The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-29
Declares He win Still StartIe Ho-
nOsuIa When His war PLOT
81 "-' Thickens -'''
RahdelI Says He Has Made No
Confession and Explains
''1@ His Actions =. p"

"NHNN WhhNH DulinuN HnOWt1
newspaper men Yesterday was cert.
fieate Issued 10 Cpl. Douglas, Irvine OF
Troop I,aiFonrth United States Cayal
ry, stationed ut SchO6eld, to the effect
that the corporal had accepted ser.
vice as q drummer for the New York
Dress Company, and will procure his
discharge as soon as he pays $780,
The card of the dress company was
attached TO this certificate.
During the day the marshal and
his assistants questioned Corporal Ir.
vine ,and Corporal Greelish, also OF
Troop /, Fourth Cavalry, regarding
their relations with Guy d. Randwell,
who was arrested on the same charge
as Seligsen, and with the manager Of
the dress company. The marshal de-
clined to make any detailed report of
tire statements drawn from these two
soldiers, but said that they had told
him they had been hired to 90 10
the front on board the Niagara, which
leaves Acre Friday This statement,
the marshal asserted, was also made
to United iSthtes Attorney Vaughan
and to the. military authorities. Az
Have No Written Contract 49,, -.
r. There was mo- written contract, add.
ed the marshall but according to the
story told by Irvine and Greenlish, they
were to have received $40 each, with
which to pay for their discharge from
the United States service and their
transportation TO Canada. They de.
elaredi that they had been promised rap.
i'd promotion in the British service, be
ginning as drill Instructors for the re-
cruits which, Canada is training, for
6ghting the Teutons. =
The testimony of these two eorporals
was taken down by Mr.. Vaughan .
'stenographer ut u secret hearing in the
Office of the United States attorney
Afterward Attorney Vaughan said:
$50 far Ihave heard nothing and
seen nothing that leads me to- believe
that there are any 'higherups'. in this
case. The warrants which l have il.
sued at5the request of Marshal Smiddy,
are made out, lean satisfied, against
purely fictitious persons, or rather in
fictitious names Randall appears to
have violated section ten of the penal
code, which forbids hiring for Mist
ment or sending out of the country for
enlistment abroad, any per1on--not ne
cessarily a sOldiet-within the confines
If the United States. &.
"Of course we all know that all
warning powers have bean bringing
their citizens and subjects back home
as fast as possible, ever since the war
began. There is nothing Illegal in
this. Any attempt to enlist men al.
ready in the United States army or
navy for service in the British or any
other army, would be against the law
and punishable as SUCH"
M4rAIal's Point OF View
Marshal Snhddy secs the case from
anctlrer Peint of view. lie ass4! t, d
lat night that the secretary of the
min stel of defense of Australia il now
in HcLolulu, and has been in this city,
for some time. / do not know mis- name
but ] an going TO find out.
In speaking of the warrants now in
his possession and awaiting service,
Marshal Smlddy said:
81 believe that the names on these
warrants are fictitious, but | am con.
fdent that the men really meant are
prominent men in Honolulu, and that
their arrest, when it comes, will shock
the community. I am not going to
serve the papers. however, until have
consulted with Mr., Vaughan. As for
this man Seligsen, or Stein, | believe
him to, be a Hebrew from London, and
of British birth. That and, much else
will rome out at the proper time.
People do not draw checks upon
the First National Bank, for $40 un.
less they expect trouble or have the
money with which to pay. And that
check is but one7lof q mass of docu-
mentary evidence that l have aceu-
mulated since | began working upon
this case. OF course the name on the
check is probably fictitious. Hawk,
shaw is too evidently a false name
in this case. 1t remains now to show
who Hawkshaw' really may be"
Denies Confession ,.
Guy d. Randell, who was arrested
in the Capitol, Sunday morning, and
locked ap in Oahu prison, denied yes.
teTday that he had made a confessi on
to the authorities. He asserted that in
to asst t COFPOrals Irvine and
Greenlish to leave the American army
he believed himself to be doing a favor
for r. B. Jefferson, formerly a Sergeant
in the Fourth Cavalry, and now an en-
plOye of the city attorney 8 office. JEFF,
terson was arrested Sunday and re
leased.
~ understood that the British asso
citation here has sent men to the front,
but have had nothing what ever to ito
with the actions of that body. did
what ! have done merely as a good turn
for a friend" said Randell
Randeil has been, in Honolulu for
arriving here, according to
statement made upon a registration card
of the Y. NJ, G. A. employment bureau,
about September Is, 1915. He gave his
age as twenty eight, aud as references
named "Gordon 4 6otch of New lea
land" and Gibbs 4 Co., New Zcn.
land. "
Produced No Papers
The British association also tried to
find work for the man, as he claimed
10 have been wounded in the fighting
On the GalIipol peninsula, but as he
failed to produce any papers to sub
'tantiate his claim, the association at