The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-03-28
SEEKING REVENGE.
An Enrased Brother After His
Sisters Alleged Betrayer.


Wednesday between the hours OF
| II o'clock an noon, pistol shot
was fred in a room in a house on
Alakea, near King street. It was
fired, SO the police think, by
Thomas Finegan. The shot was
intended for Joseph R. O'Connor.
O'Connor arrived four weeks ago
on the Australia. He was accom-
panied by tall young woman,
whom he said was his wife. O'Con-
nor is tin-type artist, and since
bis sojourn here has been connect
ed with the Aloha Gallery in that
capacity. He is not of average
height, and looks like a typical
California hoodlum.
Finegan is the brother of the
young woman. He shipped as a
/ member of the crew of the Austria
LA for the purpose of recovering
his sister and to meet the man who
took her from her home.
They must have met Wednesday
morning, and the pistol shot is the
result.
From all accounts the ball did
not take effect. The two men i'm
mediately disappeared.
The following history of O'Con-
nor and his escapade is taken from
the San Francisco Chronicle:
The officers of the steamer Australia
were haunted by sad-eyed little
woman, with piteOus quaver in her
voice as she asked for Information.
She carried a cabinet photograph of a
good-looking but weak faced young
fellow, and it was of the original that
she desired TO ask questions.
His name, she said, was Joseph r.
O'Connor, and she was his wife. They
lived at 912 Ellis street with their
three babies until month ago, when
the husband and father gave her SCI,
kissed her goodbye and sailed away
for Honolulu with another woman.
Steward James and First Officer
Lawless, with one or two others, had |
no difficulty in recognizing the face of |
the handsome scoundrel as that of |
steerage passenger who signed his |
name as ]. Wilson. He attracted ex-
ira attention on the australia's last |
trip to the islands by his attention to
tall hoodlumish girl who was regis
tered as his wife. They were never
apart and the pseudo Wilson made |
who offered the girl
some ordinary courtesy. Wilson had
very little money, as James had rea-
had little difficulty in obtaining work
in Honolulu as soon as he landed, on
account of the army of newspaper cor
there creating demand
for illustrations.
Mrs. O'Connor only needed the iden-
LITIGATION of the photograph to COM
plete the link in her story, as her
that her husband had es-
capped by the Australia was not posi-
tive. She married O'Connor in 1885
and has three children, the youngest
a boy of three aud the oldest boy of
six. O'Connor was employed by the
Globe Portrait Company at salary of
S25 per week, ond was good provider
until about year ago. The children
kept Mrs. O'COnnor closely confined
to the house, and her husband began
to seek amusement alone. His wife's
allowance for housekeeping expenses
1windled until for the past six months
she has not had over five or six dollars
l week for food and clothing.
During the holidays 0'COnnor be
,ame acquainted with KitIie Finegan,
| well-grown girl, whose home was at
1886 Stevenson street. There was a
mutual attraction, and ever since
)'COnnor has been her "steady com
Jany," posing to her parents as sim
5le man. She is the woman who ac-
him to Honolulu on the
Australia, judging from the tally in
he description and the fact that she
las not been home since the last sail
ng of the steamer.
Thomas Fintgan, the brother OF the
rOung girl, made arrangements which
promise to lead to an avenging of the
wrongs of his sister and the deserted
Grs. O'COnnor. He is a stalwart
'oung painter, with stern id,is of
morality and - human desire for re- =
'enge. The Finegans are not well
provided with money, but the young
nan disposed of the passage price diff 7
culties in the way of his trip by Sc
uring employment on the Australia
s painter, and sailed for the islands
0 recover his sister and seriously
amage the man who lured her from
er home.