The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-17

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latter phases then. DIS undoubtedly
enough going uu la cause a. certain
amount of alarm BOZ abe um.d and Ca
certain amount of annoyance among
even those who nare stronger nerves.
while it puzzles the police authorities.
The hoLd-up- may Doe dismissed boo "a
few words They are distinctly the
work of amateurs There is not enough
lu it for the professional highway man.
who wants Go make big stake az "a
big risk. and then have his good time
uar0using Do some city OF town az "a
distance from where le committed bis
deed The amount earned iu this me-
faG9us way has been very small u
we eliminate evidently deliberate faDrl-
cations DO is almost uI But there IS
always danger. though nothing sarl-
GUS has happened, that the criminal in
srIlars of some one Of higher caIl5=r
may boz aroused. and we may have a
IoIl-gp which VIII be very serious.
THE safety. however lies in the diff
Guilty Of getting away with any large
amount Of plunder
The burglar scare has undoubtedly a
great deal more ln iJ than the hold
up scare. There is no doubt about
most Of the attempted Durglaries re-
ported. Clothes, money iu small
amounts. food, and few watches
I have been taken. The results cannot
( be particularly satisfactory % the bur
glars, but they may be Of the prOfes-
siOnal class and feeling their way
round. The returns from the burglaries
90 not justify the risks the burglars
run. Still there are professional ear
marks, but the professional work has
not been got in.
/ The burglar in such a cOmmunity
as ours is al disadvantage. There q,
tentatiOn Of wealth which places night.
Iy jewels worth anywhere from 5000,
20 ten times the amount upon ths
necks and arms Of its females. Our
. houses are not filled with priceless Old
plate. There is q little silver, and d
few trinkets. Then again the burglar
most trusted ally is not here. Tn,
hOusemald is a factor almost unknown
and so is the impecunlOus valet d
man servant These in the mainland
and in Europe usually supply all tn.
Information needed. But 1t is hopeless
for the most enterprising Of burglar
10 make love to chamber man An Lung
or to try and extract information Out
Of cook and steward Wong I'll
1t may safely be said that in all the
present attempts there is more smoke
than there is fire and that the city f.
. working itself into Il scare very much
as il did in the case Of Chun Hook
the Chinese burglar, 20 many years
ago. ChuH Hook was a pretty desper-
. ate character, fl is true, but he made
/ this town think he was a whole gang
/ of desperate burglars and everybody
went armed, and the most innocent in
diyiduals were Swallowed" and 80
forth. AT last Chun Hook was caught
and served his time out in prison, what
became Of him afterwards the writer
knows not, but he went no more a
burgIing His adventures served as a
comic sketch in an amateur negro min
strel performance, and the town laugh
ed itself out Of its scare and put it's
revolvers away to the great comfort
Of its wives and daughters who
thought they might go off at any mo-
ment. Let us hope for a similar happy
ending Of the present scare.