The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-02-09
Advertisers Expose Stirs
Chinatown With Other
Victims of Dope Foot
pads Telling TheirStories
ONE HAUL GOT
THE HUI Sl050
Aiea Chinaman Paid 5000
For Tins Full Of POit--
BreckonS May Become
an Assistant Prosecutor
(Frsm Sunday Advertiser.)

ID XPosURE Of the badger game"
L. being worked by hui Of high
way robbers, posing as Illicit dealers in
opium at first and as customs officers
70 complete the game, as given In The
Advertiser, has stirred Chinatown as
nothing has stirred it since the divi-
zion of the boycott fund, and as a re-
suit a number Of other stories Of the
work of the badger men have come out.
from what is now being told, this
gang Of swindlers has been operating,
along the one line, for some time.
During the latter part OF December
two hauls we're made, the principals, in
which viii be In jail--or ont on some
ricayuns bond--before many days. R.
W. Breckons, with the consent Of the
city attorney. win appear In the cases
as special prosecutor, having been re-
tanned by the Chinese. Mr.. Breckons
has already collected y mass Of evi-
dence, which he viii turn over to
Assistant City Attorney chillingworth
for the two to work on.
THOSE SUSPECTED
Warrants are to be asked at once for
The arrest Of Sailor Roberts, wrestler
tnd a man wen known in certain
tircles; Bert Bowers, who has been in
dicted 90 many times that the count Is
lost, and his cases as frequently nolis
crossed in the federal court; a man
named Hunt, against whom the evil
Gence IL s9id to be strong; Eugene
Love, now awaiting trial on an embez-
sientnt charge, a man with d peni-
ten.iary record; Isadore scharlin, who
has figured in a previous opium indict-
ment; John McGrath, already arrested
nd againIt whom new charges are to
be placed; Jim Boggs and william
stroat, who have distinguished them
selves by chasing steamers off port in
a sampIn, which activity has already
brous hit them into the news. ..
A BOLD CRIME
Che of the boldest crimes credited tc
como Of this hui took place around the
New Year. Then as in the case already
reported, the agent met q Chinaman In
Aala Park and offered fifteen tins Of
stamped oTium for $lO50. The China
man sought two friends and "betweer
the three Of them they raised the coin
Thay were taken in an automobile to
house In the white residential section o.
the city. Here new variety was givel
to the badger game. In this case tn
oLilrn was sold and delivered and tn
sl050 handed over. In glee the Chi
nsse carried their dope to the waiting
automobile and put it on the front seat
the chauffeur throwing his coat over II
THE PI1SCH
Thcn the customs officers" az
pe2rld. Two men sprang forward, on
with a drawn gun and the other with a
electric torch.
What is this! Dope7 You are III
der arrest we are oficersl'' and tn
Chinese covered down in the machin'
in with the "oficers" also got.
Downtown the machine speeded, tn
officers telling the Chinese that the
ware being taken to the customs hous
gut, strangely enough, the officers d.
cided to stop and get drink. II
machine pulled put at a saloon and II
TWO got out, after warning the Chimes
TO stay where they were.
THE FRIENDLY CHAUFFEUR
Now is your chance to get away!
nisSed the chauffeur, who threw h
into the high and dashed off, just
fhe "oficers'' rushed out, shouting 4,
ths machine to stop. Down into Chin
town the machine sped, stopping, 81
denly ut a dark corner. Hop out heI
quickl'' the chauffeur said. Out u
Chineae bundled, when, zipp, OF we
the machine with their fifteen tins
dope that cost S1O61.
Tho same dope probably figured
the case Of last week, when It broug
800 more to the hui. How often
has been sold cannot yet be told,
cause the authorities are keeping sor
Of their information to themselves.
The GAME AT AIEA
Sometimes another game is play
At Aiea, a couple of weeks ago, CHR
man bought $500 worth Of opium, g