Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-19
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18th intruders for the past month. He
tates that he has had TO watch his
lace carefully as some one comes
nearly every night. On Saturday eve.
| ling a robber broke into his home
nd stole IS. On another occasion the
rtruder took bottle Of beer.
On Saturday evening two men wear.
i ng masks broke into the Odo Shoten
N Hotel street and took $50 from the
lace. T. Odo, the proprietor, said
hat the thieves were either Koreans
r Japanese. On the same evening
'obbers broke into the home Of two
seisha girls and stole two pair of Japa-
! Iese shoes.
The many burglaries reached eli
max when the Yamane store at Kakaa-
o reported that thieves had taken one
,ent from the cash register Of their
tore. They also missed two pair Of
Jants, some corn beef and several
ans of salmon. The men who did
he job could not be located.
The Watamoto store on Alapai
street was another Japanese place
listed last week. The proprietor saw
wo men trying 10 break into his store.
Ind the men ran away. He then cali
ID up the police station and asked
hat some one be sent at once to To-
ate the men. When he telephoned
re was asked by one of the officers
II the station whether he had lost any
money. When he answered in the
negative, the officer told him to come
down to the station the next morning
and report the affair.
Complain Of Disregard.
The Watamoto case Is only one Of
many. say the Japanese, of which the
.olice officers have shown an entire
disregard. and many prominent Japa-
iese have declared that it will be nee
assary for them to appoint some one
o look after their interests, as the
lolice. they aliege, have failed to do
%. It is stated that the Japanese
rave appealed time and again to the
,oIice, but have always received the
answer. Come around in the morn
ng and report"
lave Tried 20 Be Fair.
Police officials today said that they
ave tried TO give Japanese the same
rejection as Americans and that the
alleged operations Of q Korean auto
Mobile bendit gang had not been
orought to the attention Of the depart
nent except IN an unofficial way, and
hat every effort is being made to APP
rehend offenders against Japanese as
vel. as others.
sThe Japanese, IL they desire. can
DC of great aid 70 this department, and
We will be glad of their help Sheriff
lose said. when an article criticising
lis department. was brought 10 his at
IGNITION. 1t u not always easy TO get
city thieves and pilferers. Five ex-
"a men from the detective depart
a1ent are now on duty all of every
light going over all parts of the town
n an effort to stop petty crime.
This week three Of our men went
way out In the Puuloa district and
waited for hours concealed Ia the
brush to take two Chinese who had
stolen chickens from q japanese. We
sent the men as soon as the complaint
came In.
I'm the cases mentioned in the Ha-
vail Hochi yesterdays no report was
made TO this department The people
vhom the robbers molested did not
complain to us, and we would not have
knownsof IL had not one of our officers
yotten word Of Il.
Rose 6lames Maxine.
AT the bottom of all this, is little
trouble with an ineuentiai Japanese
here. who threatened to get back at
the police for arresting him for not |
having auto lights Its The man is |
Frederick s. Maxine. owner Of the Ma
sino drug store, at Nuuanu and Hotel |
streets, and Of the Hawaii Hochi Ma
kino was stopped by traffic man |
and brought In here once. and made |
violent protest. Later he left his auto |
standing for two hours at the curb |
near his store without lighting the |
lights ana was warned by policeman |
Who told him not to let it happen |
again.
"'Oh. / don't know Maxine is said |
to have answered.i may do it again.
"A few days later he left his ma
chine without lights while he went |
INTO the Liberty theater. and for this
he was arrested He came to see me
and again made loud protest and |
many threats, and then he went to a
and gave q long statement |
criticizing this department.
Maxine did not deny that his lights
were out and that he was violating /
the law His only protest was that /
another car near him was standing /
without lights and the owner was not |
arrested.
No Partially Shown.
"As a matter of fact, the.owner Of |
the other car was brought down here
explained why his machine was with
but lights, and was allowed to go. The
same thing would have been done in /
Makino's case If he had chosen to e1,
plain. But he did not, so his case
went before the Judge.
Just after this Y. Komatsu, an en-
ploye of Makino's drug store. was
charged with having ehefa tickets in
his possession, and Maxine came
down and protested loudly that we ar
rested only Japanese. Now he is hol-
ering that we don't arrest Japanese
Verifying Sheriff Roses statement
Chief McDuffie said that Maxine came
% him and in the presence of De
.ective Kellett urged them to drop the
Ease against Komatsu. @
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