The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-23
SUSPECTS TO GET
THE THIRD DEGREE

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The five men were taken into custody
pending a thorough investigation of the
circumstances surrounding the murder
and every effort will be made to get
from them all the information they
know. They refused yesterday to talk,
but McDuffie hopes to induce one or all
of them to tell a true story before
they are turned loose.
There is more than one horn to the
dilemma. Yet there are not enough
links of the same sort to be welded
into a chain of strong circumstantial
evidence. 1t was ascertained that Chun
Ton was an opium fend, and there is
a possibility that he had a supply of
the drug on hand and was murdered
for it. At the present time opium is
worth about eighty dollars a pound,
and if Chur Ton had large supply on
hand he might have been killed for it.
But that theory has not been sifted
thoroughly and as yet no one can tell
what the developments along that line
will be-
Chun Ton was employed with eleven
other men, three of whom were lodging
in the same house with him. The other
three belonged to a tong of which he
was not a member, but if there was
a feud between them nobody has been
able to find it out
Ling Moon, the Chinese who sold Ton
his meals, got up the morning after
the murder and went to Ton 5 lodgings
and inquired for him. He has never
done the like before. Moon entered
the house and looked in Ton S bed for
him. and upon failing to find him walk
ed almost directly to the bushy tree
under which the charred body was Ind
den. Moon s actions led the authorl-
ties to suspect that if he knew so well
where to look for the dead body when
he did not even know Ton had been
killed he must have known enough be-
forehand to lead him TO fear the man
had been murdered. or he himself mad
some connection with the crime ana
wanted to feign ignorance in order to
nrevent the officers from linking MS
name with the homicide
II McDuffe and Others familiar win
the evidence already adduced 1t APP
nears almost impossible for the murder
to have been committed right there
at The house when three associates Oh
Ton were sleeping within his reach,
IF Ton was dragged out OF ped anu
stabbed to death, the cook and the
other two men in the house must nave
known it. If Ton got up at late
bnnr and went outside without Wahlh
them and was murdered near the door
he must have made noise enough to
rouse them from their slumbers
The most perplexing difficulty VIII
which the officers are confronted IS the
Chinese's refusal to tell what they
know of the tragedy. They were al
there on the plantation alone and II
they persist in their silence It VIII De
almost impossible to procure the eFi-
aance necessary for a conviction,
Tf Ton : associates are innocent OF
+ba crime. then NcDuffie and his assist
ants viii have the seemingly lmposslole
+asI, of finding some one else VINO, APP
r,oran+1v did not leave any tracks o9.
bin1 when he fled from the scene OF
his fiendish work.
It Will require the work OF n 9ier-
1oc7- Holmes or Monsieur DupIn t. I'M
r9vcI the mystery unless the men al
rsa7v in custody either confess or I'M
..J;.ata someone else. If the scene OF
Ia +raoedv were nearer the city IL
would he less difficult for the detective
force to carry on the invest CATION