The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-13
FOR HAVING ONE
COP FIRED, $3.50
So Runs a Ledger Item in Report
Of Chinese Society Treasurer
Investigation Starts.
lFrom satarday,. Adyertiser.l

CFrom Saturdays Advertiser.)
The price for fixing things so that
police officer will be fred from tine
Honolulu force is one hundred and eft '
dollars, paid in advance. Reduction on
wholesale lots.
This is according to the latest quota.
ton. The figure is something over a
year old but, in lack Of later records,
still stands.
The figure came with the discovery
of report OF a treasurer of Chinese
society. containing startling item that
legal tender had been devoted TO pro.
curing the discharge of a police officer.
Now, the probe of the grand Jury may
! be used to ascertain to whom the
amount was paid, and out of il there
may be further developments in the
clash between the Chinese consul and
the Chinese colony.
The matter is up before United States
| District Attorney Breckons, the treas.
uerer S report being made by a. Chinese
in the employ of one of the federal de.
partments, against whom charges of
graft have heretofore been made, and
who, some Chinese assert, is responsible
for the list of names furnished the con.
sui who have been branded officially as
revolutionists. For that reason the
colony is deeply interested in the few
! Chinese characters which appear in a
rather lengthy report to the society,
and no stones will he left unturned
until it is ascertained Just how that
money was used, or why it had to be
used in police circles at all.
Treasurer Was Arrested.
tThe treasurer of the society was ar.
rested short time before the report
was made and was hailed before the
police magistrate. He was not the only
| one who was caught in the police drag.
net and charged with gambling, and it
is presumed that the author of the re.
port and the others were incensed at
the Chinese officer, whom they believed
to have led the police to their gambling
/ room, and that steps were taken to get
! him off the force. At all events, on the
official treasurer s report to his society,
which contains the names of many
prominent Chinese, appears this item
For procuring the discharge of
police officer, $780,
Whether the money swas used as a
a
of the police in suppressing gambling,
or was actually used to bride a higher
up to fire an officer subordinate, does
not appear.
All Interpretations Alike.
| In order to satisfy himself that the
/ sentence meant just what the first in
depreciation made it, Mr. Breckons
| showed it to dozen Chinese, and all
were agreed that it meant for procur-
ing the discharge of a police officer, for
which $3.50 was recorded.
Then the treasurer was sent for and
asked what the item meant. He replied
after some hesitation, that it referred
/ to matters connected with he revolu.
tionary party. But after some discus.
sion with Mr.. Breckons he was clearly
/ unsettled.
Ali the Discharged Man.
Ali, a former Chinese police officer,
/ was sent for, and he was asked if he
knew anything about the matter. He
/ knew that about March, 1909, he had
J been discharged from the police force,
but never knew why. His chief at that
time was Jack Kalakiela, afterwards
! deposed, and now drawing a salary of
800 a month for doing little about the
police station and muddling that
| Apana, the present nervy and daring
Chinese officer of the detective force
was questioned He went into the de.
partment month after Ali S discharge,
but under another chief.
Using the Probe.
The society is on record as having
used part of its funds to have a Chinese
! officer diseharped from the nolice force.
the treasurer's own handwriting dis
closes this fact. The question Isl Is
this item bona fide, or was it put in
to cover up transfer of the money
to some other use which the treasurer
! personally knows abOutl
These are questions which Mr.. Breck-
ons is asking, and in order to obtain
answers is using barbed probe.