The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-23
SEEKING REVENGE.
An Enraged Brother After His
Sisters Alleged Betrayer.

Yesterday between the hours of
II o'clock an noon, pistol shot
was fired in room in a house on
AIakea, near King street. 1t was
fired, so the police think, by
Thomas Finegan. The shot was
intended for Joseph R. O'Connor.
O'Connor arrived four weeks ago
Oh 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
his 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
liza for the purpose of recovering
his sister and to meet the man who
took her from her home.
They must have met yesterday
morning, and the pistol shot is the
result.
From all accounts the ball did
not take effect. The two men inn
mediately disappeared and have
not since been found, although the
police have made a diligent search
for them. The young woman de-
clined to discuss the affair.
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 S21,
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 a
| steerage passenger who signed his
name as J. Wilson. He attracted ex-
| ira attention on the Australians last
! ,elo L., hxyl &c m
\ a tall hoodlumish girl who was regis
apart and the pseudo Wilson made
quite a scene by offering to fight q
| fellow-passenger who offered the girl
some ordinary courtesy. Wilson had
very little money, as James had rea-
son to know, but he thought that he
had little difficulty in obtaining work
| in Honolulu as soon as he landed, on
account of the army of newspaper cor
respondents 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
information 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
boy of three and the oldest boy OF
six. O'Connnr was employed by tue
Globe Portrait Company at a 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
dwindled until for the past six months
she has not had over five or six dollars
| a week for food and clothing.
During the holidays O'Connor be-
came acquainted with Kittie Finegan,
q well-grown girl, whose home was at
1886 Stevenson street. There was a
mutual attraction, and ever since
O'Connor has been her 'steady com.
pany," posing to her parents as sim
gle man. She is the woman who ac-
companied him to Honolulu on the
Australia, judging from the tally in
the description and the fact that she
ing of the steamer.
Thomas Finegan, the brother of the
young girl, made arrangements which
promise to lead to an avenging of the
wrongs Of his sister and the deserted
Mrs. O'Connor. He is a stalwari
young painter, with stern ideas oil
morality and human desire for re-
venge. The Finegans are not well
provided with money, but the young
man disposed of the passage price diff
ficulties in the way of his trip by Sc
curing employment on the Australia
as painter, and sailed for the islands
to recover his sister and seriously
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