Show fight with le lepers pera the honolulu bulletin ot of jun IM i says last wednesday Widnes day larsen larmeu officer reynolds and two poll from honolulu with S of kauai C H willis deputy sheriff t ashford spencer ackal native lob A 41 of waitea waimea otWa imea district and five native a peli policemen cemen went up to the vahey ota hanapepe Han Hau apepe kalail to arrest soi aena mt tive lepers I 1 I 1 1 several of the party went to a house where the lepers were supposed suppo aed to be while the others went aloft the stream the house was found empty and the A lepers a man and a woman were ditis ifa i covered crossing the river and were i seen to enter a cluster of bushes bashes thell r man and woman noticing that ane were detected bame out into an opera space the man holding a gun hefsas was v ordered by the police party part to drop hisgun but lie he refused we he with the woman retreated and corner of a house opened fire OR oa posse two of 0 the force who hadale lepers covered with their rifleman the time returned the fire shots were weke again ez exchanged changed ad ala aln z though the calls were close no ate ie r was hit the lepers retreated of the force on horseback attempt eAto head them off getting at the fugitives through an opec space another volley was fired ut at a distance of about one mile and a half finally sheriff wilcox tot ot wt atha hA z speaking distance of the mangand man ana 4 woman and tried to persuade them ot to give up the sheriff said he want to kill them and they might AS well surrender they could hot not escaped the man throwing down his guil asid he was no not t afraid to die and the mer iff could shoot him it he wanted to el during the conversation the two to policemen from honolulu had succeeded in getting behrnd the tae I 1 IfiE ers and pouncing ficon biem 6 overpowered them the rifle used by the leper was a 12 shot winchester during the criag between tae two parties the bullets plowed up the oil at the feet of aimed at on several occasions occasion while some passed close tor their heads the capr cap s aured woman was vias thoroughly terrified but the man was defiant to tift the elvis last t the next day the par party t wen to wai mea in search of more lepers lepers but ut on oil their arrival there they found fouad tha the people had been warned and seventeen lepers well armed WA had escaped into the mountains hepolite the he police go got one woman who was left lefa behind agy cause she was too feeble to follow ane e others she confessed that tha tha haa been warned and that tha ahe seventeen were armed with rifles and pistols and would fight to the bitter 11 eno n gelt I 1 A man had bad also been c caught 4 u the day 47 before by the sheriff and made thib the fourth person captured thre ahr 0 rifles ra were taken all of them were goot onedas marked A R the honolulu ralee police stood the fire well opt but w b kauai ai policemen would not go 60 i the first shot |