The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-11-18
CHINESE FOUND
TREASURE TR0VE
Famous Dress Suit Case Opium
Seizure on Trial-EoOking for
the Higher-Ups.

Finding six thousand dollars worth
of opium lying around in an empty lot
without a guard, just where it could be
picked up by a Chinaman and taken to
his room, and left there with the key
to the room hanging just outside the
door, are bits of story that filtered
through an uneommunicative witness in
Federal Judge Robertson's court yes.
terday before jury. The witness was
Young Chin, and the defendant is Ching
Chew Ye, tall and aged Chinaman,
who is charged with having opium con-
cealed on his premises. This is the
famous dress suit case seizure, wherein
| United States District Attorney Brock
ons raided the home of Ching Chew Yo
and seized two soap boxes filed with
tins of unstamped opium, the dress suit
case being found in the room. The case
and the two boxes filled with tins of
opium were brought to Breekons' office
and Ching Chew We was held to answer.
Young Chin appeared as witness
in a suit of dungarees. He is now n
prisoner in the penitentiary, where he
is to serve year, having pleaded guilty
to charge of having the same opium
concealed on his premises. He is re-
garded as tool of +" higher ups" and
the United States is working for a
clue to those higher ups, Incidentally.
it is understood they have, aud the be.
lief is expressed that Young Chin is
not serving year s imprisonment in
vain, and that when he energies from
prison he viii have nice little bank
account handed over to him to begin
life anew.
Young Chin yesterday testified tc
having come to town from Koolau and
rented room at Ching Chew Yes
house for 81 month. He and Ching
Chew were friends in Koolau. He had
no employment here, and had only been
in the house a month and little more
when the raid was made. He stated
that he had very little furniture in his
room, Just a mosquito net, bed and
a blanket, besides scant amount of
wearing apparel. He had habit, when
leaving the. room, of locking the door
and leaving the key hanging outside.
One night he went out and visited
| lwilei section. While returning home
he wandered into lumber yard, and
what was his establishment to see o
dress suit case and a bag lying there
all alone and no one near them. He
picked them up, examined them, and
found them filed with opium. He didn Y
like to see them lying around loose,
and thought it better to take them
home with him, so that he could keep
them until claimant came. He car.
ried out this intention and took them
to his room. This was late at night,
and he didn't wake up his friend Ching
Chew Ye to tell him about the pack
ages. He went out in the yard, and
fortunately found two empty soap boxes
and filed them with the tins of opium
from the bag. They were just big
enough for 141 tins. He put the boxes
away, and was at Waipahu the day
Breckons visited the room.
When asked why it was that Ching
Chew Ye was able to get hold of him
that day when he had gone to Waipahu
Young Chin said he didn It know Prob.
ably somebody told Ching Chew. He
remembered having met a Chinaman
downtown that day, and the Chinaman
asked him where he was going, and he
believed he said he was going to Wal.
pahu. Young Chin thought that an.
swered Assistant District Attorney Raw.
Inns question, and the jury smiled.