The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-27
LIKE THE R|GHBINDERS
A SEE YUP MEMBER VICTIM OF
AN ASSAULT.
PAX Chez, Police Informer, Attacked
by Alleged Hirelings of an Opposing
Clan Leader.

Highbinder warfare is unknown to
Honolulu so far, but the developments
in police court case this morning
show that something very similar to
the vengeful methods of the murder
Gus societies whose bloody records fill
San Francisco police reports, was at
tempted here last week. Pax Chez, of
the See Yup society, was attacked by
a lot of Wong Leung Toos. When the
case came to court 1t was See Ynp tes-
timony against that of the other So
ciety through two hours of eXamina-
tion and cross-examination, at the end
of which Judge Wilcox gave the de-
PENDANTS the benefit of very natural
doubts and threw the case out of court.
PAX Chez is an eX-criminal who has
turned police informer. He had a diff
Guilty over a gambling game with
Chun Yin last week, and declares that
Chun told him then that he would get
some men to kill him. For three days
he had a lot of men looking for me" !"
said Chez, "and on Thursday they
found me. They all attacked me, one
of them with a weapon, and l should
have been killed if a police officer had
not happened to be near"
After the assault Chez went to Judge
Wilcox and asked for ten warrants for
ed to issue so many warrants and re-
| ferred the man to the deputy sheriff,
who also thought that it would be well
to try the cases of three men for whom
warrants We're already out before ar
| resting more.
| When the case came up in the police
| court this morning the court room was
crowded throughout with Chinese, who
were members of the See Yup, Wong
| Leung Too and other clans. PAX Chez
| took the stand first and told how he
/ had been attacked by a dozen or more
of his countrymen. He said that they
J had been hired to kill him by Chung
! Yin, on account of a difficulty with the
latter.
Judge w. L. Stanley appeared for the
defense, and he kept Chez on the stand
for over an hour. Shee told all about
the row with Yin and about how a
large number of men paid by the lat
ter kept looking for him for several
days. He was much mixed as to just
how the assault took place. and this
| probably lost the case for him. The
| attorney brought out the fact that
Chez had long criminal record Tes-
| timony was given about conviction
for robbery on Maui, and several other
difficulties with the police including two
escapes from Jail But Chez is marked
reformed" on the police small books,
and now he helps the police to get evil
dence against other offenders.
"They want to kill my informant"
said ChillingwOrth, "and that was the
real cause of this trouble. Against
so much testimony of the other side
we could not get a conviction. Chez
is See Yup and the others were all
against him."
Captain Macy testified that when he
stopped the fight in which Chez said
he was attacked there were twenty OF
thirty Chinese around Chez. The
strange fact appeared to be developed
by the testimony for the defense that
Yong Wal and Wal Haze, the only two
men arrested, were about the only two
men who did not make an assault. II
almost anyone else had been caught
the Chinese testimony indicated, guilty
parties would have been secured, but
as it was, instead of arresting the
guilty men, the police, by some re-
markable ~iece of i'll luck, took into
custody the two men who had done
nothing but interfere to stop the others
from fighting The defendants did not
deny that Chez had been assaulted
Only they wondered, with true Chinese
innocence. why the police should arrest
the men who were only peacemakers
"The evidence is very contradictory
said Judge Wilcox, in giving his deci.
sion. "None of the stories agree, and
think a jury would give the defendants
the benefit of the doubts and there
fore discharge them
This case is one of the first instance!
here of Chinese attacks upon police in
formers, and PAX Chez claims that hi
life is in danger. He has big list o
warrants he wants made out.