The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-22
MYSTERY Of THOSE
DEFECTIVE BONDS
EASlYEXPLAINED
VIE Crawford Filed Worthless
Papers With Sanction Of
City Attorney Brown
LATTER LET BUNCH GO
WITH HIS EYES OPEN
Brown 6lameS Police, Police
Blame Judge, But Gamblers
Are Well Satisfied

Two bonds drawn by Willie C'Chc-
Fay crawford, one. approved by A.
NJ Brown city attorney, and the other
exactly similar in form, were disrov
crd by the city attorneys office on
Monday to be defective after seventy
eight Chinese gamblers had escaped po-
lice court fines amounting to 1881 as
n dirPct result of the defective instru-
ments
These are only two ont of thrp" or
fOnr or even more bonds that have
been found insufficient as disclosed by
The Advertiser Yesterday, the net loss
to the city or territorial treasury run.
ming well above $1,000, as admitted by
sheriff Pose Yesterday.
TIE Advert User s disclosure Of the
condition Of affairs permitting the easy
es"ape of Chinese gamblers crelteI ex-
citemcnt around police headquarters
Yesterday. Attorney Rawlins, counsel
for Lee Chuck in one ease and who had
been named rs representing the accused
men in each of three big gambling
eases nearlv came TO blows with Dep
uty City Attorney Garden.
Gdyb NOuAu II "Ouhu
City Attorney Brown saws he sees
no reason why the police, with several
Chinese detectives. cannot apprehenh
at least the ma iority of the l22 Chin
ESQ who were fined
Sheriff Rose says his department is
up agars' il. because his men do not
know the Chinese by sight and most of
them probably used aliases anyhow, so
th"v cannot he found by name,
District Judge Monsarrat expresses
the opinion that the bonds are not de
fectivc, that thev are still in effect AMI
that the city attorney ought to hrlng
suit against the sureties to recover
He saws he hat no cause to suspect
ineffi"iHncv In the bonds, because they
are oil in practically the same form
as those used the last TWENTY-FIVE
wears, in cases appealed from the dis
tri"t to circuit court.
The reason the bonds in these ap-
peals are defective. say all tho Officials
concerned, is that they cover only their
appearance IN the circuit court, and do
not provide for payment Of the fines as
sessed in the lower court.
Opened Wide The Door
The Advertiser, that of Lee Chuck and
forty others w. T. RawIins, their
attorney, decided after the appeal had
been filed in circuit court that his
clients did not care to 90 to trial; con.
sequently he merely fled notice in the
office Of tho circuit court clerk, with
drawing appeal.
Neither he nor his clients had to Rp-
pear in court, and since the bond did
not compel the defendants appearance
until the hearing went to trial or had
been finally Disposed Of, "when this
bond shall be old and of no effect, -
III" ""tCrp the hinese were free.
The other cases, those Of Che Tong
and thirty three others. and of All
ChOng and tv four others. were on
a par with Il Lee Churk affair.
Knew But Proc ra stinated
City ATTORNEY Brown said he first
learned the Chinese were rscauing bv
this method fullv two months ago, and
that about SIX weeks ago he insisted
a now md NOR" binding clause be in
sorted Ia the bombs. 1t is interesting
TO note in this connection that the APP
peal of Lee ChucN and rumpatriOts was
withdrawn from the circuit court only
recently mat 49, on S'Pt'mler H.
,aaf ~ a''er tne cry attorney knew
IN" pnn'H W''F "oFth!'SS ne allowed
t gam"'"r"' 'i'ent" or WINE
'FHW'"r"' '" eS'h''P Justice "heh ne
could have prevented it.
Rawlins Defed Police
lee Chuck arrcarcd Mt the shrrifF's
office and paid his own fine voluntarily,
but when the police insisted that he
ronnd up bis friends and bring them in
7 be reported to his LAWYER, Rawhns,
who notified the police that they could
not hold Lee Chuck rcsponsible for the
rest. saws Sheriff Rose.
The police can collect the fines if
they can catch the gamblers, Rawlins
vas quoted Yesterday A DECLARING but
thay ca"not collect from the hond,mcn.
who f,Ifned their obligption4 in seeing
that the Chinese kept the promise to