The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-29
McCutcheon and Rata, Who
Helped Felon Get Away
Brought Back To Honolulu
SPRoAFt KNEW SCULLY,S,..%% So - :,
49,. CLAIMS JOE RATA
Grand Jury Investigation Likely
To Throw Additional Light
On Subject

Unable t.. give the $1,000 demanded
OF each for their appearance whenever
required by George s. Curry, the United
Slaves Commissioner and other federal
author tiles, II. l.. McCutcheon. and Joe
Rata, charged with assisting John T.
i5culIy in breaking his parole and at
VctuISIng to eVaue justice, spent last
light in the territorial penitentiary AZ
tho unwilling guests of High Sheriff
William j. Jarrett, warden OF the prl.
son. They were before Commissioner
Curry yesterday, but have not been
given a full preliminary hearing yet. .
McOutcheon and Rata were brought
to honolulu yesterday from Lahalna,
Maui in Eugene DevauchelIe power
sampan Ann.e D., by a Representative Z
of the federal authorities and Foster
l.. Davies; deputy clerk of the federal
court. The party arrived here at half,
past twelve o clock yesterday after
noon.
quarry Taken to Lahaina
The Annie D left honolulu for Kau.
naSakai, Molokai on Thursday after
noon, arriving at the lonely Island port
ct half.past nine O'Clock that night.
On its arrival the party discovered that
Joel NaLaioka, the deputy sheriff of
Molokai, had taken McCutcheon and
Rata to Lahaina, on the neighboring
Land Of Maui fifteen miles away. The
Annie ID took four hours in crossing the
channel. Arriving at Lahaina the
party found Deputy Sheriff NakAleka
q - VI
the island, to place the prisoners in the
comfy JAN there. The men, VINO are
now tharged with aiding Scully IN get.
ting away, were taken into custody by
the Honolulu officials and brought here.
Pose Had 'Cattling' Guns
SAY, but that deputy sheriff, Naka-
leka, and his posse, consisting of one
foot officer, were armed to the teeth
when they finally ran them down III
the old Hawaiian capital said Deputy
Clerk Foster l.. Davies yesterday.
81 aCh had an ancient revolver the size
of a gattiing gun. Really, the barrels
of the guas were fully eight inches
long. Well, no, they might have been
Six inches.
Rata told one of the officials that
Fill Sproat, in whose power sampan
Missourian Scully and his friends; Nc.
Cutcheon Fand Rata, made the get
away from Honolulu on Tuesday night,
knew SeulIy well. Sproat in mis- state
memt. mentioned in The Advertiser yes
tenlay. says that Scully was a stranger
to him, claiming that when the fugitive
prisoner and his friends boarded his
Loaf he chad looked the stranger over
and thought him decent sort of Il
chap or words to this effect.
R1lt in Sproat's Story
McCutcheOn denies that he had ever
offered $40 to Sproat to get to the Is
land of Hawaii. lie says that there
WAS some mention about paying him
500 for his extra trouble i'll making
the long trip. 1t is also claimed that
the federal authorities, especially those
Of the judiciary department are not
through with SprOat. Sworn state
mcnts which will be made by both Nc
Cutrhcon and Rata will likely throw
considerable night on SProat S real con
ne, ton with the getaway of Scully.
The federal grand jury will likely meet
after the first of July and take up the
whole affair for investigation.
On the question of the forfeiture OF
Scully's two bonds, aggregating $1,000,
given in the two new charges against
the convicted felon, }. Wesley ThOmp,
son yesterday notified Judge Clemens
in open court that he had looked up
authorities and found that the bonds
men were not liable because of Scully 5
get away. {. II. Mcbride representing
the bOndsmen, asked that the bonds be
cancelled This was done by order Of
the court and the bondsmen were dis
charged from further liability. The
question of contempt of court was not
LrUached.
Affldavlt Stunt Pulled
Adidavits signed by the district at.
to,ney, who has returned to his home
in Nashville, Tennessee, Bert Bower,
Ihul II. Poggs, Victoria 81. F.) Hyland
and f. 6. Reilly, bearing on Scully 5
orium operations, are now on file in
the federal court. They were prepared
ps an incentive to secure stiff sent,
Cncc for SculEy on the charge of which
he was convicted, but were not used,
p" Jrdpr Clemens attended unaided to
Xix .ngs the penalty. 10y, -, 1rh%
The district attorney 5 afiid avitS ~
hardly Ve main to the issue. Bower
tays that he had known Scully for
r"auv years and had been more or less
familiar with the gentlemanly highway
rol be- aud opium cOntrabandist. He
says that seve~al years age ScullV was
connected with one of the biggest
"uium deals that was ever pulled off
- Hawaii; that ScuIlv had generally
cen known as the prince of opium
traflickers, "going on different steam
"r" aud having transactions in opium
"nd takin" onium ashore from time to
time" Bower claims that he had
known Scully to have been connected
w''" several large and small such trans,
r"tinns.
Ecully Big Opium Merchant
1.-THE arrest transaction have ever
nown Scullv to be connected with in
ny way was one occurring two or
"""' years ago in which there was
in the neighborhood of $4,000 worth