied knowing tn,
i man, and said he would send an Off
, Ger out at once to look into the mat
, ter.
Chief of Detectives Joe Leal wen
, out but took the precaution of taking
y along with him Mrs. Caesar Vierra
; who is sister of Sheriff Saffery o
!. Maui. Mrs. Vierra, of course, did no
recognize her supposed nephew, but h
n told so plausible n tale that he ha
- her almost persuaded that he reall
Is was her nephew. But Chief Leal ha
/. been doing little quiet looking about
i and suddenly he came in from anothe
is room with "A pair of shoes which h
:. showed to the patient and asked who's
y, they were. The man said they wer
s. his "Then, you re Baker" charge
3. Loal ~ have another pair OF shoe
Y. just like these that ! found in you
d suitcase at the Young Hotel"
re- The man was dumfounded but trie
|. 20 bluff il out. But Leal was sure G
3. his ground and IL did not take Ion
d, for him 20 make Bright come throug
\ and admit that he was the man WI
i. had pissed by the name of Baker an
10 that his real name was John Bright.
d, Later, At the police station, he tol
g, more Of his story, which, however, dos
not agree with the information thu
a sheriff jarrett has. Bright says thu
u, he came 10 Honolulu from llilo re-
H. ulnT bum. A. soon as he landed her
~ he borrowed coat Of mn acqunintnn'
" nnd went directly 10 the Young llott
H. whore he registered ~ John X. Bake
y, JL In spite OF his dilapidnied appea
y nnre aud shabby clothes, he was take
w. NJ bio own valuation, given the be
" room IN the house, and treated as
20 be- We're prince In disguise.
~ Finding II ~ easy, he started out
lsF do np the town, aud he succeeded
a. tho queens taste, Everything
= wanted WAS bis, Al ho had 10 40 ~