Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-07
Capture of StowaWay on Sher-
man Saturday, After At
tempted Assault on Officer,
Opens Way for Official Probe
THINK ECT0R'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 Clar-
ence Weekly, a dishonorably discharg-
ed colored soldier, there may be ex-
posed a gang of ex.members of the
18th Infantry, who are believed to be
responsible for number Of crimes
in Honolulu. Weekly was arrested
as a stowaway, and after he was JAIL
ed 1t 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 Honoiuld rooming
house January 19.
The evidence may show that few
soldiers who have been put out of the
army are by their actions casting un-a
justified suspicion on well-behayed
infantrymen now in the service, who
resent as much as anyone else that
army men are thus put under 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 both were
wearing the Uniform. Turley was
passed by Lieut. Sawkins as a soldier,
but when he saw Weekly, who for
merly served In his company, he at
once recognized him as discharged
man.
Made Rush At 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 morning 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 over him with a knife in
his hand. identified Weekly as the
man he saw. Another crime of rob-
berry is also being Investigated on
the theory that Weekly knows some
thing of It.
Evidence has been obtained which
shows almost conclusiyely that Week
ly Is member OF band of former
25th Infantrymen who remain on
Oahu just to trim" soldiers. They
each have uniforms. and on pay days
go to Schofield 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 1t.
Think Murderer In Band.
Among this gang of discharged
men the authorities believe is the
murderer 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 a habitual gamb-
Ter and knew some of the discharged
men. having often played with them.
That he may have won money the
night he was killed Is possible, and
II he did some of the discharged men
would probably have known of it,
So far in the quest. none of the
slight clues which have been picked
up by Deputy Sheriff H. H. Plemer,
who is handling the Ector case, has
led to any real facts about the mur-
der being discovered Except for the
suspicion that among the ex-soldiers
nearly all OF them dishonorably dis
charged, is the man who killed Ector
the murder is still an absolute mys-
terry.