Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-16
REFORM SCHOOL
BOYS ARE HELD
FOR AUTO Theft
Youths Escaped From Reform
atory Arrested on Charge of
Taking ProSSer Car

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night and later wrecked it on the Nuu
anu Pail have been arrested by Ar
thur McDuffie, chief of detectives
They are five reform school boys. al
of whom admit their guilt. Two
escaped last Saturday from the boys
institution. They will be arraigneG
Before the grand jury Friday or
charges Of first degree larceny -
Not only had McDuffie placed the
five boys in custody scarcely "a hours
after the theft and learned that they
we're wanted at the reformatory, but
ether depredations recently reported
to the police have been traced to two
Of the arrested boys from information
diYulged by their associates.
Ben Jacobson, special officer and
assistant to Liquor Inspector w. P
Fennell, first discovered the where
abouts of the escaped reform school
inmates on Punchbowl and McDuffie
Immediately connected their escape
with the theft of the auto.
At o'clock this morning McDuf-
fie, accompanied by Jacobson, w. Ii.
Hutton and others, surprised the boys,
sleeping in Hawaiian shacks in the
Punchbowl district. When confronted
with the facts they admitted guilt and
told their exciting story.
Saturday afternoon August Kekona,
aged Is, and Sam Kamaha, aged 90,
took to their heels and left the re-
form school behind BY hook and
crook, McDuffie says the latter, they
reached Honolulu, where they vera
Joined by Julian Holo, aged 81; Peter
August, aged 16, and a younger lad.
all reform school pals. l.. .:->..
Holo escaped several months ago
and has been missing ever since. Au.
gust is out on sick leave obtained two
weeks ago and the younger boy is on
parole. .....
In Honolulu the boys yearned for a
moonlight ride in the midnight air,
they tell McDuffie, and looked about
for suitable conveyance in which to
requite their yearning for a joy-ride.
Prosser's new eight-cylinder Cadillac
fitted their fancy and soon they were
away. ""...
This was about IL o'clock Monday
night. Unanimously they voted to en-.
circle the island:
Some of the more learned suggested
stealing gasoline, but others more dis.
Greet, looking into the tank and find.
ing plenty. said mo"
All went well with the midnight
marauders until they started the
sleeper ascent of the Pail. The car.
huretor refused to feed, presumably.
The boys stopped the big car, raced
the engine, started with jerk and
crashed into the cement wall around
the highest part of the precipice.
According to their own story, this
mishap frightened them so thorough.
ly that they sprang from the car, hit
for home and didn't stop running un;
til they were in bed with the sheets
over their heads.
The car was discovered Tuesday
just where they had left it,
by John Dolan; reported to the police
and later run to town under its own
power, with only bent fender and
smashed headlight, as told in the
Star-Bulletin Tuesday
After their arrest Holo and August
told McDuffie that Kekona and Ke.
maha had boasted to them of steal.
ing another car, a Ford, Saturday
night, from T. T. Miles of T. H. Davies
e Co., from his camp at Kahala.
This story Is plausible, says Nc
Duffie, as the Ford was later found,
in Honolulu. The captain
believes Kekona and Kamaha took
the car shortly after their escape to
expedite their movements towards
home. They both deny this. however,
declaring that Holo and August are
embarrassing them.
Miles says some one with consider:
able knowledge of machinery stole
the car, as it was partially dissembled
when he left it. He was up in the
hills when it was taken. A large Boy
Scout tent was also appropriated.
This has not been found.
There is another story of Kamaha
and Kekona stealing a couple of sad
die horses for part of their ride to
Honolulu, but this does not fit in with
the auto trip and McDuffie is inclined
to diseredit it. There has been no re
port of missing mounts, although they
might have been returned, say tho
police.
One of the arrested boys is wearing
a pair of new shoes, quite similar TO,
descriptions of several pair stolen re-
Gently, and McDuffie is also investi.
eating this angle.
All the boys will undoubtedly GO
back to the reform school, according
10 the police, and if indicted by the
grand jury may suffer a more severe
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