Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-07
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Capture Of Stowaway on Shefe
IMAM Saturday, After AT
tempted Assault on Officer,
Opens Way for Official Probe
THINK ECTOR'S SLAYER
is NUMBERED IN RING
Negroes, Authorities Say, Have
Been Donning Uniforms Aft
er Discharge, and Gambling
With Men at Posts Paydays

Through the arrest on the transport
Sherman Saturday afternoon of Tlar-
ence Weekly, a d9shonorably discharg-
ed co!ored soldier, there may be ex-
posed a gang of zex-members Of the
responsible for d number OF crimes
in Honolulu. Weekly was arrested
as a1stowaway, ADD after he was jail
ed it was reported by coiored SOL
dier that Weekly tried to cut the
pockets out OF his clothes while he
was asleep, and threatened to kill him
with knife In "a Honoiuld rooming
house January 10.
The evidence may showzthat few
soldiers whd have been put out of the
army are by their actions easting un-
justified suspicion on -well-behaved
infantrymen now in the service, who
resent as much as anyone else that
army men are thus put undBrfa cloud.
With henry Turley, discharged sew
eral months ago from the 25th Infan-
try without honor, Weekly was found
on the Sherman Saturday by Lieut.
Alfred E. Sawkins, 25th :. Infantry,
when Sawkins took a bunch of cas-
uals down to the transport to put
them aboard. The men were caught
trying to stow away and Eboth were
wearing the uniform. Turley was
passed by Lieut. Sawkins as soldier,
but when he saw Weekly, who for
merly served In his company, he at
once recognized him as discharged
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Made Rush AZ OFFICER.
When the lieutenant spoke to
Weekly the latter cursed him and
ran at him, receiving two blows on
the jaw from Sawkins' fist. He was
then placed in the patrol and taken to
jail. Turley was arrested and releas-
ed, but Weekly was held on account
OF the attempted assault
This morAing q colored soldier, who
had personally reported that he woke
up In his room In lodging house late
at night January 10 to find a man
standing oter him with knife in
his handt identified Weekly as the
man he saw. Another crime of rob-
berry Is also. being Investigated on
the thedry that Weekly knows some
thing of II.
Evidence has been obtained which
shows almost conclusively that Week
ly is a member OF band of former
25th Irifantrymen who remain On
Oahu just to trim soldiers. They
each have uniforms. and on pay days
go to Sshofield In these, mix with
the soldiers, and get as much OF their
money as they can gambling. What
they cannot get this way the police
say they do not hesitate to get by
crime when they can manage it.
Think Murderer Ln Band.
Among this gang of discharged
men the. authorities believe is the
murderers OF Pvt. Jesse Ector, found
dead on the Kolekole road, near Scho-
field Barracks January %. with his
throat cut and five bullet wounds In
his body. Ector was habitual gamb.
Ter and knew some of the discharged
men having often played with them.
Thst he may have won money the
night he was killed Is possible, and
IL ihe did some of the discharged men
weuld probably have known of it.
! So far lin the quest, none of the
slight clues which have been picked
sup by Deputy Sheriff Fl. II. Plemer,
! who is handling the Ector case, has
led to any real facts about the muir.
der being discovered. Except for the
suspicion that among the ex-soldiers
nearly all OF them dishonorably dis
charged, lis the man who killed Ector
the murder Is still an absolute mys.
terry.