The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-18
News Of a Present Made Here to
Col. R. 4. MCL8al.I
HAS BFEN STOLEN FROM HIM
The Colonel Cannot Be Located.
IN. G. H. Was a Puzzle to the
New York POIice-A Consul.
(New York Herald.)

tNeW OTk herald
How it came about that a man ar
rested in New York as a thief had in
his possession gold watch and chain
and Iocket belonging to the general
commanding the military forces of the
Republic of Hawaii is the problem that
is just now worrying the detectives of
the Central Office.
Detective Sergeant McDonough, of
Captain McClusky's staff, saw on the
Boulevard on Friday night three men
whom he had reason to suspect to be
thieves, and arrested them ION general
principles" At Police Headquarters
the men said that they were George
Shipherd, of No. 202 East Ninety-sev-
enth street; George Hess, of No. 221
East Ninety-seventh street, and John
Hamilton, who refused to give his res
idence.
On Shipherd the detectives found
soDe skeleton keys and a handsome
gold watcn and chain, with a locket
bearing the inspriction: -"Te Colonel
r. Fl. Mclean, from the Enlisted Men
of Companies e and F of N. G. H.
The men were arraigned in the Cen
tre Street Police Court yesterday
morning, when Hamilton was dis
charged for lack of evidence and Ship
herd and Hess were held in $1,000 for
examination on Tuesday morning.
WRESTLED WITH PROBLEM IN.
G. H."
There was much speculation in the
Detective Bureau as to the meaning
of the initials IN. G. H." All at
tempts to obtain any explanation from
the person in whose possession the
watch and locket were found proved
to be fruitless, and the bureau wrestled
with the problem in vain until yester-
day (Monday) afternoon, when the
brilliant idea struck Sergeant Morris
there was just a possibility that N. G.
H. stood for National Guard of Hawaii.
Investigation showed that r. II. Me
Lean was the name of an American
navy officer who was appointed three
years ago to the command of the army
of Hawaii. Thereat Sergeant Morris
chuckled and caused search to be
made for the whereabouts of the Ha-
waiian General, which so far has been |
without results other than the pre- |
that he is stiqI conducting |
the operations of his forces in the far |
off Pacific island
ASSUMED TO BIZ IN HONOLULU. |
At the office of Elisha Allen, Consul |
for the Hawaiian Republic, at 63 Wall |
street, no information could be OBJ |
tained relative to General McLean's |
1t was assumed that he |
was still at his headquarters in Homo |
lulu, and the mystery of how his watch |
and lOcket could have turned up in |
New York only deepened Evidently |
Mr.. Shipherd was the only man who |
could offer any solution to the problem, |
and he continued to maintain polite |
silence. So the matter rests until the !
Commander can be COM
municated with.
r. II. Mclean graduated with high |
hOnOrs from the Naval Academy at
in 1872, and entered the
navy, in which he served for twenty
years, when he resigned from the SER
vice TO go into business with his broth
er III Paris. Subsequently he was ap-
pointed military instructor at Ogontz
College, near Philadelphia, and was
associated with Lieutenant Beehler, Of
the navy. in developing the solaro-
meter, and with others in introducing
field pieces into European
armies. He was appointed to the COM
mand of the National Guard of Hawaii
in April, 1895, and sailed from San
Francisco on May in the same year.
Of course it is well known here that
Colonel Mclean resigned his Hawaiian
commission and returned to the Unit
ed States. It has been supposed by
people generally here that he would
surely secure a good appointment dur
ing the war with Spain. He is not |
only a thorough soldier and a skillful