Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-04-08
Finds Barton Dead.

/ She called his room and got no an.
! swer. Then she went to Vida villa
and. seeing no one around, went to his
room to Say hello. When she
reached the room. she found young
! Barton stretched out on the bed. The
girl horror.stricken, rushed from the
room and screamed for help. Mrs.
/ Evans. i'm the main house, telephoned
/ for DR.. A. G. Hodgins, and soon he
was at the scene. Secretary Kirk b.
/ Porter of the Board of Health was also
! on the spot quic ky. He is a boarder
at Vida villa.
A search of the room revealed no
trace of poison, though It is believed
certain that he took poison. small
! bottle with a drop of whisky at the
! bottom was found.
I A note to Miss Huse said simply:
dearest Girl: You are the only
one who knows why | die tonight. |
/ hope you and the damn Dago will be
happy. Goodby. and God bless you
{ until we meet face to face in He'll, if
! there is such place. Don't worry
over my death. JIM"
Another letter was written to his
I brother, Dob" or j. r. T. Barton, who
Is employed in the naval station Of
| ice. This note shows beyond ques.
! ton that physical illness PLAYED an
important part in leading to the rash
act.
Heart Trouble Acute.
lie tells his brother that heart trou.
bic is nearly killing him, and that he
cannot last much longer" lie feels
I he is about to die he says. The let.
ter, as well as an unpublished part Of
that to Miss Huse, is of heart.break.
! ing pathOs and sadness. II reveals
young man of naturally fine and true
character, and his message to his
loved ones of the family shows more
plainly than words the bOyishly splen.
did character at the last. He had left
check on the First National Bank
for Sl0G.i0 for his brother, this being
his balance.
Every indication points unmista1i.
| ably that he had taken his leave of
life deliberately, so far as his prepare.
tiOns at the last were concerned lie
| had written also letter to Benson
Smith Il Co.
Barton's body this morning was IA.
ken to Williams undertaking parlOrs
and intcrment will be made this aft
Crnoon.
After Miss Huse was taken from
| the scene shocked almost beyond her
strength at the suicidal death of the
young man she had seen but few
hours before. she was taken to the
Young Hotel by Mr.. and Mrs. V. s.
Giffard and has remained there since
Miss Huse's Statement.
There this morning she gave de.
| tailed statement to the Bulletin.
| In the room were Mrs. Giffard, Miss
Newkirk of Los Angeles, Miss Huse's
| Chum and roommate, and Mr.. S. S.
PaXson of the Singer Sewing Machine
! Company's local branch, where Miss
Huse has been employed for some four
months.
Miss IIuse, although the strain Of
the last two days has been n very SC.
we're one, has shown good sclf-cOntrol,
A sweet.faced girl with large brown
eyes, dressed simply in blue, she told
her story slowly and clearly, aud re.
spOnded to questions without hesita.
ton except occasionally when her ev
ident grief almost broke into sobs.
The Girls Story.
81 met Mr.. Barton just after came
TO Honolulu, about six months ago,
she said. and we became very good
friends. liked him, | admired him,
and ! can have now nothing but the
best of words for him. He was very
good and kind to me.
"Of course ! knew that he objected
to my going out with other men, and
at times he was angry about it. Per.
haps he was morose, too, but ! cannot
say that certainly"
Did he ever make threats against
, his life, or threats of any kind when
in these jealous moods?" she was ask.
ed.
"NO-never," said Miss Huse al
though he did say things sometimes
that showed he was much upset about
it.
81 knew that he did not like 1t for
me to be out last Saturday night. II
I had happened before. But there was
no reason why ! should not go. | was
/ not engaged to him, nor in any way
bound to him alone, and there was
absolutely no reason for me not to ac
cept the invitation out.
~ do not know Mr.. DonderO very
we'll have been out with him not
more than two or three times. He
asked me to dinner and | went, and
with Mrs. Langton we had a little par.
ty of three. Then he took me home
in the machine. Mrs. Newell saw him
say goodnight and go away.
at was after that that | went to call
Mr.. Barton on the telephone, and
could not get him. So | hurried over
to the Vida villa, for ! wanted him to
know that ! had come home early.
felt he would be upset and perhaps
angry.
when I saw no one around, | went
to rap on his door and just say that
was back. Then ! found him"
Miss Huse stopped a moment, biting
her lips to keep back tears, but after
moment went on
81 saw the note to me and started
TO read it, but | couldn't. ! ran out.
side, screaming and found Mrs. Evans
Mt the main house. Then they called
doctor"
Miss ITuse says that although she