Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-23


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to our destination. I was also induced
to assume the Filipino name Of Anton
10 Gonzalez and to represent my age
as being eighteen or nineteen instead
of only fifteen, which IL my real age.
Along with me-, several others. some
thirteen and fourteen boys, were going
with this man. In the cad we wer,
prevented from sailing by the Tenyo
Maru on Friday through our parents
coming to know of our wOuld-be al
venture so that two of the youngeg
boys who had actually been concealed
On board the japanese steamer were
hunted out by their uncle and father.
! have since. In company with the last
two gentlemen named, and Euro
pean and Chinese detective. pro
ceeded to the boarding house whithe.
| had been taken by the colored man
who accostcd me at the clnematO
graph
There ended our young narrator's
story, which Is plain statement Of
facts and which we have been enabled
to supplement from information gath
cred from other sources.
How the Abduction Story Leaked Out.
One of the companions of our youth
full informant, who had also been In.
weighed into the acceptance of the re
cruiter's terms failing in his courage
Ito abide by the Illicit contract. and
Injecting his friends younger sister on
her way home from scho0s, inquired
of her II she knew where hor brothe.
had game.
Upon her replying that she did not
he proffered the statement :dat she
would not see him for some tirio NOV
las he had gone as sailor on board a
Japanese steamer. Alarmed the little
lgirl fastened home to impart the In
formation to the unsuspecting mother
jOnce apprised of the unwelcome news
the anxious lady sent fo" an elder son.
by whom diligent search was promptly
and successfully made with the result.
that the boy was traced home and nm
travelled the whole tale. whose more
salient features we have chronicled
above. 1t was from the returned
would.he adventurer that the name
lof his other companions were learned
land subsequently communicat ed It.
their parents.
Hidden In the Engine Room.
The story of how one father accom-.
panied by the uncle Of boy proceeded
to the Pacific turbiner in the harbor
and there pursued his search after
the sheep who had strayed beyond the
fold makes romantic reading. THE off.
GERS of the ship naturally could not
be cogniZant of all the goings on ON q
big freighter on the busy MOI mig OF
her departure. But one Japanese sail
or, who had casually seen some bnv
led past the steerage into the lower
deck. volunteered to condu II the
strangers In search of theii quest
Right below and in an obscure corner
lOf what Is described 40 the rngina
room, so the story relates. the two
boys were located and subsequently
dragged out of their hiding pii,,
There were twelve other boys a'su ~
board.
While the latter scene was being
enacted on board the steamer. II IL
related that another lady was harry
ing ON to n certain school In pursuit
of her son lest he also might be de
coyed to emigrate as the little mans
name was associated with those OF
the victims of the labor traffickers.
A Likely Theory.
The clerkship offers at Honolulu to
the youthful dupes could be nothing
short Of artful bats held out by the
recruiters with which they 20 easily
trapped their unwary prey. The the.
Dry is advanced that the boys were In
reality wanted for the prosperous sug
ar plantations In Honolulu and az the
American exclusion laws prohibited
the entrance of Asiatic laborers into
the Territory an Illicit labor agency
was set up in Hongkong through whost
medium labor of description not pro
scribed by the laws of the State would
be procured and imported into the
country destined for the prolific cane
fields OF the islands. Whether the
labor as might be represented by the
batch so easily roped in by the silver
tongued confederate of the emigranl
trafficker was the most suitable did
not at all enter into the head of the
INSCRIPTIONS broker, whose one
thought was upon the sum total OF the
dollars represented by the aggregate
OF the value he would secure at so
much per head of the immigrants land
ed at Honolulu.
Now that the matter is in the hands
of the authorities, nit is to be trusted
that for the fair name of the Colony
the whole mystery would be sifted to
the very bottom and so prevent Hong
Kong from being made the center of a
traffic which df tolerated) may earn
for II the unenviable stigma of being
the focus of the revived notorious slave