Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-10-22
SWEETHEART AIDED
SOLDIER DESE:R7ER
Young Marine Discovered Through
Advice of Sheriff and Brought
Back From Mountain View -
Romance Blighted.


Hilo, Oct. 19.-Assisted with money
from his sweetheart, and I'm order to
escape the prosecutions of the father
OF the fair one. +. l.. Knight. alias II.
Williams, deserted from the Marine
Camp in Honolulu couple of weeks
ago, only to be captured by Deputy
Sheriff Fetter at Mountain View last
Wednesday.
Sheriff jarrett of the County OF
Oahu sent wcrd to the local police last
week that Knight had deserted, that
there was a reward for his capture.
and that II was believed that he had
made his way to this island. Fetter
Immediately took up the case, and
learned that there was new railroad
station agent at the Mountain View
depot who answered to the description
given Of the deserter. He found Knight
at his Office last Wednesday. The de-
serted was much surprised that the
police had been able to locate him, as
he had fancied himself absolutely Sc.
cure in his far-off retreat.
He offered no resistance, however,
and was taken to Hilo, being sent to
Honolulu in the last Mauna Kea.
The story which Knight, or Will
liams. as he called himself after he
took his informal departure from
Uncle Sans lodgings. told the Deputy
Sheriff, giving the reasons for his de.
sertion, is a very romantic and to some
degree pathetic one. Knight. II ap.
pears, was in love with certain Ho.
nolulu damsel. and his passion was re
turned. There was, however, stern
father to be reckoned with. an EN-.
ployee Of one of the Honolulu news
papers, and he strenuously opposed the
match between his daughter and the
gallant defender of his country.
This wouldn't the father-in.law, sail
Knight, was the cause of the whole
trouble. Not only did he forbid the
fair one from seeing her chosen
Knight, but he tried by every means
In his power to make him appear alb
solutely unworthy of her affection. He
even went so far as to cause his ar
rest, not only once but twice, and
when II came to this pass the lovers
decided that something desperate mus
be done to save the young man from
the prosecutions Of the stern father
After some deliberation 1t was decided
that flight was the only way out of thu
dilemma, even though It involved de
sertion. The young lady aided he
lover by every means in her power
and secured hundred dollars which
she gave him with which to aid him IL
his fight.
Knight made his escape from thu
Marine camp a couple of weeks ago
and took passage In the Mauna kea
arriving in Hilo on Wednesday. SEP
TENDER 20. He was fortunate to sc
cure employment Immediately as sta
ton agent at Mountain View. and wa
awaiting the time when the troub.
should have IlCwh over and he couli
claim his bridc. when the arm Of tn
law reached him. Here again the han,
of the stern old father seemed to b.
involved for Just about the time u
his arrest Knight received lette
from friend, warning that that tn
old gentleman had offered a rewar
of hundred dollars for his arrest, 4
addition to the reward offered by tn
Naval authorities, and this inducemen
may have led to extra efforts on tn
part Of the Honolulu police.
Now Knight has been taken to Ht
nolulu, and while the stern old fathe
rejoices and the fair one weeps, tn
curtain has to fall OH the first chapte
of this pathetic melodrama,
It seems too bad that we canno
promise that 1t will be Concluded |
our next"