Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-08
grant. 10 Serve.
:. PRISONMEN7

Louis T. Grant, contracting cleo
,trician who was instrumental in the
{ Introduction of the first automobiles
into Honolulu nearly dc cade ago,
and of late years has made his home
in the Philippine Islands, must serve
two years in prison owing to his con
yiction in the courts for participation
,, in opium smuggling.
The Supreme Court of the Philip
pines has denied the application of
: Louis T. Grant for a writ of error up
on which he hoped to carry his case
4 to the. highest tribunal in the United
States.
Unless Governor General w. Cam
eron Forbes of the Philippines chooses
to- extend executive clemency in the
case of Grant, he will be compelled
to serve sentence imposed upon him
by the COURTS"
Grant was found guilty of partici-
patton, with William Kennedy, in the
big opium smuggle in 1909 in which
2O,5OO pesos worth of the contraband
drug was brought in on the steamer
ced both Grant and Kennedy to one
year in Bilibid, but upon appeal the
Supreme Court increased the sentence
to two years. Kennedy was pardoned
by the Governor General, in consid-
Grafton of information relative to
opium-smuggling given by him to the
government, and Grant applied for
writ of error.
: In denying the writ the Supreme
Court held that although seven diff
ferent assignments of error appeared
in the application, none of them was
taken on definite grounds.
Grant is known to MANY of the old
timers in Honolulu and throughout
the Islands 1t was his famous cleo
trio storage battery auto company
that erected the structure now occu-
pied by the Lewis stables on King
street. A cumbersome pattern of
storage battery machine was brought
down to the islands. The auto service
quickly developed into rank fizzlc.
The machines were found scattered
along the highways and by-ways of
Honolulu and the liverymen of the
town waxed fat and prosperous in ex-
acting tolls for bringing the ponder
Gus coaches back to the garage.
The company went Democratic
and the dozen or more autos We're
shipped to a mainland city and stored
in warehouse that soon after burned
to the ground
Grant installed electrical fittings in
a number of buildings at Hilo. He
then operated a small electrical bust |
ness at Manila for some years known
as the L. T. Grant Electrical Corpor-
alton, Limited
The attempt to smuggle vast guam
titles of opium into the Philippines in
which Grant was implicated was the |
most daring stunt ever pulled off |
there,
The authorities alleged that Grant |
left Manila for Hongkong, commits |
stoned by gOld-dredging company to
arrange for suitable machinery for |
the plant, Grant remained at tho
China port experimenting the con-
structlon Of the plant. Some months
later machinery and Grant returned |
to Manila. The iron and steel had |
been tipped Off" by Chinese on the
coast as loaded" An examination
by the Philippine customs inspectors
revealed the fact that over twenty
thousand pesos of dope had been
skillfully concealed within what APP
peared to be solid Iron columns"
steel shaftlng," and even the cylind-
ers of small engine were discov-
cred filled to the head with drug.
The seizure was followed by the ar
rest of Grant, who also implicated