The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-01-25
WATCHING
THE CROOKS
Police After Allen and
His Pals.
MORE OF THEIR GAMES
Or. Rodgers Relates a Curious txper-
fence With an Unidentified
Caller,
tFrom Wednesdays pailyJ

UNHAPPY indeed. are the card
sharps whose game has been
spoiled by the exposure of their
plans and methods in the Adver-
tiser.
Allen. alias Billy Hurd, confidence
man and gun fighter" says he
has been misjudged. Beckley. compan-
ion of Allen, and whose duty outside
of meeting men with money and lur-
ing them to Aliens den is to sit beside
Allen at the poker table and cut the
cards cleverly, is also an injured man.
Chambers still in his twenties, but
who can do fancy tricks with chips,
says he Is maligned.
Yesterday Beckley and Chambers
sought out High Sheriff Brown and
smote their breasts before him. I'VE
are honest men," said they. I'VE know
Allen only since we met him on the
Sierra. He may be a crook, but we
have found him a thorough gentle
man"
Bcckley, whose first name is George,
as is that of the commodore Of Will
ders fleet, said he lived with Allen at
the house of mystery on Wilder ave-
nue. near Punahou street. This he told
High Sheriff Brown.
Only a day ago Allen denied that
BeckIey lived with him. Beckley and
Chambers told Brown that they would
leave on the Sierra on Tuesday. They
had not intended to leave here so soon,
but they confessed that the Advertls-
er's statements had made them con
clude to sail on the next boat
Beckley referred to Judge Estee con-
corning his character, but Judge Estee
says ne had not met Beckey until the
latter shook his hand in Honolulu.
High Sheriff Brown told Beckley and
Chambers that when the police wanted
them they would go and get them.
The police have no evidence on which
to arrest the crooks, but are watching
them closely, and they can make no
dishonest move without 1t being
known. The house on Wilder avenue
is under surveillance, and will be
raided at the least sign of gambling
game going on there.
Allen Is a marked man, and will be
taken into custody If he attempts any
bunco business. The victims picked out
by the gamblers are warned by this
time.
Advertiser had published the initial ex-
pose of the swindlers, Allen entered the
best known saloon in Honolulu, and
was promptly put out by the proprie-
tor. who had read of his procliVities.
Allen protested that he had been mis-
represented. and said he had paid S100
to a lawyer to advise him as to the
method of procedure against the Ad-
vertiser for libeling him.
He also said that the lawyer pocket
ed the fee and told him it would be
unwise to sue. as libel suits were
long drawn-out and expensive, and the
Advertiser was very careful of its
facts
1t is understood that the landlord OF
the house on Wilder avenue has asked
Allen to vacate at the end of the
month. Allen rented the house fur
nished, and merely moved in his
gambling paraphernalia, a few glitter
ing luXuries. and miniature saloon.
Allen is very liberal with wine, and
the flies who daily about his web are
filled with the good things of life be-
fore he sucks them dry.
DIR. Rodgers, physician, whose Of
flee is opposite the Young Mems Chris
tian Association building on Hotel
street. has a suspicion that he was
singled out for prey by some of the
same gang.
Il was eating lunch about o'clock"
said DIR. Rodgers, in "a cafe near my
office, on the night of January 18th,
when a well dressed man approached
me, and holding out card introduced
himself as Il. A. Hynes, a physician
living in Adelaide, South Australia.
He said that he once knew a physician
in Australia By the name of Rogers,
and thought l might be the party.
I came down on the Peking,' he
said, and have been going about the
oil do fA1I
that We're too swift for me- He stat
ed that he was stopping at the Hawaii
an Hotel, and that he was on his way
to dinner. and wanted me to come with
him. | told him that I would be very
busy until o'clock, and he made an
appointment with me for that hour. |
He wanted me to take him about town,
and show him the way the natives |
lived after dark. as he expressed it.
I'VE talked for a short time in the |
cafe. and he told me that he was re-
turning from a trip to Scotland, and |
had stopped in Baltimore for a short |
time to inspect the hospitals in that
city. / was interested, of course, in
that line of work, and thinking that | |
had found a fellow worker, l began to
question him concerning the workings
of the hospitals that he claimed he
had visited.
whenever / introduced the subject
of medicine, or anything pertaining to
it. he would turn the subject as soon
as possible, and evinced a desire to
avoid any questioning on those lines
His actions In this matter, and his
whole manner awakened my suspicious
to such an extent that I made up my
mind TO investigate little before hay-
ing any more to do with him. AS soon
as / had finished my lunch, / went TO
the Picking and looked over the passen-
ger list and was unable TO find that
anyone by the name of Hynes had been
"A passenger on the steamer
Satisfied that he was attempting to 4
play sorne kind of game on me I L
TO be absent from my office
al h. I'D Of l.