The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-28
FORMER HONOLULAN HELD
FOR OPIUM SMUGGLING
Particulars of Louis Grants Arrest at MANILA
Imported Machinery Found to Contain
Hidden Dope.--Out on Bail.

arrest in the sensational attempt to
import large quantity of opium into
the Islands by hiding it in a quantity
of mining machinery was made yester-
day afternoon when Louis T. Grant ap-
peared in the sheriff s Office shortly
after four O'Clock to answer to charges
which had been prepared in the Office
of the prosecuting attorney.
Mr.. Grant IS 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, E. 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 passen-
| ger. Yesterday he learned that
charges were to be filed against him
in the afternoon, and at four clock
he made his way to the court house TO
| avoid arrest.
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 a 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 P19,000, and II
| kilos of cocaine, valued at P1500.
The value of the entire importation,
calculated at its Manila market price
; according to the public prosecutor, is
900, and not as was originally esti-
mated, P100,000.
One very interesting feature which
has just come to light in connection
with the case is the fact that when
| Mr.. Grant went to Hongkong as an
agent of the Philippine Gold Dredging
/ Company he went for the specific pur-
/ pose of buying only a boiler for the
eompany'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.
il The penalty provided by section Sal
of Act $50, under which the accused
is charged, is $4,000 as the maximum
fine and $50 as the minimum, or two
H year S Imprisonment, or both.
Judge Southworth, now acting pros
ecuting attorney, and who has the case
IN hand, by the popularity of the cir
cumstances developed, is both the pres
ldent of the Philippine Gold Dredging
Company privately, and prosecutor in
has official capacity. Judge IngersolI,
who Is now on his way to Manila from
Paraeale is the general manager of the
company; Captain Wilson, formerly of
the Manila police, and Charles c. Car
son, are members of the board of d.
rectors
The new developments in the case
VIII be watched with the keenest in
terest until the promised arrests have
been made.
Louis 7. Grant was for several years
a resident of the Hawaiian Islands. Be
Lure coming TO Ine FhHlppIneS, Grant
was instrumental in the formation ot
company known as the Hawaiian Au.
tomobile Company which introduced
electric motorcars into Honolulu in
1901. The venture was not a financial
success as the machines were unable
to perform the work required of them
After some months the storage battery
machines were shipped to the United
States and there stored but they were
destroyed through fire shortly after
arrival. Grant also followed the bust
ness of contracting electrician during
his stay in Honolulu.
| Arriving in Manila about 1902 Mr.
Grant engaged in the electrical busi.
ness and conducted a shop on Gale
Dulumbayan until he left that line OF
business to engage in plantation work
Since the destruction of his home on
the plantation he has been more or less
closely interested in mining.
How the Find was Made.
MANILA, July 29.-Machinerv fol-
the purpose of dredging the depths OF
the gold laden streams of Faracale gold
bearing districts brought forth moi