The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-09-16
FOR
JUNK Man
BOY WHO STOLE BRASS SAYS HE
TOLD ROSENBERG IT WAS sToL.
EN-.


The preliminary hearing of j. Rosen-
berg, the junk dealer, on charge of
receiving stolen goods, in the shape of
brass, brass plumbing fixtures etc,
stolen by gang Of boys from the
U. S. Quartermaster's warehouse on
Miller street, was held this morning
before Commissioner George A. Davis.
The defendant was bound over to an
swer an indictment of the Federal
Grand Jury.
The examination lasted about an
hour and was very damaging to the
prisoner Two witnesses were exam
ined, one of them being David Kuelo,
one of the half dozen young junk
thieves who have confessed to having
stolen a great amount of plumber,
which they say they sold to ROsen.
berg. The other witness was Harry
H. Cheal, property clerk and store
keeper of the Quartermaster, who ties.
titled to having discovered that the
warehouse had been robbed, at to
have seen some of the stolen stuff
in the junk shop when search was
made in company with District Attor.
ney Breckons.
Young Kuelo, who is a Hawaiian
boy about fifteen, told a damaging
story, and the cross examination con-
Quoted by A. G. M. Robertson failed
tc weaken it. He said that he and
another boy named Ben Duncan has
entered the warehouse after breaking
a window on the Miller street side,
and after loading up a lot of brass
stuff in sacks had carried it to Rosen-
berg and sold it at cents per pound.
This first theft was committed about
II o'clock in the day time, and day
or two later with a number of other
boys they paid another visit to the
warehouse and carried off a lot of
brass faucets, sheet copper, and other
stuff. A third visit was made but
there were too many people about
and they did not go in.
The boy positively identified one Of
the faucets as one he had stolen be-
cause the handle had been badly bent
by himself in unscrewing it from the
pipe in which he found it. He said
that he had been doing business with
Rosenberg for about a year, a good
deal of the stuff he had sold during
that time being stolen property. Ros
enberg, he declared knew that the
stuff he bought was stolen. In some
of their earliest deals Rosenberg had
asked him where he got the stuff he
offered for sale, and when he had
replied that he had found it. Rosen
berg told him he knew it was stolen
and to tell the truth and where, he
got it in order that he might be
able to hide it and keep him out of
trouble in case there was search
made.
In the case of the Quartermaster's
warehouse stuff he said that a day of
so after they had sold the stuff to
Rosenberg, the latter had told him to
keep away from his place, and that he
had better skip out because the man
who owned the stuff was hunting for
it. Kuelo took the hint and Skip
ped" and was at Waimanalo on the
other side of the Island when he was
"piRched."
The boy was perfectly frank in all
his answers and made no attempt to
shield himself or anybody else He
said that when he would take stolen
stuff to Rosenberg, the latter would
ask what was in the sacks and when
they said brass would weigh it up
without looking at it, not allowing
them to open it, After they left the
stuff was taken in charge by a Jap en-
ployed about the place. He had at
different times returned short time
after selling a lot of junk and found
the Jap sorting it out.
Kuelo stared that he had sold stuff
to Rosenberg more than fifty times
within the last year, and he identi
fed many pieces which were shown
him in the Court room, but large
bulk of what he had taken from the
warehouse had been made away with.