The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-11-11
NJ DUFF|E WOULD
TELL HIS STORY
Suspended Chief of Detectives
May Be Allowed to Offer Elk
PLANTATION of Charges Against
Him at Conference to Be Held
With Accusers and Deputy At
torney General Smith.
tFrom saturday Advertiser.l

Deputy Attorney dencral SWltn anu
sheriff Jarrett on one side and Arthur
McDuflic, suspended captain of detcc-
tivcs, and his attorney, +. C. Peters, on
the other, depends much of the result
of the McDuflie investigation, which
will como to head Monday before the
civil service commission.
The conference may come off today,
but has not even been decided on yet,
and depends on Attorney Peters this
morning 1t is understood that McDuf'
fic is agreeable to the conference and is
willing to make statement to the at
torney' general to explain what is re-
garded as discriminating evidence.
Smith and Peters had a short telepbon-
ic conference yesterday, in which Pet.
ers insisted that jarrett be not present
at this conference, to which Smith re-
fused to assent.
The investigation came to an abrupt
halt yesterday when it was decided that
all the material at present available
has been secured. 1t has not resulted
in definite legal proof of graft between
McDufiie and the gambling huis but has
resulted in so much astonishing evil
dence of alleged incompete9ey that it
seems to have fulfilled the suspicious
which started the investigation, in a
small way, as long as three months ago.
The charges against Kellett are much
more serious but will not be taken up
in detail until next week.
McDufle, in ease the conference is
held, will be asked to explain the rca-
son why he failed to suppress gam.
bling in Honolulu; why he turned in
formers away who had reported plans
to raid big Chinese games; why Off
GERS who were under his direction wink
ed at gambling evidences; why he him.
self winked at gambling evidence when
he ran on to it, and various other per
| tinent questions The statements in the
attorney general s possession are each
strongly supported and, taken as a
whole, support each other.
The investigation of the gambling
situation has led to the discovery of
other Irregularities and suspicious cir
cumstances connected with the detec.
tive bureau which McDufiie may be
asked to throw light upon.
How Investigation Started.
The investigation which, in most par.
ticulars, was wound up yesterday by
the attorney generals department., was
started by individual officers in McDuf
| fie IS department during July. The con.
ditions which McDuffic rs to be asked to
explain were then so fragrant that five
| detectives, one after another, of their
own volition, and at different times, re.
ported to Sheriff Jarrett that they could
no longer remain in the department
They expected an exposure to come and
that they themselves might come under
suspicion.
The report to jarrett was made midi
rectly. Each was as suspicious of Jar
rett as they were of McDufIie and had
worked by themselves, and for that rea;
son the attorney general insisted upor
handling the case without interference,
from police officials. Deputy Smith re
ported to Peters yesterday, on the lat
ter demand, that absolutely nothing
had been found intimating that Jar
! rett s course had been other than thai
of al honest official I'm every way.
None of the detectives, in his invcs
tigation, discovered conclusive PROOF
that money was being received by Me
Dufiie from the gamblers, but each re
ported being told continually that THU
was the case, their informers being pro
fessional gamblers well known 70 tn,
4 police, who met them around Chinatown
and they were faced with the undoubt
ed fact that gambling was riotous il
every district of the city and that n,
real effort was being made to stop it.
McDufie Offers to Resign
Shortly after that, upon Jarrett s at
tention being forcibly called to tn
gambling situation by several of tn
supervisors, he called McDuflie into hi
office and asked for report on il
McDufiie "made no bones' about nam
ing some of the games that were run
ming. He said fatty that he could no
stop them; that he could not get in
. formers; that he couldn't get into tn
games; that the courts wouldn't sup
port him when he did make arrests
He said that if Jarrett didn't like til
way he was running the department Ii
, would turn in his badge. He the
? asked Jarrett if the latter wanted bir
to batter down doors and contract dan
age suits. Jarrett told him that h
did not want him to outstep the limi
Of the law, but did want him to go tn
limit The games continued to run.
When McDuffie went to Shangha
Jarrett took the opportunity to ties
his chief of detectives theories. II
placed Deputy Sheriff Rose in charg
r of the gambling squad, and inside O
two weeks he had broken up Chimes
, gambling in Honolulu.
Rose found no difficulty in seeurin
informeTs. lie broke into the gamblin
joints bv catering down the doors, bu
not until he was assured by signals tha
his intormers were inside and tha
marked money had been circulated
the games, and he did not contract an
damage suits. The old joints are no.
~ gloomy as the tomb. Even "tlI
kan' has been stopped in most q
them. What is more, Rose secured eoI
victions IN almost every ease that wei
10 trial.
That convinced the sheriff that SOM
thing was wrong Ia bis detective a.
paftment. lie turned the whole matt
into the hands VI the attorney genefi
aDd ordered bis Officers 10 turn oy'
theif Information 70 that Official
moot rhsrs he did NOT even know Nhi
the details Of that inflammation Nsfe.
Bay That Danes Are Running,
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