The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-03
POOLE CAUGHT
BY REEVES
MuCh-Wanted Sacramentan Is
Found Up in the
Country.

Je"eIFy, was captured by Detective
Reeves yesterday afternoon at Waiana,
: unexpectedly. Reeves was sent dowT
the road to investigate some burglarie.
at Waianae, and on his way on the
train heard of the trip of a strange
white man through the country the day
before. On inquiry the description OF
the stranger seemed to tally with that
of the missing soldier, and when Waia-
nae was reached Reeves started on a
still hunt.
Strangers, and especially white
strangers, are a seven-days' wonder in
small country places here. and when in
quiry was made among the residents as
to the whereabouts of the stranger
there was plenty of information forth
coming. The officer was told that the
| haole was playing cards with some
| women at the beach. Reeves got the
Deputy Sheriff and an officer and went
to the place where the stranger was en-
joying himself, and, recognizing Poole,
| placed him under arrest
Poole offered no resistance whatever
and did not appear to be the very dan
| gerous man that his friends had tried
| to make him out to be to the police
He is now in custody, and will be held
pending directions for his disposition
from the Chief of Police of Sacramento.
! who has been notified of the capture of
the man.
A diary was found on the prisoner
when searched by Reeves. 1t reads as
follows:
The first trip around the Hawaiian
Island on the goth day May starting
from Honolulu spending the first night
at Iwea (Aiea) visiting the Iwea
(Aiea) sugar plantation next morning
took the limited on the Ocha Oahu r.
r. to Eva Mills where l spent a very
pleasant evening with the natives with
their singing and string music and
above all the Hula dancing biding them
good bye the next morning 1 took the
train for a very beautiful beach town
called Waianae where I was greeted
with another feast corresponding to
the one at Eva Mills with the excep-
ton of the wine and gin which were
added to it which made us all very
lively and full of fun but yet very
peaceable a native as q general rule
under the influence of liquor is a very
quiet and peaceable person to get along
with but 1 stayed all night which was
Sunday and until Monday afternoon
after biding them adieu at 4:30 I took
the train to another beautiful planta-
ton called Waialua where l met with
a German and his wife and told them
of my experience with the natives and
when they found out that the native
songs made a hit with me they first
got busy with a grapahone and played
about $50 or IT'S pieces consisting of
American and native music and then
| they sang lots of native songs and of
| course the Germans are very fond of
| beer SO we had several bottles of beer
J and then we sang and danced to the
music of the grapahone until we were
tired and sleepy then we retired for
| the night not expecting such a sur
/ prise when about 10 o'clock in the
morning a native and his wife who
were just married the night previous
were shiveered and we We're aroused
| from our slumbers and invited to at
| tend the party which in their language
| is called Luah 0uaW so we were prac-
] tically up all night and we had eaten
and drunk SO much during the night
| that none of US cared for any break
| fast the following morning at $3.50 after
| biding all my strange but true friends
| good bye I took the train again for
| Kahuku where I spent another pleas
ant evening with large family of ma
| tives this little town l forgot to mem
| ton is right at the end of the r. r
after spending a pleasant evening and
most of the next day here 1 took the
train at 1880 P. NJ. toward Honolulu
again and stopped at little Japa-
nese town which 1 passed on my way
out by the name of Puuiki where I had
an enjoyable supper consisting of rice
and many kinds of meat and Japanese
wine 1 spent the night here with jap
anese family and next morning took
| the train back to Honolulu and I can
truthful1y say that the trip just layed
before you is worth any mans money.
Poole made the following statement
| at the police station last evening:
| II first knew of the trouble I was
| in by reading of 1t in the paper. L
| did not want to go back to the Coast,
| as / was being treated right here and
| liked it at the barracks. That is what
made me beat it. l read the paper
and then came down town. I went
| around among the boys a little and
they were all talking about what the
| paper had TO say about me. I went
out TO the barracks again and a cop
in q buggy stopped me when I got of
| the car and asked me if I was Poole.
| tcld him that I was not and then
| made for the country.
"All 1 know of the trouble in Sac
| ramento is that early in December
! there was a woman whose father ran
an ice cream parlor on K. street be-
| tween 5th and 9Th. She lost a watch
| from the store and asked me if knew
anything about it. I did not. After
first heard of the loss OF the watch I
| was around in Sacramento about three
! weeks and then enlisted in the Army
I came down here in February
SIGNED FOR SIX MONTHS.