The Hawaiian Gazette

IS A FALSE TALE
Yarn That Would Involve People Seriously.

Concerning Repairs to Collier Brutus--Charge of Criminality Made In Coast Paper.

A late Examiner prints a sensational story to the effect that the trouble with the Collier Brutus was caused by filings deliberately and criminally left in the steam cylinders by a German workman of the Honolulu Iron Works. The story comes from Honolulu and the writer claims to have gathered his information from a letter written by an officer of the Brutus.

The Iron Works people are most emphatic in their denial of the statements made. Manager Hedemann says he was highly complimented by the officers and engineers of the Brutus on the workmanship of his men, and after most thorough examination the work was approved.

The dispatch states that the filings were in the steam cylinders. It is pointed out that no work was done there. The Iron Works men were engaged in boring on a safety valve, but filings left there could not possibly have created the trouble and damage.

At the bottom of the whole matter appears to be a man who was recently discharged from the Iron Works. That party has long been jealous of the one German who happened to be among the number of men sent out to work on the Brutus. It is believed that the letter from the "officer" was written by this man.

It is stated at the Iron Works and with what appears to be most conclusive authority that the Brutus did not return on account of her machinery, but for another purpose altogether. It had to do with a court martial, which it was found best to determine before leaving Honolulu for Manila.