The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-01-13
JOHN WISE
AND PARTY
ARRESTED
Taken From Lanai
By the Police
Guard.

All because they had to eat, and
consequently had to take the live stock
wherewith to satisfy their appetites,
John Wise and his supporters, who
have been representing John +. Col
burn and F. II. Hayselden. in holding
the fort at the ranch house at Lanai
are now held under arrest at Lahaina
on a charge OF malicious injury. A
relief expedition with Messrs. Colburn,
Hayselden and Attorney Ashford, with
others to reinforce the guards, left at
midnight for Maui on receipt Of tele-
graphic information. Their intention
is to bail out the men to return them
to their station at Lanai, and to pro-
vision them to withstand any siege
that may be enforced by the minions
of the law.
This latest turn OF affairs in the
drama Of Lanai, came late yesterday
afternoon after arrangements had
been made to send supplies and dis
patches by the steamer Hawaii, which
had only arrived from Molokai with
cattle. The first intention was to send
succor to Wise, who was represented
to be almost in the throes of starva-
personal property Of the Gibson estate,
had taken all the eatables and the
guardians of the property in the in
terest of the trustee, found themselves
in a position which soon would have
become untenable. When the men ar
rested are taken once more to their
island castle, they will have plenty of
poi and condensed milk, biscuit and
nd will ha oil N
keep up the blockade as long as Is
necessary.
The latest turn in affairs was dis
closed here on the arrival of the steam
Friday, when it was known that the
police had served an attachment on all
! the personal property on the ranch on
Lanai, under an execution issued
against Mrs. Hayselden, in the suit Of
Bishop & Company. At once there
were preparations by the attorneys to
make fight for what 1t is claimed is
the right of the administrator with the
will annexed and trustee of the estate
of Walter Murray Gibson, Fred II.
Hayselden.
The attachment was served under
the execution which was against Mrs.
Hayselden, in the joint suit with W..
II. Pain, growing out Of the purchase
and handling of certain Of the assets
of the Maunalei Sugar Co. The exc
cution was served against the person
! al property of the estate which has
been under the control of John Wise
and his assistants ever since they were
sent up to represent the claimants,
when it was alleged that the purchase
of Charles Gay did not comprise the
| tel, m
leadership of Lieut. Leslie, from here,
| who has with him two Maui men. seiz-
ed everything. The chickens, the
sheep, the eatables, everything was
seized and 1t became a case of starve
out, but the representatives of Colburn
and the administrator-with-th
annexed held the fort and simply sent
down cry for supplies. They could
not even milk COW or pick an egg.
The police held the eatables, leaving
only the house for Wise.
Before food was sent however, At
torney Ashford, for the estate, s0nt
demand for release to the police, al
leging that the assets OF the estate
could not be held under an execution
against Mrs Hayselden, and notifying
them that 1t was the intention to ship
cattle at once, and warning the police
that any interference would be the sig
nal for suits for damages. The Ha-
wall therefore will have other business
than simply to carry supplies, for in
strnctions were sent to make the at
tempt to ship the cattle, and as the po-
lice are firm, 1t 10 said that there Will
be second act in the drama, as soon
as the steamer returns.