The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-11-11
tFrom Monday Advortiscr.)

be relnstated this morning without trial
by the civil service commission.
This was decided last night after a
conference between Deputy Attorney
General Smith and Sheriff Jarrett. The
action was taken on advice of Mr..
Smith who stated that his invcstiga-
tions had not resulted in sufficient evil
dcnce to bring before the commission.
Sergeant Kellctt is not rcinstated.
His ease, it is said, will undoubtedly
30 to a criminal court.
McDuilie was given the opportunity
promised him to "cxplain' the charges
against him. At ten clock yesterday
morning he and his attorney, f.. G.
Peters, and the sheriff and the deputy
attorney general met behind closed
doors.
McDufiie proceeded to explain. His
explanations, announce the investiga-
tors, completely demolished their case.
Failed to Suppress Gambling.
The one black charge against Me
Duilic was his utter and lamentable
failure to suppress gambling in Homo
lulu.
This charge was the last to be given
up by the attorney general S depart.
ment. 1t was the one which McDufie
was called upon to answer more than
any other in yesterdays conference
1t is dropped, according to the an
nOuncement, not because McDuile prov.
ed that he had not failed to suppress
gambling, but because the fate of the
evidence when placed in the hands of
the civil service commission was look.
ed upon with deep foreboding
McDuiiie yesterday made pretensc
at explaining why gambling ran. There
is nothing new about his explanation
He made them six months ago when
Sheriff Jarrett was being assailcd on
every hand for the gambling that Nc,
Duiiic hadn t suppressed. lie said he
couldn t get informers, couldn t get in
the games and eouldn I get the support
of the courts.
Yesterday he asked Smith for the
names of the games that were running
when he was in office. Smith named
four. McDuile answered mt once that
they had been raided three or -four
times each.
These cases were dropped on that
explanation.
1t is fact, claim those who have in
vestigated, that not one of these games
ever stopped running when McDutiC
raided them, and the fact sticks out
like sore thumb, just as does the fact
that when Deputy Sheriff Rose raided
them they shut down at. once, for the
most part and have not since reopened
under Rose s administration. Those
that did not shut down aftoS the first
raid were again raided within the week
and then they did shut down. .
Other Things Demanding Explanations
1t is difficult to sum up the evidence
of McDufiie's apparent utter inability
to deal with the gambling situation
Some of the incidents of McDufiie ;,
rule can be outlined, however,
They require other explanations.
For instance, McDuflie it is said
would have been asked had the ease
gone before the commission, why il was
that when one of his best informers
reported "A game alleged to have been
run by Ahoo, he told him "Never mind
Ahoo; 90 after the japanese games
This informer is named Yec Mang
Suk. He made statement, and backed
it up cmphatically every time it was
relaid before him, and this statement
is in the hands of the attorney genera
now. In it he said that he had been
regularly engaged as a salaried inform
er, that on four specific occasions he
had called Mt McDuilie S room in the
Hawaiian Hotel after two clock in
the morning and told the chief about
japanese games. Each time McDuffiC
got up, dressed, and raded those games
and the raids were successful. Con
victions were each time secured. This
is also n matter of record
Then Yee Mang Suk continues and
states that on three other occasions he
reported Ahoo's alleged game to Me
Duffie and at each time McDuilie fatly
refused to raid that game and gave
as his best reason 81 am tired On
the last occasion, McDuflic, he says, told
him to "Ncver mind Ahoo; 90 after
the japanese games.
The Ahoo Game.
The word "alleged - is used to quail
ify "Ahoo's game" for the reason that
never once in the administration OF
McDuiiie did he ever attempt to break
that game nor did any of his officer!
ever go there on his orders, it i.
claimed.
The fact that a gambling game wa,
operated there is the accepted opinion
of the police. Officers took it upon
themselves TO watch that place ant
satisfy themselves. One of these of
fccrs watched Ahoo S place at least
thirty times in two years on his owI
responsibility. The least number OF
men he saw enter the place was about
twenty; the most forty, he says. He
lid not know, of course, that they were
gambling. But when every Chi
nese in town knew they werc and had
no hesitation in telling all the officer,
that they were and that they would
never be raidcd by the police, the of
icers had no hesitation in treating the
place ms n gambling resort.
Nee Mang Suk also reported 10 them,
as he did to McDufic, that he could get
an informer in the game, aud that he
had himself seen IL operate with money
on the table. This is according TO his
own statement.
The detective already mentioned also
reported the result of his ohsorNut ons
to MeDufllo, McDuhio would not tallo
the matter mp, IL is claimed,
When Rose took charge ai the de-