The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-08
BURGLARS MAKE A ROUND
REMARKABLY BOLD WORK ON
NUUANU STREET.
Robbers Work Openly and Noisily and
are Not Disturbed by the Police.
Booty Secured.

Burglars made a round on Nuuanu
street during the night, working with
extraordinary daring. How the police
missed hearing them will ever remain
mystery, for they appear to have
taken practically no precautions, and
they made noise enough to have been
heard at least two blocks from where
| they worked.
| At one place the burglars broke a
! window fronting on the sidewalk by
a blow with a hammer or some such
instrument. The glass is over a quar-
ter of an inch thick and the blow must
have made a very loud crash, but no
officer appeared on the scene and about
$12O worth of jewelry was taken from
the window.
The burglars made a nights work of
| it, and there were probably several
men in the gang. Their biggest haul
was at the store of On Hing and COM
pany, where the window was broken.
On Hing and company do a general
merchandise business and had a num-
Der of watches in their window. The
store was closed at $3.50 last night
The burglars struck the alass a blow
that made big hole in the window
and then reached for the jewelry.
They took fifteen watches, none of
them of very high value, the total
value of all being about $120. They
also took some cases. On Hing and
company think, from the amount of
stuff taken that there were three or
four men in the crowd.
At the Hoffman saloon, close by On
Hing and companys the burglars
broke another window and for some
unaccountable reason the ears of the
police were deaf to this crash also.
! The robbers made their way to the
rear of the store, climbed a ladder and
struck a window as at the Chinese
F.I1 H.,
floor inside and outside the saloon and
the robbers opened the lower window
and entered the place.
| The burglars spent quite a little time
in the Hoffman. There was about S. in
small change in the cash drawer, which
they secured. They tried their hands
on an iron safe, in which was about
$3.50. They tried to pry it open with a
chisel, but, failed. In the meantime
the burglars put a screen in front of
the window so that they could not be
seen at work. The officer on the beat
had been informed that he could look
in as he passed and that If the screen
was in the way there must be some
thing wrong, but this bit of forethought
on the part of the saloon men did no
good, for the robbers did their work
and left without being molested. They
took some liquor with them.
The Union Annex, right opposite the
police station, had the next Visit, ana
here again the reckless burglars show
ed themselves to be clumsy amateurs
at the business
They climbed over a fence at the
lNuuanu street entrance and proceeded
to cut a hole in the door. The hole
/, appears to have been made with jack
knife, and the men must have spent
two hours at the job, for after cutting
! one hole and getting the key from the
inside they cut another, as they found
bar across the door.
The long job of hackin" away at the
: woodwork brought no results, for a
J paddock held the bar, and the burglars
gave up and left. They were evidently
not very familiar with the place, ol
they would have known OF the iror
bar 1t appears that for about tive
, hours they worked at their burglariz
ing directly across the street from tn
police station.
: The burglars are thought to hav'
been water front men, but they let
no clews behind them. The victims o
- the robberies are loud in their crit
cisms of the police. The man on Nuu
anu duty appears to have been eithe
;, asleep or deaf, for the windows crashe
a at two different places must haY
+ sounded all over the district in tn
n stiffness of night.