The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-08
CLUBS AND ROCKS
USED IN NIS-UP
Marines and Hoodlums Clash and
Police Are Mauled When
They Interfere.
lFrom wadne.day I. AdverlIsar.l


the police authorities expected when
between fifty and sixty marines and
the Kakaako gang engaged in a run.
ming fight about Palace Square last
night. Numbers of both the gang and
the marines were injured by stones and
clubs but only one marine seriously.
Three police officers who attempted to
stop the fight received injuries.
The marines are quoted to have
threatened to kill certain leader Of
the KakaakO gang, who is now in Jail,
suspected of being the leader in the
fight Monoday night that ended with a
marine getting his head cut open with
a rock. From what the police can
learn, the fight last night was started
by the hoodlums in a cowardly attack
on several marines, which placed an
other of them in the hospital.
Chief MeDuffie arrested Alex. Robin.
son, John Robinson, George Waialoha
and Willie Keala at midnight last night
and is holding them for investigation.
The chief is confident that he has the
four ''bad eggs" of the crowd, who
have directed all the assaults on ma.
rines and soldiers in that neighborhood.
Several of the mounted police have re.
ported seeing some marines lying in
wait for Alex Robinson, while members
Of the gang and eyewitnesses have in
formed the police that Robinson led the
attack Monday night.
About eight O'Clock Motorcycle
Officer Chiffon notified the police station
that riot was going on in Palace
Square, Sergeant of Detectives Kellett
and Detectives Oleson, Apana and Woo
were sent out at once to the scene in an
automobile and found the fight going
on under the big banyans back of the
judiciary building They climbed out
and ran towards the crowd flashing their
lights.
Just what was going on was hard to
determine as things were too mixed up
and it was too dark to see. The
"townies," more used to the police,
were the first to see them coming and
apparently started to run away, if they
we're not running before. As the police
hit the center of things scared forms
went shooting off into the dark with
uniformed men hot after them.
The four officers were all tackled in
turn by the marines and threatened All
were in plain clothes and at first were
mistaken for more members of the gang.
Woo and 0leson were hustled but the
marines finally passed on without strik-
ing them. Kellett was also tackled but
managed to calm off some of them un-
til seven or eight surrounded him,
breathless and very mad All were
armed with iron bars or stones.
He started to question them as to
where the hoodlums were and how the
fight had started, but had not got far
when some one from the rear landed
him hard blow on the side of the head
with club. The next moment two or
three had jumped him and were beating
him with their fists, but finally the cool
er members of the party pulled his as
sailants off, explaining that he was a
police officer Blood was coming from
his ear and later the side of his face
swelled up, forcing him to go to the
hospital for treatment, but the in iury
was more painful than serious.
Just as Kellett was being assaulted.
Mounted Officer Comes rode up post
haste from the Kalaako beat and into
the middle of the crowd, Attempting to
help the sergeant, but almost on his APP
pearance was struck in the head from
behind by a stone and knocked from his
horse, which commenced to trample
him in its excitement. Kellett, released
from some of his assailants, pulled the
horse away and Comes got up. He also
had to go to the hospital later.
Special Officer Apana tackled several
of the marines and was in turn beaten
up, suffering a bad cut in the face. The
more he got hit the madder he got and
the madder he got the worse they hit
him without paying attention to his
badge which he showed.
After Kellett had got from under his
pile of assailants and things Gained
down, he shook hands, acknowledged
that it was a mistake and was told how
the fight started. The marines accused
the police of shining their electric lights
to give warning to the town boys so
that they could get away, an accusation
which was in no way true as the four
officers went in particularly after the
town gang and not after the marines
Started by Hoodlums.
The cooler among the marines acted
decently towards the police after the
fight was over and deprecated the mis-
take, which it undoubtedly was in Kel-
lett Is case. The assault on Apana af-
ter he proved his rank was not excus-
able and the attack on Comes, who
could not be mistaken, as he was in
uniform, was absolutely inexeusable.
Gang Began It.
Several of the marines explained to
a reporter how the fight started, even
as they were in the middle of the scrap.
/ Their statements were afterwards cor
roborated fully by +. W. Bogert, of 234
King street, and others, who voluntarily
/ presented themselves TO Major Neville
and described the first fight much as
/ the marines described it themselves.
"Three of our boys were going down
by Queen and Richards, one said, "when
"A lot Of the town gang, this Kakaako
/ gang here, ] guess, rose up out Of am.
bush behind fence aud began to shoot
stones into them. One of the BOYS
WAS hit IN the back OF the head with
hlnck inclg and knocked out This was