The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-29
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Trooper Robert G. Cunningham, X.
Troop, Fifth Cavalry, was tried be-
fore a court martial on Thursday at
Leilehua, the charges and specifca-
tons alleging that he was guilty of
conduct which was prejudicial to the
good name of the United States army,
in that he made indecent proposals
10 a couple of Hawaiians school girls
on April /, 1909, while the latter were
en- route TO the Wahiawa school on
horses.
The specifications showed that
Trooper Cunningham was on duty as
a sentry at one of the big gates open
ing from the general road into the
military reservation which was about
a mile from the cavalry cantonement.
The two girls came along about 8
O'Clock from their home which is in
one of the ravines in the Waianae
range, back of the post. They rode
horses. Cunningham stopped the
girls, according to the charges, and
insulted them. The girls put whips
to their horses and started for Wahi-
ava. They claim that Cunningham
mounted his horse and pursued them
almost the whole way That he was
on the road is testified to by A. J.
Alexander of Wahiawa. To all of the
charges and specifications Cunning
ham is reported to have pleaded not
guilty.
Of Local Interest.
Captain w. A. Holbrook, Fifth Cav
airy, will be relieved from duty at the
Pennsylvania Military College, Chester,
Pa, on September l, and will then re-
join his regiment at SchofeId Barracks.
Captain Edwin B. Winans, Fourth Cav
airy, is to relieve Captain Holbrook at
Chester.
Sergeant Major Charles C. Quigley,
junior grade, Coast Artillery Corps,
Preside, San Francisco, will report on
July l to Major Cree, CA, for duty
to accompany the battalion Of Coast
Artillery to Honolulu, July 5.
Commander Niblack, U.S.N., former
ly captain of the yard, Honolulu Naval
Station, has been assigned to the COM
mand of the cruiser Tacoma.
Pay Inspector z. W. Reynolds, U.S.N.,
has been detached from the Navy Pay
Office, San Francisco, to the Tennessee,
as fleet paymaster, Pacific fleet.
Boatswain Kenney Leaves.
Boatswain P. j. Kenney, U.S.N., at
tached to the Naval Station and the
U. S. S. Iroquois, has received orders
detaching him from his duties in Homo
lulu and assigning him to new duties
in the Far East. He will leave ON the
cruiser Buffalo, which is scheduled to
sail from San Francisco today, carrying
marines for assignment to the vessels
of the Third Squadron, Pacific fleet, at
Manila. The cruiser will arrive here
next week. Boatswain Kenney has
been popular officer here.
Draft for the Orient.
| According to a Vallejo dispatch OF
MAY IT, seven hundred and fifty mer
| from Mare Island and eight hundred
| from the u. S. S. Pensacola, at Goat
Island Naval Training Station, viii
comprise the draft which is to be tax
en- out by the Buffalo to the Philip
pines The unusually large number il
| due to the fact that the majority OF
men now on service with the Philippine
squadron have completed their terms
of enlistment and are to be mustered
| out. According to previous information
the Buffalo was to carry large de
tachment of marines to Manila.