The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-20

Eyes, sir. if it was you | would
| have given myself up long ago. 1T was
that bunch | didn t ike. | was comm
| IN once to give myself up
! s.Got as far as the stockyards dldn t
voua" interpolated Henry.
| Eyes, sir, got as far as the Stock.
va rds when that bunch went By IN tn
automobile and / turned and went back
again.
IT have been by myself all the
time continued Grace. - knew ali
! the time where that bunch was that
was chasin' aroun after me IN an aa-
i tomobile. I could have taken their
hats off any time. didn t 60 out to
hunt nobody. The whole time We been
taone | haven t hurt anybody or stolen
nothin -
ssHaven t taken any clothes?" asked
! Henry.
! .sNo sir, haven t taken any clothes"
IT believe it, Grace said Henry,
cheerilv.
..Were you the, man who broke into
! Jack McGrath s place on School
street, Grace was asked.
| "No. sir, the only time I crossed
| School street was when | had to cross
| it to go out Of town. 7 haven t stayed
| a night in town since I was gone.
! Here lies one of the glaring discrep-
ancies in Graee's story that seems to
| indicate a studied effort to throw dis
! credit on McDuffie, 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
night in town since he escaped he re-
peated again and again that he was
continually near McDufie's men when
they were hunting for him. Only once
! did, the detective squad leave the trail
after him and that was to 90 to Pualoa,
vet he SAYS that he stayed in Halawa
gulch most all the time.
II lived on sugar cane and fruit
he continued Most of my food was
cane and guavas.
| "Were you sick at any timee We
+. knew that you suffered from rheuma-
| tism'
| eyes, Grace added Henry. II
thought you had died from rheumatic
fever long ago.
| eyes, sir; | was sick sometimes. I
| eat some stuff once I didn't know, and
| | began to swell all up. / didn t have
no passage for two weeks after that.
I thought I was goin' to die, and /
| thought I might as well make quick
! Job of it. / crawled out and found
some nuts, and I 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 a penknife. I ain t got over that
| vet. I bled 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
as he does now.
''The bunch that was chasing around
for me- he continued, losing the thread
F., of his story in his eagerness to dwell
/ on his favorite theme, "wanted to do
me great injury. I know that. I heard
them say one night they were going to
kill me on sight
s'You seem to have known about
their movements pretty well. Where
| did YOU get your news?'
ssOh, that s how I got it-most Of
! it-from listening to 'em talk. Some
times / would pick up paper and read
! the news
! He was at least pretty well up on
his dates, for when NcDuffie was speak
| ing to him at Halawa he asked him
! suddenly:
s'What date is it2''
1.-The eighteenth of September
! promptly responded Grace, missing it
| by one day.
Grace after awhile began dwelling
on specific incidents.
"There was one place where / heard
| the chief tell them to back up the auto
mobile and turn the lights down; that
| might be comm down the road and
see it,
! "Where were vou3''
- was not more than two feet away,
with my back against the fence on the
opposite side. The men came around
flashing their lamps, but they never
found me-
"Where was this?'
Grace shrugged his shoulders and let
his head turn sideways with the little
smile. ''They II know when they hear
it, he said.
Grace might be telling the truth, but
his refusal to name the place shows al
most conclusively that he ism t. He was
describing only such little maneuver
that would be, and is, constantly made
on every such raid or hunt He has no
reason for coneealing the place except
that lie might name one where thew had
never been.
Grace continued his story hv naming
stations along the railroad where there
were guards stationed watching for him
This was again suspicious. a. he had
formerly claimed that he was leading
a hermit's life in Halawa. He said
that one night he approached one of
these guards and threw a rock at him
The man became so scared that he
jumped into the lake and splashed
around for awhile, and he never heard
of him since; didn't know whether he
was drowned or not.
The rest of his story was confined TO
giving vent to his scorn of McDutfie's
tactics; how he would not have TO take
desperate chances TO kill him had he
wanted to, and so forth. The verv' fact
that he claimed to he following them
around brands his story as mostly lies.
as no escaped criminal would make i
point OF staying as close to his pur-
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