The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-25
CHINESE CHEAP BURGLARY.

industry of burgling has been seri-
ously interferd with and made un-
popular by the work of the heather
Chinese that have been allowed to
oveirun this country. The time has
been that the honest burglar was a
member of the learned professions.
The burglar had to serve an ap-
premiership, and when he graduated
he knew the business he was about
to engage in from the ground up.
He was n self-made man, and when
he went into business on his own
hook he had to have capital with
which to purchase the tools to be
used in his profession. He had
more tools than the ordinary me-
chanic, and they were more expensive.
1t was necessary for the successful
burglar to understand human nature,
and to he a society man to q certain
extent, to be familiar with architec-
ture, to be chemist, that he might
judiciously administer chloroform to
his patients. He had to be man
of nerve, and good shot with a re-
volver, that in case of emergency he
might kill citizen in self-defence.
The burglar had to be an expert in
his Judgment of the value of dia-
monds, silverware, bonds and mort
cages and bric-a-brac. The burglar
has had to be good all-round bus
mess man, and capitalist. For
years burglars have been respected
for their true worth, but recently
they have felt that they had compe-
tition that was sapping the life blood
out of the business, and the discov-
cry has been made that Cinnamon,
with no experience in picking locks,
no study to prepare themselves for
the business, and no capital invested
in improved utensils, have stolen a
march upon them. The Chinaman,
armed with a bamboo cane that can
be made to telescope out to great
lenth, can stand on the outside of
the house and rob it successfully.
The heathen with his tish-pole only
wants window open a. few inches
from the top or bottom, and he can
clean out house. On the end OF
the pole he has fish-hook, and by
reaching in the widow he can hook
on to the pants of the householder
the dress of the lady of the house
or the jewel-case on the bureau, and
by simple turn of the wrist car
transfer the articles to the outside
remove the valuables, and 60 about
his business. Being on the outside
of the house he is not trespassel
if caught, and he is justly indignant
at being ordered away. Honest
burglars have got into houses after
much hard work, and the exercise
of brain power, and found that al
valuable articles had been moved
previously by cheap Chinese labor
from the outside. In one instance
an honest burglar was going through
a house, when he felt his hat removed
from his head, and saw the hat, il
the dim light of the room, go ont o.
the window, where a Cinnamon, {
rival burglar put it on and wore i
away. The honest burglar did not see
The Chinaman, and supposing that the
hat had been removed by some super
natural agency, he renounced hN
professional and decided to traye
for his health, in Canada, and tc
prepare himself for such trip il
now cashier of an Illinois bank
The Inexpensive manner in which
the Cinnamon can set up In the
burgling business, makes them form
idable rivals of the honest burglars
who have capital invested, and they
can sell articles obtained SO easily
to the pawnbrokers, much cheaper
than the honest professionals. They
can live much cheaper, also, and i,
is plain that the honest burglars,