The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-28

CONVICTED
Grand Jury Csptives
Fined or Sent to
Jail,

| Jail sentences for the doorkeepeT
and the banker of the Maunakea street
F.! gambling joint raided last week by the
| grand jury were given by Judge Derby
in the police court yesterday and a
| heavy fine imposed on the sixty six
! captured frequenters of the joint. Di-
| rect evidence was given by two wit
nesses that the raided premises had
| been used and were in use when the
grand jurymen descended upon them as
a gambling joint where two regular
games were running, fan tan and pal
kau
The case was a long one, the wit
nesses of the prosecution being sub
jected to a severe cross-examination
from Chas. Chillingworth. counsel for
the defense. 1t was taken up shortly
after 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
running through without a recess until
1:30 in the afternoon.
The court room was crowded with
the Chinese defendants and their
friends and the space reserved for the
attorneys and court officials was
damned with the prisoners when they
came forward to plead in answer to
the charge, the complaint having even
tually been sworn out against them by
Sheriff Brown.
The evidence of Major Potter and F.
L. Waldron told the story of the raid
which tore the lid off the gambling
joint Major Potter told of the dis
covery off the kitty in the gambling
room after the arrests had been made
by the sheriff. but neither witness had
arrived on the scene in time to see the
actual gaming in progress.
Chun Kwai, who admitted that he
was a police informer, stated that he
had been present in the gambling room
on the morning of the raid, leaving
there just prior to the visit of the jury
men. He had seen the gambling going
on and had taken part in it.
When asked by ChiIlingworth if he
was also a moral reformer out to put
down the gambling evil, the witness
grew sarcastic, saying that as he was
not the sheriff of the county he could
not be expected to do much in that line !
He identified All Wal as the banker |
of the fan tan game. at which he had |
been playing.
His evidence was corroborated by |
that Of Chun Lock who had also been |
short time of the raid. The first news |
he had received of the arrest of the |
gamblers was when a friend told him |
that afternoon that ''some white devils I
had raided the joint" He informed the |
court that he did not know whether |
he would be paid anything for giving |
mis- evidence or not. He had been an |
informer before for Vida and Chilling |
worth and had been paid for it.
1t was this witness who pointed out !
All Chez as the official doorkeeper and |
lookout for the game
Sheriff Brown gave evidence as to |
the arrest and swore that he had no |
knowledge himself of any gambling be-
fore the raid
Judge Derby found the prisoners
guilty as charged, sentencing All Wal,
the banker, TO one month in jail, and |
All Chez, the lookout, for two weeks.
The players We're fined s25 and costs
each
Throughout the trial County Prose-
cutor Andrade was assisted by Deputy
General Prosser who had
worked up the case and secured the
evidence necessary to convict
Notice of appeal was Immediately
given by Attorney Chillingworth and
L bond was filed by Lee Chuck to
secure the release of the convicted
men pending the hearing of the an
peal.