The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-03-04
NOTED BAD MAN
ESCAPES FROM
GUARD
Antoine Rodrigues Is Again at
Large in the Hills Back
of the City.
From Saturday Advertiser.

From Saturday Advertiser.
For the third time Antoine Rodrigues,
famous criminal and bad man, escaped
from his guard luna in Mahkl Nalley
Yesterday, ten minutes past the noon
hour. and is now at large, known to be
anywheres in the hilly region which hes
between Lanihula and the crest PACK
of Manoa Valley. Watching all night
by the passes open to him police out
posts stationed last night saw NOT
sign of him and will probably be WITH
drawn tonight, on the suppositlon that
he has eluded them and has made, sate'
". the other side of the island, or sue
ceeded in getting to Aiea, his old haunt'
Rodripues was working in large
gang of prisoners on the new Makiki
Valley road. At half past eleven, as
usual' the men were calico IN for lunch,
Rodripues with the rest and placed UNI
der the guard mt their station, just back
of the Makiki reservoir, at the head
of Makiki street.
The guard in this instance, consisted
of one man. Eddie Kealoha, the armed
luna of the gang from whom Chun Duck
Soon. the notorious Korean thlet, also
ESCAPED several years ago. kealoha is
uncertain as to when Rodrigues was first
missed and it was probably not until
they we're summoned to work again at
half past twelve that his absence was
noted.
The other prisoners Were set to i'm
meditely searching the thick under
brush that lies between the reservoir
and the experimental station, but the
only clue discovered was his clean
prison suit, found under a mango tree
half way up the ridge. Each prisoner
goes to work with two suits, clean
one in which he travels back and forth
from the Jail, and a soiled one used
while working. Rodrigues wore the
latter at the time of his escape and
his object in carrying the new one
with him and hiding it is mystery
oficers Get Busy.
High Sheriff Henry was telephoned
to and at once communicated with Chlei
McDuffie. The latter, Sergeant kellett
and Detective Holbron, went to the
valley in the police auto and commenc-
ed to work over the ground. Running
from the valley to the heart of the Ma
kiki district is sunken gulch, thick
with underbrush and connecting with
similar gulley that runs down from
the Lunalilo Home.
McDuffie at first, while at loss to
explain Rodrigues object in hiding his
extra suit of prison clothes, calculated
that he had done this as blind and
had actually set off in the opposite d.
rection. To do this he would have had
to crawl back in the gulch directly by
the prison camp, an easy task which he
could have accomplished with put
rare chance of discovery.
Aa1,ao. ~ Ali, fhaory the chief walk
ed back down the gulch and found
traces of passage through the brush,
rather suspiciously old. He was about
to give up this lead and return to the
CITY to station outposts at the valley,
when Deputy Warden Billy Woods, who
had gone up the valley with two dogs,
sent back word by a prisoner that
Portuguese woman living up ON the
slope had seen Rodrigues making his
way up the mountain.
Previous to that there was question
whether Rodrigues would have risked
chance on passing the prison gang and
guards working further up the valley,
but as this seemed to be settled by the
story of the woman, the chief returned
to town.
Escape Re-capture.
Last night the detective staff was
split up into detachments and stationed
above the Pail, at Maunalua and other
passes through which the escaped pris-
oner might attempt to make his way to
district less infected with police. He
was not seen, however.
The police fear that his capture this
time win be attended by shooting or
that it will be TOO late to prevent a
series of crimes of more seriousness
than those which have heretofore mark
ed his route through the country. They
expect n long list of reports now of en-.
tered houses and stolen food and
clothes, as was the occasion last time
when he stole everything from sails
from sampans, awnings from road roll
ers, or anything else he needed to fur
nish the caves he lived mas he after
wards confessed.
Rodrigues first exploit was four or
more years ago, when in company with
the notorious Lopes, he broke jail and
led the police a wild chase for months.
A little over year ago he dug out OF
his cell in the county jail with tea.
spoon and was 1T large three or four
months, being captured by Chief Nc
Duffie by freak Of chance, the auto
mobile in which tho police were riding
10 the scene Of his latest exploits run
ming into the mule be was riding 10 q
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