The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-13
MOB CAPTURES
sHER|FF's AUTO
(Continued From Page one.1

tIuUI10ueQ from rage OUE.1
This was the signal for action on the
part of the crowd The men surged
forward. surrounded the auto. shool
their fists under the noses of the of
feers, and made threats. One mar
shouted: Ne make {die), no pilikia
ali right An effort was made to GET
the prisoners away Immediately the
crowd swarmed over the machine. pre-.
venting the chauffeur from working his
levers. So suddenly was the movement
begun and ended that in an instant the
prisoners had been rescued and were
being absorbed by the crowd.
Sheriff Jarrett had as his assistant
only the diminutive, but plucky, Jap
anese interpreter, Townsend, and Of
fieer Jones from Koolau. They recap
tured two or three Of the prisoners and
retreate.a toward the office door. The
machine bv this time was occupied by
rioters, who declared that if one man
were arrested, everybody should be ar
rested and carried to Honolulu.
jarrett and his men locked the door
OF the office and the Sheriff gave warn
ing that any man who attempted to
open the door or force an entrance
would be shot. He produced his re-
volyer TO show that he was in earnest.
In the Office was a telephone. and
soon jarrett had Deputy sheriff Rose
on the wire, explaining TO him his pre-
dicament and asking for q relief force.
The deputy Immediately dispatched
three mounted officers TO WamanaIo.
They rode hard and covered the dis
lance IN remarkable time. At three
Q o'clock force Of ten officers and
specials, fully armed, went over the
Fail route IN an auto, and at $50
Deputy High Sheriff Doyle, a photog-
rapher, and two newspaper men fol
lowed in another mae hine
When the second auto reached the
office, all the plantation laborers were
massed In front of the building. some
sitting, others standing. On the veran-
da the sharP-pointed bayonets of the
sprlngfeIds showed plainly where the
foot police were On guard. The three
mounted men were nearby. The Sheriff
was On the veTanda. Doyle Immediate
iy stepped before the assemblage and
told the men that the wisest course
would be TO disperse and not interfere
with the officers on duty, or try to pre-
vent the Sheriff from making the ar
rests on the authority Of the warrant
which he had IN his pocket.
Some started to leave. others passed
comments, receiving sharp rebukes
from one or two men in the crowd.
Then something happened. The Sheriff
identified several in the crowd as men
vino had ohstrueted his way, and off
GERS quickly placed them under arrest.
They were rushed into the Office and
Some were "'coekv.,'
One brazenly said that he had only
stopped the auto in order to find ont
whether the men were guilty or not,
before allowing the officer to take
them TO Honolulu. Another admitted
that he had said he did not care wheth,
er he died or not. One. a barber, said
he was not with the crowd but a spec.
tator. and wanted 10 see whether or
not any of his patrons got hurt. All
were positively identified by the Sheriff
and he ordered them al taken TO Homo
lulu
In one big auto six prisoners were
placed under the guard Of newspa-
oerman; the second auto held another
sexfer, also under guard Of a newspa.