The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-07-20
kauai POLICE
GOT OKOLEHAO
TWENTY GALLONS OF THE STUFF
SEIZED IN A RAID IN WAL
LUA,

Kauai police have been showing con-
siderable ACTIVITY in raiding gamblers
and Illicit liquor sellers and an okole-
hao seizure and a prosecution for sell
ing are the result. The Garden Island
has the following:
Police activity is manifested in Lihue
district. A clever raid on an okole-
hau distilling plant in Wailua mauka,
has resulted in the arrest of two Jap
anese, Ida and Fujito, and the seizure
of the plant and about 20 gallons of
okolehao.
Some time ago a detective was sent
up to a Mauka camp, disguised as q
hack driver who during his stay found
okolehao in the camp. He tried hard
and finally succeeded in locating the
distilers, whereupon he approached
them and proposed to go into company
with them; and found all particulars
necessary for the prosecution.
The information reached the head
quarters and two policemen under Cap
tain police Simeon Dias were dispatch
ed early Saturday morning to make the
raid. Twenty gallons of okolehao IN
demmijohns were found in the bottom
of the river. The case will come up
this morning before Judge Kahele for
trial.
The police of Lihue under the leader
ship of Albert Gandall made a raid on
gamblers in Hanamaulu last Saturday
night week
Nine were caught who afterwards
made no appearance in Cours prefer Ing
to forfeit bail than to take the chances
of trial, $12O in all were realized by
the government out of this little piece
of business, and no doubt it will come
in handy in these hard times.
The Garden Island also publishes the
following complaint regarding a Wal
mea case:
Dear Sir: Waimea has a new liquor
case, and its citizens tremble with fear
that their turn may come next. IF a
citizen can be arrested and charged
with liquor selling on only information
obtained through the drunken talk OF
boy. if a citizens home can be ran
sacked for evidence to sustain such
doubtful information; if upon failure to
find any Confederation of such informa-
ton a citizen can still be brought into
court ito answer to a charge of Illicit
liquor selling; if by such action citi-
zen's name and reputation may be be-
fouled on the mere irresponsible talk
of a drunken youth, then indeed are the
citizens of this district in jeopardy and
their homes as unsafe as the house of
a Jew in Russia. In this case o. Black
s,tad. an applicant for a wine and beer
license was arrested on July on
charge of selling gin to a young Ha-
waiian, and his home and the cottages
of his tenants were rigidly searched. AL
though no gin was found. a barrel of
beer, bought by Mr. Blackstad and his
brother-in-law for the celebration on
the 4th of July, was taken away. The
only information, upon which the police
acted. was a vague statement of an In
toXicated youth.
Instead of locking the informant up,
as being drunk on a Sunday morning,
his drunken talk was taken as good
reason for a prosecution, and Mr..
Blackstad was arrested and his home
searched. The alleged informant is
near relative of the Deputy Sheriff, and
perhaps his loose, drunken talk there
fore had such high value with the POI
lice: but willingness of the police to
take such distinct and prompt action
on such unreliable and insufficient in
formation, levels a serious danger at
every citizen in his honor.
If the Deputy sheriff had turned his
detective instinct in the right direction
he would easily have discovered that
the gin, upon which his friend Toasted
had come from the licensed firm of the
town.
That Mr.. Blackstad's 4th of July beer
came from the new liquor house in
Hanapepe. would of course made no
difference
OBSERVER.