The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-19
OFFICERS find NO !
!. TRACE OF RlTGR|E.
Belief Now Is That Escaped Pris-
oner Got Out Of City on
Transport Logan.
lFrom weanesday Adyertiser.l


Richie, wanted in Seattle on several
charges Of embezzlement and who es.
capped from the county Jail early Mon.
day morning.
Prior to the departure Of the trans
port Logan Monday night careful
search OF the troopshiD was made. The
soldiers and crew Of the vessel were
lined up on Piar No and each man
was serutinized carefully The ship also
was searched, but no trace Of the miss
ing man was found IL Is still the
belief of the local police that Richie
got away on the transport. Captain
Williams, of the Logan, was furnished
with q minute description of the much
wanted man and he has instructions to
place him under arrest upon his being
found aboard the vessel at sea and he
will be returned to Honolulu.
Detective Sergeant M. j.. MeNamee,
who was sent here from Seattle TO take
Richie into custody and return him
with A. Deputer, Ritchie's partner to-
Seattle, still has hopes that Richie will
be captured in this city. McNamee had
engaged passage on the Wilhelmina,
sailing ibis morning, for himself and
his two prisoners, but cancelled this
booking and will return TO the mainland
on u later steamer.
On being questioned yesterday, Mrs,
Richie denied that che aided In her
husband Is escape. She claims the cord
she furnished her husband and with
which he made his way to freedom,
was TO be used by him in making a
hammock. She said that her husband
told her that his bed was harder than
what he had been accustomed to sleep
ing on. Tailor Aseh believes the cord
was sinuggled into Richie S cell in a
hottie OF milk. II was Mrs. Ritchie's
custom TO call on her husband twice a.
day for an hour at each time and she
was allowed to bring him delicacies.
No search was made of the various
packages that she brought to her hus-
band except in a general sort Of way
and it is thought that Mrs. Richie
taking advantage Of this easy going
system that is in vogue at the county
JAIL Struggled the cord in.
Deputer Ritehie's partner diselains
any participation in the escape of
Ritehie, and said yesterday that he was
sorry that his partner had acted as he
had. For himself he said that he was
perfectly willing to SO back to Seat.
tie and face his accusers there and ex-
pressed himself as being confident Of
clearing himself Of the charges brought
against him.
with the entire detective force and
as many police officers as can be, spared
hunting high and low for him, X. u
Richie, who escaped from the county
prison early Monday morning, Is still
at large. The city is being secured for
the escape, and every nook and Granny
that possibly could hide man will
be currycombed before the hunt is con
tinued in the outside districts.
There is. bare feasibility that
Richie got away on the transport
Thomas, which sailed for the Orient
yesterday. The ship was searched frlm
stem TO stern by the police and the
ships officers and crew, but no trace
of Richie was found,
Vessels watched.
The Oceanic steamer Ventura, which
sailed for Pago Page and Sydney at
three O'Clock yesterday afternoon, also
was closely searched by the detectives
and police, but the quest was frnitless.
Richie was headed for Australia
when he was arrested in Honolulu, and
it is thought that possibly he may have
hidden somewhere on the Ventura and
thus got out of the Territory. How
ever, close watch will be kept on
both the Thomas and the Ventura by
the officers of those vessels, and should
Richie be discovered he will be at
once arrested and returned to Hawaii.
o McNamee win Wait.
Detective Sergeant McNamee Of Seat.
tie, who came down to take into Gus
tody and return TO Semitic Richie and
A. De Peuter, was ready to return TO
his home city on the Wilhelmina, sail
ing t6morrow for the Coast. McNamee
declares that he will wait over in Ho-
nolulu until Richie is again in custody
Ritehie's escape was daring one,
and il is thought it was engineered
from the outside. From information
obtained by the police, il has been
ascertained TINT q woman, who is
thought to be Richie 5 wife, purchased
several hundred feet of thick, white
shark. fishing line at Chinese store,
AT any rate, the white cord was found
hanging from the place where Richie
must have tied IL before lowering him,
self over the prison wall. The cord is
now in the possession of Sheriff Ross
and il is apparent from the look Of y
that III eonld have been easily Struggled
into the Jail.
The escape Of Richie was not no.
tieed tilr the rollcall for breakfast yes
trrda" morning. When he did not an,
swer his name hasty visit was paid
to his cell, which was a comfortable
room situated near the rooms occunied
by the warders and turkeys who wer'
not on night duty. 1t was easily seen
how Ritchic got away, as door that
OF ems onto q corridor had evidently
leen opened with a skeleton key. The
rCst was easy, as the prisoner had only
to tie the cord to drain pipe that
runs down the side Of the building and
then 90 down, hand over hand, to the
ground outside the prison.
..r.', =. Grand Larceny. is
Richie and De Peuter were being
held on a charge Of grand larceny com
mitted in Seattle. The men were ap
pretended as soon as they arrived i
! Honolulu on their way to Australia, an,