The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-10
BARBER SHOP
WAS ROBBED
Henry ChiIton's Place
BurgIarized.
LOSS AMOUNTS TO $3.50
Drawer Forced Open But No Signs
Of Entry to the Rpom--
Police Puzzled.

Henry ChiltOn's barber shop on Fort
street near King is alleged to have
been robbed Saturday night or Sunday
morning. From a drawer in the side
board and mirror-rest of the shop $3.50
is said to have been taken. The drawer
the lock the wood work has been en-
tirely Clipped away leaving the bolt
exposed and this was forced down into
the lock so that the drawer could be
opened
A mystery surrounds the alleged rob-
berry. The matter was brought to the
attention of High Sheriff Brown yester-
day noon With detective David Kaa-
pa and an officer, the High Sheriff went
to the shop and made thorough in
vestigation- The iron doors which
close the front entrance were said to
have been securely locked and in the
same general position as the night be-
fore when the proprietor of the shop
closed up and went home. The window
shutters, also of iron, were found Sc
curely closed. Nothing in the shop was
disturbed except the till containing the
$3.50. Every piece of the BARRIERS para
phernalia was undisturbed.
The money till is one of a long hori-
zontal row directly beneath the marble
shelf on which the BARRIERS outfits lay.
That the robber should attack the very
drawer in which the money Is said 20
/ have been left is evidence that the per-
son who entered the shop knew the
place well.
I These facts were soon ascertained by
/ the High Sheriff. Mr.. Chiffon pointed
to a transom in the wall facing the
Fort street entrance about nine feet
above the floor. This is an aperture
cut out Of the wall and fitted with a
I transom and can be locked from the in
terror of Chilton's shop only. A wire
netting covers the aperture and this
/ had been torn away. The transom
opens into the rear salesroom of Lam
dos furnishing store, whose main en-
/ trance is mauka of that to Chiffon
shop. Mr.. Lando was sent for, and
the iron doors and shutters, both front
and rear were found securely locked.
In Lando's store running along by
the aperture is a long row of paste
! board hat, boxes. One of them had
been pushed aside. The important dis
covery made here by the detective was
that the dust on the sill of the aper-
ture had not been touched by finger
The dust was thick and had any one
crawled through the opening from Lam
dos it would have been scraped aside
This led to the conclusion that the rob-
Der had entered by Chilton's front door
The key which Mr.. Lando uses is a
flat key Of the Yale brand, and does not
fit the lock of Mr.. ChiltoI's door. Mr.
Chiffon uses a large brass key of the
old-fashioned kind.
Under the MarshaTs direction Mr.
Chiffon showed how it worked from the
outside. When he attempted to turn
the lock from the inside it did not work
From all the evidence thus derived Il
is the opinion of the officers that the
robber made entry at but one place
ChiltOn's front door.
In Lando's place the money till wa!
undisturbed and was not even locked
Mr.. Chiffon and his son are the prin
cipal workers in the shop, although
there are three chairs. Neither of then
had any clue to offer. Mr.. Chiffon haC
the key in his clothes when he cam,
down yesterday morning, and locked
the premises on Saturday night with It
The police are silent as to their con
illusions in the matter.