The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-02-14
AN OREGON
LAND THIEF
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a hot iatiron to give them the APP
pearance of age and wear. Dummies
were hired to make entry on public
land and perjury and forgery were re-
sorted to.
Mckinley was one of the small fly
in the conspiracy, though a very ca
pable, resourceful and ingenious part
ner. When the frauds were unearthed
he was indicted many times over and
tried and cop-icted on one of the IN
dictments. The prosecution needed
the evidence he could give against
| some of the 'higher-ups." and after
| his conviction, and before sentence,
he was released on bond of Si0C0. the
understanding being that he was 10
turn states evidence. But he failed to
keep his word. Among others who
were indicted with him was Miss Marie
Ware. and two years and a half ago
Mckinley married her. This created
something of a sensation at the time,
as ii was supposed TO have been done
to disqualify her as a witness against
him.
The next sensation in the case was
when Mckinley skipped his bail two
years ago last November and went to
China. He deserted his wife when he |
left America. and passed through Ho-
nolulu in company with a dancer
known on the stage as Little Egypt"
They afterwards separated. she GO
ing to Shanghai. and later to Manila.
NTnL-f ,,Io
he has lived most of the two years
he was in the Orient. He was man
ager of the Winter Gardens there in
connection with W. E. Reed, who was
lately arrested in San Francisco on an
order from Secretary Root as he was
landing from the transport Crook
After the closing up of the Winter
Gardens there, he went to Manchuria
There his identity was discovered and
he was arrested. While waiting in
Jail al Mukden for the arrival of an =
agent of the United States Govern {
ment, he made a most sensational er-
cape, Chinese employees of the JAIL and ,
others, being bribed to tunnel into
the prison, and, as he himself de-
scribed it yesterday on the deck of {
the America Maru, he escaped through
hole no larger than a knot hole.
Reed is supposed to have been the
man who secured the services of the
Chinese to enable him to escape. From J
Mukden, Mckinley went up further {
north in Manchuria and was finally ,
rearrested in Hardin just as he was
about to start from there to Europe. l
From Hardin he was taken to Tent t
Cir md
General DENLY. Mr.. Kerrigan arrived
in Tientsin on January and the next
day departed on a steamer that had a
to break its way through fifty miles s
of eight-inch ice in the PechiI Cuff
They arrived at Shanghai, where it
was expected that they would remain
about ten days, and where, Mr.. Ker-
rigan believes, efforts were to have
been made in the courts to interfere
with McKinley's departure. But
avoiding all this by leaving Shanghai
at once, Kerrigan was soon outside If
Chinese jurisdiction.
On the voyage on the America Maru
was given the freedom of
the ship, with the warning from Ker- y
rigan that if he made any breaks there L
would be no hesitation in dealing with b
him. He plainly told Mckinley that .
If he jumped overheard he would shoot
him and pick him up afterwards. Ar c
irving at this port while Mckinley a
was not handcuffed or shackled, Ker- O
rigan kept him constantly with him. o.
They both came ashore while the yes :
sci was in port and saw something Of II
the town. p
While Mckinley would give no con- NJ
lected account of his adventures. he :,
lid not hesitate to talk about the mat
er, and, in fact, did not seem at all 81
ibashed because of his position. tc
Honolulu looks pretty good to me-" -
lie said, though 1 never spent but %
ew hours here before. guess 1 am
bout as glad to be going tNck to Ut
America as Mr.. Kerrigan is" B
Kerrigan spent three months in Ho- la
lolulu last winter, he said, on gov \,
rnment business, though what he was :
DING he would not say. Ever since T.
dcKinley skipped his bail and left ia
IAN Francisco with Little Egypt" he al
las been on his trail. a.