The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-11-20
CONV|CTS
BEATEN BY LUNAS
IS CHARGE MADE
Prison inspectors Investigate
Charges Brought By convicts
Against Their captors
HIGH SHERIFF JARRETT
REPORTED EARLY ON JOB
Prisoners Claim That Fellow
Convicts Helped In As
sauIt On Them
lFrom ThursdAy Adyertiner.l


(From Thursday Advertiser.)
Attorney General Stainbaek and High
sheriff Jarrett began a searching inyes
tigation yesterday into serious and sen
sational charges which have been pre-
ferred by recaptured fugitive prisoner,
against Prison Lunas Z. X. Rathburr
and Thomas Kennedy, and number Of
prisoners now serving time in Oahu Pri
son.
Tho story is one Of the escape Of
three young prisoners, their capture
seven hours later and the BRUTAL treat
ment they were subjected to by the
lunas and number Of prisoners who
accompanied these in the search fol
the escaped men.
Prison inspectors Investigate
The whole affair was first brought Il
the attention of the prison officials yes
terday morning by a man who refused
to divulee his name but who claimed
that he observed the in treatment OF
the prisoners at the time Of their cap.
ture. This, man telephone to ]. w
Waldron chairman of the board of pri.
.Um AMrINCtVlos On tnD nbhCnktH VI lAAc
story told by the informant. Mr.. Wal.
dron, accompanied by j. M, Dowsett,
another prison inspector, visited Oahu
Prison yesterday morning and invest.
gated the charges. The inspectors
found ontheir arrival that High Sheriff
Jarrett had already begun an investi.
cation. The high sheriff assisted the
inspectors in. their work. The story,
as told by the injured prisoners and
others, was substantially as follows:
Trio. At Large Long Time
A gang Of prisoners. under Rathburn
and Kennedy, have been working for
some, time on the site Of the new Oahu
Prison in Kalihi Monday morning al
about nine ,clock Manuel Gouvea
Portuguese, Joseph Lula and Albert
Manners, Hawaiians, recently convicted
the first of first degree and the other
two Of second degree burglary, escaped
from their gangs and, eluding the pri
son lunas, made good their escape.
Rathburn and Kennedy, accompanied
by. half a dozen prisoners, began q
search for the escaped convicts as soor
asstheir absence was noted. Gouyea
LuiA and Manners were finally located
near the premises. of the Thomas Pine
apple Company, Kalihi-kai, at about
four o clock They had been hiding
in the bushes and were unarmed. III
making the capture the escaped pri
soners claim that they were set upon
by their fellows and the guards.
Head Cracked BY Revolver
According to the investigation, Lula
received q blow on the head from the
butt Of Kennedy's revolver and was
seriously hurt. Another of the escaped
trio was hit over the shoulder and back
with stick in the hands Of prisoner
who assisted the lunas in affecting the
capture. The third man was not badly
hurt because, il is elaimed, Luna Rath
burn protected the man, who belonged
TO his prison gang. The other two pri
soners were from Kennedy's gang.
~" After we completed our inyestiga
ton this morning. said Waldron last
night, " we brought the matter before
the attorney general who. is, officially
the bead Of the. whole police department
The facts we gathered were placed be
fore Mr.. Stainback, who said that hi
would conduct further investigation Of
the affair
Now Up To Attorney General
t'When Mr.. Dowsett and myself ar
rived at 0hau prison this morning We
found that High Sheriff Jarrett was al
ready on the job and had begun an in
vestigation. He assisted US in the wori
on hand. We have nothing moro TO dc
with it, for the whole matter is out OF
the province of the prison inspectors
but we are satisfied that the attorney
general and the high sheriff will do theli
work well and place the responsibility
for what happened where II belongs. r.
II, Wodehouse, who Is the third member
OF the board of prison inspectors, was
not with u.s. because of his absence from
the city. -
High Sheriff Jarrett confirmed the
statements made by Mr.. Waldron last
might.
High sheriff On the Job
"When the prison inspectors came
to Oahu prison this morning, said Mr.
Jarrett, az was already carrying on an
Investigation, which i began as soon as
my attention was called to the alleged
of escaped prisoners. The
whole matter will be sifted TO the bot.
tom and, il the facts will warrant II.
those guilty of illtreating the escaped
prisoners when they were captured will
he made TO suffer. "
Gouvea, Lula and Manners are young
mon, the oldest being not more than
nineteen years of age. All three were
convicted recently in Judge Ashford's
court and sentenced to Oahu prison
Lula and Manners, especially, have q
large huber of burglary indictments
against them, to all Of which they plead
edsguilty.