Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-25

ton that "0llnd pigs or llIlcU llquoI
sellers have been flourishing at ka-
huku through the connivance OF Rosa
& Company, wholesalers Of this city,
brought the wholesale firm under fire
Of the liquor license commission yes
terday afternoon. The hearing proved
so much peculiar booze-selling on the
part of Rosa & Company that the
commission suspended the firms IL
cense for three months.
Three witnesses swore positively
that Manuel Calhao, manager of the
company. had framed" the plan
whereby they could secure large guam
titles OF liquor in Kahuku and sell 1t
without a county license This plan,
in brief, they swore was that CalAao
furnished them with many names,
most of which were fictitious; the
firm would then ship liquor in large
quantities to these persons, at the
same time mailing the shipping re-
ceipts to the three men, who would
get the liquor from the railroad com
psny by producing the receipts, and
then sell the booze to their customers.
Says Stories Are False.
Calhao, with equal posltlveness, de-
nounced the stories as false and told
the board that it looked to him as ii
the men had combined to Job" him.
He asserted emphatically that he be-
lieVed, when shipping the booze, that
il was going to persons who had
merely given these three men their
orders He did admit, however, that
his suspicious had been aroused.
Manager Calhao explained in detail
the charge that he had made entries
in his day-book of the liquor as
shipped to the various persons but had
entered the transaction in the ledger
under the names of the three agents
alone. He said that this was because
these agents were in reality respon'
sible for the payments. r..
The case against Rosa & Company
has been worked up by License In
spector Fennel. who said that the
company has been encouraging blind
piggery' in the Kahuku district
which is a dry district, that is, nc
county licenses are issued there and
consequently no liquor can be sold
under the territorial law 49,. ...>.=.>.
The principal witnesses before the
board at the afternoon session-men
whom Manuel Calhao, manager OF
Rosa & Company, said were the com
pany's agents-were Lau Chong, q
Chinese living at Kahuku; Santiago
Maldanado, Porto Rican who used
to live at Kahuku; and Manuel Rodri
CUES, Portuguese resident of Ka
hukG. 3D.. ...---
In general, the stories told by these
witnesses were identical as far as the
method of their transactions with Rosa
& Company are concerned. ~.
From the stories told by the wit
nesses, and from Manager Calhao's
testimony, it appears that about yeal
ago arrangements were made whereby
Lau Chong, Maldanado and Rodrigues
were to order liquor from Rosa &
Company, which they would sell to
| friends or other customers in the plan
tation camps.
According to the men, Calhao, after
the business began to grow, told them
that some other arrangements fol
shipping the liquor should be made
as they might be under suspicion II
they continued to receive such large
quantities of liquor. ~ -,
Queer Practise Revealed. IT,. i.
Testimony brought out that the
company started to ship the liquor In
names different from Lau Chong, Nal
danado and Rodrigues. Lists of these
names were in evidence before the
board. For instance, Rosa & Com
pany would send shipment of liquor
| to one Manuel Freitas. The shippins
receipt would be received by Rodri
CUES in an envelope addressed to him
AS the shipping receipt would be in
the name of Manuel Freitas, Rodri
! CUES would go to the railroad station
| sign the name of Manuel Freitas or
the receipt, and receive the goods
The entry of the sale on the com
pany's books would be in the name oil
Manuel Rodrigues. 80
Lists of Chinese and Porto Rica1
names also were furnished the com
mission by Inspector Fennell.
Lau Chong. Rodrigues and Madam
ado swore that Calhao had gotten VI
/ the lists of names. Calhao denied
this. He said he believed they were
the names of persons living at IA
huku or vicinity, and that the liquor
was shipped to them through the wit
I nesses. 49,:
Rodrigues and Lau Chong testified
that they had gone to the station al
Kahuku and signed the names of the
alleged fictitious persons mentioned in
I the shipping receipts. Maldanado said
4 that he could neither read nor write
and that his daughters used to sign
/ the receipts for him. ..-. -. =,
Isn't it true that you knew thai
Lau Chong and Maldanado we're moi
| licensed liquor dealers?" Attorney OIL
sen asked Manager Calhao. -:
Il knew it, answered the witness
Later he rather qualified this by say
ing he thought the question referred
to the U. S. internal revenue license
Referring to Lau Chong, Calhac
said he understood that the Chinese
had the authority of the plantation
authorities at Kahuku to keep LIQUOR
for sale to the plantation Chinese. In
his own testimony, Lau Chong said he
had been given. such authority.
1t was brought out during the hear