The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-02
Policeman Cullen Uses Jack
Lucas Car 70 Kidnap'
\. F. Reidel 49,. y. u" .i r.
LATTER WITNESS tlaa 3
IN CITY JAIL EXPOSE
Guardian Of Law and Ex-con-
~ Wet Said To Have Attacked
Mrs. ReideI

IN an AutOmODlie stolen from the
Schuman garage and owned by Jack
Lucas, Police Officer Cullen, wearing his
star, accompanied by Charley Cash, an
ex-convict, visited the home of H. r.
Reidel, 1858 Asylum road, late Saturday
night and attempted to drag Reidel into
the automobile. Failing in this, accord
ing to the statement by Reidel, the pair
assaulted Mrs Reidel while her hus-
band was at the telephone calling for
police assistance. a. -
Reidel is one of the principal wit.
ncsses against the police department in
the prison scandal investigation being
carried on by the territorial grand jury.
Remembering the beating up admins.
tered by some, as yet not announced,
thugs recently, as reported in this pa
per, Reidel is taking no chances and
by refusing to leave his house on Sat.
urday night probably escaped Cough =
fate. 81
Lucas Swears TO Warrant
The recklessness with which the al
legged attempted assault upon Reidel
was carried out is shown from the fact
that the police officer charged, who was
until a few weeks ago one of the guards
at the Jail, wore his police star who're
il could be seen and then left his patrol
box key in the stolen automobile when
1t was left, early some time Saturday
morning, standing outside the garage.
Yesterday, following the swearing
out of warrant by Mr.. Lucas against
Cash, charging him with two offenses,
larceny and malicious injury--the ma
chine being returned with a smashed
fender-Sheriff Rose suspended Cullen
and passed the incident up to the civil
service commission.
Cullen's excuse in the matter of the
automobile is that he did not know it
was. Lucas which excuse, considering
thar he is traffic officer at the cor.
ncr which the Lucas machine passes
, several times daily, is not one that Mr..
Lucas accepts cheerfully. 49,
Following his suspension, Cullen is
reported to have met Reidel on the
street yesterday and to have remarked,
II get you yet, you -- -"
Reidel Damaging Witness
Reidel, who served a term in iail for
gross cheat, has been able to corrobo.
rate much that has been told by Cough
regarding the rotten conditions prevail!
ing in the Jail, whereby gambling has
been allowed, prostitutes have been
given the run of the Jail, the prisoners
Boggs, McGrath, Lewis and Bowers
were free to come and 90, although they
had pleaded guilty to a serious felony
and were awaiting sentence, and the
conduct of the prison, eliminating in
the failure of MGGrath to return from
one of his usual nocturnal strolls, be.
came so wholly rotten that it was com.
mon knowledge among all the prisoners.
have personally seen the wives of
some of the prisoners take whisky
TASKS from their stockings and the
bosoms of their dresses" says Reidel.
81 have seen women 7 knew were from
lwilei coming and going, without ques.
ton and without the least attempt at
interference. They would not even ask
permission at the Office to see the pris
Oncrs. They would rap at the gate, the
guard would open it for them and they
would march straight to the hospital,
where BOggs, McGrath Lewis and Bow.
ers were being kept. .'"r
Booze Ordered by Telephone
These men were free to walk into
tho jailers office and call up any one
tnpy choose on the telephone, Every
time they ran short of booze, they or.
dored it by phone from the Kentucky
saloon, and IL was always promptly de-
Iirered to them, without question by
any one. x = ~
There was a good deal of indigna.
ton among the other prisoners at the
favOrs shown these men, although none
blamed Fern. We all took IL for grant,
Ell that Fern was acting under orders
i'll allowing the drinking and gambling
and women. He never said anything,
hut he looked at times as If he were
iii gusted at the whole thing, Punohn,
the deputy, didn I seem to care at an
He acted just as II everything was go
ing on as II should. W tr-7r
"What made the men in the Jail mad
was that when the hold-up men were
put in the hospital, they took the mat
tresses away from the TRUSTEES to make
up nice beds for the robbers, while they
took a man who was sick in the hhospi
tai out of his bed to give tito Bowers
The sick man had to sleep on the floor
Until the time when the wives If
these men commenced to send in their
Meals from outside, they ate at the
4%9er y, table which was all set for
them. 7.-|' 'f'| -
Reidel Knows Too Much
heidel has a great deal more to tell
r"neerning jail conditions than is pub.
ii he'd here, He attributes his knowl
edge and mis- readiness TO tell the truth
NJ the reason Why the attempt to take
him out somewhere In an automobile,
for some ulterior purpose, and why the
aTRault upon him and his wife were
made. Cullen was guard during the
M"Grath Imprisonment and escape"
enisode, being since promoted by
Sheriff Rose TO position as traffic OF.
6"rr. Cash, the other one charged IN
the assault aud auto'stealing eases, was
serving twO-year term for the for