The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-18
STACKS Of
LOOT FOUND
Recovered Plumber
From the Asa
Robberies.
Officer Renear Brought
It in During Yes
terday.
Police Station Filled With Articles
Which Had Been
Stolen.

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the police have the most interesting
of criminals. Day by day more of tn
goods he stole are being secured ant
goods valued at over two Thousand
dollars are now stored in the polict
? station to be retained as evidence wheI
his case comes to trial. Asa has TOLD
the police almost everything concern
ing his robberies. One thing he ha.
not told the police is who his partner
in the big robheries was, for he had a
confederate and rumor at the police
station says that the pair have a large
bank account under assumed names
Yesterday Special officer Renear had
Asa on Punchbowl again and recover
ed a large amount of goods.
All OF the people who had purchased
goods from the little Jap gave them
| up without trouble with the exception
| of one Portuguese woman and for a
| few minutes it looked as if murder
might be done before she could be
suhdued.
| While living on Punchbowl this wom-
an had purchased a bureau from the
Jap. The bureau might have been
| worth about twenty dollars but she
gave the Jap but two dollars for it.
The police discovered that she had re-
moved from Punchbowl to a house
in Kakaako. Renear took asa to her
now bor,a x,oypap f,.yIxv Six foot
in height and weighing more than
two hundred pounds, answered Re-
near's knock at her house. Renear ex-
planned his business The little bur-
glar politely lifted his hat and said:
please Misses will you give police
man chest of drawers?" The woman
flew into a perfect rage. She made
a wild rush for the japanese and
e1asping him tightly about the neck
choked him. The Jap grew red in
the face while Renear was busy dis
entangling the pair. Finally the wom-
an permitted the stolen property to be |
removed by the officers, but declared |
that if her husband were at home he |
would kill both the officer and the |
burglar
Six places were visited during the |
day and all sorts of articles were re-
covered From one woman an oak
set, worth perhaps a hundred |
was recovered. She had paid |
the Jap about twelve dollars for this
and he had thrown in. to make the
bargain a good one for her, a few sill
yer articles, some of them being Of
orIx- OH Of no |
articles the Jap stole and sold went
goods stolen must have Melted him a
big sum in spite of the small prices for
which he sold them.
In every case where the goods have
so far been identified their owners
Produced evidence which showed that
The stuff must have been taken in
broad daylight. From the residence
If Mrs. Godfrey Rhodes, in Nuuanu
street, the Jap took away many ex-
,ress loads of stuff He went there
With a wagon each day for five days,
packed the vehicle up to the curling
n front of the house, and boldly car
led away the stuff. According to the
tory that he has told the police his
method of learning what houses he
ould rob was simple. He is polite
title man and dresses very well. He
rould go to a house, boldly walk to
he front door and knock. If he re-
eived a response he would ask If some '
riend of his lived there. The reply il
YouId of course be IN the negative. U
tut in case he received no response =
-on1 his knocking at a front door he
-ould go to the rear. If he got no IL
,sponse there he would go to the next I;
ouse to it. He would there inquire
IT work. He might even go TO the Il
.ar of the house and, finding yard
w. would inquire concerning some %
her Japanese and explain that he m
imself was looking for work. He II
ould ask if there was any work at
q next house. Then his new ac- :.
1aintance would likely inform him
at the people next door had closed III
, their house and left Honolulu for &C
visit on the mainland. In this case
% was happy He would then in II
RIM his partner and the next day the 6
ir of them would boldly carry stuff
r of the front door of the house and IN
al IL into a wagon. An hour or so
Ter the same wagon would be found LEI
PunchbowI peddling out the goods
ridicrlously low prices. In this
Sc Asa and his partner have worked
over year.
Asa is thirty-four years old and says II
has been in the islands for six years M
: states that he at one time worked
r a week as a yardboy for Deputy
eriff Chillingworth. He stated that 10
is period was at the time when Chill nj
,gworth was spending his honey
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