The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-10
JAPANESE MERCHANTS
=. WILL PAY REWARD TO
~ MEN WHO CAUGHT YEE

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~ +. MEN WHO CAUGHT YEE
The Japanese merchants who offered
reward Of $500 for the capture Of
wee 70 Keuk lAst night decided TO
split the money among the officers max
ing the capture Of the bandit. chief
McDufie viii get $3.50 and the other
officers viii take the balance share and
share alike. Chief McDufie stated last
night that he would accept the reward.
y THOUGH wounded in the neck
"A and. leg and apparently in great
= pain, Yee Yo Keuk, Korean
bandit, captured at Punchbowl and
Beretania streets yesterday morning by
detectives and policemen, was under
close guard at the Queens hospital
last night. DIR. J. N. Kuhns, attending
physician, believed he was not injured
so seriously as he pretended, and since
he had escaped twice from the city
Jail no chances were to be taken on a
third escape. ...f .g
Besides charges Of assault and rob-
berry the Korean probably will face
one of murder, for he is suspected
by detectives of having slain Chez
Wong Yer, q fellow countryman, at
Beretania and King streets, a short
time before he was captured. 5
Korean Dead in Bed s.-
Chez was found dead in his bed, with
a revolver bullet in his brain. He said
that zee threatened to kill him be-
cause he laid information that result.
ell in Yee's arrest last winter.
To Detective Sergeant John ID. KEEL
lett, zee said last night some Of his
possessions could be found under the
Lutheran church. Search showed a hi.
cycle zee presumably had used to make
his way about the city to and from
rObberies. A bag of trinkets and skele-
ton keys, also used in his rObberies,
il is believed, was found under the
building, but, because Of the night
Sheriff Rose directed that digging for
money, probably buried, be postponed
until this morning. Search will be
Climax Of Long Planning
Arrest of zee was the climax OF
long planning. For week The Ad,
vertiser had known that Chun Duck
Soon was to be used to betray Yee;
that he had been turned over to De
tectives by High Sheriff Jarrett, who
had him in charge at the territorial
penitentiary, where he was serving q
sentence; but. at the earnest solieita
ton of Chief of Detectives Arthur Nc
Duffie, there was no, publication of IL e
as he asserted that premature public :,
would make useless work of foul
months. The Advertiser was aware
that the capture was to be made Wed
n"shay night, but, again, there was nc
publication of this news, as 1t was not
wished to initiate against work of the
police, and zee was caught about day
break yesterday.
Bandit and Chief in Hospital
With zee at the hospital lies Chiei
McDuffie, shot in the leg by the bandit
as he was fleeing from his hiding place
McDuflie shot Yee in the neck; Captain
Of Police Charles H. Baker brought
him down finally with bullet in tn,
-.
Chun Duck Soon, who formerly wal
"a eminent criminal as zee, until b,
was sent to prison for Burglary, Offered
- betray zee to detectives. He ac
companicd them Wednesday night t.
Reretana and Punchbowl streets.
Sheriff Charles II. Rose warned tn,
Tublic not to he too confident that tn,
ed Of burglaries has been reached nov
that zee is arrested, as he expects Il
have evidence within the next weel
showing that the most of the crimes
charged up to Yee were committed b,
gang of young men who have beer
taking advantage of the. notOriet,
aimed by Yee to east the blame o
their depredatiOns upon him.
Where Captive Took Place.
At the corner of Beretania an
Punchbowl streets there is the VIII
roomlng house. Back of it,, facinI
, IunchbOwl street, is the cottage o
otto BerHdt. Eva of the Villa hous
IL the servants quarters of the Bernd
home, whore lives Chin See 500, KO
rcan employed by Mr.. Berndt. Thi
shack is cut of from Beretania stree
" brush and fence; there is a fepe
letween it and the Villa, but there
an exit between the Villa and tn
rerndt cottage. "'
Near the rear of the Villa, separate
from it by this fence, is q chieke
,pOI, of high board Stats, To this plae
there went Wednesday night Ghu
Duck Soon the informer; Captain Nj
nufle, Captain Baker, Policeman A. Z
Cunderson and Detectives NJ, A. Swif
ind f. V. Belmont. They left the pC
Ice station about nine clock.
(hun Locates Outlaw.
Chm had given the information tina
Wee was hiding in the shack oecupie
" Chin See 500.
McDuffie, GundersOn and Baker hi
in the chicken coop, from which the
cnuld see the door to the shack, throug
which zee would have to pass. Swii
aud Belmont went to the rear Of III
shack and lay along fence, whenr
they could see q window cut in tn
wall o: the house as an entrance an
exit for Yee, This way led thr0ug
the grounds Of the German Luthera
church.
The policemen and detectives waite
I"forIn Cpplis Plan.
The informer nearly spoiled the pla
He wished TO sneeze and, when ms
wishes TO sneeZe, he will sneeze. !
ran, sneezing, toward the Berndt hOm
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