The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-29

Tommy Marlowe lost his license yes
terday. The lights were burning in his
saloon last night, but after closing time,
juno 80, the Kentucky Bar, on Alakra
street between Merchant and Queen,
Thomas A. MarIowe proprietor, will be
dark.
Marlowe committed perjury and got
caught. Other applicants committed
perjury and didn't get caught. The
board knew they were lying but was
unable to prove it.
Marlowe's case, though, was as plain
as deal plank. When he applied for
his license year ago, he swore that he
had purchased the Kentucky with
money advanced by his father in-law.
Mother In-I.aw Spells Deal
That was his original plan, but the
deal fell through. Unfortunately, he
had left his mother-in-law out of the
reckoning. She is member Of the
Anti.Saloon League, and when she
heard of what business her son-m law
intended to enter, it immediately be.
cane necessary, for him to seek the
money elsewhere.
In those days-only year ago
Charles g. Bartlett, then president and
general manager Of the Honolulu Brew
ing and Mating Company, Limited, was
the patron of all saloon keepers in need,
OF even those who might possibly hope
to become saloon k eepers, IL the sun of
his munifcence shone on them.
Il Cot fnF
then, and he had no trouble at all in
getting $4,000 from Bartlett on his sim,
pie note. Then he lied to the board
about it, under oath, and when the
Field report was filed, his perjury was
exposed.
Board Sorry For Marlowe
Tho board felt rather sorry for Mar
lowe He was a green player in bad
crooked game, and he took the cards
that were dealt him without question
ing thu rules in the book. When he
was caught, he stood up and took II
likH a man, admitted he had lied and
male clean breast of it. There are
othsrs the board would rather have
Lght lying than MarlOwe.
| Unfortunately for him, he WAS
cought, and caught so red handed that
the circumstances left the board ne
discretion. At a long executive ses
sion yesterday afternoon, the commits
s.oueIs went into the law of the matter
and concluded that, if they renewed
Ma loves license and if they failed t.
report him 10 the city attorney for per
jury, they would be guilty, first of VIC
lat.ng the law under which the boar,
was created and, second, of COM
POUNDING A FELONY.
They did not take the stand that they
"'wcre not born yesterday" and tina
somebody else could do the prosecuting
without hindrance from them; thel
ohcyed the spirit Of the law, which wa
Us plain to them as TO anybody els
Who does not seek to avoid it, and re
rH't the fact to the proper prosecuting
officer. .i..
YIN Advise City Attorney '''. d.
\ resolution was adopted instructinI
the chairman "to lay before the cit.
Pttorney that part of our records whic
Indicate that Mr.. MRrlowe committee
perjury bcf we the board, as require,
by statute.'
1T least, that is the way 1nspectO
I"nacll rcpOr''d the resolution afte
to executive Ession adjourned. N
doubt neither ne nor the commissioner
intended to convey the idea that tn
! riury was Required - statute"
There are some rather interestn
Consequences attended on the refusal
r"uew Marlowe' 5 license. In the fir'
l',ace, it makes the brewery. owe itbel
money. That condition, however, noc
not endure. Ultimately, it looks yer
r'u"h as if W. C. Parke, treasurer an
o." 81 the directors, would be the O
fetal goat. "
rarSe's Signature On Note
About the time II. Gooding Field wa
"sy on TIL brewery books, preparin
IT," "opOrt that made public the who
F'mudTI, Marlowe discovered that Bar
l"tt hnd been robbing him for a periC
e. "ICnths Of the cash discounts for nj
Ga" 'es Of beer that should have be,
nl"'e to him.
Iurtett drew down the cash, pass,