The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-24

LIVED HERE
Robert Glaze Kills His
Partner.
RAN H|L0 HOTEL IN '99
Cold Blooded Assassination in San
Francisco May Mean
Hanging.

Robert E. Glaze. the Well known no
tel man, who resided in Honolulu at
the Hawaiian Hotel in the spring of
1899 with his wife and stepchildren,
and who was later manager of the Hilo
Hotel for period, shot and killed his
partner, William Trewella, in the
Windsor Hotel, San Francisco. The
murder occurred on the night of jan
uary IA while Trewella was laughing
and joking with John O'Connor, the
elevator boy, in one of the dark hall
ways of the hotel. The San Francisco
Chronicle characterizes the murder as
a cold-blooded affair, and says that
Trewella met his death at the hands
of an assassin A charge of murder
has been placed against Glaze's name
at the city prison, San Francisco
Glaze was at one time a clerk at the
Baldwin Hotel, and while IN that posi-
ton, married Mrs. Shelley, a widow
with four children. The widow was
possessed of an ample fortune, suffi-
cient to give Glaze business more in
keeping with the ambitions of his wife.
They came to Honolulu on their we'd
ding tour, accompanied by Mrs. Glaze's
young daughter. They staid at the Ha-
waiian Hotel where Mrs. Glaze at
tracted considerable attention by her
manner of dressing, stylish, and at the
same time rather eccentric. They lived
we'll, and champagne flowed freely at
their table at dinner. Glaze secured
a lease of the Hilo Hotel and went
there with his family. He brought
the hotel out of what was in reality q
country tavern to a Furnishing hostel
ry with metropolitan improvements
Glaze, however. while popular with
some, was disliked by many on ac-
count of his morose disposition Final
~ the lease of the hotel was given up,
as Mrs. Glaze was not in good health
and they returned TO San Francisco
of a sailing vessel.
Trewella was a Cornish miner who
had accumulated some wealth and
was induced to put it into the Windsor
Hotel with that of Glaze. He was
fifty-four years old, and was known
about the place as a kind hearted and
jovial man. Glaze maintained a silence
about the shooting at first, but later
told a reporter that he regretted the
affair. and that he was grfeved that
Trewella was dead.
But" continued he, what could
do under the circumstances? Ny life
was in danger, / had been threatened
several times, and was not going to
allow myself to be killed without de-
Tending myself. 1 have a wife and
family, and shot him because I thought
that he was going to kill me. I did not
mean to kill him, but I was very much
excited" When asked whether he and
Trewella had been quarreling, he said
that they had frequent quarrels about
business and family affairs. and that
Trewella had threatened his life sew
eral times, as had some others, though
he would not say who the others were.
The beaboy said after the shooting
Glaze ran past him and said, IF any
body asks you anything about this.
tell them he killed himself Glaze
then ran through the courtyard of the
hotel into the office, where he threw
away his pistol and cartridges. The as
sassin, he said, was standing in the
dark SO :that he could not be seen
from the kitchen or the hall when he
fired the shots
Last right continued the bellboy
| there was trouble at the hotel on ac-
count of Mrs. Glaze making a row in
the halls She was under the influence
OF liquor, and raised a row in Mrs
Trewella's room. Mrs. sTrewella tried
| to quiet her and get her to go out, but
as she wouldn't Mrs. Trewella showed
| her out and slammed the door in her
| face The boy says that Glaze Law
| in wait for his partner after this and
shot him down without giving him a
| chance for his life.
Those in Honolulu who remember the
| Glaze's and their life at the hotel viii
! recall that Mrs. Glaze drank literally
| especially in the evening and showed
| the effects of it,