The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-05-15

WAS IT A BURGLAR? "A report being in circulation
yesterday morning that an attempt had been made
the previous night to make a forcible entry at the
Custom House, we ." interviewed . the native police
man whose beat is in that part of the city, and were
informed as follows: About 9 o'clock in the evening
a solitary horseman-no, pedestrian-was seen by
the argus-eyed police (who was squatted down by the
fountain on Hackfeld & Co.'S. corner) to come to the
opposite corner and stand for several minutes, and
then to walk down towards the Esplanade. Follow
ing him, the policeman lost sight Of his man just this
side of the Custom House. Standing there a few
moments, a noise was heard in the back yard of that
building, like one shaking a door. Police, thinking
that he could not very well surround the burglar
alone, goes to a house on Robinson's wharf and sends
a messenger for another policeman. Second police
man, coming down accompanied by a number of out
siders, goes to the steamship wharf and blows his
whistle Justify. and soon after one of the spectators
shouts There he runs !' when somebody is seen
running as if for a prize, and disappears in the neigh
borhood of the Widemann house. That's all there is
of the story; and it isn't much Of a story either.
BURGLARY AND THE BURGLARS CAUGHT.-Last
Saturday night the store and dwelling of Ahuna, a
Chinese retailer of dry goods, etc, on Nuuanu street,
was entered by burglars. A person was asleep in
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midnight was awakened by some one in the room,
who on being spoken to jumped out Of an open
window to the ground, a distance Of some ten or
more feet, and escaped. On examination it was
found that two saver watches and other small mat
tiers, and some $3.50 in money was missing. The
thief in his haste had however left his hat in the
room, and as it was well known, he was arrested the
next day, together with another, believed to have
been his accomplice in the affair. The classical
names to which the two Celestials answer are, Tun
Cum Sin and Hy you see Fat. The day after the
above burglary, by a mere accident, a discovery was
made on the premises occupied by Sin above named,
that throws a little light upon the recent burglary of
DilliDgham's store. Under the floor Of Sins house
was found an old tin vessel, in which were three ten
dollar silver certificates, (~probably a part of the
Saturday nights booty and near the pot was a
brace and bit, a chisel, and an ordinary screw-driver.
On the sock Of the brace were the d~rippings from a
candle, and the bit was found to correspond in size,
ETC., to the holes made on the Dillingham; premises.
The screw-driver fits exactly into the marks made in
trying to pry open the money drawers. These cir
cumstances (and so far but little else appear to
connect Sin with the burglary in question, in which
it will be remembered that entrance was effected by
boring through the boarding Of the roof, and when
candles were freely used by the burglar in the store.
These two Cinnamon are q part OF a lot Of discharged
contract laborers from Tahiti, who arrived here some
time ago, and Sin particularly, bears a bad character
among his countrymen. The examination in the
Police Court has been remanded until Monday next.
4 lady writing from Paris to the st. Louis Globe
says that some Of the French think that Beecher is
the editor of the Tribune, and that the Tribune is q
religious paper; others, that Tilton was the adopted
son of the preacher, who had reared him from a
foundling; some, that Mrs. Beecher was Tilton's frst
wife, and, having been divorced, he married the
present Mrs. Tilton, and Beecher took the divorced
xnman. nthers- that eynnsure might have been