The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-12-15
Jnearths Gang Of Youthful
Thieves Representing About
Every Race Under sun

4 d y $40 y
J. Eighteen alleged delinquents. repre-
seirtatives of all tho races under the
sllls and ranging ing age from seven H.
fifteen years will dance attendance be
lure Judge Whitney Ia the Juvenile
onft this morning. IT is likely that
several Of them, the ring leaders, will
shortly afterwaFd find their way to IN
boysi industrial school at Waialee, for
the remainder OF their minority.
This collection OF youthfnr,oTende
has been gathered in by John Q. Ander,
son, probation officer, during the week,
following some pretty sleuth work ac-
Isolsflished by the terror Of Honolulu :
bad boSs. Anderson has the story Of
each yonngster reduced 10 writing. Each
md al o. them told on the Aother
fellow" and the links in the chain Of
discrimination are very complete, says
the officer. h,
Owners In Ignorance
At result Of the investigation car
ried ontlby Anderson it,is,probable that
a Japanese named Motto, earetaker o.
Representatiye-elect Charles II. Brown =
asEap, iron yard, win face Territorial
and federal prosecution on the eharg.
Of receiving stolen goods. Brown, who
" now In the mainland, is not thought
ito know anything about the shady
transactions Of his man, thinks Ander,
son. Even some of the owners Of the
goods stolen and claimed to have been
sold TO Motto are probably not aware
that their shops and yards have been
pilfered Of objects Of value. This, An.
dersOn says, they may learn by reading
The Advertiser.
Half Ton FILTERED
Over half q ton Of lead, brass and
Upper has been stolen by the gang dur-
ing the past three months from the
schuman Garage, Me naval dock, Har-
rison = scrap yard, George Ward, tbs
LordsYomg Engineering Company, the
Young Brothers, the Honolulu Iron
Works, Cation, Neill 4 Co, and other
Establishments aud sold ~ the young
pilferers TO Motto al the rate OF fifty
fonts for every twenty pounds of metal
,BiDwn's. scrap iron depot has, appa-
rcntly escaped the industrious opera.
tions Of the Youthful gang.
Take the lead stolen from the naval
yard, FOR instance, 'ssaid Anderayii sess
crday, 1.-THE practise was for some
Scung bootblaek OF the gang 10 get
INTO the premises and be allowed TO
hibe the shoes Of some Ulcer Or other
Do his way out the yopHg fellow would
uietly pick up a piece of lead and
tow Il away Ia his hoothlack box. In
his manner he walked of the premises
light under the nose Of those watching
he grprpds, and got away with the
goods without any question. .
doto Was Circumspect
ANDERSON says that when the y0nng
fellows called on Moto and Brown was
around the Japanese fnctotum would
chase them away and would have roth
ing 10 do with them. but when the
boss was away Motto s demeanor
was entirely different and he got down
. business without any expenditures
VI all.
In the collection Of pilferod goods,
which Anderson says the youngsters got
yay, are 4 dozen brass automobile
awps, supposedly the property Of the
'"human Garage, Dichen's Curiosity
shon would not be ip II with the ola
noa-ida the dozen ana half Of Young
delinquents have gathered duing the
three months, thinks Anderson.