The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-14
|BL. OWN UP BY
DYNAMITE
Murder Reported
From Garden
Isle.
Two japanese Under
Arrest for the
Crime.
Arthur Glennan Murdered While
He Lay in Bed-TeIe-
phone Cut.

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| last Friday night by japanese, two OF
| whom, believed to have knowledge OF
| the matter, being now under arrest
The crime was most dastardIy. A stick
Of dynamite was placed under the bed
| in Glennan's tent and a fuse attached
which was ignited from the outside
presumably from a cigarette. H. c.
SmalIey, Glennan's assistant, the only
white man in the vicinity, was led off
after his horse which had been stolen
away, and the telephone wires leading
prior to the commission Of the crime.
The full particulars of the crime were
sent in private letter to Mrs. DR.. w.
G. Rogers from her brother, H. C.
smalley, who with Glennan was in
charge of the work, and who was the
first man at his side after the tragedy.
B. B. O'Shaughnessy, the engineer in
charge of the work, arrived on the ST.
IBERIA yesterday only to hear of the
crime. He was much grieved over the
news as Mr.. Glennan was one of his
most valuable assistants.
mir. Glennan was first employed in
the survey of the canyon at the Maka-
well river" said Mr.. O'Shaughnessy,
(which was very dangerous work and
ready vacated. He was a thoroughly
good and reliable man, and was pro-
NOTED until he got charge of this ex-
tension. He was also of good habits
and character, and his death will be a
heavy blow to his father and mother at
Redwood City, California. He was 81
years of age and unmarried
Engineer O'Shaughnessy denies the
statement, appearing in the Bulletin,
that he had predicted the death of Mr..
Glennan before the completion of the
work on which the latter was engaged.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy states that he has
never said anything of the sort and
objects to being put in. a false position
in regard to an event he had no reason
to anticipate and which he has every
occasion to deplore.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy further states
that Glennan's principal trouble was
in keeping rascally Japanese gamblers
and worse from the camp and had thus
incurred their enmity. These Japs, Mr..
O'Shaughnessy says, are a different
class from the ordinary plantation Japs,
and are vagabonds in many instances.
THE DETAILED STORY.
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by Mr.. SmaIIey of the murder and the
events following it:
"On last Friday evening Mr.. Glennan
was most foully murdered while in bed
asleep by being blown up by dynamite.
placed under his bed and ignitej by a
fuse leading to it from the outside of
the tent. The result was horrible in
the extreme. He was thrown to the |
other side of the tent, which was a
total wreck. His left thigh was crush |
ed and he was otherwise mangled. I |
arrived in about three or four minutes
from an adjoining camp where / had |
gone to give orders for the next days |
work, and carried him from the burn
ng tent, when the cook helped carry |
him to my room. I then sent the Japs
20 put out the fire and save the valu-
able records. They were afraid of fur
her explosions from explosives known
)r suspected to have been left III the
burning tent, SO I left him for a few
minutes until the fire had been extin-
;uished and / could thus reach the tele-
,hone to summon help.
I could get no answer by phone. and
Is he was unconscious and his plight
vas desperate, and the five Japs re-
used to make the trip, being panic
tricken, I rode the two miles to the
COL house telephone, to get the doc
or. He told me to bring him to Wal
nea if he still lived and got the head
una to send spring-wagon to the
rail he would be carried out by.
made the round trip of four miles of
trail IN forty minutes, but he
reathed his last just as I returned,
aving never fully regained conscious
ess. When I first picked him up, he
aid, Where amf % and TO the best
f my belief was almost rational at
hat moment. I remained there until
aylight when I had litter made and
he remains carried out to the wagon
Dad and taken by wagon to Maka-
-eli.
II found that morning that the tele-
hone line had been broken about 800
ards from the tent. 1t showed signs
having been tempered with, and as
had used the line at sis p. IN. and
IRIS. Omsted had tried to ring me at
80 and Mr.. Baldwin had tried to get +
lehman at p. m, the explosion taking
lace at $50. there seems to me to be
Inclusive proof that it was cut be-
ween SIS and 9. even granting that ]
FRS. O.'s ring was all right, but not
oticed by Glennan. {
My horse mysteriously disappeared /;
rom Camp Sc while I was there, so L