The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-04-10
PIRATES Of THE
SCHOONER LADY

The schooner Lady is total wreck.
broken up on waianae reef. and the
pirates who stole her are in the po-
lice station charged there with larceny
in the first degree, with charge of
piracy or something of the kind hang
ing over them under federal law. and
liable to courtmartial on a charge or
iesertion from the army.
The two pirates are Charles Deus
bury and stephen Smith. enlisted men
of the Twentieth Infantry. who deser-
ted from Fort Shafter last week and
for whom military and police author
tiles have both been looking.
The two men were captured by Dep
uty Sheriff Gilliland of Waianas and
police officers G. Maluna and David
Kupihea and special officer Hiwauli.
about 4. o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
They were brought to Honolulu yes
terday morning on the $50 train, and
were taken to the police station and
later to United States Attorney Breck-
on's office where they were examined
by him. and then returned to the police
station. There they were visited by
two officers from Fort Shafter.
Deusbury is an Englishman with q
decidedly .cockney accent. He has been
a sailor, though he knows nothing
about navigation. stephen Smith has
been an employee of the Army Quar-
termaster's Department in the Philip
pines. Both are enlist men having
enlisted at Fort Shafter not so very
long ago. The two men seem II nave
tired of soldering and decided to de-
sert and leave Hawaii. They seem
to have had very vague and very wild
ideas of things in general Seemingly
transcript of wild tales of the sea. In
their wanderings around the water
front they seem to have discovered
the schooner Lady and to have decided
that il would be about the right kind
of a craft for them. On Thursday
night they deserted from Fort Shafter,
Deusbury being on guard duty and
leaving his rifle on the lanai of the
guard house, and the two came to Ho-
nolulu. They went aboard the Lady
and found il well stocked with provis-
ions They remained aboard of her
that night and Friday and Saturday
only coming ashore to buy a bag of
rice. Early sunday morning the time
seemed opportune for them to leave,
and cutting the moOrings of the yes
sci they sailed out of the harbc-. In
view of their evident ignorance of sail
ing a vessel. ii seems a miracle almost,
that they were able TO get out of the
harbor. and especially that they yere
able TO get out without attracting the
attention OF any of the watchmen along
the wharves, the lighthouse keeper or
the Waterman at the pilot house, or
Young Brothers. But they did. Just
what they did after they got outside
the harbor is not very clear from their
account of il. They seem however 10
have steered a sOuthwesterly course,
the trade winds coming up about that
time for the first time for a number
of days. How far they sailed or how
long is not clear. They got out Of
sight of land and thought they had
gore a long distance. They both suf-
fered severely from seasickness. and
when finally they sighted the Waianae
mountains they thought they had
reached another island and they deter
mined to land. They headed for the
shore near Keaau beyond Waianae.
This is a reef bound part OF the coast.
When they came near the shore they
put out the anchor. but the breeze
freshening from the southwest the
ancheE cable parted and the schooner
drifted on the reef, neither Of the men
knowing enough OF handling a vessel
TO keep her of.
When the schooner went on the reef
the two men got ashore. The region
seemed uninhabited and there was a
dense growth OF trees and glue bushes.
They decided that the island was unin-
habited and they therefore determined
to establish a camp They brought the
sails and a considerable quantity of
provisions ashore. Out of the sails
they made a tent, keeping their camp
well hidden among the glue bushes.
Here they decided TO remain and pro-
ceeded to make themselves comfort
able lying in their camp idling or
reading some Of the papers and maya
zines which they had found in the
cabin Of the Lady.
Their first surprise came when they
heard the noise Of an approaching
train and noted that the cars were
marked oahu Railway. Then they
knew that they We're back on the island
from which they had started, though
even this did not seem TO have i'm
pressed them particularly.
'Kamoku. a native boy, saw the
masts Of the schooner through the
thick algarOba trees and going out
toward the sea saw a schooner beating
itself TO pieces on the reef. Then he
saw two white men making for the
bushes. This aroused his curiosity
and he went TO Deputy Sheriff Gill;
land and told him what he had seen.
The Deputy Sheriff Investigated and
found that it was indeed the Lady, and
then began the search for the two
men. They were found in their camp
lying down smoking They were sur
prised when captured but made no
resistance. They were taken 70 the
waianae Jail for the night and brought
into Honolulu in the morning.
Officers Reeves and Leal who had
started from Honolulu Tuesday after
noon by automobile to go to JOIN in
the search for the men, met with pill
kia. The auto met with puncJured
tires and other disabilities, and they
finally abandoned it and undertook to
walk the remainder Of the distance.
at Waianae after midnight
United States Attorney Breckons has
qot yet decided what charge to bring
against the men. but is looking up the