The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-12
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picked up at the foot of the mountains
which extend ON the left hand side of
the road leading to the Pail. Some
boys living near the Halfway House
heard his cries for help and found him
in an almost lifeless condition. He
was taken to the hospital where he
has been until quite recently, an in
jury to his thigh necessitating his de-
tention.
For two days and nights the unfor-
tunate man had lain in the lantana
with nothing to eat or drink and ex-
posed to the heat of the sun and the
chill night rains. In his crippled condi-
tion he had attempted to win his way
to the nearest habitation, some half a
mile away but had not succeeded in
making more than a hundred yards
headway. The thorns of the lantana
had torn his clothes to tatters and had
scratched his skin pitifully.
How the man got into the predic-
ament in which he was found was a
mystery. He could or would hardly
speak word of English except the
word Sherman" from which it was
guessed that he had come from the
transport which had been i'm port about
that time.
The man had not been robbed for
the sum of $40 was found i'm his pock-
cts. He had evidently fallen from a
trail which ran along the mountain
side. but what he was doing in that
lonely place, until few weeks ago re-
mained matter of the greatest con-
lecture.
When the transport Sherman was in
port about a month ago, two of the
crew made enquiries as to the where
abouts of one of the firemen who had
disappeared when the vessel was last
in Honolulu. They said that the miss
ing mans name was Zoria, that he
was a Spaniard by nationality and that
he had left his effects and some money
aboard the Sherman which We're still
being held by his old mates of the en-
gine room
The firemen located him in the
Queens Hospital and when he saw his
friends he suddenly found tongue and
told them that he had been pushed
over a trail by two other Spaniards
from the transport. who had invited
him to accompany them to house or
the mountain-side where, they said
liquor was made and where they could
all have a good time at but little cost
He accepted the invitation and fell in
to the trap which had evidently beer
laid for him. Zoria said that he fell
about two hundred feet.
When the Sherman sailed the two
firemen left zoria in the hospital. They
tpl1 ct 90 a hnNN.
ever, to more than one person, a story
that reads like a chapter out of a ro.
nance and which, if true. furnishes 8
remarkable instance of Spanish ven.
geance which forgetteth not.
According to his old comrades, Zoria
during the Spanish American war, wa!
a petty officer aboard a Spanish gun
boat. After the battle of Cavite h,
deserted his ship and went over to thu
Americans, acting as spy in th'
secret service department.
Twice within the next year an at
tempt was made on his life but he es
capped scathless on both occasions. Fo
a time he resided in San Francisco anC
about year ago Joined the Sherman
and made several voyages to the Phil
ippines. About the beginning of th
present year he was shot at one even
ing While walking along a street il
Manila.
On leaving Manila the last time, tw,
Spaniards sought and obtained EN-
ployment in the stoke-hole. They be
came very chummy with Zoria and il
Honolulu all three went ashore to
gether. Two of them returned to tn
ship but Zoria was absent when tn
vessel sailed for the Coast. In Sal
Francisco the two Spaniards were pat
off and nothing more was seen o
them.
Such is the story of Zoria's com
rades which, If true, opens up som
extraordinarily interesting questions.
Why was the death of Zoria s
eagerly sought? Was 1t a matter o
personal vengeance or were the perpe
traitors of the outrage acting as agent
for the government of the land the
call their own? Will the dogging o
Zoria now end or will the deadly track
ing be continued as soon as it is learn
ed by those most interested that deaf
waited not upon. the broken man cas-
into the lantana thicket from a trat
soaring the face of a cloud-kisse
mountain of the Pail range?