Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-02-06
LOOKED UNDER The BED
Native Lad Causes a COmmOtiOn In
Wailuku.
Chinese Opium Smoker SlaSheS Himself
Welcome Rain-PlanS for Electric
Plant.

Waikiki, Maui, Feb. 4, 1899. =
Haleakala, a native boy aged l3b
years old, wac found by Mrs,
Heapy, daughter of j. A. Moore,
and vice-principal Waikiki school
concealed under her bed last Sat.
urday evening, Jan. %.
Mrs. Heapy had gone out call.
log for the evening, and on hel
return at late hour, her curiosity
was aroused by finding her doc,
partly open, for it was closed wher
she went out. Somehow strange
feeling crept over her body, and
she began to realize that there
WAS something unusual within beI
household portals. Bending herself
to take peep under the bed, 10
the form of human being in a
bent up position met her gaze.
There was no time for further
investigation to find out whether
it was an adder or boa construct.
or, but she Immediately took to
her heels and yelled out for help
Messrs. Moore and ID. Crowell,
head jailor of Wailuku responded
to the call. The latter when be
got into the house looked under
the bed expecting to find the most
desperate bandit on Maui, but to
bis amazement there appeared be-
fore him a little wee bit of a lad
begging for mercy, that is, from
wrathful indignation of his master
for Mr.. Moore and Mrs. Heapy
are his teachers.
The little boy was led out and
placed in Jail that night. Next
morning he appeared before the
Sheriff for investigation and to
that dignitary the boy gave six
different stories as excuses for his
unlawful presence on the premises,
and each one of the excuses given
would be worthy of such nortori-
Gus burglars as "Barefooted Bill"
Haleakala appeared before
Magistrate Mckay last Wednes-
day on the charge of vagrsncy to
which the little culprit pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced for six
and one half years in the Reform
atory School, j. e., until he reaches
his majority. The boys parents
are glad that be is going to Keo-
neula, for the youngster has been
a burden on the old mans should
ers. Today Haleakala will leave
per Claudine for Honolulu to
serve out his sentence and hap
pier boy could not be found on
Maui today, for Honolulu has
been a sort of dreamland to him,
and now at last his hope are rea-
LIKED.
Alana, a noted Chinese opium
smoker, was arrested by the police
last Sunday near the Wailuku
Mill. When he was led out from
his den by the police, the China,
man Immediately hourished con-
cealed weapon and with 1t stab
bed himself In The abdomen,
making a deep and nasty looking
cut about four inches deep. The
pake is married to native wo-
man, and he believed that his
father-in-law gave him away,
hence the deed. The injured man
is now being cared for at the Ma
lulani Hospital where he is i'm
proving. His case came off this
morning before Magistrate Mckay
who found him guilty of the
charge. Sentence suspended for
one year. The Chinaman is still
endesvoring to find out his in.
former.
A daughter was born to the
wife of Rev. j. M. Lewis Of this
town on the night of the Goth of
January. The mother and baby
are doing we'll.
Some of our residents have
ordered to the coast for high bred
stock, and there arrived this week
by the schooner Jennie Wand a
fine and gentle driving horse for
Mr.. j. A. Moore and a Jersey COW
FOR Magistrate Mckay. Both
animals arrived in good condition,
and are the pride of the town.
Rev. A. Ault of Lahaina will
hold service at Waikiki next
morning, Feb. IL.
The Indian Kickappoo have do
pg Labaina this week and are ex-