The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-30

Detective Kellett. assisted by Apana
and others, last night raided the opium
den of Cheong Tuck Poi near the corner
Of Vineyard and Liliha streets, arrest
ing half dozen Chinese smokers fbe-
sides the principal and Selling three
tins of opium, one of which was con
traband, being unstamped and also
gathering a number of little shells of
the dope prepared for smokers.
Opium on the half-shell, opium in a
tiny jar and opium in tins constituted
a mixed though not a large haul.
Kellett headed the police automobile
for the residence of United States Dis
trict Attorney Breckons. knowing that
the latter gentleman would be interest.
ed in the TIN of smnggled opium, that
which was unstamped.
Breckons was in his kimono when
aroused. but, ever seenting the opium
from afar, even as a warhorse shifts the
battle from long way off. the bright
attorney from Wyoming slipped into
his slippers, trousers and a sweater and
throwing a few boxes of cigarettes into
his coat pocket. jammed on his lid and
joined the police party in the machine.
Arrived ar the police station. the pri-
waite Office of Chief of Detectives Nc
Duffie, which is richly furnished in
hatchets which have split skulls. re
volvers which have shot souls over the
border of life and DEATH knives which
have tasted heart 5 blood, steel cuffs
and bracelets which have clasped wick
ed hands. files which have cut through
barriers. and a hundred other criminal
curioS. a preliminary investigate of
the situation was naugurated.
~ m tired, but its nteroSting
work. - smiled Brcckons, as he recined
at full length on the divan and lit a
fresh cigarette.
Cheung Tuck Poi. ancient of DAYS
and heavy with years and slvnesS,
looking like a piece of oblong pareh-
ment upon which had been inscribed
the idiosvncrasies of SIX bits of a cen
turv, set like dummy except when
addressed, than he spun a yarn to the
effect that he was not responsible for
the opium being found on his premises.
According to his weird tale. there had
died Chinese in the same Touse who
had left him as sort of an executor Of
he opium. to sell and to account for
WI dtNbNtA VI the 'iStth man E1Nlftt r.
Defendant had not bought the dope,
he was merely holding It IN trust for
the bones which now lie in Nuuanu.
Breckons. naturally, wanted to know
where Tuck Poi got the smuggled can,
hut Poi merely repeated the story of
! inheriting if in trust from a defunet
| celestial
! Kellett pat Mr. Cheong Tuck Poi he
! low IN a nice. clean. cool cell, free from
! al demoralizing surroundings aud out
! of the way If bad company. the dope
! fond having first been deprived of
/ everything except his clothes. They
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