The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
lCAMP DREAKSOUT
a|NTOOPEN MUTINY
-Four Koreans Attack Guards In
Blood-thirsty Effort At
4. Murder
HIGH SHERIFF JARRETT IN
PERSON BRINGS PRISONERS
Grave Trusty BaIks Plans Of Mu-
tineers Driving Them To
Quarters rs

For leading riot among the convicts
at the Keomoku convict camp near Wal
mea, Hawaii, and which eliminated in q
ood,thirsty attack on the guards, four
Koreans, Kim Bori, Choy Chang Young,
Moon Young Six and Dyen Kur Dock,
are in solitary confinement at Oahu
prison. The men were brought to Ho-
nolulu on the steamer Mauna Kea last
Saturday by High Sheriff Jarrett in
person. g., rs .. h.
A large gang of territorial prisoners
has been for some time past engaged
in building a road near Waimea, and
has given the guards in charge of them
considerable trouble in the past, more
than one attempt at murder having
been made. ..,
That the last outburst of insubordin-
alton did not have disastrous results
was due almost entirely to the timely
and courageous conduct of a trusty,
Bert Bower, who, with three Others,
held the desperate convicts at bay and
finally drove them back to their quar-
tiers. VI q ....@
The trouble occurred about half-past
six O'Clock on the night of Sunday,
January u. e.. -. "........ ..
D, johnny Parker, young part Hawai-
ian guard, went into the dormitOry and
found number of prisoners sitting on
the floor on a blanket, and, while he did
not catch them gambling, he seized a
pair of dice and took them to Luna
Gins. A. Buchanan, telling him where
he. got them and who were present.
Two of the men, Korean and a
Japanese, were TRUSTEES, and Buchanan
had the Japanese taken to his office
where he lectured him little, and, upon
his promise not to gamble any more,
let hmm 90. '.... .....1
The Korean, without waiting to be
called, took it upon himself TO go over
TO Buchana.i 3 office and ask him if
Parker had reported him for gambling!
Buchanan answered in the negative,
e. saying that Parker had only give him
the dice and said who had been pre-
sent when he. took them.
Prisoner Curses Guard ~
At this time Parker was standing
outside the office, and had turned
Ground and started back TOW ards the
main building, when Choy Chang
Young stepped out of the Office and
applied a filthy epithet to Parker.
Parker, however, did not hear him, and
continued on his way towards the
building,
Buchanan, however, heard him, and
stepped out of the Office just in time to
see Choy pick up big rock, which
Buchanan made the man drop. He
then let him 60 and told him to go to
his quarters.
Choy' went towards the man build
ing, and again met Parker and repeated
the epithet which he had applied to
him before. Parker told Choy to shut
up and, as the Korean continued to
abuse him and tried to hit him, struck
Choy in the face, knocking him down.
Buchanan came up and stopped the
row, and took the Korean to faucet
to wash the blood from his face.
Koreans Start Riot
Some other Koreans, hearing the dis
turbance md seeing ChOy's face Gov.
cred with blood, yelled, "Kill him!
Kill all the guards! land they all
picked up rocks and started to throw
them at Parker and Buchanan, who,
reinforced by the other guards, ap-
peared powerless to stop them.
The gang was pressing Parker and
Buchanan pretty hard, and the former,
to check the rush, drew his revolver
and fred o shot into the ground, The
shot stopped the crowd long enough for
Parker to get AWAY, but as soon as the
4eonvicts saw that there were no more
shots they started after Buchanan, who
was going to his Office -.
Bert Bower, was in his, bunk when
the trouble started, and at first did
not pay any attention to it, but when
Parker fred Bower and another man
named Peter Ferreira rushed to
Buchanan assistance, and slamming
left and right, fought their way
through the enraged convicts and took
a stand by Buchanan 3 side.
A guard named Whaley had got
around another way, and the three, to-,
gether with Buchanan and a Hawaiian
boy named Hull, faced the mob and
finally drove them back to their quar-
tiers. H',s~.f4# s. .s'N
Later on the four men were given
revolvers by Buchanan, and for four
nights Bower and Whaley slept in the
ofiee, acting as a bodyguard for
Buchanan, h.. -: :
Trouble Starts Once More
The following day, after the con
Viets had been taken to work, Parker,
the guard who had had the trouble the
day before, rode along the road toward
the camp. Some of the convicts saw
him and went around among the men
and persuaded them to quit work.
They then sent one of their number
into Waimea to have Bower and an
other truck.driver go out and take
them back to camp.
Bower refused to go out to them,
sending word that he and the other
driver were busy, and, in about an hour
another messenger arrived and demand.
cd that the drivers 60 and take them
back to camp, threatening that if they
refused the gang would 60 TO Waimea,
kill the drivers and take the ears in
themselves.