The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-30
CHUN HOOK.
The ReCaptured Convict Makes
a Statement.
What a Pardoned Rascal Did.
The Honor that Exists Among
Thieves. Q
Remarkable Disclosures.

Chun Hook, the Chinese burglar re-
captured the other day after escaping a
third time from penal servitude, has
made statement before His Honor
David Dayton, Police Justice, which is
given in full below. Fictitious initials
are given in place of the names di-
vulged Of Chiuamen who held COM
munlcations with the escaped prisoner
while he was last at large. This is
done by request of the magistrate. Mr..
Dayton, the Deputy Marshal, was
gwen information of Chun Hooks
movements at different times previous
to his successful acting on that given
last Monday evening, but at no time
till then was there any opportunity for
effecting the convicts recapture. The
allegation in the prisoners statement,
that his escape was planned and assist
ed by a recently pardoned convict, is a
somewhat startling piece of intelligence.
People will ask how many more par
doned rascals are loose in the COM
munity without their identity being
made known by proclamation; also,
what other plans to defeat justice may
they not have concocted within the
prison walls to be carried out on the
first opportunity. Following is Chun
Hooks statement
Chun Hook states: A. b. and
we're in prison and we had a talk, and
A. B. was pardoned. Some that had
serious charges against them were par
doned. A. B. told me if he was par
doned he would provide means for me
to escape, and one day on the Nuuanu
road A. B. asked me if l had any
chance to escape. So | made up my
mind to escape, and was supplied
with clothing by A. B. A. b. gave me
these clothing at Manoa.
l left the ball and chain on the hill
side on the Pauoa side of the stream
opposite the cemetery the same night
that left Left the ring at Manoa. l
filed it off When | ran | climbed up
in palm tree opposite the Ice Works,
and remained there till after dark; then
went down the stream, took off the
ball and went to Manoa up the creek.
! met A. B. on the road at Manoa
and he said his clansmen were to give
$Ioo for me to get passage to China,
and c. ID. (of L. F.'s place) told me
that A. b. received the $Ioc
and also wanted to lay information SC
that | would be arrested, and that G.
H., |. ]. and A. B. were trying to have
me arrested. c. ID. told me not to &C
to any place but to come to his place
and he would give 1t to me- have
been there three times. / found after
wards that G. ID. was concerned witt
the others, as l was to meet him there
at 8 p. m. on Monday night, Decembel
27th. | was in the banana patch wher
c. ID. sung out to me and | came out
think the reward should be divided
between four parties.
Have not stopped in any house.
helped myself from some of the Chi
nese cook houses after they had gon'
to bed. A. b. promised to stow mi
away in some vessel bound to China
Met him the day l escaped, then me
him again at the corner of the GENE
terry at 7 p. m. and he gave me file
Then met him again on the roadside
at Manoa near the stone wall and b,
: gave me some crackers, and the fourtl
! time A. b. was to take me to vesse
: going to China. We we're to meet a
: the corner of E. F's place at Pawaa
: went down and saw person ant
, thought it was A. b. So | sung on
: to him and it turned out to be G. ID.
S and he told me A. B. intended to &c
. the reward for me and that he, c. d.
e would supply me with provisions. Die
8 not know c. ID. before, but found GU
that he was member. | am not
member of the Tong Hing Society il
!, Honolulu, but belong to similar on
r in China.
y Have not had pistol, knife or an
a implement. Had small knife TO
t. cutting tobacco when ran away, bu
|. lost it. Have a wife and boy age
e eight years, and an aged mother, il
If China. Have been here six or sevel
e years. | came in the China steame
S during the smallpox of 1881. L. All
y was agent. 1t was about China ne'
ir year. Have never been in California
Was a blacksmith for temperlng ston
mason's chisels Belong to the ga
On district of the Quang Tong prov
- ince.
Johnpy," said the editor to HI