The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-16
.Bride-ChaSer
With Legacy
Admits Fake
Cpl. Thomas Gather Jones Con-
tesses To 'Joke' and Is Sorry
For Women He Strung

Thomas Gather Jones, as the heir TO
$35,O00-legacy with a marriage time
limit tied to it, is fake, pure and
simple
This much he admitted to The Ad-
vertiser last night.
Mr.. Jones expose in this paper last
Sunday was complete. As result Of
it the Fourth Cavalry machine-gun cor
poral on furlOugh donn0d his military
uniform yesterday for the first time
in Weeks-since, as a filter of pipes
and trimmer of faucets, he has been
working for E. K. Bath, the Beretania
street plumber.
Incidentally, in this uniform, Cor
poral Jones yesterday made an "ofi.
cial' call on Generals Wiser and
Evans, presumably to secure permission
to continue the use of civilian clothes
until June 8, when his furlough will
be up. How well or how poorly he
succeeded in his mission he would not
give out for publication.
m going back to fitting pipes and
fixing faucets until June 8, and then
it will be Schofeld Barracks for me
after that, until the good Lord ordains
otherwise, " he said, crestfallen and
meekly.
Broke Second String
The latest Honolulu fakir believed
for a short time yesterday that another
victim had been added to his list of
possible wives-to-be. 1t was said that
a Waialua woman had written to him
that she was "game" and would take
him on his word that he had all that
money coming to him and would marry
him. This belief was soon exploded.
As consequence, Thomas Gather
Jones has lost all faith in woman and
womankind.
81 certainly did make Honolulu sit
up and take notice of me for a little
while,' he confded. He explained
then that he was certainly the victim
OF a practical joke played on him and
through him, on many others, particu-
larry certain number of women in Hon
0lulu who would gladly become Mrs.
Thomas Gather Jones for $4,000.
1.-THE joke is on me and l guess it
is on Honolulu, too. Oh, yes, the Joke
is on quite a number of local girls.
But, seriously, am sorry for the young
women who wrote to me and particu.
larly for Mrs. Gladys Nee, who came
near marrying a man with a salary of
about twenty-five dollars a month.
Letter Was a Joke
Eyes, l. was the victim of a Joke
and, through letter which was mailed
to me in Chicago, purporting to con.
tain the original of Uncle van Alstein 3
will, L set out to comply with the wish.
es of the dead and find me a wife.
And, listen, if I were to tell you
the names of the girls who wrote to |
me, because they thought 1 was to re-
eeive this legacy, you wouIdn 7, think
that Honolulu was as rich city as |
promoters make believe it is.
"The letters l got came from scrub. |
women and society bellies. Now,
suppose that even the average scrub
wouldn't have me, having
learned that there is no legacy coming
ny way-$35,00O or thirty-fve cents.
"But, listen, and let me tell YOU this
'ne great truth, now that there is 30
much talk here about preparedness.
What Honolulu needs is a woman 3
'lattsburg," and Jones laughed.
Jones and his legacy both have ex-
'loded. 1t was all a dream, he is sure
low, superinduced, probably, because
lie had been so much lately with pipes.