The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-07-24
CFrom Saturdays Daily )

Hotel street, was arrested vester-
day morning by Captain Langley,
and charged with an assault with a
deadly weapon. He is accused by
George Wood, the pitcher who sold
last Saturdays baseball game,
with having shot him in the right
thigh. The boy is not seriously
hurt, though the wound is pain
ful one.
The affair grew out of the selling
of the game. Last Saturday even
ing. when everyone was convinced
that the young negro had sold out,
ne was asked who had bought
him. and said that White had done
it. He reiterated this statement
several times. Saturday night he
was taken to the Arlington and
confronted with White, and in the
presence of several witnesses, who
had promised that he should not
De hurt, he again said that White
had paid him SO to throw the
game. White denied it, and would
have whipped him then had he
not been restrained, but he de-
clared afterward that he would
thrash the boy. Wood, however,
stuck to his statement that White
was the man who bought him, al
though he several times contra
iicted himself, stating that some
Of the Kamehameha boys were the
ones who gave him the $40. The
League took the matter in hand,
but has made no discoveries, and
Yesterday exonerated both White
and the Kamehameha nine, there
not being evidence enough to con-
Wet either.
Thursday evening, White and
Willie Wilder got a buggy and
drove to where Wood lives on EN-
ma street. White had a cowhide
with him, and was prepared to
whip the boy. The latter was not
at home, however. AS the two
were driving down Emma street
they met Wood going home. They
called to him, and White told him
TO get into the buggy. Wood re-
fused to do so, and White jumped
from the vehicle, and, drawing
pistol, told the darkey that he
would shoot him if he didn't get
in. Wood thought discretion the
better part of valor, and got in the
buggy, sitting between White and
Wilder.
The trio then drove out to Wal
kiki, taking the Moiliili road.
They drove through the Park, at
last coming to the Lemon cottage,
at the end of the car line. Here
Wilder says he got out of the
buggy, opened the gate and went
to the back of the house in order to
open the door. When Wilder had
gone, Wood made a jump from the
buggy and started to run. He says
White called to him to stop, but he
didn't heed him. Then, he says,
White fred his pistol, the ball tax
ing effect in Woods right thigh.
The boy fell to the ground, and
White went up to him and asked
him if he was shot.
Up to this point, the stories of
both sides agree. But here they
begin to diverge. Wood says that
ne told White he was shot. White
is quoted as saying that Wood said
he was not shot, but that as soon as
he was spoken to he got up from the /
ground. White ordered him into |
the house, where Wilder was sit |
ting, and ordered him to tell who |
bought the game. Wood says he
his pistol and a raw
hide, and that, soon after the !
party'had entered the house, White
began to beat him. The boys back |
is badly SCARED where he was
struck with the whip, and in some
parts is absolutely raw. When
White had finished whipping Wood
the boy says he gave him a half a
dollar and sent him home on the
ear.
White claims that when he asked
Wood whether he was shot, the boy
said no. He walked into the house
limping, and both Wilder
and White claim they had no idea
that he had been hit. White says
be fred the pistol to scare the boy
into stopping.
Wilder said yesterday afternoon
that Wood, when asked again who
bad bought him, named Kaaea,
who lives at Eva.
Wood came home on the last
car. He met a Portuguese boy
whom he knew, and who helped
MIN home. When be arrived at
he gate the boy helped him take his
shoe of, and he went into the house