The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-06-28
WEIRD TANGLE OF
SAILORS, WOMAN A
INDIGNANT BANKER

The attorneys who in an attempt to
secure thirty thousand dollars for Sea-
man Frank Sullivan from the skipper
of the ship Edward Sewall, who lost
their client and their fee in one fell
swoop and who are now worried over
the sanity of that client will soon have
added evidence of Mr.. Suliivan's IT.
regularities for he was arrested yes
terday for burglary.
Sullivan, it will be remembered, COM
promised with his skipper for fifty dol
lars when his lawyers one Of whom was
the millionaire tramp, "P1g" Little.
and the other George S. Curry, weren t
looking. His attorneys came to the
conclusion, like any attorney would,
that he was weak minded, but as one
of the ramifications of yesterdays af-
fair seem to show that he robbed his
own attorney, it would seem that this
complaint is small and peevish along
side of the real state of his mental
apparatus.
Acting Chief Of Detectives Kellett had
a funny time with Sullivan. Sullivan
loomed across his horizon like big
black cloud and refused to be shooed
away. Monday night the ex-seaman
came to him with wall and tale and
said that Vasahsa, the Porto Rican
woman he had adopted, had chased him
with butcher knife. Kellett told him
to stay away, which was sage advice.
But it wasn't needed.
He came back yesterday morning. He
wept and said that Vasalisa had run
away with his trunk. The chief told
him to sit down and be patient and he
would find his trunk for him after
court.
Enter the Banker.
But before court ended, L. 1. Spald-
ing, manager of the Bank of Honolulu,
called upon Kellett, towing little Will
lie Chapman. Little Willie had called
at the bank and presented a check for
$15 made out to Frank Sullivan and
duly endorsed and signed by Joe s.
Curry. The cashier failed to recognize
the name, the real Mr.. Curry's preno-
men being George, so he called the man
ager in and the manager went to the po-
lice with Little Willie.
Willie asserted that a man had given
him the check to cash in a small ice
cream parlor on River street so the
financial and police bloodhounds climb
ed into an auto and went to River
street. With the exception of the glrl
at the counter the place was empty, but
Kellett picked up from the floor blank
book of Bank of Honolulu checks. The
gentleman who dropped it, said the girl
had met Porto Rican and gone down
to the police station to tell about the
theft of trunk.
Kellett got clue from that and thu
party broke a speed record to the po
lice station. There was Sullivan still
weeping about the loss of his trunk
Kellett put him in cell and there ha
kept him very well ever since.
Anyhow, thought the chief, he nigh
try and find that trunk for Frank aht
so be impartial all around, so off h,
: went. He found Vasalisa sick in be-
and the trunk right handy. He brok
I it open and extracted from it, beside
other things, two express receipts mad
out to S. De Freest and a check date
: May 90, 1904, by s. De Freest to D
, Freest and Scott for $1SS.16.
) Still Another Glue.
: He carried his trophies back to tn
! station, where, as Conan Doyle puts II
he got another clue. He remembers,
b that the Office of s. De Freest, custoI
: broker, S4S Kaahumanu street, ha
5 been broken open Friday night last an
!, $135 in cash stolen. He sent for D
l. Freest. De Freest recognized tn
: checks and receipts as having bee
9. taken from his drawer with the money
Q Sullivan was called in and said b
i didn t know why he did it and he wa
a sorry, bat that he spent the money j
clothes for himself and Vasalisa an
that yesterday Vasalisa got mad an
burned them up.
The chief then went back to Vasalis
!. but she denied. She said they WEI
old clothes.
But the funny thing absut the littl
3 affair is that George s. Curry, the Law
IA yer who championed the rights of I'll
y poor sailormen against the tyrannicI
. captain and who later tried to proS
u HE client crazy, is De Freest's partn,
and part loser of the $135.
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