The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-14
REDPATH AND THE SPRAY.
Return to Honolulu in Custody OF
Officers.
Captured or waianae-AmericanB Bank
Notes In the Party-Held I'm
5000 Bail.

Word was received early yesterday
morning that the yacht Spray, Z.
Curtis commander, had been captured
near Waianae and that l.. V. Red
path, until recently in the employ OF
'he Hawaiian Gazette Company, had
been found on board. The tug had
been dispatched to Waianae prior to
the arrival of this piece OF informa-
tion with Deputy Sheriff Hitchcock,
G.. @. Ballenty ne, manager OF the
Gazette Company, aud others on
board
When the tug reached Waianae
four men found on the yacht Were in
custody OF Deputy Sheriff William
Sheldon. After the men had been
given a good meal they were placed
on the tug and brought to Honolulu,
arriving here about 3 o'clock.
In speaking of the matter last night
Deputy Sheriff Shelton said:
8My attention was attracted TO a
stranger walking along the street at
Waianae between ten and eleven
O'Clock Wednesday night. He looked
like a runaway sailor and 1 stepped
I'D to him and asked W no he was and
what he was doing. He told me it
was none of my business. L i'm
mediately placed him under arrest
and convinced him il wa.
When / got him to the jail and
searched him I found a ten dollar
United States greenback in his pocket.
Then locked him up. He demurred
Demurrer overruled, and 1 told him
believed he was runaway sailor: AT
this he literally fell over himself in
his anxiety to convince me that he
was not. He called me to him and
a informed me that he was from the
Yacht Spray, which was then about
five miles off, and that he had come
ashore for provisions. He said Red
path and another man named Norton,
besides Paddy Curtis, were on board,
and that he was glad to be away from
the Yacht, as he was q special officer
and wanted to be back in Honolulu.
81 Immediately dispatched two
police officers to where this man Allen
said the Yacht was waiting for him.
After day light yesterday the yacht
sailed close into Waianae and the
officers brought the prisoners ashore
after the yacht had been anchoreG.
81 searched them and fOund $l64
United States green backs on Redpath
and about twenty dollars in the same
kind of money on Curtis. When the
tug arrived I placed the men on
board and brougnr them to Honolu U
with Deputy Marshal Hitchcock.
Mr. BaIlenty ne came to Honolulu by
rail.
"Redpath was dressed in his light
suit of clothes and had Cd white
canvas shoes.
"Allen told me it was arranged be
fore they sailed from Honolulu that
Redpath would be taken in hack 10
the Peninsula and they wonld PICK
him up there He also stated that
the Spray had gone aground two or
three times in the Peari loo 8.
"When arrested Redpath was pretty
badly broken up, but made no obJec-
tiOns to being searched.
Soon after Redpath was LOGGED In
Jail he asked to see either Mr. Neu-
mann or Mr.. Creighton as counsel.
Mr.. Creighton responded to the call
and was refused a conversation with
his client. This reused his ire and he
Immediately went TO Consul General
Mills, who said that he would see MI
Redpath if Mr.. Creighton couldn T.
When the latter returned to the a
ton house, AttOrDey-General smith
had arrived and, after short eXplana
tiop, allowed Redpath to be brought
into the Marshal's office anu talk with
his LAWYER Creighton asked him Il
ne was an American citizen, and who
he could give as security for the re
ouired $4,000 bail. Redpath stateC
that he was American born and nae
never taken the oath of allegiance tt
any other government AS TO surety
for hail he said he would give the
names of three men whom he though
would stand good for the necessary
funds. On Mr.. Creighton being in
formed that he could see his ellen
privately at $50 this morning, he die
not take the names or ask any FUR
Their questions.
Just what disposition will be made
of ,he case against Redpath has no
been made public.