Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-08-22
DANGEROUS SYSTEM.

the special officers employed oy
the marshal and holding commits
sions spolice officers are paid By
the case and have no regular
salaries This is the most PERM
citus system ever inaugurated
here, and We are surprised to see
the present government tolerating
it. The organ of the reform party
has heretofore been a warm
champion of abolishing the sys-
tenn OF paying informers In opium
cases a share OF the fine and of
the opium seized. Formerly in
formers received shares in the
fines for the conviction of diverse
offenders. but at present opium
ofenses are the only instances
where the system has been re-
tanned.
Marshal Hitchcock has started
it again. AID it is on record that
bis spies receive SIS for each aud
every case Of illicit liquor selling
in which conviction is secured.
If there is no conviction the IN
former gets no thing.
a more pernicious and out
rageous system cannot be imagin
ed and it should be stopped at
once. In another column we have
referred To the class of people
employed by the marshal and
vested with police authority, aud
the aspect of the situation be-
comes extremely aggravated when
we add that these creatures are
encouraged to run the people
down and 10. if necessary make
cases for tie purpose of making
a living Men who couldn't earn
twenty fvelcents in week at
legitimate trade are told that
they will be paid SIS if they can
bring any ssxpaying citizen into
tronhle andsnause him to he fined
and punished. What a magnifi-
cent chance for a conspiracy.
what gigantic prospects of unlim-
tied wealth. the system opens to
these gentlemen of fortune
with unknown antecedentsl And
what unlimited dangers threaten
the community through Mr..
Hitchcock method
In these Illicit liquor selling
cases marked coins play con
siderable role. Senior Captain
Andrews, whose intelligence is
only exceeded by his beauty and
who evidently desires to beat the
record of Vidocq is a great man
ufacturer of marked coin. and be
gives it around to his tools in
most promiscuous manner, not
knowing where they will spend
it or who will receive it. 1t was
stated by one of the witnesses In
the Houghtailing case yesterday,
that he, who is spy and officer,
had received twenty-seven dollars
(S27). from Captain Andrews in
marked coin. How the coins
were marked, he did not know,
nor did the senior captain and
where it was spent nobody knew.
The danger to the community
under such circumstances is very
plain. Mr.. A. lives alone in a
cottage, say in Pauoa valley. He
goes to town on Saturday. makes
his purchases among which are a
bottle of whiskey and bottle of
gin, and in getting change from
the barkeeper he receives-un-
known to bimself-a marked coin
paid over the counter by one of
Mr.. Hitchcock's pets out of the
Andrews funds. A. goes home,
receives a few friends on Sunday
morning at 9 clock and treats
them to a drink. Is visited again !
at 10 O'Clock by more friends |
who also accept his hospitality, |
and at noon he is left alone with |
his store rather diminished. In
the afternoon he sits in his |
garden when the gallant senior
captain comes tearing along, |
with an officer. jumps of his horse, |
reads a warrant of arrest and /
then proceeds to search the
house without a search warranty
and behold finds two half filed
bottles four or five cocktail glasses
and a pitcher with ice water.
Liquor. glasses. pitcher, and A.
are seized to the great surprise of
the latter and dragged to the
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