The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-04-11

yer T. l5Vfs ABOUT three months ago
under the instructions Of High Sherin
Henry the Honolulu police made "A raid
and made some arrests for gambling at
the plantation at Waipahu This oc-
CURED On "a Sunday afternoon When
the men, four or five in number. had
been arrested, the greater part of the
Chinese I'm the camp congregated about
the police who were not in uniform and
some excitement ensued. a couple OF
policemen began to shoot off their re-
volvers in the air. still further exciting
the Chinese. / was called by telephone
message ana went Immediately To- the
camp and found the police and the ar
rested Chinese already at the railway
station. 1 asked the police upon what
authority they had made the raid
and upon whose authority they had
made the arrests. They answered High
Sheriff Henry. / asked them if they
We're an police officers and to show me
their badges. / was informed that two
Of them were police officers and two
were not, having simply been hired for
the occasion. The prisoners were TAX
en- to Honolulu. Their cases were to
have come up for trial i'm Honolulu on
the next morning and Judge W. l..
Stanley was retained to defend them.
Il understood from Mr.. Duisenberg,
who il one Of the lunas on the planta-
ton and who came up to Honolulu to
see that the interests of the men were
protected, that Judge Stanley and he
had an interview with High Sheriff
Henry at 9 o'clock on Monday morning,
! N W "a iqn Mr. al. ..
tlemen that the men he had arrested
were good Woodworking employees Of
/ the plantation, and were not the class
of men he was after; that his object i'm
b making the raids was to secure the pro-
| fessional gamblers who were around
preying on their ignorant countrymen
and that he would nolle PROSE- the cases
against the defendants Mr.. Duisen-
berg then assured Mr.. Henry on behalf
: OF the plantation, that the plantation
/ was equally Interested with the author
tiles In rounding up these gamblers ard
suggested that If one Of the plantation
iunas was commissioned as a special
officer the plantation authorities and
the police could cooperate. This sug-
gestion was welcomed by Mr. Henry
T.
enberg as special police officer and &c
notify him there after whenever hc
should think Of making raids. The de.
PENDANTS in that case were nolle pross
ed and Mr.. Dusenberg was commits
stoned and still holds that commission
SO far as ] know no notification of tn,
intended raid on last Saturday nigh
was given by High Sheriff Henry {,
Mr.. Duiseuberg
"On last Saturday night / was tele
phoned by Mr. Worthington Of In,
shooting Of a Chinese by the police Off.
GERS and went Immediately to the hos.
pital where the injured man had beer
taken. 1t was about $40 when I wen
to the hospital. Seeing the condition %
the man and learning from the docto
In attendance that the injured MAJ
had no chance Of recovery immediate
ly telephoned High Sheriff Henry t,
whom I spoke personally over the line
stating that there had been trouble a
the plantation; that a Chinese had beer
shot by the police and would probabl!
not live through the night requested
him to Investigate the matter If posi-
BILE Immediately to which he answere,
| res several times.
II went with party Of white EN-
ployees Of the plantation to the seen
of the occurrence and was met on tn
way by man carrying the seat of tn
police wagon, a cushion and police of
ficer's felt hat marked with the nam
Of "Kanae." I went to the Chimes
camp to investigate the matter on m
own account and got no other evidenc
but what has been stated by MI
WOrthlngton.
THE Chinese camp boss requisite
me to have the Chinese prisoners bale
out. then went to the EVA couI
= house in company with Mr.. Worthine
ton, Mr.. Omsted and Mr.. Johnson, tn
timekeeper arriving there a little be
fore midnight for the purpose Of balm
the men out and also to meet Mr.. Her
ry who l expected to arrive by the mic
night train. / found that there WEI
y onl" i've prisoners ami bai'ed thcI
y out. The Deputy Sheriff, Mr. Fernar
y dez, stated that h. ali not know any
thing about anybody being wOundC
and that he had had no communicate
whatever with the High Sheriff
Il asked Fernandez why the poliC
did the shooting. He first said thu
D. he could not help 1t to which answe
. ed that / expected he would ha,
enough control over his men to prevel
any such an occurrence. He commence
l. to tell me how he had been waikiki
g along talking to Mr.. Worthington wi
Q was holding a lantern in his hand, az
then he suddenly turned to Mr.. Wort
ington and said You did the shooting
4 This Mr.. Worthngton Indignantly al
- emphatically denied calling Fernand
a liar and Fernandez then said 4 q
claim that you did it and ! am goil
to claim IT,
81 sent M. Worthington and NJ
Johnson down TO Pearl city to me
the midnight train but they return
stating tina nobody representing the =
lice department had arrived.
turned TO the plantation Office where
arrived about 1880 in the morning a
telephOned again TO the police stati