The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-11-12
OKOtEHA0
D|ST|LLER
CAPTURED
Plant is
Found in Full
Blast.
(From Mondays daily)

TITLE did the residents OF lHe
McCully tract on the extension of
~ Young street beyond Colonel I
Dietz' residence. suspect until yester-
day that in their midst in a tumble
down shanty, which all avoided merely
because it was SO rickety, distiller OF
okolehao mysteriously brewed the
much priced white liquor, and that
while they slept peacefully, this WHY
Chinese worked nearby until the dawn
Of day. watching the trickling of the
beverage as It fell drop by drop from I
the condenser. For weeks the residents
have passed and repassed the little old
mouse which almost abuts on the street,
and never given 1t a thought. Those
! who went by at night saw the gllm-
mer of a fire through the cracks in the |
rough boarding, but supposed the lone
some Chinese was cooking late sup |
per But the yellow man breWed once
too often and he now languishes in "A |
cell at the city prison awaiting his ar
raignment this morning before Judge |
Wilcox All How is his name, and IT |
is not the first time he has been dis |
covered converting a bag of sugar,
measure of barley, "A bushel of potatoes.
and perhaps a little tobacco, into what
the natives cali okolehao, liquor al |
most the color of gin. and for which he
receives goodly compensation from
those who prize it.
From midnight until almost dawn
yesterday morning the tumble-down
shanty was watched by the keen eyes
of Deputy Sheriff Chillngworth. and
his faithful assistant. An on, the wiry
little Chinese detective of the police
force. They watched the manner of
distilling for two or three hours, ana
then swooped down upon the unsus-
pcctinG man and captured him, his APP
paratus and about ten gallons of the
liquor. Information was received by
the Deputy Sheriff late Saturday night
that lin the McCully tract, where a
, row of palms stood, one broken off at
the top. distillery could be found"
1t was not an easy task to find "a row
of palms, one broken Off. in the black
T ness Of night, and after leaving the
Tramways stables on Berctania street,
they wallowed about in unfrequcnted
, places and finally located the broken
, palm and shanty was next to il.
Creeping cautiously through the desert
ed premises and falling into numerous
r bitches the officers came within touch
e ing distance of the place. There was
$ an old one-room building used formerly
as servants quarters. on the makai
side of this a riCkety shack had been
built. extending around two sides. The
door faced down Young street, and
from the Cimmer of the fire inside,
n it was evident that the distilling APP
. paratus was in the opposite end. A
paddock secured the door of the main
structure No one was inside the shack
when the officers crawled near, but after
= a wait of an hour, they were rewarded
4 by the sight of "A small figure gliding
n almost noiselcssly toward the door of
the lean-to, 1t was the distiller himself,
who had returned from his sleeping
. quarters in IA tenement house on Bere-
e tania street not "A hundred yards away.
Cautiously opening the door he un-
= locked it closing ii tightly after him,
! and re-locking it.
v Through a knot hole the Deputy
O Sheriff watched the man as he sat down
before the distillng apparatus. FIRST
II of all fresh fuel was placed upon the
emberS. and soon the interior was light
ed up. Resting on an iron frame over
the fire was large can not unlike an
. diversified dinner pail, with the cup on
:, top, and upon this was another can of
!. similar proportions, placed in an invert-
= ed position. From the junction of the
g. two a slender spout projected, from
which drops of liquid falling into a
.. stone jar beneath could be seen by the
.. Deputy. Occasionally the upper can
- was removed and from a barrel nearby
=. supplies of mash" We're procured and
= emptied into the lower one. The jar
I was frequently emptied into larger jars
Ig,f 11..,, 'ha
T. suspecting Chinese at times rolled a
cigarette and made himself comfortable
70 in many ways. As the hours wore on
ID the prospective wealth of the distillel
grew in proportion, FOR the product sells
-, at dollar for small sized bottle.
- About O'Clock the deputy sheriff mad,
Y ready to descend upon the victim of thei
n. search. Having had considerable ex
perience in just the same kind of raids
R. the deputy OWNED that the distiller ha'
sb many means OF exit other than by thu
door, and laid his plans accordingly. H.
70 suspected that Just within the doorwa!
or. Ct the shack there was a trap which
4 would baffle him II he attempted en-
trance in that direction. 4 low rail fenc
le- ran up to the Shanty and there was
is chance the man would attempt to max
nS his escape through small sawed-ou
square on one side or the other TIL,
deputy therefore strauuled Tue lehNt, am
80 made ready for action on either side Al
y, On was quietly instructed TO make de
-, tour, approach the shanty, and throw
-" his weight against the door, to arous
a. the inmate from cover. As it was rain
ing almost continuously during the en-
- tire night, these maneuvers We're accom-
n plished without the slightest inkling o
them reaching the distiller. The Chimes
. officer performed his part. There wa
20 heavy thut. quickly followed by lou
,ra ,,, ~ - - hroL., 40
RI 49, -, ~, 80. -, hy ,hr Az,
IL ty. followed by small section of III
"a shack being knocked into y banana pate
4, and the distiller, pitching out throug
or the opening at the same instant. b,
bv fore he had a chance TO rise to his fee
on the deputy he'd made leap and lande