The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-19
COT DRUNK IN
CHAPLAIN SUIT
(From Monday s Advertiser.)

uated form like clothes bag, with a
bottle of whiskey protruding from his
hip pocket and his leggings on back
ward, an inebriated man made con.
spicuous object on the streets after
midnight Saturday. He stuck to the
Chinatown section and occasionally took
pull at the bottle.
Finally, he ran into a man named
Miller, formerly a letter carrier, to
whom the strengthening military man
offered drink. Miller took the bottle
and surveyed the stranger intently. He
opened the bottle and apparently took
a nip.
"Say, you re a queer looking sort
of an officer" commented Miller.
''What are you going around his way
FORT That's not the tactics of the
United States Army"
"Course it ain t." responded the
man in the military clothes, 81 IN a
Britisher and its John Bull S tactics. -
Miller looked the man over. saw a
pair of crosses on the uniform s shoul.
ders, and then decided to shunt the
strange man down to the police station.
He escorted him to the receiving clerk s
desk and turned him over to Captain
Baker The man gave his name as John
Oliver and said he was an Englishman.
The officers could not resist a laugh.
The uniform hung very loosely. The leg
gings had been mixed and the left was
on the right leg and the right on the
left and buckled on backwards. His
, head rolled about under the large cap
like pea in, pod and only his ears
| 4 "a l.
When Sheriff Jarrett took a look at
the man in his cell yesterday morning
he wondered how chaplain became
{ mixed up with the police. The man
made no answer to questions, and he
was decidedly too drunk to tell a con
S nected story.
g In the meantime n message had reach
, ed the station from Rev. Mr.. Simpson,
. canon of st. Andrews cathedral, that
). his home had been broken into some
time during the early part of Saturday
o night and his National Guard uniform,
h adorned with chaplain's crosses on the
E shoulder straps, had been stolen. Also
|. n drawer had been forced open and
/. money and other valuables taken. In
e fact the intruder had ransacked the
4. house. Later it was learned by the
"a police that the intruder had changed
o his clothes at the Simpson residence
T. and left his own clothes while he
II donned the brand new uniform
10 The police understood from Oliver
IS that Rev. Mr.. Simpson has been goot
Samaritan with Oliver and has endeav
" ored to get work for him.
Caught in Trap.
W Another John Oliver and man ram
ed Evenson wanted a good place t.
+ sleep on Saturday night and after rum
maging around picked out Allen g. Rob
inson s old warehouse as a suitable
H. place for good snoOze. This is thu
he building over one gable end of whicl
"A appears an old wooden figurehead whicl
,a was brought from the shore of Moloka
- many, many decades ago, the remnan
10 of an English vessel which was wreck
Nv ed there about hundred years ago TIL
- figurehead represents a London Lor,
~ Mayor of about the period of 1890. Il
~ this building, away back in the 80
" and even later, many of the royal stat
II balls and levees were given and man,
~ distinguished visitors entertained, 70
10 it was then the chief hall for enter
tainment places. OF late years it ha
r. become humble storage house for lum
~ Der and odds and ends.
"i Oliver and Evenson slipped pas tn
~ Waterman, who was then in anothe
YIN part of the yard and entered the his
y toric building. Cropping about in tn
=. dark they tilted over a tier of lumber
= which. came crashing down upon then
nd 1t was small Sicily earthquake. TIL
ut, would be sleepers were buried and the
rs. yelled for help. The watchman sa'
IN, their plight and called for the polic
RS. The latter arrived with the patrt
tt, wagon. The officer pulled the lumbt
II. off them and found that both We're il
IN, iured, Evenson complained of a brmise
RS. chest and leg and Oliver a spraine
an, ankle, which began to swell. Captai
id, Baker said that the men should be ca
ii. ed for at the hospital. If the hospit
II. authorities found that they were nj
Ill badly hurt they were to be returne
On, to the jail Oliver at once became vel
M. badly hurt and it was evident that the
w. both wanted the cosy beds that wou
or be afforded at the hospital. When Il
in, officers said something about nigI
nd prowling, Oliver walled: "Oh, her
&C. cheer me up, cheer me up, boys, tn
err is no time to josh. Cheer me up
no Died at Funeral.
ov Sam Kaluahine, a winchman at &
~, Oceanic dock, while attending {
, no funeral of William Ringer yesterdi
~ afternoon, was taken suddenly i'll, al
.or, shortly after leaving the funeral pr
~ ~ cession expired in Japanese ice crea
H. parlor. An inquest held over the bo
,nd last evening at the police station ga
u n verdict of death due to heart failn
Ma The deaceased was member of X
Jc. uikeaouli Lodge and marched in t
.eb. company of Captain Kane. At t
o junction of Beretania and Nuua
avenues he complained of being i'll a
nd was taken out of the eolumn by
~ captain and escorted to a nearby
, ,na cream shop. Captain Kane called
p a, a glass of water. The sick man ga
dhn convulsive shudder which Capti
md, ne li' i., ~ 40 ,on,s teotb
u doctor was sent for hut the man v
~ dead before he arrived.
W He was about forty three years OF
va and rasided at NiolOpa