The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-10-19
George L. Williams Disappears
From Exposition Grounds
When Time Came To Fly
gANISHES IN DARKNESS
AND SO DOES MACHINE
Remembered Here In Connection
With Electric Works That
Burned MysteriousIy

To the meteroic career Of George l..
williams, well knowhi, in Honolulu
through his associations with Heinrich
Week, both of whom were partners do
ing business under the firm name Of the
Honolulu Electric Works, now decided
ly defunct, has been added another
very interesting chapter.
According to San Francisco advices,
Williams and his novel flying machine,
which had fthe wheels built on top
so that he could land upside down -
disappeared, together It Is thought,
from the exposition grounds the night
Of October s. The San Francisco story
is as follows:
IAN aeroplane mystery developed at
the exposition last night. George
Williams, said to be former German
army aviator, was missing with his
newly built upside down machine. The
wheels were built on top so that he
could land upside down.
Disappoints Big Crowd
civilians was scheduled to substi-
tute yesterday afternoon for Silvio
over the aviation field at Eve o'clock
a crowd of $4,000 went away disap-
pointed.
Crank Buck of the exposition de-
partment of CONCESSIONS declared last
night that Williams had risen from the
race track at the scheduled time, but
that he had flown away over the
Presidio Buck made a search last
night and found three soldiers who said
they had seen Williams flying south.
1t was reported late last night that
the machine had landed at the race
track. This was Investigated and
found untrue.
"Elgin Morgan, Williams manager,
could not be found. Silas Christoffer
son, who has a hangar down the beach
could not be reached on the telephone.
1t was supposed that Williams had
gone down that way. But no one
could tell just what had become of
him
Had Flying Bee In Bonnet
civilians had the flying bee in his
bonnet pretty bad while he was in
Honolulu" said Melville T. Simonton,
who is closing up the affairs of the
Honolulu Electric Works, last night.
"When l saw him for explanations of
the rather involved affairs Of the part
nership all would get from him would
be talk of flying machines.
eyes, he was pretty Eighty all
around He told me that when he got
to San Francisco he was going to
astonish the world with what he
would do in the sphere of@aerial navi.
CATION. we had postals from him
now and then in which he's told me
that he was getting dlong wonderfully
we'll. / was cautioned to watch his
Smoke / see, now, that Williams, his
upside down ngachine and his smoke ,
have all disappeared.
Heinrich Week, Williams partner, is
still in Honolulu. His present resi-
denee here is rather enforced, for he
was recently indicted by the federal
grand jury on a charge of perjury. Ac
cofding to the charge, Week was born
in three different countries at the same
I time The perjury is said to have
been committed when Week filed in the
local United States district court his
application for naturalization.
Electric Works Burned
The business place Of the Honolulu
Electric Works was established in King
street, across from the Kawaiahao
Church. One night several months ago
the shack, which housed the business,
and the machinery and stock on hand
burned completely to the ground. Ru-
mOrs of suspicious nature were aaOat
after the fire, but nothing ever came
of them. The partners later went
through the bankruptcy court here.
| Melville T. SimontOn was appointed re-
ceiver and is now closing the business
for the benefit of the creditors Of the
| concern.