The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-28
Around the
Police Station

Chinese gamblers are becoming more
and more daring recently and several
Joints are rumored to have opened up
and doing business on a large scale. A
former police informer is reported to
have organized hui and selected
house in a quiet part of the town
where from a dozen to a score of well
known gamblers slip in during the
evening and play paikau. Some of the
Joints in the Chinatown section are
playing warily. It is said that the
Chinese have taken advantage of the
activity of the police in strike matters
to commence opening up the old joints
There have been few arrests among
Chinese for gambling.
Vickery Bags Few.
Detective Vickery bagged a number
of crap players yesterday afternoon,
several of them being Portuguese
youths They were rolling the bones
merrily.
Manuel Silva, auto driver, is no more;
Manuel Silva, haek-driver, redivivus.
Appearing in police court Saturday
morning to answer to a charge of heed
less and reckless driving of a motor ear.
Manuel entered a plea of guilty as
charged and was given a fine of 81
and costs The smallness of the fine
was due to the fact that Manuel, of
his own volition, surrendered his license
to drive an automobile Though he
may have been forced into this action
from the fact that the Won Hamm-
Young company took away the machine
he has been driving, his statement to
the effect that hereafter the old hack
would be good enough for Manuel was
| sufficient to cause His Honor to Judge
mildly
Judge Humphreys, who made such an
eloquent plea for Manuel the other day
| in a previous case, did not appear.
Silva having made him acquainted with
| the contemplated action. An appeal in
the matter of the Vieira case. in which
| Silva was fined the sum of $25 and
| costs, has already been taken to the
| Circuit Court, but Manuel has announe-
ed that perhaps the automobile bust
| ness covers too vast a scope for him
and hereafter he will confne his oper.
atoms TO the less paying, but certainly
| safer for the public, one-hoss shay.
Sneak Thieves at School.
| That thieves of the sneak variety
| were working in the Central Grammar
School the other day, while the closing
exercises were being held, is the belief
| of the police, and Joe Leal, Chief OF
| Detectives, is now working ON the cast
| which has been reported to him. One OF
the sehoolboys found purse on the
floor after the visitors had left the
building on the day of the closing ex
ercises. He told another la,l of his
find, and they agreed that the pocket
book should be given to the principal
As that person happened to be very
busy at the time, the boys left the
purse on one of the desks, intending
to inform the principal later. In tht
meantime, a lady came back to the
building and asked if anyone hat
found her purse. The BOYS took hel
to the desk where they had left the
purse-but it was nowhere 70 be seen
The boys have told straight story tt
Leal, and have reported that anothel
loss was noised about the school build
ing at a previous time This makes tht
Chief think that a systematic sneal
thief has been at work. He is nov
working on the case and feels conf
dent that he viii be able to land the
right person very shortly.