The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-11-28
Joe Medeiros
Slips Away for
San Francisco


principal victim of Mrs William l..
Welsh, the man who was indicted yes.
terday by the territorial grand Jury on
an embezzlement charge, the man who
slipped away under an alias on the s.
5. Lurlne ON Tuesday evening and is
now on the high seas, EN- route to san
Francisco, was the speaker, and her
words were bitter.
Just before. he left he wrote n note
of farewell to his wife and sent to her,
for safekeeping, sheaf of paid notes,
bearing dates through 1911, 1912 and
1918, aggregating payments he had
made of $1,000. 1t was refinement of
cruelty, although most possibly uninten.
tional, that all he should send to his
wife and the mother of his nine small
children should be the receipts for the
money he had squahdered upon another
woman, money running up into a large
sum, while in the home he fled from
he left bare cupboards, little babies
without clothes. n woman without any
means of support because of the neces-
sites of her youngest child, n babe in
arms. The note he sent her, by mes
senger, just before he sailed, limited
that he believed his life in danger
should he stay here and face trial or
stay and appear as witness against
Mrs. Welsh, now held under commit
Pment to the grand jury on perjury
charge. The note said
ASK the Neighbors.
Honolulu, Nov. %, 'l3.
Ny Dear Wife 4 Children,
L Dl,n.,, ax.,,aa &c an,,Gl
| not help it they made me go so | had
| to go as soon as | get to Frico ] will
write get along the best way you can
| ] will look for job as soon as get on
my feet l will send you money. ! am
crying now but ] rather 90 away than
| to lose my life you told me this morn.
| ing and 3 or told me at 4 o'clock.
| So if you need any thing ask your
neibors they will help you with money
| kisses to You & children are endless |
| think | will start to work Just as soon
| as ! get up there we will be OK. Yours
his home.
| JOSE j. MEDEIROS.
Keep this box for me there is notes.
Wife's Eyes Opened.
This note was delivered to Mrs. Me.
deiros on Tuesday evening by John G.
lQuintal, an employee of Gonsalves 4 CD
II was Mrs. Medeiros' first intimatiOn
that her husband contemplated running
away and leaving her. Up to the time
| she received the note she retained hel
| faith in him. la
81 knew nothing whatever about this
Mrs. Welsh until the first report was
printed in The Advertiser she said
| yesterday, "and then he told me that
he had only lent all this money to hei
and that she was going to pay it al
back to him, with interest. He told
me that she was going to get Legacy
of $4,000 and that she had promised tt
pay him back every cent he had loaned
her. ! believed him, and believe vel
that he told the truth as he believed il
up to within Il short time ago, when he
heard that woman testify and knew
that he had been deceived. But he still
kept telling me that everything would
be all right.
son Sunday Mrs. Welsh telephoneC
to him and they had long talk Ovei
the phone, but | don I know what il
was all about. And now he has rul
taway and left me. ! believe that h,
has done it solely to protect that wo
man, not caring what becomes of III,
and my little babies. He used to Low,
me. | think that woman has east ;
spell over him to change him 500
A Sad Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Medeiros told her story yester
day in sad surroundings. The littl
home in Magellan avenue was scrupu
lousy clean, but bare of everything ex
cept the absolute necessities. ArOun,
the knees of the mother, as she talked
clustered the deserted children, no on
of the nine being of an age to hel
their mother. The grandmother, al
aged woman, was with her daughter
trying to comfort her. For a, long time
she told The Advertiser, the house ha
not been even supplied with, prope
food. She has to borrow broom fror
a neighbor to do her sweeping. TIL
children have not sufficient clothing
But on the bare table were spread on
the cancelled notes Medeiros had pal
/ during the past three years, notes show
ing where $4,000 had gone.
/ Wept Into Telephone.
John Lechandro, driver for til
Island Transfer Company, told yestel
day of telephone message receive
r by him from Mrs. Welsh, in which >sh
asked for news of ".Ioe. she prt
fessed astonishInent when told tina
Joe had departed on the Lurline an
! sobbed over the phone until told I
"cut that out She ask if it woul
iros and offer her condolences to I'll
| Il. L..