The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-16
LOPEZ THREW
Up HIS HANDS
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simply mean his own death, and he
| judged discretion the better part of
valor. Lopez does not seem to be quite
as fierce as his photographs would lead
one to believe. He is a small man,
weighing probably hundred and thirty
pounds, and appears to be well nourish-
ed and comfortably clad, far from be-
ing the victim of starvation he had
| been thought.
| Lopez and RodrigHes had no outside
confederates in their escape, according
to the story Lopez tells. The window
bars We're sawed from the inside with
| a file saw made by Lopez in his spare
moments within the jail yard. His file
and bar were given him by another con-
Wet, John Jack, Porto Rican, who
struggled them in from the Bishop block
park, where he was working. Lopez
/ told him he wanted to make tools for
| carving kukui nuts with the iron. Saw
ing the bars was long job, taking the
| greater part of two nights, but the work
of the first night was unnoted by the
| guards in the day between.
Once clear of the prison, the two went
| the mountains back of Aiea. From
there they visited Wahiawa and finally
settled down into camp at Kawailoa,
| back of Waialua, which has been Lo-
per- headquarters ever since, foraging
expeditions being made in various di-
rections after food. At night the jap
anese camps would be visited and rice
left soaking by the japanese would be
| taken At other times, when food was
scarcer, the two would venture out
during the day and raid the supplies of
food brought out to the fields by the
laborers. Finally Lopez had to get
| rid of his companion.
81 could not travel around with a
man who stole like that fellow did, -
said Lopez, virtuously. "He would
steal everything he could get his hands
on, things we did not need. I did not
like this way of doing things, besides
every time he stole anything the police
| would hear about it, and then we would
be chased around the country. / told
Roderigues to go his way and [ would
go mine
Lopez kept in touch with the police
activity against him. Time after time
Ia bo1 n rbift burriadIyy baoauSa the
| officers were on his heels, at one time
Chief Taylor and his men being only
two hours behind him, but his Porto
| Rican friends in the camps always gave
him warning. He feared the police,
but was Indifferent to the plantation
officers and a special from the Office of
the High Sheriff sent to look for him.
AZ used to see McDuffie, the big
haole. quite often. but he didn't seem
to know who I was remarked Lopez
with a broad grin, land Copeland, of
the Waialua plantation, didn't know
me, either"
On Thursday night Lopez came from
Waialua to Aiea, getting into a gamb-
| ling game with Justo Auduge, Porto
Rican, who won all the money he had,
some eight dollars. Il asked him to
give me my money back but he would
not I told him that he knew l had TO
have some money because I had to keep
hiding all the time but he only picked
up a cane. knife and threw it at me-
Then he threw stones. I saw that he
wanted to kill me so I thought / would
kill him. 1 asked him to come out and
fight but he kept on throwing stones SO
I shot at him three times. Then every
body in the camp woke up and 1 ran
away"
| Lopez ran to house in upper Aiea
gulch and stayed there until morning,
only leaving it when he saw the police
officers coming after him. He tried to
get into the standing cane but was
headed off and Owed into the lantana,
fourishing his gun just as he disap-
peared in order to brighten off his pur-
suers. He did not shoot, however.
| In the meanwhile the shooting in the
| camp had alarmed the laborers and
the plantation policeman, Ben Mahi, in
vestigated, learning that Lopez had
been there and had fed up the gulch.
He at once telephoned to Deputy Sher-
| if Fernandez, who was holding court
at Eva at the time. Fernandez order
ed out three of his men and hit the
trail as soon as possible, Mahi joining
| the posse. AS soon as the horSemen
came within sight of the house where
Lopez was in hiding, they saw him ana
recognized him as the man wanted.
| Lopez saw them at the same time and
| broke for the cane. He had half mile
| head start but was headed off and
sought refuge in a lantana thicket,
| Officer Leal being close behind him.
| LeaI shouted to him to surrender, at
| the same time firing twice into the
lantana,, aiming-at the moving bushes.
One of these shots went close to Lopez,
who laid quiet.
| Come out of that Lopez. if you try
to fight you will be a dead man." cried
out Fernandez. from the opposite side
of the thicket, which was surrounded
| by this time.