The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-11-14

good morning. 1t was plain that per-
jury was rank on the witness stand
that day; and every single person who
swore falsely to free Moore was
brought there by the police. Natural
ly Moore was acquitted. though the
Judge declared that he believed him
to be a gambler.
CONVICTIONS SECURED.
After this 1t was necessary to try
a new method. Instead of depending
on police witnesses the Advertiser
undertook to get some witnesses of its
own. 1t sent men TO observe a gam
bling game which was openly running
on the beat and under the eye of a
mounted policeman. The visible owner
of the game, one Nicholas, had former
ly been policeman for Brown and a
bartender for Vida; he was still daily
associate of the latter; he could be
found soonest by inquiring at the DO
lice station. His place was visited by
reporters and an improvlsed detective,
Mr.. Devauchelle. A case against the
gamblers was impregnably made. AS
the police were the lawful prosecutors
of gamblers one might have thought
that they would have been delighted to
get witnesses who would not throw
them down and who would assuredly
convict. Were they delighted. or even
pleased? Far from 1t. They logged
the footsteps of Devauchelle and final
ly, in default of any other excuse, they
arrested him for profanity. We
thought they intended to get him into
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Townsend, the half-bred Japanese; so
we bailed him out. The other wit
nesses we had were sought for high and
low. Policemen watched the Advertiser
office by day and night as they had
never watched a gambling hell. Final
ly when these witnesses came into
court, they testified to what they had
seen and an honest magistrate fined the
three gamblers at the bar $3.50. 1t was
the first large conviction of gamblers
that had taken place here for many
years; and the only difficult thing in
securing 1t was to surmount the OBJ
stacles put in the way of justice by the
police.
AN ATTEMPT AT BRIBERY.
Now why do the police and the
gamblers so affiliate? l wish 1 knew
in a way to convince a jury. Perhaps
some light may be thrown upon the
subject by the story of the attempt,
couple of years ago, to bribe the Attor-
ney General to nol-pros all the cases
of Chinese gamblers. Apparently the
Chinese thought it would be cheaper
to deal with the Attorney Generals
department than with the police. AS
a matter of fact the man who came to
buy Attorney General Andrews said
so. His plea was that he had been
paying two thousand dollars a week
to the police and that 1t was too
much to pay for the privilege of rum
ming che-fa games and that $500 per
week or $4,000 per month would be
quite sufficient For the sake of get
ting witnesses another date was fixed
for an interview and when the China
man came he was heard by several men
to repeat his offer, was caught, ar
rested, taken to court, convicted and
sent to Jail. The police department had
then the same management 1t has now.
SOME OLD TESTIMONY.
Upon the testimony of Adachi. a
member of the Ten Dollar Club, l shall
not particularly dwell, because, in an
| other case Adachi was prOypd TO he n
periurer shall not even repeat what
he swore to about the relation of the
police to crime: but will saw that
| So .many of the grand Jurors of that
time believed him that they came
within one vote of indicting a. high
police official on his testimony. OF the
revelations of the Halter report I do
| not feel like speaking because of the
fact that this report has not vet be-
come. and NAV never become. a public
document upon which one is privileged
under the law TO draw; but do Know
that the exposures MADE py Hatter
We're telt by the Governor to JUSTIFY
the action ne then TOOK against the
mead OF the ponce department.
returning TO 'he episode at the AT
torhey Ienerai ONCE must say that
many good people are not prepared 10
aumit that the Chlnese gamblers couid
aitord TO expend SZooo or even Slooo per
! week upon ponce protection But why
not! lhere are on TINS lsiahd many
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