The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-21
BRUTAL MURDER
III MILITARY POST
!. COMMITTED AT
EmpIoyebi charlottesville Corps u a.S
Who Lent Money To Soldiers, ssg
W .@s.5. fgdIs Slain /.
CRIME AT MIDNIGHT
At scHoFlELD BARRACKS
Robbery Prompted Killing ana
e Federal 0fficerstAfs looking q aoiz
For Vicious Thug

ga brutal and deliberate murder, -
is what United States Marshal Smiddy
called the killing If @, M. George, six.
ty years old, and a civilian employee Of
the Quartcrmaster Corps, at schofeid
Barracks Marshal smiddyj aud Assist.
ant District Attorney Biting, who in.
vestigatod the murder, returned from
sehofeld late last night, and wiIl.ire.
port their findings TO District Attorney
Vaughan this morning. s,
There is no qlew as yetr-but there
Is "A suspicion, no more y said the
marshal, when asked IL the murderer
left anything behind him by which he
nigh. be trailed. ~
George, who in addition TO his work
for the Quartermaster Corps had been
acting as n money lender to the men of
Fourth Cavalry. He was known TO
hayo had considerable money I'm his
pocket, collected last pay day, and IL
Il tho belief OF the authorities that ne
was slaughtered by some one who knew
of this.
The investigation of Smiddy showed
victim for some time, hiding behind a
lean-to which stands against the in
Generator near corral No. 9. The path
the Old man had to take to reach his
room back of the machine gun troops,
quarters, led by this lean-to and about
twenty feet away. George started
from tho corral for his room about half
past eleven o clock, on Tuesday night.
IA nj tcLN Il
bright. -. ,'a q. q. N. Z,
I lsThe murderer, seeing his victim ap-
Proaehing, took down heavy poker
lts'd in the incinerator, and ran across
the distance between the lean-to, and
the path, and before the old man could
defend himself, struck him across the
back of the head with the iron bar,
crushing the skull, tearing the felt hat
Geowo worea and cutting a four-ineh
gash IN tl19y SRalIh{y sl't 10 ~ Jisaigsls o,
After rpbbing his victim, the murder,
or walked across. to the iean,tos once /,
more and hung the poker, in its proper
place He neglected, however, to wire
away the bloody traces left on the bar.
and they were found by the officers in.
Nestigating the murder, and may vet
lead 70 the conyietion Of the SLAYER.
The last man who saw George was
Jesse Duke, a colored man, also em.
ployed by the Quartermaster Corps al
the barracks. lie passed the old man
shortly after half-past eleven o clock.
and shortly after that, while on his
way to his own quarters, found \ tho
body of George, lying in a pool Of
blood near the incinerator, and at once
gave che alarm. George was still alive
when DUKE discovered him, and lived
for more than an hour after help came,
but did not regain consciousness.
When found, George was lying crum.
pied up from the force of the blow that
had struck him down, and his pocket
book, large leather affair in which he
was accustomed to, carry his money,
was missing. His watch and the KEYS
to his room were in their places -. ..
The military authorities are cooperat.
ing with the federal officers in their in.
and il was reported last
night that lieutenant PaIen of the
Fourth Cavalry would be placed In
charge of the search for the murderer.
Lieutenant Colonel Bailey of the Quar-.
toImaster Corps, and Captain Renzie-
hausen, Fourth Cavalry, are also work
ing hard on the case, n, 4#pt -
Deputy Sheriff Plemmer Of WaiaIua,
wlfol - coroner for that district, held
an inquest yesterday afternoon, but no
report' will be made on the matter UNI
til this afternoon, If then. .s.s5ss.: .....,
George, who had been an employee of
The Quartermaster Corps for many ~
years, was frail and weakly, and lived
alone in his-little house. He is report
I'd to have had few friends among the
men, and to have been a man who at.
ended strictly to his own business.
Because Of his money lending activities
twas said that he had made sew.
raj enemies. but nothing thus far dis.
covered by the investigators proved
his statement. 4 .s'E