The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-25
BARBER IN
HARD LUCK
AIameda's Tonsorial Ar
tist Had Lottery
Ti.ketS.

Joe Rethenberg, the barber of the
steamship Alameda, and Joaquin Silva.
a Punchbowl storekeeper. were arrested
yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff
/ ChiIlingworth and Detective Chester
Doyle, and taken to the Police Station
where charges were entered against
them for having lottery tickets in their
possession. The evidence obtained by
the officers consists mainly of lottery
tickets in the Little Louisiana Lot
terry of San Francisco. established in
1884, representing nearly $4,000 worth of
| the uncertain capital of that company.
For several trips of the Alameda and
the Zealandia the police have kept
Rethenberg under surveillance but did
not make any arrests previously on ac-
count of the small number of tickets
brought down by him. Information
was received by the officers upon the
arrival of the Alameda that'Rethenberg
had brought an unusually large con-
signment of the tickets. 1t was known
they were passed to Silva, who was
traced to a downtown saloon In d .
back room he was known to be nego-
tiating with a gentleman of this city
for the sale of tickets. The officers
waited until they were certain that
they could seize the tickets in Silva's
possession and then broke in on the
astonished pair. In Silva's pockets and .
hands and on the table about 100 tickets .
were discovered, all crisp issues for the
drawing which is to take place on Feb
ruary II. There was also list of names
of local persons to whom tickets had
been sold. Silva became deathly white :
when placed under arrest, and when =
conducted to the station it was with diff q.
fcHlty that he kept a stiff upper lip. .
He was sent to a cell on a charge of
orders being given topper
init him to see no one.
The officers then paid a visit to the :
and found Rethenberg. Evil =
dence of various kinds was found, con- =
sisting of tickets and lists of numbers =
in past drawing together with the +.
of the prizes. The barber was :.
taken to the station and two charges
entered against him. Bail was set at
s.. 600 for each man. and during the
early part of the afternoon Silva was >
released on bond signed by ]. NJ. Con =
salves, ]. NJ. Camara and Manuel =,
Couit. a,
w. L. Disney, a well-known man :,
about town, was arrested at $50 last :
evening, on Fort street by Deputy Sher-
iff Chillingworth and charged with hav- ,
ing lottery tickets in his possession. =
There were forty-nine in his pockets, =
and eight were found in his room.
The Little Louisiana Lottery is not Z
the former Louisiana institution, at all, -
but San Francisco swindling concern a
which issues tickets for comparatively q
small prizes, supposedly equal in num-
Der to those of the big combine and e
accepts the latter's prize drawings as
It's own. That is to say, if 20009 draws
the capital prize in the Louisiana Lot
cry, the same number draws the cap II
tai prize in the Little Louisiana Lot
cry. There are no authentic cases of IS
anybody having drawn any prize in the 81
mall concern. It's effort to get business
n Honolulu is one that the authorities
lave done well to check. Saying moth 81
ng of the law against lotteries here, the
act that the little Louisiana is plain 81
'unco game is enough to warrant dras- n
ic measures against it.