The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-21
TAYLOR AND
MATHESON
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against Taylor, that of wearing a police
| badge with the intention of imperson-
| ating police officer, it has been &C
| knoWledged by Sheriff Brown since his
arrest that he had given Taylor the
badge himself and that it was worn
and used with the knowledge of the
whole police department for the past
eighteen months. This acknowledge
ment was made to Taylor in the pres
ence of others and has also been made
to the representatives of the afternoon
papers. The Bulletin of yesterday con-
tanned the following reference to the
to minimize the truth:
"A. P. Taylor, according to the state
ment made this morning by Sheriff
Brown, has no commission to entitle
him to wear the badge of a special
policeman. He has a badge and tech
nically he has no right to wear it. But
it appears, according to Mr.. Brown,
that Mr.. Taylor does wear the badge
with the knowledge and practically the
consent of the police department.
when Mr.. Brown was High Sheriff
he issued a commission as special po-
three daily papers. When he became
County Sheriff, eighteen months ago,
Brown called in all the badges and
commissions, for the purpose of issu-
ing new ones where it was advisable.
Mr.. Brown states that Taylor turned
in his badge with the others. and, like
the rest, either received it back or got
another. 1t was understood that
would he issued to Pntitle
Mr.. Taylor to wear the badge. But
the commission was never issued, prob
ably through on oversight. Mr.. Brown
had evidently forgotten this matter
yesterday, though he was correst in
stating that Mr.. Taylor has no COM
mission as a special policeman. Tay- |
lor evidently regards the possession of
the badge as sufficient
This, it would SEEM would effectually |
prick the main bubble upon which the
gamblers hope to punish the one VINO
has given so much publicity to the
biggest gambling game now being con- .
Quoted in the city, conducted openly
and brazenlv in the face of everything
that has been said against it and in the
face of Territorial and county laws.
FIRE CHIEF BARRED OUT.
On Monday an attempt to enter the
premises of All Kwai, the tenant pro-
prietor of the Achi lane gambling den.
was made by Building Inspector E. G.
Keen but unsuccessfully. Yesterday
Fire Chief Thurston visited the place
to make an inspection and was also
denied admission. The official position
of both these permits them free ac-
cess to all buildings according to the
law but evidently the gambling fra
ternity of Achi lane is above the law,
although it is a fact that partitions
have been built throughout the build
ing, entrances have been changed,
staircases have been put in, secret pam
els and hidden doors lead into hidden
rooms and the exits have been furnish
ed with spring lock catches. bars that
slip into place at the slightest touch
and fastenings that require knowl-
edge of the combinations and wires to
unfasten. 1t is also known that the
gratings have been chained
and padlocked down, all in violation OF
the building ordinances and converting
he building into fire trap from which,
should a fire occur and the firemen
enter the place, they might never es-
ape alive.
AT WORK YESTERDAY.
Mr. Taylor, accompanied by his at
-orney, visited the joint yesterday, an
inspection of the gambling rooms in
the basement being made. During the
visit the sound of busy hammers at
work in the upper rooms could be
heard, the supposition being that some
IF the hidden rooms were being trans
formed by the shifting of partitions in
of possible visit from the
Grand Jury. |.