The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-09-18

1 jill dLCICfO III LII p1CNAOAo hO1oSS q 49,
tins of opium were found concealed In the
fore-peak under irewood used as dunnage
belonging to the ship. This is very impor
tant evidence. The opium on the p~reviou:
voyage could hardly have been concealed IL
/ such a place without the connivance of some
one connected with the vessel. Another at
tempt similar in character is made in the
case before us; like methods of concealment
are used, and the inference is that the sticks
containing the opium were slowed below by
the assistance of some one connected with
the vessel, and that it was not to be put out
until the rest of the wood had been dis
| charged and delivered. IF the wood was
left out of the inward manifest by design, ii
might have been with the intention OF put
ting the Custom House officers ON a false
scent and finally when the danger was over,
the sticks containing opium retained In the
hold were to be delivered to the consignee
or purchaser.
There are many points in the evidence
difficult to be reconciled. Captain jerks is
not sufficiently impressed with the fact that
these Is or 20 cords of frewood were on his
ship to remember to put them on his Inward
Manifest, though they were on his freight
list and the largest part of the wood itself
was on deck and in sight during the voyage
down, and, though the owner Mr.. Merrill,
t~estifes that he had sent the Captain to
examine the wood in San Francisco and see
if it was straight of which fact he, the Cap
tain says nothing in his examination,
though he mentions it after the San Fran
cisco dispositions had been received here.
1t has not been explained to US where
Captain jerks saw the wood, at the
Renton Coal Co.'S. yard (where Is cords
were bought, at Higgins & Collins yard
(where three cords were Doughty or else
where. If he went as was likely in COM
pany with the Cinnamon, they pointing the
wood out which they had bought or in
tended to buy, how could it be true as the
Captain states, that the first he knew that
the Chinaman claimed the wood was on his
presenting him the freight bill receipted in
Honolulu Another palpable contradiction
is In the statements as to which wood was
first slowed below to be used as dunnage.
MIR. Richie the mate says, the first lot
(hauled) we took down below and used it
for dunnage fore and aft" The witnesses
whose testimony was taken in San Fran
cisco. all agree that the first lot of wood was
hauled from the Renton Coal Co. and was
honest wood, there having been no opportu-
nifty for tampering with it. Mr.. Richie
also says, a" this frewood was hauled down
OIL a one horse dray by two Cinnamon" and
again "two Cinnamon hauled the wood on
a dray," and " took Cinnamon about a week
to bring all the wood down." The deposit
tons of many persons in San Francisco,
agree that Is cords were drayed down from
the Renton Coal yard, by Charles Aigel-
finger, the three cords from Higgins & Col
Inns by A. Saxtorph, and Mr.. Ennis the
Clerk of the bark Kalakaua says, ga third
drayman, also a whiteman, brought down
one and perhaps more loads"
Which wood contained the opium ? Mr..
Richie says that the wood first delivered
was put below as dunnage. The San Fran
cisco witnesses say that this was honest
wood and could not have contained opium.
If the last load hauled by the mysterious
third drayman, said to have come from
Chinatown, contained it then Richie does
not tell the truth, since the wood containing
opium was used as dunnage and was put
down first. Ii it be said that the opium
came among the last wood delivered the
ship, at that time was nearly loaded, her
cargo already slowed and this wood could
have been used as dunnage under it.
Ahchin, the assistant salesman in the
W SOo1 1oAo Gays tlioL Willie Tic "OOu
was being delivered, as required for, loading
vessel, the two Cinnamon told him they had
one load of wood up town which they want
ed our drayman to hau to the Kalakaua. If
this is the load referred to by Mr.. Ennis as
Sc the one load or possibly more loads" haul
ed by the third drayman, it must have been
hauled after the larger part of the wood had
been delivered at the ships side and slowed
below and it would follow that it was not
used as dunnage.
Mr.. Richie says that one of the two
Cinnamon who brought the wood to the ship
down as passenger in the bark. But
Ahchin, above named, says that since the
of the Kalakaua he saw these two
Cinnamon who had brought the wood, in
San Francisco. 1t is therefore impossible
that one of them could have come down in |
the bark.
1t has not been explained why If Mr.. Mer-
rill, Mr.. Brow and others knew the names
Of the shippers. of the wood to be All Sing
and All Foo, as they say they did, that
names were not put down in the
list, whereas the names of the Con-
signee Tongkee was inserted, a man whose
seems to have been lost.
Mr.. Ennis says. The wood was handled
and thrown a considerable distance
by draymen on to a pile. Every stick was
handled by the draymen and the Cinnamon
in discharging the loads as they came to the
vessel" The persons, whoever they were.
who were aware that some of these sticks
tins OF opium must have had such
confidence in its solidity and security inside
the sticks of wood as to have made it un-
to use caution in its handling.
and the mere suggestion to handle such
articles carefully would have been suspi-
:ious of itself. Wood that stood success
fully the tossing on to a pile on the wharf
Gould be trusted to stand the further test of
being slowed below deck. 1t seems to us
hat the sticks containing opium were placed
below, more for convenience in being put
ashore at Honolulu successfully, than to es-
ape the notice of ordinary observers on the
down, for the wood that was loaded
ave no indication outwardly of Its contents
on a very close scrutiny.
The fact that Mr.. Richie did not come
Town in the vessel and therefore could have
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