The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-24
CHESTER A. DOYLE
Police Department Loses
His Services.
Resigned 10 Devote HIS Whole Tine ana
Attention 10 Interpreting fer
The Courts

Chester y Doyle. who returned 10y
the Kinau yesterday from Hawaii. ten
dered his resignation as special Jap
anese Interpreter and detective Ia the
Attorney Generals department soon
after his arrival. II was addressed To
Marshal Brown, and later in the day
was accepted by that official. In his
letter accepting the resignation Mar
shall Brown pays a graceful tribute to
Mr.. D"yle's past services in connection
with the Police Department and aCqui-
esces in the reasons which led him tu
take the step.
Speaking of the matter last evening
and in answer To a question whether
there was any friction between Mr.
Doyle and himself, Marshal Brown
said:
None whatever. Our relations are.
and always have been most cordial.
No one regrets Mr.. Doyle's leaving the
department more than myself His
services have been simply invaluable.
a" | have good reason to know. II has.
however, been found for some time
past that the work assigned tn Mr. .
Doyle was more than he could attend
- without UogleCting his duties as
japanese Interpreter in the higher
courts, hut stiil we could have got
along somehow were il not for the
fact that his duties as n detective have
OF late frequently clashed with those
to be performed by him afterwards in
the courts, and by reason of his max
iT:; an arrest or working up evidence
in a case he has been disqualified from
,actinS rs the official Interpreter after
saF-fc. Mr. IlnNstA hnu lone 1fzaH
this, but we have been so loath To dis
pense with his valuable services that
NO action has been taken on the mat
ter. When, however the resignation
WA rendered today there was no 9th
or course for me but to accept it,
Mr.. Doyle himself did not care to- go
into the reasons which led To- his re-
signing, but finally said il was simply
another yeri6cation of the adage that
no man could serve two masters. The
japanese work had increased to such
an extent that il was impossible TO
serve with the courts and the Police
Department, and therefore he had
chosen to stay with the work which
was most COngenial to him.
Mr.. Doyle's connection with the Po-
lice Department has been OF some ten
years standing. He has evinced on
numerous occasions detective ability
of go mean order. Probably the first
big case that he was interested i'm was
the bringing to justice of the incendi-
aries on the Lahaina cane;ields in
1893, tn accomplish which he went to-
Jail himself and listened To- the talk
ing of suspected prisoners until he got
onto the right parties. The arrest and
detection of the man GOto. a Japanese
who murdered his wife at Eva and
who was run to earth BY Doyle at
kona, Hawaii, was another good piece
Cf work. 1t was to his good use of a
thorough knowledge OF the Japanese
language that he ascertained the
whereabouts of che opium landed from
the schooner Labrador and by so doing
probably saved the Government from
being mulcted in a considerable sum
for Selling the vessel. His connection
win the shooting scrape on the Aus
tTaiie Is too recent to require Tepeti-
ton.