The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-01-21
TWEED|E SAYS
HE IS THE GOAT
And Mathews Saying the Same
Thing They Proceed to
Fight 1t Out.
CFrOm Thursday Is Advertiser.)


With the revival of the incident of
the sale of the San Francisco theater,
Daniel Tweedie finds himself in the
limelight as both defendant and plain
tiff in cases which have come up as the
aftermath. He claims that the charges
Of gold-brickism made against him by
Lionel Mathews are untrue and he not
only did not make goat out of the
latter but nearly became the goat him
self.
Mathews is the complaining witness
in the case in which Tweedie is the de-
PENDANT and Tweedie is the plaintiff in
the case in which Mathews is the de-
fendant, having filed the latter case
some time ago in the district court, act
ing through Past Due Mills. 1t came
up for the first time yesterday and is
not yet finished.
In this suit he is asking for the sum
he claims is due him on promissory
note made him by Mathews for 5000
or so, which the latter gave, together
with 800 in cash as the price of the
San Francisco theater. Just previous
to the filing of the suit he was arrested
on charge of gross cheat preferred by
Mathews in which the latter claims
that the theater was sold to him with
all the bills unpaid and altogether a
lemon of the choicest variety.
Tweedie has a different tale to tell.
prefaced by the assertion that all the
bills were paid and that everything
was in applepie order. He says that
one Edwin V. Keck approached him ON
the matter when it was first started
and claimed to be the nephew of Claus
Spreckels and to be a wealthy young
sport. Keck, he says, offered him the
chance to come in on the ground floor
of a get rich quick scheme and he came
in per request. After he got in the
reef fell down.
After the show had been before the
public for some time, Keck climbed
into hole and pulled it in after him,
vanishing completely from the sight of
man. He took much of the funds along
and Tweedie found himself almost sole
owner of a doubtful asset. George
Osborne had come in for quite an
amount but was a silent partner and
was to take but ten per cent of the
profits. Tweedie put the deserted show
up to Mathews and the latter purchas-
ed it for $500, with 800 down.
AS for Keck, he is now supposed to
be in Salinas, California, where he ap-
pears to be gentleman of leisure ac-
cording to a letter received from a
friend of Tweedie at that place. The
letter is as follows:
t'Mr. Daniel Tweedie, Dear Sir: In
reply to yours will say that the Judge
has not been able to collect anything
yet but has the promise of the payment
of part in March. He cannot attach
on them notes unless he give another
note here in payment of same as it is
out Of the state given and you are not
here and can swear to the complaint. |
think he will pay them in time and
| you must wait as the man has no real
estate and no wages coming. He is not
doing anything but expect to get work
at Spreckls agin. You was foolish to
let him have the money and must have
patience in getting it back. The Judge
does all he can in order to collect it.
Yours truly, +. w. SCHROEDER"
The friend is a. German barkeepsr
which explains the pilikia in spelling.
Meanwhile the two suits here are be-
ing holly contested while young Keek
is still posing in Salinas, California,
"with no real estate and no wages
coming.'