The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-07
RAIDS BY
THE POLICE
Goodnight sWork
Done by Chill
ingworth.
HE GATHERS IN
TWENTY-SIX|
lwiIei Denizens CorraIed After
Chinese GambTers-Two Arrests
in PunchbowI District.

A big and successful raid was made
Saturday night by Deputy Sheriff
Chillingworth and some of his officers.
Mr. Chillingworth had ascertained that
the famous Iwilei resort was again
being run at full blast, so he deter
mined to put an end to the nuisance
by summary methods. Approaching
from The mauka side, where he was
not expected, and posting his men at
different places, he surprised the peo-
pie he was after. His mastery maneu-
Yer resulted in the arresting of eight
women and five men. They were all
put in the patrol wagon and taken to
the police station, from which, how
ever nearly all of them We're baile1
cut very soon after
The deputy sheriff next visited sew
eral of the Chinese gambling dens in
Palama- The willy OrientaIs resort to
all kinds of schemes to evade the
clutches of the law Guards are post
ed, and it is often that the approach
of the police is heralded by a sharp
whistle, which warns the gamblers of
approaching danger. Trap doors are in
use, and underground gambling dens
are common. At one place the en-
trance is very ingenious. In little
store facing the street the counter is
so arranged that one of its sides can
be pushed back, thereby revealing the
entrance to the den. The deputy sher-
if is up TO all of their tricks, however.
and the Mongolians fear him as they
would a devil
AT one place visited the muffled
sound of the paikau dominoes revealed
the presence of gamblers, but when
the place was entered the Cinnamon,
who had evidently been warned. sat
quietly playing for fun" with smiles
that were childlike and bland. Not a
cent was in sight, and they were safe
for the time.
AT another place on the makai side
of King street, near the river Mr.
Chillingworth went in with his men
sending some of them around by the
back stairs While he himself, with a
couple of men. went up the front stairs
and placed himself by the door. The
game as going on in a small room in
the second story of a three-story
house. When the policemen made a
dash through the back door pandemo-
mum Immediately ensued. The light
was overturned, and there was a great
clatter of feet. as the gamblers rush
ed for the windows and doors Those
who went for the doors We're turned
back or held by the police but among
the ones who took to the window. sew
eral succeeded in getting away. AS
the drop was nearly fifteen feet it is
wonderful that none of them were
hurt.
As soon as candle was lighted ev-
erything became quiet at once. Sew
eral of the Celestials We're making a
good feint at sleeping in a couple of
beds in the side room, and the realistic
way in which they rubbed their eyes
when hauled forth by the officers.
ought TO have met with more success
| than it did, if only for its histrionfc
merits.
! First of all the evidence. box with
the cash and some counters. was Sc
| cured. and then a chance was given
the captiVeS to release themselves by
paying bail. Most of them did this,
| but few impecunious wretches were
| taken to the police station. Later on
| however, these We're bailed out by their
| friends. 1t is a curious fact that no
| self-respecting Chinaman can bear TO
see his fellow Celestial in the captivity
of the foreign devils" The catch had
| resulted in eleven gamblers.
Lastly, Mr.. Chillingworth took a lit
| tie trip up to Punchbowl to a place on
which he has been having his weather
eye open for some time When he
came back he had with him a young
Porto Rican girl and hackdriver
named Rodrigues. They were both in
generated. Rodrigues answering to
two serious charges. He baiIed himself
out later.
Upon the whole, Mr. Chillingworth' s
work on Saturday night must be said
to be quite a creditable performance,
no fewer than twenty-six arrests be-
ing made by him, all told