The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-04
IDENTITY OF THE.
LAIE STRANGER
DISCOVERED
Police Learn Date Of His
Arrival in the
Islands.
WAS SACRAMENTO MAN
Shadow Of Mystery Is
Still Surrounding
Strange Case.
WAS SACRAMENTO MAN
(FrOm sunday's AdvortiSer.)


The body found a week ago on the
beach at Laiewai, with a bullet hole
in the temple, is that of D. w. Scott,
who came to Honolulu on the Lurline
On December IA, and who has been UNI
til a week ago Wednesday roomer
at the Occidental Hotel.
What mystery remains now in the
case win be found only, think the
police, in the reason why he killed him
self. Setting aside several chances of
it being other than suicide, and the
chances of foul play narrowed down
to small limits yesterday, the latter
theory has been discarded by Chief
McDufie and Sheriff Jarrett who con-
tinued their investigations and es
tablished the identity of the man yes
terday. / has been decided that the
body was picked up in or very near the
spot where he fell and the failure to
find the revolver within reasonable
distance is the one incident pointing
to death other than self inflicted, but
the officers are confident that they can
find the weapon by raking the sands
and pebbles in the water at low tide.
A special trip will be made for this pur-
pose by the sheriff and chief, for no
possible chance of obtaining informa-
tion is being overlooked.
The dead man is w. D., or d. w.
Scott, and has spent the past four
months as guest at the Occidental
Hotel at he corner of Alakea and King
streets. His actions while there have
been so curious and eccentric that what
little is known of them forms fitting
background to what was done on the
lonely beach in the twilight week ago
last Friday.
The man arrived in Honolulu on De-
cember IA on the steamer Lurline. For
a week there is hiatus in the records
of his movements. Then he is discov-
cred at the Occidental Hotel where he
continued to reside until March %
when he left with the avowed purpose
of walking around the island. The in
cidents of his trip related In The Adver-
tiser yesterday were established by the
investigations yesterday.
The clue to the man Is identity was
afforded by a resort made to McDufie
by =. H. F. Wolter, proprietor of the DC.
cidental, that q man who answered the
general description had been staying at
his place and had left on the twenty
second. on a trip around the island and
had not returned
Prove the Connection.
Several other hotel managers had re-
ported some of their guests on a walk
ing trip around the island, but Nc
pufRe investigated the Occidental man
before looking into the Others. He
searched his room and found only 8
telescope full Of clothes neatly packed
A close examination of these clothe!
was made with the purpose of connect
ing them with the few effects that thu
deputy sheriff of Koolauloa saw fit *
preserve. The results of the investiga
tion satisfied the officers that they haC
the right man and they did not follow
out any of the other reports.
A few scraps of a timetable, read
ing portland and way stations,'' ha,
been found IN the mans pocket. II
the telepscope was an Oregon time
table as well as a map of that Stat
and one Of California. The laundr,
mark on all the clothes was the sam
as that on the handkerchiefs recovered
in his pockets. The laundry marks, in
cidentally, have not been recognized b,
any of the local laundries.
An electric insole which was foun'
in the man % shoe seems to correspond
with an electric belt found in the room
of the Occidental guest. The cuff but
tons which had been in the shirt foln'
on him were fitted by the chief in on
of the shirts, found in the Occidental
and their points fitted exactly into tn
diseolored places around the buttOl
holes of those shirts.
Clothes Cheap.
Strangely eontrasted with the NOR
mr. less exnanRiva clofhaa in vvhieh th
man met his death were the clothe
that We're found in the room. With th
exception of q nobby suit of elOthe
made by the "Royal Tailors, sa
Franciseo,p they were all cheap an
seemed appropriate TO a man who ha
been living as he had been doing.
The man first came to the Oceidentn
on December 81, when he paid his frs
week 3 rent In advance and continue
TO pay regularly up to the day he left
when he again paid his rent for an
other week. He IL stated 10 have al
ways paid his rent with a ten o
twenty dollar bank note, paying 1t O
March 10 with banknote on the Hope
dale (Illinois) Bank. On March q
the day no left, he paid with a fy
dollar bill, the smallest that he ha
broken up 10 that date and an indiel
tion, coupled with other facts, that hi
hneneea were Funning down.
Unlon Pacific Express Compan
check found on the telescope renalte
~ inquiries being made 81 the con
pauy . oiiee with the result that th
receipt he had signed for hiu grip We
ouhn The receipt was signed b
himself hnd . ths lnl trace of y