The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-13

any prisoners were taken the whole
mob must be taken. Jarrett, Town
send and Officer Jonea of that dis
trict got five Japanese to the planta-
tion office and tried to enter them in
an auto to be taken to town. The
mob jumped the auto, captured the
prisoners and refused to allow them
to be taken to town. The three po-
lice retreated with their prisoners in
to the Office and Jarrett warned the
crowd through Townsend that he
would pump lead into any Japanese
who dared to try to enter the build
ing.
SEHRIFF SURROUNDED
The three hundred and more labor
ers, muttering and threatening, sur
rounded the Office and Jarrett was held
prisoner with his prisoners. He
phoned for reinforcements and three
mounted patrolmen and ten specials,
most of them armed with carbines and
revolvers, fastened over the sixteen
miles of mountainous road TO where
the Sheriff was in peril of his life Even
upon their arrival the crowd still had
sort of command of the situation.
The police fixed bayonets and threw
guard about the Niantation office.
CHARGED THE CROWD.
Then arrived Deputy High Sheriff
Chester Doyle, two newspaper men
and a photographer in Joe Clark's au-
tomobile and the machine, at Doyle's
orders, charged the mob. Doyle and
representatives of The Star aud Adver-
tiser, elbowing through the mass of
excited Japanese to where Jarrett
backed by bayoneted carbines and re-
volvers, stood on the little veranda of
the plantation office.
JARRETT HEAIMED IN.
What's the matter?" asked DOYLE.
They've got me hemmed in" said
Jarrett.
Where are your prisoners?"
i have five of the ringleaders of
the attack on the lima inside the Of
fee"
Can you pick from this mob some
of the men who were foremost in re-
sisting your trying to get away with
your prlsoners?"
Ihere's one, and another. This fell
low with the face. he's one, too. There,
There's one of the chaps that helped
pun my prisoners out of the auto. He.
TOO! And another"
ELEVEN ARRESTS.
This was action. This was getting
to business, for as fast as Jarratt
Identified the leaders OF the attack on
the automobiles, Doyle and the specials
snatched the indicated Japanese from
the crowd and rushed them into the
ofilce In less than five minutes there
were eleven prisoners taken. making
sixteen in all, including the complain
ing witness who was held so he could
not be tampered with.
. DOYLE INVESTIGATES
me new prisoners were lined I'M
one of the newspaper men took down
the quick preliminary investigation in
2horthand and another assisted with
the guard
Doyle went at the Investigation IN
Il manner that awoke the Japanese to
a sense of awe.
rake off yor hat! Stand up
straight! Now what We're YOU doing
IN this crowd? Oh you were, were
you? You were just looking on. Very
interesting! Well, you come to town
with us. And so on, for they ALI
lied palpably. One said he was a bar
Der and wanted to be sure that none
OF his customers got hurt in the scrim-
age; another thought he had a right to
make sure his friends were guilty be-
lore he and the rest permitted" them
TO be taken to town. Still another
declared that he had followed along to
see who was going to town; and an
other said they all wanted to 60 to
town. Nobody had laid hand on the
luna; nobody had resisted the police;
nobody had interfered with the pris-
0ners, or attempted to do so, accord
ing to their perjured testimony. Chauf-
feur Lutz who drove Jarrett, and Jar
rett himself however, positively.