The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-14
S. PUPUHI AR0 THE
AUTO--CHAPTER TWO
Our Hero Is Punched Because
Ne Didn't Steal Trenrs
Automobile.

Some people have good luck all the
time aud some people have bad luck
all tho time. Chief MeDuaic, for in
stance. Is always lucky and Sam Pu-
pnhi, 20 take another instance, is never
lucky. Take the time when Sam got
piuched for gross cheat in an auto
mobile deal, but that, as Kipling says,
| is another story
The present story deals with auto
mobiles, too, although Sam, for all that
history records, may never have ridden
in one since the day he sold an eight
hundred.dullar auto, which he bought
with his father s money, for eighteen
dollars and forgot to pay back the old
man.
The only automobile In this story is
r. H. Trent 3 automobile. Poor, long
suffering. decent, respectable, Methodist
automobilel Always getting into
troubled
Ever since it got "swiped'' right
out of the Square Deal garage, that
automobile has been in the public eye.
When Chief McDufie captured Aimee
and convicted him for the theft of the
lpoor little machine which got overturn-
ed on the Moanalua road, he also ran
across another clue.
"I tink Sam Pupuhi he did it, .
was the information accorded the chief
in his hunt for the l1idnaper Of unpro-
tected automobiles.
The chief arrested Sam Pupuhi for
completely. Sam swore by every little
god in the seven heavens that he didn t
deal in automobiles any more. Sam
was right. But this ism t the end of
the story.
After Sam was arrested all the people
he did business with were under the
necessity of coming down to the police
station to transact it. The first ia
arrive was a Japanese who wanted ia
know if Sam was pinehed. Sam was
The Japanese had a lease made out tC
him by Sam, as agent for woman own
ing property on School street, but il
was not yet signed. The Japanese
wanted to get it signed.
McDufie looked over the lease fol
form IS sake. Then he told the Japa
nese to go home and rest easy, San
was having vacation. The chief haI
habit of getting lunches. 1t appear
that Sam was acting as agent for {
Hawaiian named Gilman, residing a
i
took the police auto and went to Kai
muli. Gilman said Sam s transaction
/ in his name were all correct.
} The chiefs bunch had evidently go
: off on the wrong track, but he gave i
/ the benefit of the doubt and wen
| around to see the woman owning tn
r property Sam wanted to lease to tn
{ Japanese. The woman said she owne,
t property on School street, did not know
0 any gentleman by the name of San
: Pupuhi and never made him an agen
+ lof her. The chiefs little bunch dance
g joyous jigs.
Y This is the way the chief came b
it. Gilman's property adjoins tn
e woman's property on School street. TIL
e chief knew that Sam was acting a
/, agent for Gilman and also knew that a
v such he searched the records. He fig
: ured out that he had learned thing
Q about the neighbOring property therei
+ and was thus able to lease to the Japi
e ense all the property instead of Gil
Il man IS share in it.
O Sam doesn't like automobiles an
o more and he dOesn' like little joyoU
IS lunches either.
e But even this isn't the end of tn
h story.
1t seems that Sam has been doin
wholesale buneo business. He buncoe
the wife of the driver for Peacoc
: & Co. out of fifteen dollars as easy q
rolling off log on fake lease.
u whole crop of fake leases has sprun
u up behind him and the chief expec
a that he will have the pleasure of pla
u ing about six serious charges aft
IS Sam Pupuhi's name, just because Ricl
ard Trent's automobile went and G,
n. itself ''stoled. -
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