The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-12-02
Gets EVIDENCE,
THEN THE MEN
Deputy Sheriff Rickard, Of Ha-
waii, Clears Out Nest of
Blind Piggers.

NMall special 10 Inc AdNcrtiscr.)
HILO, November 29.-The enormous
extent Of the Illicit liquor traffic on
this island wai revealed last week
when twenty.three men in Hamakua
were arrested on charges of running
blind pig establishments. With ex.
ception of one man, who is Portu.
guese, the arrested men are all .Japa.
nese and Chinese.
The arrests are the result of two
months patient and highly efficient
work on the part of Deputy Sheriff
William Rickard. During the past two
months he has, with the aid of three
or four informers, worked up all the
cases mentioned He managed to avert
suspicion and to prevent the warning
from getting abroad by refraining
from making any arrests. lie merely
secured his evidence, slowed it away,
made notes of all the facts of the cases,
Keeping 1t all on hand for future refer
ence. No suspicious were aroused un-
til towards the very end of the cam.
paign, and when the horrible news
broke, n certain japanese at Paauilo
kept the telephone wires hot through.
out the width and breadth of the dis.
trict, but, alas, it was then too late.
In every case the charge is selling
liquor without license. In some in.
stances there are as many as three DC.
casions on which Rickard has witnessed
sales made by one party, and the de-
tendants are up against it on account
of the fact that it is hard for them to
place the particular illegal act which
was observed.
Arrests were made throughout the
district, but Paauilo proved to be by
far the worst nest of iniquity that is
if the number of arrests made there
serve as a criterion. No less than ten
arrests were made there. Prominent
among the defendants is Hayashida,
who runs a hotel at the end of the
railroad, and who has been at Paauilo
Tor over a score of years. Hay
ashida's brother, who holds forth in
the mauka camp, also found himself on
the list of defendants. In the case of
Hayashida it is alleged that he kept
no stock of liquor on the premises, but
that he secured the stuff, when need
dIDSt, IIOHl IL HDuht III lnt
makai of the hotel.
T.. Among the other Paauilo defendants
were Kobayashi, who is known to fame
mainly as an ice cream vendor, but
who is alleged to have dealt in the less
innocent stuff also; and Kwong Sal
Yen, Chinese storekeeper. The rast
of the defendants are plantation labor
ers BARRIERS and the like.
| On the old road running mauka from
Paauhau, five defendants were taken.
OF these three were Chinese and two
japanese. They were all plantation
employees living in different camps. At
the main camp makai at Paauhau -FOUR
japanese were arrested. They, also,
were plantation employees, several be
ing employed in the mill; and one a
barber.
In the Honokaa plantation village,
malsai of the main village, were found
two defendants, one being Chinese
and the other Portuguese. In the
Kawela plantation camp, between Hon
okaa and Kapulena, were arrested two
Japanese.
1t is a significant fact that of the
twenty-three defendants only one, the
Chinese storekeper at Paauilo, had an
internal revenue license. As the pen
atty which Uncle Sam imposes for sell
ing liquor without one of his licenses
makes the territorial penalty sink INTO
insigniiicance, it is hoped that the fed.
eral authorities will wake up and en-
force the law. not only in the Hamallua
district, but in the other districts of
the island as well.
Rickard s work is likely to net a
considerable sum to the county, if he
can make his case sticks As the or
dinarv penalty for illicit liquor selling
is fine of from 500 to $3.50, the coun-
ty will make several thousand dollars,
if the prosecution is generally success.
full.
The plight of the blind piggers is
meat for the attorneys, and among
those who have secured clients are Har-
ry Irwin, Furtado and Boteilho. The
cases have all been continued for trial
until various dates this coming week