The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-16

easier than to have covered them up,
so as 10 completely hide them.
Marshal Hitchcock, who was in his
| Office ct the time the raid was made,
said, in speaking of the affair:
~ have for some time suspected this
man Colburn OF being more than a
passive adherent OF the ex-queen. We
have had positive evidence that arms
| and ammunition have been carried
| TO his house, and also 10 the
homes of other prominent men
in the royalist party, and l am deter
mined TO break up the practice If pos.
sible. There was q big royalist meet
| ing held at the residence Of John
Cummins last evening, aud l had
some OF my men watching the house.
AS soon as Cummins suspected that
there was anyone watching his house,
all the lights were put out, and dark
ness reigned.
GAS to this Colburn matter, during
the last two or three days
several boxes have been carried into
Colburn's house, by men who were
known to be active in their hostility
to the Provisional Government. This,
coupled with other suspicious cir
cumstances, led TO the search that
was made and the discovery of
the rifles That Colburn has been
cunning enough TO conceal the
larger part OF his stock of firearms,
have no doubt, but as thorough n
search as it was possible to make at
night, was made. We found three,
and that was enough to prove that he
was deeply implicated in plot to re-
store the ex-queen.
"Colbura, of course, has known
that at any time raid might be
made on his premises, and he prob
ably was all ready for the visit of the
officers, and had the balance of the
arms concealed"
Deputy Marshal Brown said that
Colburn did not make any objection
to his house being searched. "When
I asked him about the boxes that
had been brought there on Thurs
day and Friday, he said that the only
boxes he knew anything about were
three boxes of pineapple plants that
he had received on Thursday. But
pineapple plants are not usually put
in boxes five feet long, that are just
the size for containing rifles"
T. B. Murray, to whom Evans, the
patrolman, telephoned the circum-
stances of the COlburn matter, said:
"When Evans informed me that he
had again seen gun box being carried
into Colburn's yard, 1 at once in
formed the Marshal of the circum-
stances. He asked me if was sure of
the authenticity of my information,
and told him that L was, but that [
would go again and get positive infor-
nation of the truth of the re-
port. This / did, and found out |
to certainty the fact that |
two gun boxes had been taken |
into the house. returned to the Mar
shall, and told him, and he sent some |
men with me, telling us to go out as
quickly as possible, and to get what |
we could" The result has been told |
already.
Colburn's house was surrounded by |
policemen all night, and more sys
tematic search will be made at day
light.
The Marshaps department, from its
chief to it's most subordinate officer,
are strictly on the alert, and are fully
to take action in any such
case as arose last night. They deserve
great credit for nipping such plots in
the bud, before they have a chance to
mature.
Colburn, a. P. Peterson, Sam
Parker and Charlie Wilson were seen
IN very earnest conversation sew
eral times on Kaahumanu street
yesterday afternoon. Whenever
they saw a man from the Marshal's
office, or one whom they suspected
would be apt to say anything about
their being together, they would
but soon drift back and
again begin their excited conversation.
That the fact of the guns being con-
cealed on Colburn's premises was
known to all of them is, of course,