The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-25
.SCULLY DECAMPS
TO MOLOKA| But
HASDEEN CAUGHT
Convicted Opium Operator and
Badger Gangster Fails To
Appear For. Sentence
DISAPPEARS IN SAMPAN
IN HOPE OF ESCAPING
Federal Marshal Scurries About
- But Can Find No Trace
OF Fugitive


ed opium dealer and chief of the big
gest gang of bndgcr' artists ever
uncovered in lionolIlu, TO report at
nine o'clock yesterday morning at the
| office of the United States marshal
threw the w%)le machinery vi the
marshall office and the police and de-
teetive departments of Honolulu into
an awful jam, which was augmented
as the day wore on and no signs of
Scully could be seen. 81
Late in the afternoon man, whose
name has been rigldly kept q secret
by the authorities, but who is reported
to be John Fleming, president of Nor
gan 4 Co., called on the marshal and
told him that he had received a wire
less message from Jack Sproat that
| Scullyt was on AmOhai. The message
said: r..--
| Jack SSnlly on my boat. Is he
wanted by the authOrities!"
| Pound on Molokai
| 4 later message from Molokai was
to the effect that Scully was being
held prisoner by the people at Ka-
nnakakai and that the police officer
at PukOo would be at the former
place at six o clOrk last evening to
!
/ custody. II was fully understood last
night that Scullv would be in Homo
lnlu shortly. arrangements having been
made to bring him from MoIokai dur
ing the night,
Over the disappearance of ScuIly
many stories were told yesterday and
theories as to the manner Of his es,
cape we're rife. One had him boarding
'.I IN hn
morning; another had him as fellow
passenger or the nlted States district
attorney aboard the Manoa that Jeff
on Tn"s1aV afternoon. The theory
that he had made away in sampan
on the chance of being picked up at
sea by passing vessel was most
prevalent.
| That Scullv was in Honolulu be
tween l9Rlt-Past Il seven , and eight
clock Yesterday morhin" is the story
told bV y. Isaac Arcia of the customs
service.
saw Scully Here Yesterday
was walking along Hotel street
WIN Lang Akana between half-past
seven and eight o clock this morning,
said Arcia yesterday, "and ] saw Scnl
~ standing near the stairs leading tt
the store of the Pacific Picture Fran
ing COMPANY. He was with severa
"thers. but ! 10 not recollect whom
theN were"
sure 1t was Seullyf am SURF
"t It; ne nodded to me as | Went
Nv. We known nm Tor hfteen years
There cnn no possible mistake. I'M
less S"nIIv $ double IL in the city.
Besides eng required to report t.
the marshal TT nine o clock YESTERDAY
morning. Sru'Iy was to appear in cour
to furnish bond to guarantee his ap
, Pearanr" IN the appeal filed from hi
convection I" the court OF appeals o
i, the ninth rIrr"lt IN San Francisco. A
q soon as SrnIlv failed to show up tn
I marshal notified Judge Clemens. Tn
Y telephone was made use or In all iii
5 rectlohs, messengers were sent seurry
n ing all over the city. Nothing ha
S Oeen seen or Sculy. The court tool
4 a recess ana at noon Judge Clemon
ordered commitment to issue, re
curing NcnIIN 10 De taken into Gus
todV ana nIaced IN the territorial PEN
tehtlarN 1or sate Keeping.
bonos NO lmpeulment
on the TWO opium charges ScullY wa
: ind'ctel ON TWO weeks ago he had bee
released on h"nds In the aggregate o
$Eooo' thr hond on the first charg
being Tor %""O and ON the second 70
Sl'U' on the latter the National S"r'
" company represented here by tn
hH""lian Trust company, being tn
surety
When seen yesterday Mess Gayno
ana 'r"e""n OF the Hawaiian Trus
y COMPANY s"id that, naturally, the
%erH lhtrrrsttI IN the apprehension q
ScuuV' Mr., freedom had been to tn
marshal once, ne said, and made IL
qnIrles. Thr information receive
c are IN IN" AFTERNOON that Scully wa
On n M onn Go was e9mpnete news TO cree
Much Wanted All Around
n Scullv is yery much warted mn