The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-24
The End of Joyce


following article from the Call of Jan
uary 16, was formerly steward of the
Pacific Club:
A row last evening over drinks in
Charles Joyce's saloon and grocery on
Castro and Seventeenth streets cost
Joyce his life and Thomas Dillon, a
retired police officer, his liberty.
Joyce died of his wounds on the oper-
ating table in the City and County
Hospital and Dillon, probably fatally
wounded, is under arrest in the Re-
ceiving Hospital
The row started late yesterday aft
ernoon. Dillon had been drinking
heavily and had entered Joyces saloon
about half-past o'clock. Joseph
Reedy, Charles Taylor, James Dow
ney, Herman Ryforge and p. Haynes
were in the saloon at different times,
and they all say Dillon was drunk
and very quarrelsome. He finally got
into an argument with Joyce over the
payment for a round of drinks. Joyce
told him to drop the matter, to get ott
and not to return. One word followed
another, Joyce finally going to the
piaSS NHel DlllOn utiu lelL Ills Hat
and handing it to him told him to so.
Dillon retorted angrily and drew a re-
volver, Joyce jumped behind the
counter and brought his own weapon
to bear, both commencing to shoot.
In all, seven shots were fired. Joyce
went down soon after the first shot.
AS he did so he called to Dillon, For
Gods sake, Tom, don't shoot
Reedy says Dillon then went up to
the PROSTATE man and fired at him
again. AS Reedy ran up the street in
search of policeman he heard anoth-
er shot
When the police arrived Joyce was
found unconscious, lying behind his
counter. Patrolman R. F. Graham took
him to the ambulance at once and
hurried him over to the City and
County Hospital, where he died just
as he was placed on the operating ia
Bile. Joyce was shot twice through the
abdomen and once through the arm.
| In the meantime Sergeant Shaw and
Patrolman ]. A. Fitzgerald hunted up
Dillon, whom they found in neighbor-
ing saloon. Shaw placed him under ar
rest and took him in a buggy to the
County Hospital. Dillon was shot once
in the face, the bullet passing through
hls nose and lodging in his mouth,
whence he spat 1T out, recovering it
and putting it in his pocket Another
bullet had struck his head, inflictlng
scalp wound. His revolver had five
chambers discharged, and Joyce'S had
three, one of which was an old shot.
Wlhile the quarrel over drinks was
the direct cause of the shooting, there
has been bad blood between the two
men since September last, when, on
complaint of Joyce, Dillon was haled
before the Commissioners on a charge
of drunkenness. The charges were
made by Captain Gillin upon the re-
port OF Sergeant Perrin, but it was
upon information furnished by Joyce
that they were made, and Dillon knew
this. He lives at 1854 Seventeenth
street, close to Joyce's place, and was
frequent visitor there. The two men
have often had high words over their
differences, but the quarrel never as
sumed anything like serious aspect
unless Dillon was drunk, and even
then no one ever suspected it would
end in murder
Dillon was retired by the old Police
Commission just before it went out of
Office at the beginning of this year and
was placed on the pension list. He
had been on the force for twenty-one
years, and was known as a good Off
Ger, with only one failing-drink. He
was four times before the Commits
sioners within year and half after
hls appointment, but since then he set
tied down and gave no further trouble
until last September.
Joyce lived with his wife and daugh-
ter over the grocery. Dillon lived just
up the street. He is widower with a
son and a daughter, both grown.
as soon as Dillon's wound was dress
ed at the County Hospital he was taken |
to the Receiving Hospital, where he
coulu be kept under guard. His life |
hangs ON slender thread.