The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-04-10
NAIPAHU RIOT
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noluu were reported engaged in fleece
ing the plantation laborers. The raiu
of the resort was conducted without
trouble and eleven Chinese were placed
under arrest While the officers were
taking the men along the road to place
them in the patrol wagon that had been
driven from Honolulu, e. Worthington
the head luna of the Oahu Sugar Com
pany, approached and inquired of Cap
tain Kanae regarding the authority Of
the police in making the arrests.
Worthington was referred to Fernan-
dez. the Deputy Sheriff of the Eva dis
trict.
The police officers claim that Worth
| ington was very much excited and an
CRY and were inclined to claim that he
had been responsible for the crowd of !
! Chinese gathering and trying to rescue !
! the prisoners. Worthington denies any
such responsibility and claims that he |
had gone merely to give bail for the /,
men, the majority of whom appear to |
have been laborers working on the
| plantation.
| In any event whether Worthington
fired the three shots from a revolver in
the air to arouse the crowd of Chinese,
a big crowd of Chinese did gather and
surround the officers. 1t is claimed that
the Chinese used clubs and sticks, at
lacking the officers with those weapons.
Frank Kanae was hit over the head
and his scalp badly cut, other officers
were injured by blows from clubs
welded by the men in the crowd. Dur
, ing the melee which occurred in the
darkness, the officers became separat-
ed. Lieutenant Luahiwa says that he
fired two blank cartridges from his
pistol i'm the air, but says that this had
2 no effect, and he fought his way as best
5 he could, to the patrol wagon where
t the other officers and their prisoners
5 We're gathered. Luahiwa sustained a
S broken hand during the fight The
t lieutenant states that he did not see
e who else beside himself, had fired any
weapons. The other officers might have
had weapons and fired them but he did
/ not know of it.
e. Evidently the wounding of the Chi
nese caused the mob to cease its efforts
t temporarily for the officers succeeded in
beating the Chinese away and driving
- to the Eva court house. The officers
% claim that they did not learn until after
q they arrived in Honolulu of the shoot
d ing of the Chinese
I High Sheriff Henry said this morn
- ing; 81 am having a careful inquiry
made into this affair. My officers in
?. form me that Worthngton, the head
luna, did interfere with them, and APP
parently was the cause for the Chinese
- mob rising In fact he did not behave
e in a gentlemanly way at all. The laws
II are to be enforced and I am going tC
l. have them enforced. Some of these
= plantations seem to think that they
n are a law unto themselves, but I pro-
;e pose to have the law enforced against
II everybody and not permit the work o,
IF the police to be interfered with.
h ut is possible that the Chinese may
II have been killed by the police or he
e might have been killed by somebody in
l the crowd firing. Certainly if he were
: killed by the police the officers had am
is pie justification in shooting for they
= had been assaulted and beaten by q
h mob of Infatuated Chinese. Practically
it every one of my men was hurt.
lie 1.-THE information now in my posses
1t sion is not such, however, as to enable
d me to express a positive opinion as to
a who really shot that Chinese"
t. 1T is not unlikely that the Chinese
lie consul win make an inquiry into the
TT matter. If Worthington wanted TO bal
ID out the arrested men and to avoid the
IS crowd being taken to the Eva court
re house, it is not by any means improb.
IN able that refusal on the part of Fer.
p nandez to accept bail, would have en-,
+, ragged the Chinese friends of the ar.
he rested men and led to the trouble. Five
Id of the arrested men were rescued from
the officers and the remaining prisoners
Id were gotten to Eva Jail by the officers
The inquest win be held on N'ednes.
IS day.
)e Captain Kanae who was i'm charge OF
Is the posse OF local police that went tC
+ Waipahu last Saturday night says that
D. Worthington began to fire first THE
raid on the Chinese gambling resort
re continued Kanae was accomplished
n without any particular trouble clever
r ChSese being placed under arrest
s. Worthington came IN TO me after the
I'd raid while the officers were taking
/ their prisoners away, and asked me
p for the warrant. l referred him t.
m Deputy Sheriff J. Fernandez who was
d, i'm charge of II at part of the work
n Fernandez said that he did not have
any warrant. WorthingtOn said we
ID will fix you fellows and then said cal
re the Chinese Immediately there fol
2. lowed beating on pans and blowing OF
ne horns and within . short time a bis
Sc crowd of Chinese appeared about the
10 officers and the prisoners.
3 II with several other officers started
id with five Of the Chinese prisoners tC
- take them to the Jail while Fernandez
and Luahiwa and several others officers
" remainded with he six other prisoners
l. While / was about 100 yards distant
i from the other crowd / heard three
e. shots fired. l was afterwards told
n that the shots had been fired into the
,r air by Worthington Within "a short
time after those shots had been fired.
heard some more shots, at least six and
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