The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-07-19
News Of a Present Made Here TO
Col. R. 4. Mclean.
HAS Been STOLEN FROM HIM
The Colonel Cannot Be Located.
M H." Was a Puzzle to the
New.York pollce-A Consul.
New York Herald.)

New York Herald.)
How it came about that man ar
rested In New York as a thief had in
his possession gold watch and chain
and locket 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. 2O2 East Ninety-sev-
| enth street; George Hess, Of No. 22l
East Ninety seventh street, and John
Hamilton, who refused to give his res
| idence.
On Shipherd the detectives found
some skeleton keys and a handsome
| gold watch and chain, with a lpcket
| bearing the inspriction:-"T Colonel
| r., II. Mclean. from the Enlisted Men
| of Companies Il and + of n. q. H."
The men were arraigned in the Cen
tire Street Police Court yesterday
morning. when Hamilton was dis
charged for lack of evidence and Ship
| herd and Hess were held In 81 900 for
examination on Tuesday morning.
WREsTLED WITH PROBLEM ~.
G.. w."
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 he 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 possibility that N. G.
II. stood for National Guard of Hawaii.
Investigation showed that X. II. Nc
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-
sumption that he is still conducting
the operations of his forces in the far
off Pacific island.
ASSUMED TO BE IN HONOLULU.
At the Office of Elisha Allen, Consul
for the Hawaiian Republic, at SO Wall
: infnrp, mi inn 10 ii
tanned relative to General McLean's
movements. 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
Hawaiian Commander can he COM
munCated with.
X. ii. Mclean graduated with high
honors from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis 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
err In 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
American 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 1t Is well known here that
Colonel Mclean resigned his Hawaiian
commission and returned to the Unit
ed States. 1t has been supposed by
people generally here that he would
surely secure good appointment dur
ing the war with Spain. He is not
only thorough soldier and a skillful
navigator but is an artillery expert of
considerable reputation.
The watch mentioned in the Herald
was presented to Colonel Mclean by
the men of the barracks MS farewell
gift.