The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-25
Exile Frank HOneck May Come
ashore if He Wishes.
Executive Onicer COggswell Says the
Ex-Hawaiian Soldier is an Ameri-
iOn-GOvernment in Dilemma.


Company \, NJ. H., who has returned
here after an absence of years, as a
marine aboard the L. 5. 5. Marion,
learned for the first time yesterday,
through the columns of The Star why
he was summarily deported from these
islands and forbidden ever to return
again. He had been told by Marshal
Hitchcock, he says, while confined on
the reef and forbidden communication
with the outside world, that there
were thirty-two charges pending
against hm-enough to hang him sew
eral time overland that in case he
was granted trial nothing could
save him from the gallows. All of his
demands for a trial, he says, were de-
MED, and mot having been born to
live in dungeon, to use his own eX-
preston, HOneck signed some papers
saying that he left the country of his
own accord, and would never return
again.
THAT written promise, made under
stress, as it was" said Honeck to a
Star reporter today, "Was, in the eyes
of God and of man as worthless as
the paper on which it was written. l
had served this Government in time of
trouble as faithfully as l knew how
was, in fact, the first man to respond
to call for aid, and shoulder my
musket in the defense of this Repub-
lie. l was innocent of any wrong
doing, and yet l was denied a trial
when charges were brought against
me; and, worse than that, was denied
the right to know what the charges
American citizen, but was laughed at
Finally, when only death or life long
| Imprisonment stared me in the face, |
chose to accept the alternative and
leave the country under promise never
to return"
| Honeck does not look like a treach-
erous man-one who would shoot his
comrades in the back, from ambush.
He is rather a fine looking fellow of
seven and twenty, with black nous
tache and beard, mild brown eyes and
dark hair. Lieutenant Commander
| Cogswell gives him the reputation of
being one of the best men aboard ship.
During the twenty months he has
served in the narion there has not
| CHI, IL ,,Io M St ic
name, and Lieutenant Cogswell and
the other officers of the Marion are
inclined to the belief that he is an in
nocent man.
Honeck says he is native of Mis-
souri,, and that his parents, who are
very respectable people, still reside
there. AS a boy he took to the sea.
Twelve years ago he made his first
visit to Honolulu as boat puller
aboard a sealer. In subsequent years
he visited the islands frequently in
various sealing vessels, but it was not
until the year of the last rebellion
that he came here to live. He had
learned the painters trade, and found
plenty of work to do here, at good
wages. The story of his military car
eer in Honolulu and his subsequent
arrest and exile, are best told in his
own words.
Il had been living here about nine
months when | was eXiled," he said.
1.-TWO months after my arrival | be-
came a member of Company A, Nation
al Guard, and think that Capt. Paul
Smith and Col Soper will bear me out
in the claim that / was a good su.-
dier. When the rebellion broke out,
and there was a call to arms, was the
first man to appear at the Palace
under arms and offer my services in
the defence of the Government.
Nov, mind you, when | entered the
service, | took an oath to support me
Government, but there was a clause IN
the paper | signed which said that
my service under the Hawaiian Gov
ernment would not in any way inter
fere with my rights as an American
/ citizen. L am hrSt, last ana all TIC
time an American citizen, and ! have
full confidence that at all times
shall receive full protection from the
United States Government.
'Well, | went in for the suppol, of
the Republic, body and soul, neglect
ing my business to remain in the field
under arms, and trying my best ~
render the service | had sworn 10
render. | remained in the field until
my company was recalled and assigne I
to guard duty at the judicial budding
My captain and my comrades will bean
witness that never was in trouble, ,and
as for my shooting my comrades in
the back, that is simply absurd. Bring