The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-02
his CONSCIENCE
OVERSENSITIVE
SideIIghts Are Thrown on Nhee's
Death--MOuntaln Of Mary
TriviaIities.
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'ifNuf huuR Nhoc, and for tho wild
threats that have been banded about
on the floor Of the annual convention
Of the Korean National AssOciation,
now in session.
That Nhee Harng wo, or Victor
Hung Mice, late editor Of the Korean
Union News, threatened to take his
own life several months ago and that
he seemed unwittingly to have become
mixed in dissensions now raging in the
Korean National Association annual
convention, are facts conclusively prov
ed by further information regarding
affairs in the Korean community. The
sessions Of that association, which are
usually very warm, are said to be
warmer than ever this year, so warm
in fact, that some of the delegates
took the floor during the meetings last
week and stated in fat words "that
some one should be killed. That
someone, they say, should be che person
owing to the intimacy between them,
yesterday made q statement covering
the relations existing between himself
and the editor and recounted the con-
versation between them on the after
noon previous to Mice IS suicide. That
it is essentially correct is proved by
information received from other mem
beers of the association. That 1t could
be supplemented by further informa-
tion, can hardly be doubted.
Young states that he was acquainted
with Nhee in California some time ago,
both men having been residents of San
Francisco. During the time that
Young held commission in the police
| department here the association wrote
to Mice asking him to come to Ho-
nolulu to edit the Union News, but
Nhee seemed backward and finally
Young was prevailed upon to add his
influence. Nhee finally reached the city
in March of this year. Young says
they had been on good terms ever since,
| and that Nhee visited him often at
his office and that they spent much time
together outside.
On the 9th or 2Sth of November,
says Young, Mice came to his Office
and entering it with a harsh little laugh
stated that it was his birthday. Young
asked him what he meant and was
answered that he was going to be let
out of the editorship and that he was
| free.
o'For what reasonf" asked Young.
''I am discharged by the officers of
| the Korean National Association. They
say / am not fit for the job and If I
hold it any longer the paper will be
spoiled"
! A short conversation ensued in which
Young attempted to comfort him and
! in answer to an offer to share Young q
business, Mice answered:
at am not worrying about money. 1
could make my living, anyway. But
! I am brokenhearted over leaving my
beloved paper, into which I have pour
ed all my heart and mental faculties.
az advised him to resign his posi-
ton, - says Young, "and told him that
! the word resigned sounds better than
the word discharged"
aBut Two Places Left"
That same evening Mice telephoned
| Young to meet him downtown, and
they spent the evening together, visit
! ed the theaters and had supper at a
restaurant. They then walked towards
! Aala Park. Mice stated that he had
resigned ON the invitation of President
| Chung of the association at meeting
of the officers that afternoon.
Walking towards the park Mice said
that he had travelled all over the world
except Africa and Australia, that he
had no place to go now. He added he
was tired of everything and that he
had but two places to select from, using
at the time a bit of oriental imagery
hard to translate.
Young asked him which two places
he meant and he answered "eHeaven OF
Hell.'' His friend told him he was q
coward; that he was needed here; that
his name was good and that he would
he able to do well. Mice answered
that his brain was out of order and that
he was tired of everything.
After that Nhee visited Young often
at his office, stating that he was com
pleting the week 3 work at the request
of the officers. Later he said he was
to remain until they got another man
Young then heard of the subscription
to bring the Yucatan Koreans here, and
asked Nhee If he knew anything of it
Mice. it seems, from Young's account
told him nothing.
''On the tenth or eleventh of thii
inOHiu a Wt1hhpNA lAOA
can that Mr. Chung had signed a con
tract which was drawn up by certain
lawyer to the effect that they woult
60 to San Francisco with $2260 on tn,
, sixteenth of this month"; said Young
That point marked the starting place
for the fresher trouble in which Nhel
became involved. Young wrote a let
ter to his father-in-law telling him I,
come down to Honolulu and get bael
money he paid into the subscription
" he did not, the letter read. he wouIt
he "robbed by white and wellov
thieves That phrase Is responsible
. fnr mneh ~ the ensuing trouble. Youni
called on President Chung with sevora
sphseriheFf 70 the fund and the foFme
said be wonld not 90 10 San FInneise,
until after the animal convention
Z moved 70 hive been IN che wrong Il
! fhe discussions now Troubling the ~
soeiatihn These af0se over lawyer
fees, and the engagement Of lawyer
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