The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-12-26
A STORY III
ABDUCTION
Portuguese Woman of
Maui Spirited Away.
Rescued BY HER BROTHER
Makawao People Worked Up by Deed
Of Japanese Sao To Be
Now Here.

Especial Correspondence.l


, WAILUKU, Maui, Dec. Gan alb
duction, which for boldness and wick
edness, rivals anything done by the
/ villains of melodrama. startled the
/ peaceful iittle Portuguese colony of
] Makawao this week. For four days
/ the entire community was wrought up
to a high pitch of excitement and
anxiety over the mysterious di a ppear-
ance of Mrs. Manuel Fernandez, the
, wife of a Portuguese in the employ
of the Haleakala Ranch, and the
mother of two children. At the end
of that time Mrs. Fernandez, entirely
Frustrated from her horrible expert
ences was brought back to the family
of her brother, who had rescued her
from two japanese rutfians. She had
been kidnapped and taken on board
the Claudine by her captors, who in
tended to take her to Honolulu. The
brother of the woman, who vas en-
ployed on the Claudine, discovered his
sister weeping bitterly, and being
threatened by violence by the two Jap
anese.
1t seems that about daylight on the
morning of the 18th, Mrs. Fernandez,
a fearless little woman. and very fair
to look upon, left her home far up on
the slope of Halekeala at the mountain
dairy of the ranch, intending to at
tend mass and confession at the Ma
kawao church, four or five miles be-
low. Mrs. Fernandez had often ridden
down the mountain to early mass be-
fore, and her husband enter tanned no
fear for her, but some hours later
when her riderless horse was found
wandering about the feds some three
miles below, without bride, and
brought home by Two ranch employees,
Mr.. Fernandez became very much
alarmed.
He gathered together a number of
friends and they began a search
through the mountains. All day they
hunted, but found no traces When
night fell they were compelled to
abandon their search and the family
of the missing woman were wildly
anxious, fearing all manner of accident
and evil that might have befaIlen her.
With the light of day the search was
renewed. Manager l.. Won Tempsky,
hearing of the disappearance, ordered
all the employees of the ranch to sus-
pend work and join in the hunt
party of twenty-five mounted men,
including the manager, the bookkseper
and relatives of the missing girl.
secured the woods, shouting and call
ing the name OF the lost woman, but
to no avail. The third day they hunt
ed also, and on the fourth, when her
family had given up all hope and were
Frustrated with grief, she was brought
home by her brother. When she had
sufficiently recovered to tell the story,
Mrs. Fernandez related her adventure.
While riding down the mountain on
her way to mass, she said, she was
f0"ciby seized and dragged from her
horse by two Japanese. The rufflans
placed her on another animal and
compelled her to ride distance of
several miles, until they came to AL
express wagon, hidden away among
the underbrush. Here the two kid
nappers forced their captive into the
vehicle and drove her to Maalaea Bay,
During the journey she was intimidat-
&c and kept silent by threats of viO-
lence. At Maaleae she was placed in
Japanese fishing boat and conveyed to
Lahaina, and from there was trans
ferred to the steamer Claudine, bound
for Honolulu. Crying bitterly in
corner, in spite of the threats of the
two Japanese, she was recognized by
her brother and rescued by him. The
two kidnappers escaped in the crowd.
The principal in this bold abduction
is a we'll known Japanese recently en-
ployed as yardman by Maunaolu Semi
nary. He has not been seen since his
escape from the Claudine, and the pc.
lice have been put upon his trail.
-sAS