The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-30
GOG PAU EXPERT THIEF COLLEGE Anniversary NEW ICE COMPANY HERE ESCAPES FEARFUL FATE
NINTH APPEARANCE IN THE PO-
LICE COURT.
The Mystery of How He Stole Pigs and
Chickens with no Cries of Protest
from Either.

With record of nine convictions
against him, Chock Pau, expert chicken
and hog thief was this morning sent to
the reef for another two years by Judge
Wilcox. David KAPPA says that the
best "reacher' in South Carolina
wouldn't be in it with Chock if it came
to a chicken lifting competition.
For a time Chock Pau's operations
were a mystery. BY some strange pro-
cess he seemed able to still the harsh
cackles of the fowl and quell the
porcian squeel. The people who lost
chickens knew that the latter were
capable of making night hideous when
ever anyone approached the place
where they sat in a row and fought for
room and the losers of pigs were certain
that no one could lay a hand on their
stock without arousing unearthly cries.
Yet Chock Pau came with empty bags
and took the bags away well filled, de-
cimating hen-roosts and pig-sties and
no sound of protest broke the stiffness
of the night. This has been happening,
during those intervals when Chock Pau
was out of Jail, since 1886.
The mystery was solved by David Ka-
apa, who found that Chock had scored
again for the heather Chinese reputa-
tion for ways that are dark. Chocl1
had evolved a very neat scheme. After
the shades of night had fallen he would
steal slowly to where the pigs lay dream
ing of the mOrrow's food, interrupting
their blissful slumbers with proffers of
nicely cooked rice. After Mr.. Pig ate
a little of the rice he keeled over and
slept sounder than before, for the rice
had yin see in it. Yin see is an opium
preparation and it soon made the pigs
utterly careless whether ChOck Pau put
them in a bag or not.
David KAPPA unearthed these facts
in the case of the pigs. How the chick
ems were managed is known only by in
ference, but it is supposed that they
also were betrayed with delicacies.
ChOck Pau came out of Jail for the
last time in February and was not
heard from till yesterday, when he
stole two bags of rice, probably needing
some bait for an evening, expedition.
He was caught with the rice in his pos
session and Judge Wilcox gave him the
limit. Kaapa wanted a suspension of
sentence because Chock had agreed to
go home to his native land and the de-
tective thought that he would feel bet
ter two years from now If he knew that
Chock was in his own land, instead OF
just leaving Oahu Jail.
Chock Pau was arrested in September
1886. September, 1894 April, 1895. August
1895, March, 1896, May, 1897. September
1897 and April 1898, getting two years
the last time. In each of the cases he
was either caught in hen-roOst and
sent up for vayrancy because nothing
else could be found, or was landed for
( larceny.
Hes worse than Baref oOCed Bill
said Kaapa this morning CAS- soon as
he gets out of Jail he'll be stealing again
and I wish he was out of the country
He has used half a dozen aliases during
the past IA years and won't do any
thing but steal for a living"
Kaapa has the willy Chock's record in
book where other interesting records
are. When Judge Wilcox was ac-
quainted with the facts it did not take
him long to send Chock to the reef fol
as long as the law allows.