The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-23
THE POLICE IMBRoGLIo.

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- - the Collector OF comparison with those OF the
about four hundred more @ b @
b one hundred and liquor on
homes for private individual stocks f E1 licenses in
excess illicit selling places Principally h
much nobody can guess OF people have complained
to the police but tss nave else could get
police their activity became suspicious
weekdays about getting liquor by bottle the case Among the
~ which claimed weknown policeman has done
trade from the key AT the beaeh ess ;id tbe
open years of uniform they OFTEN 5
bOoing good citizens complained even h1d and
evidence They had suddenly Oeen ~
b d the situation has been the same notably
Kauai whskey things with high hand Complains
from AoIOkai Travellers there could stop m t
peace have been blinded BY prosperity
this prosperity became But we VIII not p'
that justly That duty may fall later
Now as to gambling Three years ago
whose business lighting that immense
s s;es usually finding policemen or detectives
supposedly confidence that they paid somebody aIge
nght of handed to another China
Advertiser caused this story TO reaen 'ne pon me me 49, d t ike
watching the place but could get no evidence Inc mouse ana
aeywy gambling during Chinese New Year. to cease he
s he indoor. establishments but after brief subsistence they opened up
In due time came the sensational arrest Attorney
Chinese gambling hus who was able to offer the Attorney
which then had oversight OF the police $4,000 per month
had caused to be sd bride was FATTY offered in the presence
o asa and n who made it went 10 jail for attempted bribery
his preliminary talk the declared
Chinese gamblers had always paid well and expected to pay for protec
The police commenting On this affair." said they would long ago have
gaming places they could have got evidence
while this the Attorney General had tried to get an
be expended by himself for special detee
facilities getting evidence
For months about gambling
Hotel plain sight Of the business At certain late
hour lot of its hangers out and crossed Fort street to sup at the Star
and boys of eighteen
na hear h the on At a. representative Of the Adver
the
MONTHS but finally the League got after
police and gamblers forced retirement The place
Aeh caught playing hearts, which quite nearby opened up
and shown their plain duty Before then evidence was always lacking
Finally we come to the social evil which, since the abolition of the uei
the through the Women of the have
s =, aons TO a 10 w n tb p m b p b +ht
never Sheriff High Sheriff cngworh
collecting Mrs Turk opened Beretan large
she had police protection whereupon Advertiser
The public will remember raids that followed All but one Mrs Turk
claimed were tipped Off her in advance over the telephone But her time
She DRY driven to the vamps OF Waikiki mainly by the threat Of the
Advertiser publish the of going the Berea
At Waikiki she moleed by the police which
easily for that Her
street were made they say though the Grand
without much trouble But be unhxe jury
Dollar Club hui which the Of policemen scandousy
weeks
AS to the responsibility High Brown and Deputy High Sheriff
part illicit gamblers moral outcas were doing bust
] and paving s be let s.y didn't na Ts 5 sd rses
business know it they Office
could
a who could I'LL the BILL
political Some people think the
another they think the party would be helped leaving incompetent
and permitting and fragrant violations
in of
the law by fits and starts and making the handmade politics
a the
povabe of
lawson or
Governs
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