The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-09
A VERY BUSY THIEF
LANDS IN A CELL
zee Dong You Proves Very
Industrious in His
Calling.

\ thief doing a wholesale business
in his trade was caught yesterday when
Yee Dong You, Korean. was put in
the cells by order Of Chief McDufie.
The criminal record Of this gentleman
during the past few weeks is a big one.
Yesterday morning Detective Bergau
noticed the man on a downtown street
with a bag of suspicious dimensions
over his shoulder. As his countenance
is known to all the officers, Bergau fol
lowed MIN up and saw him enter a
second hand store. Bergau reported to
the chief, and Apana, Woo and Bergau
were sent out to examine him.
As soon as the Korean saw the Off
GERS approaching he started to make a
getaway through the back. Apana went
after him on the jump, and the Korean
turned IN the back room to put up
fight. Apana s fist connected with his
mouth, and he went down long enough
for the officers to handcuff him.
They brought him and his bundle up
to the police station, where the latter
was opened and its contents examined.
They consisted of a set of harness, a
bundle of tools and an automobile lamp,
the number of which had been scratched
off. The tools were wrapped in a blan-
kat which bore the initials of George
Denison, and the latter was at once sent
for. He identified the tools as his own,
but did not know that he had lost them
until he went back to his shop and in
vestigated. The set of harness was
proven to belong to the government
stables, and another set, which he had
already sold, belonged to japanese
hackman at Kakaako.
The scratched number of the auto
lamp gave a clue to its owner, and it
was soon identified by Judge Whitney
as his own. The Judge did not know he
was minus a lamp until Officer Apana
asked him, and investigation proved
that it had been taken off since the
night before.
In the bundle was white corduroy
buggy cushion, the owner of which has
not vet turned up. Later in the even
ing it was discovered that he had also
stolen a bicycle from the bOokkeeper of
Peacock 4 Co., which was found in a
second hand store. His connection with
this theft has been firmly established
by the owner of the wheel and the man
who bought it from him.
Taking advantage of the blow on
the mouth that he had received from
Apana, he pretended all day that he
was unable to talk, and acted his part
so well that he fooled Police Surgeon
Emerson, who bound his bogus afflic-
ton up.
During his examination by McDuf1ie
,,-aptprr ha 11uor, n
all his answers to the chief questions
on tab of paper, which Officer Woo
had to interpret The Korean officer
stated that he was writing the high
caste Korean writing. Among his an
swers was: You accuse me of stealing.
How do YOU know ! was stealingo Did
you see me 90
And again: u viii prove to you later
that / did not steal the bicycles-'
He has now a case pending against
him of larceny in the second degree,
and was out on a $3.50 bond when he
was caught again. Glenn Quinn was his
attorney in this case, and will hardly
appreciate the mass of evidence that
has rolled up against his client since
he took the ease. This makes six
charges against him, and probably more
will be discovered. He is also appeal
ing a decision Of Judge Andrade, which
sentenced him to Jail for six months for
vagrancv. Altogether he has decorated
the police records profusely of late.
Chief McDuffie believes that in the
Korean he has captured the man who
is responsible for much of the petty
thievery that has been going on for
some time, particularly among the auto
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