The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-08-19
Honolulu
Newsletter
Racy Paragraphs From the Capitol On
Current Topics.
(By oscar Brenton.)

red and twenty dollars, coin of the
realm from the post office safe is
not going to end with the repay
ment of the sum by Joe Kubey, the
assistant postmaster and the last
person to handle the money official
ly. While the matter has only just
become known to the public the
disappearance occurred on the third
OF July. the money having been sent
by the postmistress at Leilehua. It
is rule that when money, funds of
the post office depart ment, is trans
mitted by one postmaster to the
nearest first class Office, printed
slip containing the divisions and
description of the money so sent is
filled and mailed separate from the
coin package. In this instance the
money, l believe. was mostly in coin
and the official slip containing the
count was put inside the bag. The
money arrived here by the late
evening train and was receipted for
by the night clerk and by him turn
ed over to the representative of the
registry division and a receipt taken.
A half dozen men handled the pack
age, with four other packages and
the receipts are regular up to the
time Kubey got it. Package
numbered five is missing. There
the trail ends and Kubey was called
upon to pay the money which he
did. He says he remembers leav-
ing the safe open one night and it
may have been the night the money
bag was inside. Nobody really knows
but the man who took the money
and he is modest about telling. Un-
fortunately Kubey has been associat-
ed with so many different little
gambling scrapes that the officials
look askance at him. He was men,
toned, merely mentioned, in con-
nection with the Jack Stayton, af-
fair. But Stayton, though arrested
for opening letters addressed to the
post office inspector, was not believ-
ed to have been mixed in anything
crooked. He gambled few and
was one of the boys but when the
end came and the grand jury did
not indict him, or the petit jury
freed him, do not recall which,
his funds tailed to dot with the
: books of the department and he
married the girl of his choice and
flew the coop. Now comes little
Kubey in a mix that, to the officials,
is beyond ken. His last escapade
was with the bunch of customs in
spectors caught gambling within the
sacred precincts of the Customs
House. Nothing doing as far as he
was concerned, and this, connected
with other events in the life of the
young man, has caused his friends
to remark on occasions that Joe
could fall overheard in deep water
and come up with his pockets full
of gold fish. Meaning thereby that
he is lucky. Perhaps his luck is
with him still. The inspectors are
saying nothing but they are doing a
lot of timebiding. Detective Burns
says that no man can commit a crime
successfully to himself. In other
words there is always loose string
that the man on the trail picks up.
| have hunch that Hare sees the
string now.
A. B. MacElroy, persistent bum,
has been called to his fathers.
had the pleasure of examining the
records of the county Jail the other
day and proved by them that Nc,
Elroy spent all but twenty-five days
of the two last years of his life ir
the county Jail on charges of vag.