John Baptist de Faria was born in 1871, in Portugal. He was a graduate of the School of Medicine and Surgery, Lisbon, 1896, and interned at the Maternity and Hospital for Women at Lisbon. Following his hospital work there, he served on the staffs of civil and military hospitals in the Portuguese possessions of Portuguese Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea, Africa. Later he went to the United States with his wife and children and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1902 Dr. de Faria arrived in Honolulu and was licensed to practice in September of that year. His office and residence was located on Alakea Street; and he specialized in obstetrics and diseases of women. Controversy Within a few days of being licensed, Dr. de Faria was implicated by a fellow physician in a romantic tangle, which surely must have been the talk of Honolulu. Dr. Luiz Alvarez, Spanish born physician, brought a clipping from the Independente, a Portuguese newspaper published in New Bedford, to the office of the Advertiser to call attention to an article about a Dr. Faria who, leaving his wife and children, had run away with Mrs. Sanders, who also took her husband's savings when she left. Dr. Alvarez claimed that Dr. de Faria practicing medicine in Honolulu and the Dr. Faria of the newspaper article were one and the same, and the story appeared, together with Dr. Alvarez's accusations, on September 26, 1902. On the following day a letter from Dr. de Faria was published in the Advertiser in which he denied that he was running away or trying to hide his identity and accused Dr. Alvarez of professional jealousy because he had refused to enter into a partnership with Alvarez. However, he did not deny running away with another man's wife, merely stating that he would take up that matter when the sheriff came to get him. A few days later the Advertiser carried Dr. Alvarez's rebuttal to Dr. de Faria's letter in which he countered that he could hardly have thought of offering a partnership to a man he did not know. He also contended that Dr. de Faria did not use his own name on arriving in Honolulu and brought no character references with him, in spite of knowing that he would have to produce such references in order to be granted a license to practice medicine. He further accused Dr. de