The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-26
FITZ IN THE TOLLS
FOR TRAMWAY CASE
Alleged to Have Shot Detective
While Searching for Spells.
EVIDENCE FOUND IN HIS HOUSE.
Bos'n Ben Arrested for Completely.
Nickels and Company Envelopes
GaIore-Burned and Buried--Both
Deny All knowledge of the Robbery.

GalOre-Burned and buried Botn
! DENY All knowledge of the Robbery.
The robbery of the Tramways Com
panys Palama office had it's sequel IN
the arrest of Arthur Fitzgerald at
o'clock yesterday morning. Fitzgerald
had been under suspicion ever since the
case was reported to the police, and on
August 21, the day after the robbery,
Detective KAPPA procured a warrant to
search FitzgeraId's residence, but no
evidence of his being mixed up in the
affair was found. The next chapter in
the robbery was the finding of bag of
money in the Peterson stable, which is
located in the adjoining lot to Fitzger
AIDS and about hundred yards in the
rear.
Suspicion then grew stronger that
Fitzgerald was in the trick. Detective
KAPPA detailed All Fat and William
Huihui on the case and told them to
take position in the stable and watch
for any one who might come around
there at night. The stable building is
a long one, the makai end being fitted
with stalls and the mauka end large
room. narrow hall divides these two
apartments, and it was under this hall,
was found.
In the large room there were two
chairs, a rocker and small cane seated
| one. All Fat was sitting in the rocker
and Huihui was doing in the other
chair about four feet away. Just about
| 3 o'clock yesterday morning All Fat
heard a noise in the narrow hallway
and saw through an opening in the par
| tition a man on his hands and knees
He stretched his leg in order to touch
Huihui and arouse him, but in doing SO
made slight noise, which the intruder
| evidently heard. A second later there
was shot fired and All Fat received
| the bullet in the fleshy part of his thigh.
The man who fired the shot ran to-
ward Fitzgeralds cottage. Huihui saw
him and grabbed All Fats pistol and
fired twice without effect, and the run
ner disappeared. All Fat fell over on to
the floor and Huihui believed he was
badly wounded. Instead of running af-
ter the assailant, he went to the near
est telephone and sent message to the
police station for the wagon to remove
the wounded man.
Captain Parker and a posse went out
and took the officer to the hospital,
where his wound, which was merely a
flesh one, was dressed
AS the indications pointed to Fitz-
gerald as the culprit, Detective KAPPA
started for his house at o'clock to ar
rest him, but met him on King street
near Asylum road, driving his hack
He was barefooted and the officer plac-
ed him under arrest, against Arthur's
protest. He said he had just returned
, from driving a load to Waikiki and
knew nothing about the shooting. He
was taken to the station house, and or
looking at the soles of his feet one was
found to have a fresh cut made by &
sharp stone or thorn. He was locked
ficers went to the house to search fol
= evidence.
It is a three-room affair of one story
located some distance up Asylum road
and is in rather delapidated condition
1t is occupied jointly by Arthur Fitz
gerald and James Bennett, otherwis
''Bos'n Ben the latter occupying tn
room to the left of the entrance, an
Arthur smaller one to the right. TIL
back room runs clear across the hous
and is evidently used as a kitchen, din
ing room and pantry by the couple
There were a half dozen packages c
Chinese tea, loaf of bread and som
. butter in the room, but no other ed
bles. The dining table was a small al
fair with a drawer in it. In this wa
found several engraved visiting card
of Mrs. w. w. Hall and one of A l
Fireman.. These may have been wit
plumber that has some time been take
into the house. Standing in the var
I'd at a corner in the rear of the house. VIZ
a stove improvised from an oil drur
. Lying near Captain Parker saw
Tramway money envelope, partly burr
ed A further search revealed sever
scent pieces and lump of nickel SUI
posed to be the remains of some of IL
scent pieces left in the envelopes ar
thrown into the fire to be deStrOve
A search around the yard reveale
about $1.25 buried just under the SUI
face in two places. In the garden W;
also found a pair of hammock spreat
Is ers, and about fifty yards further BAG
a hammock was found by Captain Pa