The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-29
DEPUTY CH1LL1NGwoRTHs GOOD
NERVE.
Unarmed, He Takes Man Who has
Him Covered With a Pistol at Close
Quarters.

Few men have looked death in the
face. more closely or more calmly than
did Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth last
night. He had to face a loaded reVol-
yer in the hands of desperate prisoner.
Only his own GOODNESS and the prison.
er's lack of nerve saved him from be-
ing killed.
Charles Heffernam, who is accused of
having passed a forged check and who
also holds the distinction of having
made nice escape from the prison in
Honolulu, is the man at whose hands
the deputy sheriff so nearly met death,
Heffernam was being driven to Oahu
Jail in a hack.
Just after the railroad station had
been passed the prisoner said he was
| sick and asked to be allowed to get out
of the hack for a minute. He was no
sooner allowed to do so than he drew a
revolver and levelled it at the deputy
sheriff.
1t was a ticklish situation but Chill
! lingworth appeared to be primed for it.
1T was just like a play on the stage"
| said hackman Correa afterwards in
| telling about it, The hackman said he
had lump in his throat yet, at mid
| night
The prisoner said he must have his
| liberty and told the officer to get out of
the hack. IF you are going to shoot,
do it," said Chillingworth He was un-
|
| this fact the job would not be so easy.
II remember that l was thinking of
poor Correa, hack driver in front" said
| Chillingworth this morning. 81 thought
| to myself that if / was shot Heffernan
would of course have to kill Correa too
| to put a witness out of the way"
Heffernan evidently thought he would
be able to scare the officer into letting
him go, but he was mistaken. He fin
ally said that though he didn't want to
he must shoot, whereupon Chillingworth
said he wasn't to be bluffed. Heffernan,
perhaps to make the thing still more
impressive, said he would say good bye
| before shooting and he held out his left
hand to shake.
Chillingworth ended the situation
very quickly when he got hold of the
hand. Heffernan was jerked half into
the hack with a force that ended his
chances. Chillingworth got hold of the
revolver, keeping the hammer in his
grasp, and he soon had his prisoner
again. An unarmed man with nerve
had beaten an armed man without.
| At Oahu prison Heffernan made an
other Situation" There waR a rifit
standing in one corner of the room into
which he was first taken. Chilling
worth and Jailor Henry were alone
with him, when he was observed to be
slowly edging towards the rifle. This
game was stopped in time, however
Heffernan was searched and placed II
a tank.
This morning Heffernan was in the
police court. There were two charges
against him, one the original charge o
passing check for $3.50 to which the
name of ]. L. Lowrey had been forged
and the other of assault with intent t
commit murder He waived examina
ton in both cases and was committed
to the Circuit court for trial
InTfn NJ oil
mitted at Waimea, escape from the
Honolulu prison was by climbing owe
a gate that leads into the corridor nea
the high sheriff's office. He must hav,
been watching for a chance. as ther,
is generally some one at hand whC
would stop such an escape. Once owe
the gate, he had no trouble in walking
out of the building.