The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-01

tried to use the card according to di-
reetions 1t failed to work, and Kim
was nabbed and chucked into JAIL
| The Federal authorities were prompt
to recognize Kim IS genius, and they
| got him to help them run down bunch
| of counterfeiters, which Kim did with
| neatness and dispatch. But when he
got out of jail, he had a more valuable
asset than Attorney lie Blond s cards.
| He was a United States Deputy Mar
| shal-to hear him tell it. In that i'm
! portant capacity he proceeded to levy
| toll on his countrymen and others, until
| the authorities got wind Of it and gave
him year Of free poi on the reef,
together with an opportunity to engage
| in real work.
| This time Kim came out of jail with
| part of the radiant wardrobe of
Lionel Hart, the man who fred the
Standard Oil warehouse. How Kim got
possession of it is still mystery, but
it serves to illustrate his accomplish
ments. Incidentally, before leaving
! the jail Kim provided for a rainy day
! by collecting from a sixteen year old
japanese girl, whose father was in on
Federal. charge, the sum of 81, on
I
Hendry were fellow officers and he
would fix it up with the Marshal to
release her father. Kim also collected
from convicted Japanese distiller who
| is minus hands, the sum of $37. so, for
which Kim promised to fix it with the
! Federal authorities so the Japanese
could be fed by his wife instead of
! having to eat prison fare.
/ NOA 4oI No.
the wardrobe of such stylish dresser
as Lionel Hart, Kim, as soon as he got
| out this time, worked a clothing store
for new suit of clothes, promising to
pay for them as soon as he should have
collected his salary as Deputy Marshal.
To this argument he added the plea
that it was hardly becoming in the rep
resentative of great government like
that of the United States to appear
in any raiment not strictly according
to Hoyle and Piccadilly. This deal
again landed Kim in jail, where he is
now stopping.
Last, but by no means least, of this
interesting trio is Baker-Raymond NJ.
of the multiplicity of wives, who on
his way to Honolulu left trail of
unpaid checks all the way from Toledo,
Ohio, to Hawaii, through Chicago,
Dallas, Denver and San Francisco.
Handsome. college bred. well -groomed,
even in his prison dungarees, Baker is
quite the Beau Brummel of the three.
AS soon as he was taken to the Jail,
Baker struck up a friendship with
Kim and Hjorth, evidently finding
them congenial spirits. Bakers front
appealed to Kim, who has weakness
for front and wants to acquire one
The two concocted scheme that they
thought might help both of them with
the authorities, and when Baker was
allowed to go to the Marshal s office
last week, he informed United States
District Attorney Breckons that Kim,
who has not vet been tried, would
plead guilty. Much to his disappoint-
ment, Mr. Breckons replied that he
would rather enjoy prosecuting the
case against Kim, even if he did have
plenty of work to keep him busy.
Baker signalized his getting ac-
quainted with Hjorth by borrowing
from him $40. half of all that the
Dane had, on the excuse that he want
ed TO give his No. 2 wife little
spending money for her trip back to
the states where she will wait until he
has served his three-year sentence
/ perhaps.
The sporting blood of the Federal
establishment has been aroused by the
accounts of the peculiar friendship
that has sprung up among the three
gIafters-a friendship that is appar-
entity exhibited by each of the three
trying to graft off the other two. A
proposition has been made that $500
/ be collected from the sports of the
city and divided equally among the
three. Then bets could be laid down
as to which of the three would have
it all at the end of given period, say
a month. Mr.. Breckons is rather in
clined to favor Kim, but he thinks it
would be a close match between him
and Baker. Marshal Hendry, it is un-
derstood, favors Baker. Hjorth ap-
/ pears to be on the short end, but he
might surprise some of the sports.
| But the scientific end of the expert
ment is really most important to de-
/ termine whether Europe, Asia or Amer
lea exeels in the gentle art of graft
/ ing.