The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-09-03
FORMER HONOLULAN HELD
FOR OPIUM SMUGGLING

| Manila Bulletin, July l3.-1he nTtt
arrest in the sensational attempt 70
import large quantity Of opium into
the Islands by hiding it in quantity
1 of mining machinery was made yester-
| day afternoon when Louis T. Grant APP
peared in the sheriff s office shortly
after four clock to answer to charges
which had been prepared in the office
of the prosecuting attorney.
! Mr.. Grant s name had been banded
about town for several days in connec.
ton with the opium scandal as he had
personally gone to Hongkong to super
wise the construction of certain pieces
of mining machinery in which the ILL
cit drug was discovered by the customs
detectives, and upon its arrival here
its removal to the machine shop of
George Y. Taylor was ordered by Mr..
Grant.
The man who Is to answer to the
charge of illegal importation of the
drug was accompanied by Attorney
Cohn, +. NJ. Barton, proprietor of the
Bay View Hotel, and Gus Heise, gen.
eral manager of the San Mauricio
Mine.
Shortly after the arrival of the party
in the sheriff's Office Prosecuting At
torney Southworth entered with the
complaint. Mr.. Barton and Mr.. Heise
both qualified to the satisfaction Of
Attorney Southworth who had fixed
the bond at five thousand pesos, and
the accused was Immediately released
and left in company with his attorney
and two bondsmen.
Mr.. Grant had planned to leave Ma
| Mia by the steamer Carmen which
sailed Thursday night for Paracale,
, but the vessel sailed late in the even
, ing and Mr.. Grant was not a passen-
ger. Yesterday he learned that
charges were to be filed against him
in the afternoon, and at four clock
i, he made his way to the court house to
avoid arrest.
L. While Mr.. Grant is up to this time
the only party arrested in connection
with the crime, there are likely to be
, several others within a few days. The
prosecuting attorney stated yesterday
to Bulletin representative that sew
eral others were under suspicion and
, their connection with the affair was
receiving the close attention of the
secret service officials While no ink
ling as to whom these parties were
could be disclosed by the officials yes
terday several names of more or less
prominent people are freely referred
to in public discussions of the all
absorbing topic.
The charges prepared by the pros
ecuting attorney allege that there was
illegally imported 210 kilos of prepar-
ed opium, valued at Pl9,OO0, and IL
kilos of cocaine, valued at P1500.
The value of the entire importation
calculated at it's Manila market price,
| IN :,
, P2O,5O0, and not as was originally esti-
/, mated, PlOO,b00.
= One very interesting feature which
,, has just come to light in connection
! with the case is the fact that when
q Mr.. Grant went to Hongkong as an
agent of the Philippine Gold Dredging
a Company, he went for the specific pur
pose of buying only a boiler for the
|, company's dredge and had no commits.
sion to purchase the four steel shafts
and the four iron columns in which
: the opium was found, or to buy the
hand winch in which the cocaine was
found. All of these parts came, how.
ever, plainly marked as consigned to
: the Philippine Gold Dredging Com
!: pany.
: The penalty provided by section 341
= of Act 355, under which the accused
is charged, is $4,000 as the maximum
=, fine and $50 as the minimum, or two
year s imprisonment, or both.
Judge Southworth, now acting pros
ecuting attorney, and who has the case
I in hand, by the popularity of the cir
: cumstances developed, is both the pres
% ident of the Philippine Gold Dredging
o Company privately, and prosecutor il
q his official capacity. Judge Ingersoll
who is now on his way to Manila from
Paracale is the general manager of tn,
company; Captain Wilson, formerly O,
the Manila police, and Charles G. Car
. son, are members of the board of di
Z rectors.
The new developments in the cas-,
, Will be watched with the keenest in
. terest until the promised arrests. -hav,
been made.
y Louis t. Grant was for several year
J resident of the Hawaiian Islands. Be
fore coming to the Philippines, Gran
= was instrumental in the formation O.
. company known as the Hawaiian Au
tomobile Company which introduce,
electrlc motorcars into Honolulu il
II 1901. The venture was not a financia
), success as the machines were unable
u to perform the work required of them
machines were shipped to the United
States and there stored but they wer,
destroyed through a fire shortly afte
arrival Grant also followed the bust
= ness of contracting electrician durin.
his stay in Honolulu.
u Arriving in Manila about 1902 Mr.
Grant engaged in the electrical bust
ness and conducted shop on Call,
is Dnlumbayan until he left that line o
Il business to engage in plantation work
n since the destruction of his home oil
It the plantation he has been more or les
& closely interested in mining.
Z How the Find was Made.
; MANILA, July 29-Machinery 70
- the purpose of dredging the depths o
y the gold laden streams of Paracale gol,
y bearing districts brought forth no
- glittering gold but large and valuable
quantities OF opium Yesterday.