The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-21

Arthur White, one of the owners
of the Arlington Billiard Parlors on
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 a pain
full 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,
he 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, W ho
had promised that he should not
be hurt, he again said that White
had paid him $40 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 tc his statement that White
was the man who bought him, al
though he several times contra
dicted 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-
vict 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 a
pistol, told the darkey that he
would shoot him if he didn't gel
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 Moiliii road
They drove through the Park, al
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, be says,
White fired 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
he 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 be
fourished his pistol and a raw
hide, and that, soon after the
party had entert d 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 be gave him half a
dollar and sent him home on the
car.
White claims that when he asked
| Wood whether he was shot, the boy
said no. He walked into the house
without limping, and both Wilder