The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-09-04
THE BURGLAR AND POLICE.

used to the devil through his fire.
quent early encounters with him
that when awaked by noise ut
night he would merely say ooh,
it's nobody but the DEVIL" where
upon he turned over in bed and
went to sleep again.
AS with Luther and the Arch
fiend, even so it is with our police
aud the burglar. When he DIS
turbs their street slumbers-
if he ever does succeed in doing
so-they doubtless grunt in their
dreams, "Oh, it's nothing but the
burglar" and are soon wrapped in
deep slumber.
There have been forty burgIaries
in Honolulu in the last three
months. Only forty, as the sub
Joined list will make clear to every
one, even the police
June 20. = Robert Grieve's printing
G.. 0. Berger's insurance office; w.
S. Luce, wines and spirits; Thee Il.
| Davies, importers, etc.
June 28.-Hackfeld & Co, importers and
general merchandise.
June 30.-Castle & Cooke, importers and
| general merchandise
| T1ly O. Williams pboIp Ura lnr .
N. S. Sachs, dry goods; Theo. IL.
Davies, importers, etc; Bee Hive
Saloon.
July -. - Rewards planning mill ;
Young Maps, cigar and soda water
J. Phillips, plumbing; Model Res
taurant; Wong Kim's gun shop
John Motifs (no entrance made).
July 11-12.-Government House, in
which were visited-the Treasury
office, the Education office, Gov
ernor of Oahu's office and all the
offices Of the Supreme Court.
July Isl. Hopp & Co., furniture.
July l9.-Hawaiian Carriage Factory
office Hollinger's blacksmith shop
July 2O.-Hart & Co.'S. candy factory
King Bros. picture gallery.
July Civ. G. Parke's law office; A
Jaeger's insurance office.
August I'll f. Wichman, jewelry
ETC.; J j. Williams, photographer
N. S. Sachs, dry goods; IL. III. Viii
liams, furniture.
August 13.-Criterion Saloon, Fort street
August lee. B. Thomas building
office on King street; Hawaiian
Bazaar, curios, etc.
August 19.-Pantheon Saloon, For
street.
August 22.-Egan & Gum, dry goods
Fort street.
August 23.-N. :. Sachs, dry goods
(third burglary
, August 26.-J. L. Waterhouse, hard
: ware, etc. Sorenson u Lyle, shlI
: carpenters.
September 1-Hollister q Co
September 2.-Pacitic Saloon.
Besides the countless house burglar
| les
Now, is this altogether AS i
should be2 Even Luther, despit
the force of habit, used to exercis
the Arch Enemy of Mankind occa
!, sionally and once threw a who'll
bottle of ink at him. Ink has NJ
4 virtue with Barefooted Bill--els
editors and reporters would no
have written in vain. This prove
at least that the burglar is not tn
very devil, as some have thought
We now propose, after much Ion:
suffering, to try the effect of lux oil
the police.
There is nothing more inscrutabl
in this whole matter than the mo
> tives of the burglar What ca
they be? Is it merely exercise Ia
is after? Perhaps he is forme
policeman who found himself dyin;
of oversleep and hamilton, and 81
has taken this method of wakin:
himself up. 1t can hardly b
money be wants, for he could carr
as much with less labor as a plan
tation hand or as regular EN-
ployee on the "force and thel
there is the risk. This, however
really amounts to nothing-an(
night work is undeniably cooler
The hypothesis most generally
c current is that he is merely tryins