The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-19
GAMBLERS FINED 8s
BUT never PAID
CASH PENALTIES
Taxpayers Lose Cool Sixteen
Hundred Dollars Because -
Police Judge Was Asleep
ORIENTAL CRAFT PUTS
OVER SOME PHoNEY BONDS
City Attorneys Office viii See
That Bunko Game Is Not
Continued

Through the gross earelessness--let
II be called such--of someone, the tax
payers of Honolulu are losers to the
extent of sixteen hundred and ten dol
lars through the recent handling of
certain important gambling cases in .
the police court. The gamblers are in
pocket just that much, and the author
tiles have been made n joke Of.
On March 8, All Chong and fifty
-four others were arrested in a raid OH
the gambling joint In the rear of Sun
zee Hops store on Maunakea street
The news was given out by the police
with great huTrah, to prove how zeal.
Onsly they were fighting the gambling
evil. The ffty.fve gamblers were
duly convicted in the police court aud
| fined $15 and $l.00 costs each. They
| appealed their case to the circuit court,
their attorney, w. T. Rawlins, fling a
bend, which was solemnly O. Ked by
Judge Monsarrat, On June 25 the ap-
peal was withdrawn end the eonvie.
| zion stood, but not a penny of the
fiues, amounting to 1880, has been paid
| D. anyone.
Second Gamblers Joke
On April 10, Lee Chuck and forty.
seven others were caught in another
hurrah raid, the joint over Wing Sing
Lee s store on King street being the
scene of this exploit. There was the
cCnviction, the appeal, the bond pre-
pared by Rawlins, the withdrawal, all
at the expense of the taxpayer, but IF
the forty eight convicted men only Lee
Chuck has paid his fine. The balance
Of the fines, amounting to $517, is N
the pockets of the chuckling pakes.
Third Big Laugh
On April 80, Che Tong and thirty.
three others were grabbed, with the de-
tective department s press agency bug.
ling the raid being upon a notorious
Hotel street joint, over the STORE Of
kCong Wah You. Judge MOnsarrat
fined the bunch $1,000 aud 800 costs
each. An appeal was entered and
Abe appeal was withdrawn, the. latter
Oh June z, but Of the 1914 the city
should have in its treasury as a result,
o. ly $ll.00 has been paid.
In all three cases, W. II. RlWlins was
The attorney for the defense. In all
three cases prepared the bond which
Judge Monsarrat approved, and in all
three cases the bond is worthless be-
cause of its phraseolOgy, while the
police say that they. cannot find the
convicted gamblers to collect the fines
from them.
No More Such Tricks
Now that the horse has been stolen,
the city attorneys department is TAX.
| ofanQ Ia that orf frinEa
rot played on the police Judge any
more, and a form of bond is being pre-
pared that will not amount to a free
passage out Of Jail for convicted gam
blers. The city attorneys department
has also prepared a request to make OF
Judge MOnsarrat that he give the rep
resentatives of the city attorneys Of.
fee a chance to see the bonds fled in
cases of appeal before he gives the doc
uh.ents his judicial o. X.
Never Saw the Bonds
In the three cases referred to above,
| the city attorney s office states that no
representative knew of the phoney
bonds that had been fled and stumbled
on to the legal bunko only after the
hundred or so gamblers had been tell
ing the joke on the courts in all the
r |
the various chef circuits
Deputy City Attorney Garden states
that the department is going to furth.
, er safeguard the ends of justice by re-
, ql,esting the circuit courts not to per
nit Withdrawals Of appeals until the
defendants are brought into court and
3 surrendered under their bonds to the
, custody of the sheriff.
Is Brand New Dodge
The city attorneys department Is
making no allegations in regard to the
legal fimfaming that has been going
on, but began steps yesterday to see
that the district court Judge will have
nc opportunity of going to sleep on
his job again, in the matter of bonds,
while the detective department will
not have to worry itself any more in
forgetting the identity of hundred
or so of the best known gamblers in
the city.
. Deputy Garden is authority for the
statement that the three cases brought
to his attention by The Advertiser are
the only three of the kind that have
, gone along the particular line specified,
hut that Mr.. Rawlins rendered SINH
lar bond in another recent case and had
. Ii politely turned down.