Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-30
CLEAR OUT THE MIGRANTS,
A Sure Way of Suppressing
Chinese Gambling.
An Opportunity for the Police Com
mission to Investigate
some Reminisce noes of a Well-Known
Attorney - A Method of Kidding
the City of Highbinders and
Fan-Tan Players.

The police commission will have an
other session today, and it ia supposed
that the matter of gambling in China
town will come up. The mayor wan ts
to investigate the charges made that
gambling in the Mongolian quarter is
winked at by the police authorities.
Also the further allegation that moneys
have been paid to the authorities not
to disturb the gambling games while in
operation.
Now, if the mayor means business,
let the investigation go ahead. There
is certain lawyer in this city who
states that the Chinese have come to
him personally and told him that they
were paying to police officer SO 80 to
$5 per week for each tan game running
in Chinatown, and So per month for
every lottery game in operation.
The said attorney states that he went
to City Detective Walter,H. Auble and to
City Detective Miles f. Bowler, and
made the proposition to them to detect
the officers with the Chinese bribe
money in their pockets.
He, the lawyer, agreed with Auble and
Bowler to bring to them coins, to be
marked by them in such manner that
they could afterwards certainly identify
them. Then the idea was to have the
coins returned to the Cinnamon. They,
in turn, on the regularly understood
evening, were to pay these marked coins
to the officers whom they were bribing.
Mr.. Auble and Mr.. Bowler were to be on
hand, and, at given signal, to arrest
and search the officer. Then, if the
charges were true, these coins would
have been found in the officers pockets,
and could have been easily identified by
the detectives. If false, the marked
coins could not have been found.
When the lawyer disclosed this plan
to Mr.. Auble he listened to it closely,
and said that he would have to consult
the chief. He said that he would will
lingly perform his duty and assist in the
detection of violator of law, whether
policeman or Chinaman.
Later on Mr.. Auble was again urged
by the lawyer to lend his assistance in
the detection of receiver of bribes.
He, on this last occasion, agreed to as
eist in bringing bribe taker to justice,
but for some reason din not again con-
suit with the lawyer concerning the
matter. Mr.. Bowler said that he was
willing to do what was right, but he
did not want to get into trouble.
In justice to both Messrs. Auble
and Bowler it should be said
that no charges of accepting bribe
money have ever been brought against
them by any person. The next ques-
tion is, vino was the lawyer that Messrs.
Auble and Bowler had their talk with
His name is Jesse Hardesty and he can
be seen at any hour of the day at rooms
3 and 6, 12l Temple street. If the
mayor wants him to testify he can get
him. He can also find Messrs Auble
and Bowler.
The truth of the business Is that if
the law of the state was observed, Chi
nese gambling could be effectively
wiped out in Chinatown within one
week. There are at least 300 Chinese
who are living in Chinatown who are
vagrants pure and simple, and who
could be ''vagged," if the police were SO
disposed. They lie around the Chinese
quarter. and do nothing else but gamble
and fleece every working Chinaman and
good many white people who visit
that section. They have no Wis
ible means of support, and GER
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section of the penal code, No. 647. 1t
would be easy to arrest some of them
for vagrancy, and the rest would take
warning and leave the city. These gam
blers compose the highlander class.
They are feared by all industrious
Cinnamon, who are afraid to say aught
against them. But they are known to
the police. Nine-tenths of the crimes
committed by Cinnamon in this
county are committed by these gam
bling Chinese vagrants. If they were
forced to leave the city, the county
would be saved thousands Of dollars an
nually, now spent in prosecuting them,
for crime would decrease to the extent
that one superior court and two deputy
district attorneys could be dispensed
with. The police and justice
courts of the city are clogged
with Chinese cases one-half the time
The vagrants must live, and when they
do not make money gambling they com
NIT all manners of crimes to obtain it.
Get rid of the vagrants and you will
stop Chinese gambling.