Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-03
Under ARREST,
CHICAGO YOUTHS
FAIL TO WORRY
Brothers, Accused with Work
ing Bunco on Bank, Reach
Port with Late Millinery
WAL BE re ETURNED TO
! ANSWER SERIOUS CHARGES
Arthur and Charles Fielding Are
Wiling to Go Back, Signing for
Glimpse of LaSaIle Street

Have cigarette? You can't get
better one this side La Sale street
With this as an introduction, two
youths hardly. beyond their teens,
smartIy dressed in the latest suits
and haberdashery of Chicago, stimuli
taneous1y reached for their new silver
cigarette cases. and bowling with
AL the ease and grace of lord In
his monor, offered the monogrammed
cigarettes to- Honolulu detectives
standing around them.
Accused of playing successfully an
inside and out" bunco game in Chi
cago, which is alleged to have netted
them $500, tie two lads were taken
off the liner Natsonia when she ar
rived off port This morning, arraigned
lated in the day. waived extradition,
and expressed themselves as anxious
to see La Sale street again, as cheer
lily and Spontaneously as If brass
band were tolmeet them in Chicago
and there wert to be placed on a high
seat of honor in that metropolis.
sYou want us to ten our story 2"
laughed Arthur Fielding. the Oldest Of
the two boys, who are brothers. Inn
possible! I will tell you of the charm
of the Grand Canyon. or the fine serv-
ice on the Matsonia. or the Mexican
senorita flirted with out of the Pull
man window, but nothing about the
other. We only speak of that in
French And French never sounds
nice on Tuesdays. .
Arthur Fielding was a paying teller
in the branch Of the Royal Bank of
Montreal, Canada; and his brother.
Charles Fielding. was engaged as In
surahce auditaF. They are accused:
with having worked a draft, one is
said to have forged a name and the
other seeing to It's cashing on a Chi
cng0 bank. and then. after saying
good-by to the girls at College Inn, Chi
cago, they are charged with placing
the remains of the $4,000 In the inside
pockets of their new suits, and start
ing for Australia.
They sat in the observation car of
the Santa Fe, as the train shot along
on the southern route to California,
speculating on the joy they would have
in Australia hunting big game. They
had procured few odd shooting irons
in Chicago to be used on this hunt.
If the Limited made good time, they
figured, it would get them to San
Francisco in time to catch the steam
er for Sydney without delay.
But the Limited was delayed at the
Grand Canyon. For four days 1t re-
manned in one spot, much to the
worry and evaporation of the boys.
Still, they saw good deal of the
canyon, and were willing to give their
word that it is one of the seven Won
ders of the world. The Limited got
in San Francisco just in time for them
to make running leap for the Mat.
sonia
While they were crossing the con
tinent, the Pinkertons we're on their
trail. The Chicago police were busy
also. Consequently Captain Of Detec-
tives McDuffie got word from the Pin
kertons of San Francisco that the
Fieldings were passengers, under the
names of J. p. and A. E. Johnston.
on the steamer Matsonia When the
vessel reached port this morning, Nc
Duffe went out to meet her, and found
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