The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-25
MARI0N'S GUNS WILL PROTECT HIM

me man who was shot in the eek
during the rebellion and | will guar
antee him a pension.
rAfter we were recalled from the
field, | was assigned to the duty of
court room orderly, and acted as sucE
during the trial of the ex-Queen and
the leading rebels. My integrity and
good intentions were not called in.o
question during that period.
TT was the day following the close
of the trial, think, that | was awak
ened by my landlady early in the
morning and told that the Palace was
on fire. | got into my uniform as
quickly as possible and ran down town
to find that the opera house was in
flames. | stayed around there awhile
and was on my way home when Dep
uty Marshal Brown drove up i'll a
hack, and, after inquiring my nauc,
said | was wanted at the Marshals Of e
fee. | jumped in the hack with him,
and fifteen minutes .later found my
self in a dark dungeon at the police
station. Inquiries as to why | was
there elected no information from the
Government officials.
at was about 10 o'clock in the morn
ing when | was landed in jail and up
to late hour on the following alter
noon no food had been offered me. d!
was desperately hungry, not having
had my breakfast even on the previous
day, and | bribed a Chinaman, with
half a dollar, to bring me some fooG.
When a police official heard of it he
made it warm for the Chinaman.
THAT same day, in the eveaing, |
was removed to the reef, and again
thrown into dungeon, where l re-
manned for eight days. While in the
police station had tried in every way
to send word to the American Consul
and Admiral Beardslee, and, failing in
that, to some of my friends; but all
communication with the outside world
was denied me. 1t was the same
/
threats had any effect upon the Of.
ficials. had enough to eat such as it
was--prison food-and had no Si",l
coming on that score.
Finally received visit from Mar
shall Hitchcock. who informed me shat
there We're thirty-two grave charges
against me-enough to hang M sew
eral times over He bullied and threat
ened me, but would not divulge the
nature of the charges. | demanded a
trial, agreeing to stand by the conse-
ingly stand up and be shot on the fol-
| lowing day if the charges were proven.
| But | was told that n trial would do
me no good-that the Government
could convict and hang me if it chose
and no one would be any wiser. The
Marshal said that if | would agree to
! leave the country and never return
could secure my freedom.
| AS a last resort, not having been
born to live in dungeon, ] signed two
papers, one saying that left the coun.
try of my own free will, and the other
agreeing never to return. | was then
permitted to go with a deputy marshal
to military headquarters, where | was
given an honorable discharge from the
National Guard of Hawaii, with the
best of recommendations. These pa
pers have locked up'in safe over on
the coast, but think that Capt Pau
Smith and Col. Soper will bear me out
in the statement that | have them, foI
Col. Soper handed them to me with
his own hands.
''At the dock l told my friends that
/ would return here in two years.
was only seven days late, but that was
on account of the heavy weather we
encountered. | have not come to defy
the government or to make any
trouble. | simply want to come ashore
as an American citizen and visit my
friends here. AS soon as | am able to
get about have been laid up for d
fortnight am going ashore, and
shall have no fear of the conse-
quences.
Il think | could explain why | was
eXiled, but ] do not care to just now,
as the time is not ripe, They have
tried here to blacken my character,
threatening me with my past record.
They cannot assail my character. |
| have lived an honest life and have
nothing to fear. My friends in Seattle
and elsewhere on the coast will bear
me out in what | say. Perhaps | may
yet be vindicated, but | can abide my
| time"
Honeck is a painter ON the Marion.
Soon after leaving Honolulu he joined
! the L. S. S. Mohican at Seattle, leav-
| ing her at San Francisco to join the
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