The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-17

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which seemed to enrage the larger
man, the chief yeoman, who began
abusing the livery man and finally in
vited him out on the street to fight.
| Ensign Carter asked the other man
what ship he was from and was told
the Colorado. When the chief yeOman
proposed fighting, Ensign Carter told
him quietly that he was an officer and
said he was sorry to see chief petty
officer make d spectacle of himself,
observing that it was such conduct
that gave the men of the navy bad
name ashore.
Siebecke retorted with a rough in
curry of what Carter had got to do
with it, although the other man asked
Carter if he was not from the West
Virginia. AS the chief yeOman con-
tinued his insubordinate manner of
speech, Ensign Ferguson told him TO
he careful as he was addressing an
officer of the navy. The chief yeoman
said he had no way of knowing that
they were officers and he would like
to know their names. Ensign Fergu-
son gave him his card inscribed,
John Norwood Ferguson, Ensign,
United States Navy" On taking the
card Siebecke remarked that he would
not treat anyone as an officer unless
he knew him to be one.
Ferguson then followed Carter into
the stable, the two chief petty officers
leaving. While the officers were eX-
amining the saddles after arranging
for horses, the chief yeoman came in
and said he had Mr.. Ferguson's card
but wanted to know the other officers
name. At Mr.. Carriers request his
name was written on the card by Mr..
Ferguson. Answering the latters
question the chief yeoman gave his
name as rSiebecl<e and then asked what
ships the officers were from and was
told by Ferguson. =
A few minutes later as Ferguson and
Garter were crossing the street, Sic
becke carne up and Selling Ferguson
roughly asked in the same offensive
language as before who he was. En-
sign Ferguson shook himself free, say
ing he was an officer and ordering Sic
ibecke to take his hands off him. This
order was repeated several times but
the only effect was a statement by the
chief woman that he did not know
who Ferguson was, that the latter had
going to have satisfaction.
AS a crowd had begun to collect, in
which were several enlisted men who
did not recognize Carter or Ferguson,
Carter called two policemen who were
in the vicinity. Mr.. Ferguson asked
them on arrival to protect him from
lSiebecke and, leaving him in their
charge, returned to the ship.
1t is finally alleged that both Sic
becke and the chief boatswain's mate
seemed to be under the influence of
intoxicating liquor, Siebecke in less de-
gree than the other. Mr.. Ferguson
never saw him stagger and was fully
convinced that he knew what he was
doing.
SIEBECKE'S DEFENSE.
In a letter to the commanding Off
cer'' Siebecke states his side, mostly
in the form of extenuating circum-
stances.
He says that when the stable man
said he was over time he denied it, as
he thought it was $50 while it was
actually $40 q. m. Having been drink |
ing during the afternoon he was ex-
citable and, under the impression that |
he was being overcharged, was not |
sparing in words. He does not remem- |
Der if he paid the extra charges, but |
says he probably did as the livery man |
made no complaint against him. |
While arguing with the livery man
1.-TWO civilians whom he had never |
seen before, as he describes them, in
terfered. Here his story agrees with the |
charges excepting that he says when |
they told him they were officers he i'm |
left them alone and does not |
whether there was any more |
trouble. He neither saw an officers |
uniform nor recognized either of the /
two civilians as officers.
Siebecke states that at no time dur |
ing his service in the u. S. Navy has |
he ever committed any offense against |
an officer, and can therefore do Moth |
ing else but ask that the following |
who We're present during |
the trouble as he is informed, be sum
in his behalf: w. Bellina and |
Al Fallon of the Club Stables and |!