The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-14
JEALOUSY.
Shots and Shame.
HAYS HASTENS HURRIEDLY.
Freeman Friendly -Quirk Quiescent.

SOAA AiASANAJ yum SN
shortly after o'clock Wednesday morning
the news spread quickly through the town
that somebody was shot. Our reporter inn
mediately hurried off to CLEAN particulars,
and found that the affair had occurred on
BREWERS WHARF.
Where ii appears that a man named Tom
Quirk had rome, at the hour mentioned,
armed with a loaded siX-shooter, looking
for Fred Freeman, the Mate of the Helen
w. Amy, and whom he found talking
there to a friend. Quirk walked deliberately
up to Freeman, drew his pistol and placed
it within six inches of the ~latter's head,
swapping the weapon three times, but for
tunately for Freeman it did not go off. Fred
frisked quickly behind the man he was con-
versing with; the latter, Selling Quirk by
both wrists, called to Freeman to go away,
which he did, and in the scuffie that then
ensued the pistol was snapped in the air
three times more, thus making six at
tempts by Quirk to fire it off. Freeman
having disappeared, Quirk shortly quilted,
but our reporter, getting onto his trail,
found him in a house on Fort street, where
lie ODJdlueu Gilc lOlIONllS PARTICULARS,
which enable US to publish
QUIRK's STATEMENT,
AS follows: My name is Thomas Quirk. 1
was Clerk of the Municipal Court of APP
peals, i'll San Francisco, in 1877.
The woman, Molly Hays, about whom
the disturbance arose, Is not my
wife. She wanted a home and | took
her in July, 1877. She lived with me dur
ing my prosperity, and a boy was born to
us in 1878, in the Clay street Hospital. To
prevent any disgrace, the child was adopted
Immediately after its birth by a man whose
name l now forget, but who was then head
carpenter under the Superintendent of
Streets, and who is still living in San Fran
cisco. Hays and / lived together
until last Sunday, when she told me she did
not think IcOuld support her here by work
ing as a ship caulker. This she said after en-
joying my prosperity and luxury to the
tune of $50, 600, the largest portion of which
/ admit to have spent i'm Il not very legi-
mate business. She has written me letters
since my arrival here saying she was de-
serted by everybody in San Francisco since
my leaving there, and begged me to bring
her here and make my home happy. |
then wrote to her father telling them both
how L was placed, and asked her father to
pay the passage of the family and told her
to sell all the furniture in a finely furnished
house and bring the money she received
for its sale, SO that we could build ourselves
a home in Honolulu, and telling them that
in the meantime l could run credit for
what furniture | wanted here, expecting
to pay for it with the money Oh the arrival
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arrival, she seemed distant, and | asked
what was the matter. She said she had
heard all about me on board the AlIny from
Fred Freeman.
At this point Quirk turned to his son, a
boy twelve years old, who was sitting IN
the room at the time, and asked Jimmie
what did mamm make you do after you
were two or three days out from Frisco ?n
The boy answered; "Shep put me into bed
in another staterOom while she and Free
man sat In her stateroom together" To
that she came to me in good faith and
intended to live with me-she brought her
sewing machine, clothes and many other
household articles, such as bedspreads, pill
low cases, etc. took her to a house / had
furnished for her. We went into town and
bought a stove and kitchen utensils, all the
balance of the furniture was in the house
previous to her arrival. We had no trouble
till three days after her arrival when Free
nan had the audacity to make us a call
unsolicited so far as | was concerned. He
and this woman had a private conversation
in my house. Taske them what was go
ing ON in the presence of two gentlemen.
Freeman said "what do you mean TOm?"
| said " Freeman, you are trying to break
VI my family, and if you want this woman
you are welcome to her, but treat her and
her two children well" He reached me
his hand and said tom, | will do it."
assented to this, knowing il was her de-
sire. Then she took up IA sealskin sacque
ana her silk dresses and said to me, "Tom,
L have got money" pointing to her
sachel) and this was after she had denied
to me that she had not two and a half. She
and Freeman wa liked out together taking
my two children with them-a carriage
was afterwards sent to my house, and the
balance of her things were taken away. I
have no desire to see this woman again or
have anything to do with her. L do not
blame her however, half so much as L do
Freeman. / have written to her father
what he never knew before, that L was
never legally married to her. What to do
with the two children she has left me I do
not know, but will do the best L can. If
my pistol had been any good this morning
l would ha We killed Freeman as / consider,
after the confidence placed i'm him, that he
has done me a great injustice, particularly
as 1 gave him 500 to bring me here which
he did not want his father to know. / al
ways recognized her as my wife, aAd my
friends in Frisco always thought she was
FREEMAN's STATEMENT
Fred Freeman said that the woman Hays
came in our ship, and / treated her kindly,
knowing Quirk and thinking well of him.
l said nothing to her about Quirk's affairs.
L went to her house at the invitation of her