The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-22
WITH PAT CULLEN
An Interview With the
Notorious Convict.
Arrived on w. @. Hall Sunday.
Goes to See a Hula and
is Captured.


on the w. G. Hall Sunday morning
with his prisoner, the notorious Pat
Cullen, in handouts. He was given in
TO the hands of an officer, and was
taken Immediately to the police sta
ton. In the afternoon a reporter of
the Advertiser called on Cullen in the
station-house yard, and there obtained
the story from the time he ran away
until his capture.
Yes, I am perfectly willing to tell
you all about my runaway escapade,
now that I am safe in jail" said Gull
len. 81 left Honolulu on November 3,
1896, as you know. After changing my
prison clothes and getting a clean
shave. / walked away from the Jail
and directly past Guard Sam Stone
and his gang of prisoners. My hack
was standing almost opposite the big
gate, and jumped in, and made direct
" for the steamer Waialeale at the In
teF-IsIand wharf. Here it was neceS-
sary for me TO hide my head as if in
toxicated. so as to get aboard the
steamer. On the night of the same day
I arrived in Kilauea, where I slept.
The next morning I went to Haena and
from there walked to Honokoa. Slept
over night there at Kinney's place
On the 9Th reached Kalalau Valley,
where I stayed with friends. Now,
then. for three months I have been in
KalaIau Valley with my wife and chill
dren. and towards the last became
very tired of the life there.
''Why did I run away2 Well. I'll tell
you. When I was in Jail sent for my
wife. and told her to bring my son
down. Instead of doing this she
brought the little girl and left the boy
I'D i'm the valley. OF course, I was very
much disappointed. and told my wife
to go back and fetch the boy. Instead
of coming. she remained on Kauai and
did not send any word whatever. The
time set for her arrival had long pass
ed by. and I was getting very impa-
tent It struck me that something
might have happened TO the boy, and
the more I became impressed with the
idea the more I kept thinking of climb
ing over the wall Steamer after steam
or came. and vet not news. A favor
able opportunity came, and l simply
slid out, with no other idea in my
mind than TO get to my wife and chill
dren.
"Well, I intended to give myself up,
but Coney caught me before / got a
chance. On the evening of the 18th of
this month was sitting with a number
of friends in the house of my sister-in-
law in one of the ravines of Kalalau.
We were all watching a hula, in which
several of the Kauai bellies were taking
part. Suddenly I heard someone cry
'Makaip policeman and I jumped for
nv rife. which was standing against
the opposite wall. but Coney was toe
quick for me. He pushed open the
door. and even as made the first move
pistol was at my head, and the com
mand: Throw up your handsr came
in a voice that thought il best for my
own good to obey. | congratulated the
Deputy Sheriff, and told him that he
had earned his 800.
1T might be interesting to know that
when Coney first went up into the val
lev. on the 18th of November or a day
after my arrival in that vicinity, l was
but a very short distance away from
him. hidden in the bushes. with my
wife. when we had been forced to flee
on account of the presence of the police
officers On the occasion of his second
visit I was out shooting goats close TO
Honokoa The third time was charm
I had Just gone down for a little fun on
the day of my capture. Well, l didn't
have ii. and besides that, had to give
ND nv rife. a 44-caliber Winchester
carbine. which is the one that did the
work on the soldiers who went after
the leper. Koolau, some years ago. Ny
revolver, too. was taken away.
Life in Kalalau is not what it is
cracked up to be. I have always been
we'll but since December. 1895. I have
felt very weak The cold and damp
valley and hard life was too much for
me. NV wife. the children and I had
2 little ii leaf hut up in one of the ra-
vines. near the place where Koolau
lived. OF course. we moved about from
place TO place. but this was our prin-
cinal rendezvous. How did we get any
thing to eat? Well. I stole taro from
below and caught fish and shrimps in
the streams. Besides that we had
friends who gave us a lot OF stun. As
to ammunition. I was kept well sup
piled by the natives.
There must be about go people liv-
ing in Kalalau Valley. but I can assure
you that they are not having a very
good time. 1t is no place for any de-
cent man to live in. Besides. ali the
other disa greea BILE qualities il has had
added during the last four or five years
long stretches of the lantana.
I'm regard to Koolau, l can say
truthfully that 1 do not know what has
become of him. During all my stay in
KalaIau Ibid not see him once. The
popular belief is that he is dead.
Il am rather glad to be back again,
and feel perfectly willing to do what
will probably be put upon me as pen
atty for what I have done, but l tell
you that my running away was for no
other reason than the longing to see
my boy. whom I had begun to think
was either dead or suffering from some
ailment''