The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-24
SLAIN IN DUEL
Charles JOyCe's Sudden
Cutting Off.
He Exchanges Pistol Shots With a
Drunken Customer and Gets
The Worst of II.

The Charles Joyce mentioned in the
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
eTnOon. Dillon had been drinking
heavily and had entered Joyce's saloon
about half-past 3 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 out
and not to return. One word followed
duOlutIs JONtt finally EOluk 10 the
place where Dillon had left his hat
and handing it TO him told him to go!
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 a policeman he heard anoth-
er shot.
When the police arrived Joyce was
found unconscious, lying behind his
counter PatrOlman X. 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 J. A. Fitzgerald hunted up
Dillon, whom they found in a 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
his nose and lodging in his mouth,
whence he spat it out, recovering IL
and putting it in his pocket. Another
| bullet had struck his head, inflictlng a
| scalp wound. His revolver had five
| chambers discharged, and Joyce's had
| three. one of which was an old shot.
While the quarrel over drinks was
Il. -. - 49,
| has been bad blood between the two
men since September last, when. on
/ complaint OF Joyce, Dillon was hailed
| 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
/ a frequent visitor there. The two men
I have often had high words over their
differences, but the quarrel never as
/ sumed anything like a 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 II 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 a year and a half after
/ his appointment, but since then he set
/ tied down and gave no further trouble
until last September.
] .Dt.oa lived with his wife and d4uub-
1 ter over the grocery. Dillon lived just
I'D the street. He is a widOwer with a
/ son and a daughter, both grown.
/ as soon as billions wound was dress
I ed at the County Hospital he was taken
\ to the Receiving Hospital, where he
couId be kept under guard. His life
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