The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-22

riage of Mrs. Lewis and it all appeared
to me as a scheme to learn where the
furniture was, and also whether /
would take kindly to the notion OF
paying the alleged board bill. My sis
ter has the property now, and don't
think Mrs. Lewis will care to present
the alleged board bill to her for GER
tain reasons"
Mrs. Loosely, who has her art studio
at 1860 Page street declared yesterday
that Mrs. Lewis had told her in the
presence of witnesses while Mrs. Tur-
ton was living that Mrs. Turton owed
her nothing.
Il paid off the mortgage and here is
the property she said. I tried to
sell it at auction for the benefit Of
Mrs. Turton, but the bids were too low.
The table had been used as an ironing
table in the Lewis home, tracing irons
had been run over it and it cost me
$25 to have it planned down and pol
ished.
Il never asked a penny from Mrs.
to keep it for her After she died Pub
lie Administrator Hynes came here and
said that he had been informed that
Mrs. Turton had left vast estate. The
address he had had Mrs. Lewis name
on it, so | knew where he got his in
formation.
Mrs Lewis took Mrs. Turton to her
home and she also got her white and
! gold .Haviland china set. Mrs. Turton
| dreaded going back to the Lewis home.
She had been accustomed to wealth and
refinement, and when her sons died
she had to learn to sew. She earned
thirty cents day and her grocery bill
from January to June, the month she
died was SIS. 1t was mostly for crack
ers.
Mrs. Sam Parker of Honolulu paid
her funeral expenses. Mrs. Merrill and
Mrs Fred S Knight sent her to the
hospital.
she had been offered a ticket to
Honolulu, where she had two sisters
living, but she said she would rather
starve among strangers than to go
back and parade her poverty where she
had once mad millions. She was poor
before the fire, the vast sugar planta-
tons having been lost through litiga-
ton with her husbands partner Camp
bell
She pawned her diamonds and
emeralds to the late Claus Spreckels
and sold her costly laces and mono,
grained linen and fine dresses to So
ciety women for a song-perhaps
chorus would be nearer the sum she
got.
II think | have some letters regard.
ing Mrs. Lewis which were written by
Mrs. Turton l think she will not care
to present the board bill. | have the
notes which she gave for the money
she got on the furniture and all the
records in the case. | am trying Il
sell the table and pictures"
Mrs w. e. Lewis of Waldo Poin
said yesterday.
mrs, Turton came to live here
about eight months before the fire
She had no money, but we liked hel
and cared for her. She was a woman
of great refinement and had Travelled
all over the world. Her husband haC
left her fortune, but the money hat
been lost in the Hawaiian Islands
from which place she had come.
VALUED PICTURES AT $1,000.
About two weeks before the hr,
she moved to the country taking will
her everything but great koawooC
chest, a koawood table and copies
made sometime in 1900 of two Rem
brandt pictures She always claimed
that she had refused $4,000 for thes,
pictures, which she had purchased II
Paris. Two weeks after she left tn,
big fire came and she lost everything
1T was long time before we hearC
from her and then we went to see hel
and found her living in abject pow
erty, working in a shirt factory anC
receiving, as she said, $40 a month.
Through Mrs. John Merrill tried
to get her to come home with me, but
she said that Mrs. Merrill would sell
her pictures and table and get her {
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