The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-20

have been hy myself an tho
time. y continued Grace 81 knew All
Che time where that bunch was that
was chasin arpun after me in an nu-
tomobile. could have taken their
hats on any ZINE. 7 didn't 90 ont 10
hunt nobody The whole time I've been
gone haven Z hurt anybody or stolen
nothin'"
Haven 7 taken any clothesi'' asked
Henry.
No, sir, haven't taken any clothes. ~
- believe it, Grace" said Henry.
cheerily.
"Were you the man who broke into
Jack McGraths place on School
street7'' Grace was asked.
"No sir, the only time | crossed
School street was when ! had to cross
it to 90 out Of town. haven't stayed
a night in town since I was gone"
Here lies one Of the glaring diserep-
ancies in Grace's story that seems to
indicate a studied effort to throw dis
credit on McDufie, so strangely differ
ent from his mood when he had first
met the chief in Halawa In the same
breath that he stated he had not stayed
a night in town since he escaped he re-
peated again and again that he was
continually near McDufiie's men when
they were hunting for him. Only once
did the detective squad leave the trail
after him and that was to go to Puuloa,
yet he says that he stayed in Halawa
gulch most all the time.
81 lived on sugar cane and fruit
he continued. "Most of my food was
cane and guavas''
"Were you sick at any time9 We
knew that you suffered from rheuma-
tism.
I eyes, Grace" added Henry. "I
thought you had died from rheumatic
fever long ago"
eyes, sir; / was sick sometimes. I
eat some stuff once I didn It know, and
began to swell all up. didn't have
no passage for two weeks after that.
I thought 1 was goin to die, and I
thought l might as well make a quick
job of it. I crawled out and found
some nuts, and L cracked a couple of
them and ate them. vomited, and
that helped some, but it didn't cure
: me, and ] had to operate on myself
, with penknife 1 aim got over that
yet. I bled a whole lot"
This part of his story is more than
substantiated by his appearance. His
body is still swelled, and only the sick
ness he described could make him look
Q as he does now.
"The bunch that was chasing around
; for me, - he continued, losing the thread
s of his story in his eagerness to dwell
0 on his favorite theme, "wanted to do
1 me great injury. know that. I heard
1 them say one night they were going to
! kill me on sight.
: "'You seem to have known about
their movements pretty we'll Where
did you get your news7"
| 4boA % ,,nE
. t-from listening to 'em talk. Some
] times | would pick up a paper and read
q the news.D
S He was at least pretty well up on
his dates, for when McDuffie was speak
q ing to him at Halawa he asked him
p suddenly:
i. 'What date is it3''
e "The eighteenth of September, -
e promptly responded Grace, missing it
5. by one day.
S Grace after awhile began dwelling
on specific incidents.
n "There was one place where I heard
e the chief tell them to back up the auto
d mobile and turn the lights down; that
is | might be comm down the road and
II see it,
"Where were you7''
e 81 was not more than two feet away,
n opposite side. The men came around
D. flashing their lamps, but they never
4 found me-"
n, "Where was this9"
rs Grace shrugged his shoulders and let
1t his head turn sideways with the little
smile. "They'll know when they hear
r it, he said.
is Grace might be telling the truth, but
m his refusal TO name the place shows al
N most conclusively that he isn't He was
describing only such little maneuver
,e that would he, and is, constantly made
d, on every such raid or hunt. He has no
II reason for concealing the place except
g that he might name one where they had
in never been.
Ii Grace continued his story by naming
stations along the railroad where there
at were guards stationed watching for him.
lie This was again suspicious, as he had
IS formerly claimed that he was leading
Id hermit's life in Halawa. He said
e. that one night he approached one of
he these guards and threw a rock at him.
er The man became so scared that he
j" jumped into the lake and splashed
lie around for awhile, and he never heard
X of him since; tdidn't know whether he
I'M was drowned or not.
DIS The rest of his story was confined to
in giving vent to his scorn of McDuffie Is
ad tactics; how he would not have to take
he desperate chances to kill him had he
be wanted to, and so forth The very fact
that he claimed to be following them
it around brands his story as mostly lies
40 as no escaped criminal would make il
he point of staying as close to his pur
to suers as possible. A great many of the
las incidents he describes even took place
=. " at the time he said he was lying sicl
". in Halawa. Yet the manner in which
he mentioned the guards along the rail
I'D road and other incidents show that hi
vas knew something of what was going on
in and in more detail than might be ex
pected. 1t can only be explained by
Mt the supposition that he learned it al
after he was captured.
SWneNS