The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-14
HALTED
BY MARTIAL LAW
Soldiers Of Ninth Cavalry Loot
Homes, of lwilei
Woman
(conciuded From Page y

Stein woman's house was the signal for
the rioting to begin. Ina MON ant, 81
seemed to the frightened inmates of
the houses, they were the center Of
swarmihg angry faces and forest Of
brandishing, menacing fists. Never
very quiet, the district was turned into
a bedleh by the shouts Of the Ia
toxicated soldiers, according to, the
story told the police by various woneA
Of the underworld who escaped the
first onslaught and found refuge In
the police station.
The Ratings round the little lanais
in front Of each of the houses were
ripped off and the top bars used as
clubs TO burst In the doors of houses.
Soldiers, when they forced their way
into q house, Immediately began to
demolish whatever lay nearest at hand.
Nor did they stop short with destruc.l
ton. Eleven Of the women reported to.
the police that they had been robbed Of
evely cent they had in the world, but
in some instances the money was re.
covered and restored TO the owners.
In neasly every instance the cloth
ing of the women was torn and
trampled, and in one instance the filmy
robe woman was wenring was ripped
almost completely of her back, so that
she was forced to 60 to the police sta
ton in a borrowed holoku.
Women Beg For Mercy 1l. a,
One of the women, when she heard
the racket begin, jumped out of side
window and made her escaSe by crawl
ing under the two houses next door,
and hiding under the third until tho,
arrival of the mounted scout patrol Of
Second Infantry brought a lull in the
rioting, and gave her a chance TO run
to King rect. When she reached the
police station che was begrimed with
mud from head to foot.
Others threw themselves on the
mercy of the soldiers, promising ali
their money and other val1ables. If they
would give protection from the rest OF
the mob. Many Of the men are said
to have carried women out of the hurly.
burly afterwards out of pity. Jennie
Barr and Lena Stein were not SO fofI
tunate. The Barr woman was struck
in the back wi h a brick and painfully
injured and the Stein woman was kick
ed In the neck as she was craving
away from her house in an attempt to
escape, unseen, the crowd of men who
were tossing her Belongings through
window into the mud, outside. II !,
As soon as the rioting began the four.
memi efs of the provost guard realized
the seriousness of II and telephoned at
once to the city police station for as
sistance. Deputy Sheriff Asch, who
was in charge, after listening to the
report of the guards, decided that X
was too big job for the police so he
telephone1 to the headquarters of the
Second Infantry, at Fort Shafter.
IT did not think it safe for hand
full of police to attempt to quell a
riot of FIVE hundred drunken soldiers
in Iwilei, - he told a reporter for The
Advertiser, ESQ ! called in the sol
diers. /" ,,s, isN III a.: INK tE
At Fort Shafter the news was receiv-
ed differently. Maj. Michael J. Leni-
Ian, commanding the Second Battalion,
Jumped his command out at once, send ,
ing Lieut.. Lloyd r. Fredendall with a
detachment Of the mounted scouts
ahead The mounted men went at a
gallop, and the footmen followed in
electric cars as soon as poss BILE. d,
Soldiers Rounded Up
AS soon as Lieutenant Fredendall
reached the scene of the rioting he be I
gan throwing out patrols, working in
pairs, and rounding up every colored
soldier in sight. Word of the coming
of the reinforcement for the provost
guard had reached the rioters and they
had begun to dispefse, even before the
FIRST OF the mounted men appeared. <
But the broom of law and order
swept thoroughly, In short time they
found that their retreat from the dis
trict was cut off by line of men with
fixed bayonets. The lane leading up
to King street from the prison was
lined with guards with fixed bayOnets,
and line Of reserves was thrown
across the makai side OF Asla park,
forming a lane OF steel through which
everybody had TO pass. , 5,e . ~
In the meantime orders had gone out
from headquarters TO double the patrol
in all parts Of the city and to round
up the members of the colored Cavalry
regiment and herd them 10, the trans
port as soon as possible, Half an hour
after the arrival of the white troop
on the scene Iwilei was quieter than it
has been for years Not a soldier, save
those on guard, was to be seen in the
whole district-and very few of the
women who usually frequent it. ...
They had fed to the safety Of the
police station, where they poured out
their tale to the Captain of Detectives
McDnffey In few moments after the
arrival Of the first terrified women his
rooms were piled with bundles r of
clothes the women had Saved" from
the rioters. and his desk was Uttered
with jewelry, money, drafts, money
orders and the like, which he was ask.
ed TO hold until such time as Il would
be safe for the owners 10 resume pos,
session. In all several thousand dol,
lars worth Of jewelry and cash was
turned over To him. 1t will be restored
to the owners this morning,
Searching Investigation !
I ON hoard the transport Sheridan II
was announced that a searching hives.
tigation of the whole affair would be
instituted this morning and every eff,
fort made TO discover the ring-leaders
Of the rioting and punishment nfiirted
One of the members of the Ninth
Cavalry voiced protest against laying
| the blaffia IN that raUi nnarf a1ora ~.