The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-09
Police Decide to Hold
inquest On the
TangIe
:.
Officers Want to Clear
Up Unanswered
Questions
(FIom Monday,s Advertiser

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4. Sensational developments followed
:. Spoa the first hurried investigation by
: TIE police of the death of James Au-
Z gussus Barton, the young druggist,
whose dead body was found by his
!, sweetheart, Miss Charlotte Huse, in his
room at the Vida Villa, Saturday night.
A number Of questions in connection
with the case still remain to be an.
uwered. !.
= The first of these Is the whereabouts
Of Miss Huse. The second, which may
DO cleared up when the tiny vial, found
!. near the body, is given to chemist,
and che few drops left of it's former
contents analysed. The third factor of
the case, which is puzzling the police,
In the appearance of Miss Huse in the
room of the young druggist at the
time the body was discovered. These
and additional circumstances surround
ing the death led Deputy Sheriff Rose
yesterday to decide upon an inquest,
which will be held this evening at the
police station.
The whereabouts OF Miss Huse, the
woman in the case, is unknown even to
some OF the most lntlmate OF her
friends. She was taken from the home
OF Mrs, Newell, KING street, near IN
kol, where sne was poaruing, almost
hmmeaia,ely ailer she herseil uiscovSr-
VIA villa Wora that she was going
In tbe Hawaiian Hotel was left he.
hind but ca far no known she never
cntora1 tbo doors of +ho+ bostoirv she
vac in a bvstericai condition ana sev-
nr.I If beT frianap tool, charge of her
;ntard;r, ~ remoyo ber IN n sceno Iess
;ntimste1,, eonnected WITH tbe s,,ic;de
nf xro,,na. Rsrton thon tbo District in
S,h;.b sSa ras i;vina phase friends
Lee. .,,,-a 90 +ba intanae5 y;sit 20 tbe
uay,a;;an sla yaa NOT az any of the
a+her bota,s in c,ty last nigbi
Rns;des tba latter which Rarton loft
co., Me- 4n.n Will, oJJoa smcb niti.
1ni +o,ch tn fha tragedv be also wrote
a. 80 hia hrotber n n Rarton
S,,d ono 40 Ransnn Smith g. O. where
NJ .,,.os - r,nloved
TX po+h n,ara taEan IN cbarce Saturday
a;ab+ l,,, Dabuty sheriff Rose and the
. fo1,nar vas Delivered vesterdav Mr..
Rarton however. has NOT made 1t pub.
lie and discussing it with friends yes
terday was 'reticent as to its contents
1t 10 believed that 1t bears out the
story of a disappointed lnfatuation 30
plainly to be inferred from the note
to Miss Huse.
Discovered Body.
r. hos nov ,aaveloned that Miss uuse
d;so.naroa ,tha ,hod,, frst Her scream
Il a. ST. ,r,,sho5 from, his room in nm an.
nov IN the rear was the first intima.
am, tho atbay boarders Ind of the
-troaa8v .sfat had been enacted 40 close
40 fbem. Miss Hnse ran over to the
'- in bonso 'cslIins wildlv for utrain.
An ;nnyse a ,aoctor. onick ), and her
cries brought Secretarv Kirk Porter of
ths hoard eof health also a boarder TO
tho scene He saw that Barton was
bevona earthly assistance and teTe.
nhonei for the ,uolice Mt once.
Until Miss Huse is found 1t cannot
be- learned how she came to enter the
room at that time and it is possible
that Barton had ,eontrived to have
word sent to her to call, The fact that
he had left the note for her on his own
table and that he plainly intended 1t
Tor no other eyes Chan hers indicates
that he anticipated visit from her.
A Useless Act.
If youag Barton decided upon suicide
as the only cure he saw for n wounded
heart. his death was a CHASTITY mistake,
saw those who know the Young wo.
man Is mind, 81 hope you and the
( damn Daee with be happy the biting
phrase in the hastily scrawled note
which he left beside his deathbed, ind,
Gates, say these, nsthing more than an
mnfounded jealousy
+. IS ''If he had spoken to me before no
did it, he would never have killed him,
self, ?, said Mrs. Newer, with whom
Miss Huse boarded, Last night. Theirs
was a child's love. He was wildly
infatuated with her; in love with her,
ia fact, from the very first moment he
first saw her seven months ago at the
Vida Villa. did not see much of them
to.AaAhor b,,, h. af4a. .ar,a 6a.a a,A