The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-27
ON ANDREW WEIGH.
Fight on Board at Sea and Incl
dent in HarbOr.

dent in HarbOr.
The Hawaiian bark Andrew WeIcn'
Drew master, arrived in port yester-
dav morning after a trip OF 90 days
from San Francisco with a cargo Of
I 600 tons Of general merchandise for
C. Brewer & Co. The trip, barring
the night before arrival in port, was
uneyentful. There were no strong
breezes to send the good ship along
The Andrew WEIGH locked at Brewers
wharf and began discharging imme-
diately.
On Monday night there was trouble
between the mate and one of the sail
ors, Walters by name. The two got
into an argument and, before the Cap
tain could gain any knowledge what
ever of the affair, the mate was badly
BATTERED up and hardly able to move.
Walters, who is a great Swapping fell
low, had done very good job. The
CAPTAIN did not consider it good policy
to make much of the affair as he was
near to port with his ship.
Yesterday afternoon, Captain Drew
called at the police station and asked
that Mike Drewitt, one Of the sailors,
be arrested The man was drunk and
disorderly. Two native policemen, to-
gether with Special officer Vida, were
sent down to the ship and found the
| fellow referred to, down in the hold.
| He was lying down, evidently IN e
| state of intoxicatiOn. When spoken to
! he would not answer nor would he
| bulge when the officers took hold OF
| him. The men of the law then hit
upon a scheme and, taking long rope,
| attached one end of it to the sailor
| 1T was then that the showed DISPOSE
ton to fight and rose up entirely re-
| covered from the simulated stupor
! However, the rope was fast and the
officers were beginning to pull from
above.
When the sailor came near to the
| top he tried to hold on to what ne
could get his hands on but by this
time the strain upwards was too great
and he had to come. On the decA
| of the vessel he squared off and made
an attempt to fight but was soon stop
ned. Harry Evans arrived on the
scene at this time and the prisoner
wa staken to the police station in short
order. although he did try once or
twice to sit down on the deck.
When Mike emerged from the mold
Walters, the other sailor referred tc
above, noticed that his shipmate's nose
was bleeding and asked him If one OF
the officers had not done the deed
Mike saw his chance at revenge anC
pointed at one of. the native officers
There is no doubt there would have
trouble between the officers and sailor:
had Mike not been hustled from the
deck in a lively manner, for sailors
were beginning to gather around wher
they found that their friends nose wa!
, bleeding.
After the arrest of Mike the Captain
= of the vessel called at the Office of Mar
shall Brown and laid before him thu
l particulars of the fight of the night be
fore. At this the Marshal prepared
Warrant and sent out for Harry Evan
and Jim Kupihea, detailing them t
the job of arresting Walters. 1t wa
confidently believed that there woul'
he trouble should an attempt be mad
to arrest the stalwart sailor. Kupi
hea could not de found, so two natlV
policemen were detailed with Evans t
arrest the man. Quite crowd follow
ed the officers to the ship just to "se
the fun They were however Yer
much disappointed, for Walters sui
mitted without a word, went to h
I cabin for his coat and proceeded to til
police station quietly. When told thu
IL the charge against him was assau
and battery he said that he had IKE
D I'D matters with the mate and thu
everything was all right. He shove
no disposition whatever to quarrel an
was led away downstairs without
~ murmur. The case will probably con
I'D in the police court this mornlnl
A. Walters is mena'ble here on accounts
the Welch's registry.