The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-02-18
HOTEL STREET EXTENSION.S0LDER REPORTED INSANE
SAID TO HAVE BEEN CLUBBED
BY POLICE.
Aftermath of Bloody Saloon Fight in
Which Two Native Policemen Were
Worsted.

On the evening of the 25th of October
last there was a free fight in Seeley
| Shaw's saloon, in which a number of
\ soldiers from Camp Mckinley and sew
1 eral Honolulu policemen took part and
/ it is now stated that one of the sol
diers has become insane through a
clubbing he received on the head. The
miX-up was a general one. There were
three different fights going on among
the soldiers when two officers first in
terfersd, making a furious attack with
I their clubs, 1t is stated. Then the ar
! tillerymen turned on the police.
/ Private Howgate has been missing
from his battery for about two weeks
and is said by his comrades to have
become insane. He had been acting in
an eccentric manner from some time
and though his absence from duty is
now over the ten-day limit he has not
been posted as a deserter, on account
of the impression that he is not respon-
sible. Some of his companions say that
he received blow on the head, Telling
him, in Shaw's saloon, and that this is
the cause of his present mental condi-
ton.
The police who interfered in Shaw's
ct first got decidedly the worst of it..
They were officers Pelenapa and Aka
kani. They heard the disturbance in
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fight. When they entered soldiers We're
fighting among themselves in three
different lots. Glasses We're flying,
mirrors were being broken and there
was a general hot time. Pelenapa
| drew his club and so did Aakani and
the police entered the fight. One of
the soldiers soon took Palenapas club
from him and actually broke the club
over Akakani's head. Akakani went
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was broken in the melee
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth soon ar
rived with some more men and the row
was stopped. Akakani was taken to
! the station with blood running over his
/ shirt from the wound in his head The
blow had been struck from behind.
Privates Fox, Prince and w. Smith
were arrested. Fox was charged with
assault and battery on Pelenapa and
w. Smith was charged with assaulting
an officer, as he was said to have been
the one who struck Akakani. Prince
was charged with being drunk. Judge
Wilcox fined fox Sc and. costs, Smith
waived examination and was committed
to the circuit court, while Prince was
allowed to go with a reprimand, not
/ having been concerned in the fighting.
l - The soldiers claim that the two ma
! tive officers used their clubs with ut
| Ter recklesSneSS as soon as they enter
ed the saloon, and that this was the
cause of the general attack upon them.
Pelenapa and Akakani are declared to
have rushed into the saloon clubs in
hand and laid about them in the best
way they knew how, Howgate, who is
now reported insane. receiving a blow
on the head that sent him to the floor
at once. The soldiers turned on the
policemen, got the clubs and turned
tables on them until Deputy Chilling
worth arrived on the scene.
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth stated
this morning that there was no club
bing of soldiers while he was there,
but that things were decidedly the
other way, the policemen being the
ones whom clubs We're decending The
DEPUTY however, did not get there until
after the first rush Of Pelenapa and
Akakani had been met by the soldiers