The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-21
She Spends Husbands Money
70. Get Divorced Spouse
Away From Islands
QUARREL IS FOLLOWED ~ q
By oPEN-AIR TRAGEDY
Husband, Is Near and Police Are
g Summoned 80 Wild
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r.. Goose Chase

Because she had quareled with her
husband over matter of money which
she had expended in order to rid her,
self Of the presence Of her divorced
husband, and, doubtless, in order to re.
gain his love and sympathy, pretty
little Charlotte Howell, Portuguese,
made big bluff at taking poison in
Thomas Square about quarter TO
eight O'Clock last night. Incidentally
the police had wild-goose chase and
were for a while quite up in the air
over the matter. ~' .-...f'. 81.
A telephone message was received at
the station that . woman had commit.
ted suicide on a bench in Emma square
and requesting that the ambulance and
doctor be, sent there at once. The
ambulance was Immediately despatch.
Oh and Deputy Sheriff Rose and two
other officers hurried +, to the square,
only to find everything quiet and with
absolutely no evidence in sight that
anyone had shuffled of their mortal
coil in the neighborhood.
Woman Right AsRa
Meanwhile the husband of the wo-
man, who had ,teleph oned the police in
the first instance, placed his wife in
q private machine and conveyed her
TO the emergency hospital, where ex.
SUMMATION BY =, Doctor Aver revealed
the. fact that she was as right as rain,
although apparently feigning uncon.
sciousness.
VI. W. Howell, the wonlan's husband,
is chief maehinist's mate aboard the
L. S. s. Alert stationed at Pearl Har-
happily near School and Nuuanu
streets for some time past and had
rla"od in the safe-keeping of his wife
$500.
r.owel1's work is at Pearl Harbof
and in order to be able to make the
trip to and from town with greater
Facility he decided to purchase a run
about. He mentioned the matter to his
wte and she seemed greatly pleased,
and, week ago, agreed to draw $3.50
from their account to be used as part
rntntent for the machine.
st Il No Money Comes
Days went on and Howell was un
We to obtain the money from his wife,
who Kept Sailing him by telling him
that she would let him have the
amount the following day. The latter
Part of last week, when he had become
ils stent, she sent q messenger to Pearl
llarbpr with a letter stating that she
would have the money ready for him
the following dayJ,g
The next day came and, no money,
and Howell decided TO- have a straight
talk with his wife, At first she beat
about the bush but on her husband
accusing her of having used the money
for other purposes she confessed that
So" had spent the greater part of it in
getting her divorced husband away
from the Islands.
This was on Saturday night and
quarrel Is sad to have followed the
admission, on the part of Mrs. Howell.
Anyhow, the police received a message
that a woman had been beaten near
School and Nuuanu streets and the
towels were taken to the station in
the patrol wagon. .
On the way to the station the wo-
man attempted to stick a couple of
hatpins into her body and was only
prevented from doing SO by the time.
j. intervention Of Police Officer San
dcrs.
WIFE Swears TO Warrant ,''
At the station Mrs. Howell said that
she would swear TO warrant for her
husbands arrest. yesterday morning,
and Howell asked the police, were this
DONE, to notify him at Pearl Harbor,
and he would come in and accept ser.
vice of the warrant Tn the afternoon
Howell called at the station and found
that his wife had sworn ont a warrant
for his arrest, and ne promised to be
III court at nine clock this morning,
ut which time the case was set for
trial.
haTly last evening, when Howell was
at his house, his wife went out. She
had attempted her life on previous oc-
casions, according to her husband, and
ipT tbs reason he, followed her to
Thomas Square, where, he sat on one
seat and bis wife on another.
... Nter smoking several cigarettes,
Howell saw, his wife hold her hand to
hog mouth and then fall down on the
ench on which she was sitting. He
rushed to her side and. finding her ap-
l,Eenpy UNCONSCIOUS, telephOned for
the ambulance and doctor,
While HIS wife lay on the operating
table y, the emergency hospital, How.
ell was Nisibly, affected at his wife's
plight and was most solicitous as to
her condition and the prospect of her
recovery. '''"'''9-' ,7'''r
In order to reassuIe himself as to
whether or not the woman was taking,
Doctor Aver. remarked that he was
going 70 give her some medicine which
would do her, good but which would
make her very sick " ~. Z, x
The strategem had the desired effect
and In d minute or so the woman was
sitting up and making matters up with
her husband, aud shortly afterward
they went home together.