Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-03

first people who Informed me about
the game. -. y
Il had two men principally working
to get the evidence, a Filipino and q
Japanese: They we3it 10 work as run
ners for the bank. collecting all the
evidence they could got hold OF
the Filipino myself out there at Wa
hiawa The japanese came into town
and told the: detective department
about the chefa game and Kellett told
him to report to me and told me to
use him. The Japanese kept all his
returns to be used as evidence, in his
room out there. while the: Filipino
turned over to me all the: evidence
that he got ...-
To show you how carefully these
infcrmers worked, il is fact that
the Filipino bought chefa tickets from
this japanese and told me: about it,
and never knew that the: japanese
was also working for me.
When Effidavita Came Out,
I'VE were all working on this evi.
dence up to the time OF the raid. A
few days before the raid-which was
en- March 30-I was ready to pull 1t
off, but could not get the officers out
from town They couldn't spare them.
KeIlett wanted -Apana to 60 along
and Cnce Apana couldn't However,
/ have proof and can bring more proof
to show that the raid was planned
several days before the affidaviIs
made to Mr. Brown were given publ
cation in the Star-Bulletin. / can
show that the making public of these
affidavits had nothing whatever to do
with the time of the raid ., .
well, we made the raid on March
80 in the afternoon, Kellett and his
men coming out from town, and we
got in that raid three of the four
men whose names were signed to
those affidavits and nine others. When
Kellett came out he said something
about story about me being in the
Star Bulletin that afternoon but |
didn't see IL until after the arrests
had been made and the papers came
out on the o'clock train. Kellett
hadn't brought one and maybe he
had not seen the story. / think per-
haps q newspaperman had told him
about it. T.
What read in the paper that af-
ternoon was absolutely the first /
knew of the affidavits.
but 1t wasn't the first intimation
/ had that Chang Chau was going to
get me- Various Chinese around
Wahiawa had told me that he had
said he was going to fix me. r..
Answera Each Affidavit .
Now as to the men who made these
affidavits:
Il never saw All Tong before in
my life, to the best of my knowledge.
l am told that he was given 800 to
testify against me- The Chinese out
there, furthermore, say that he
never ran a game at Cashier, as his
affidavit swears he did, but that he
did run a game at Chang Chau's place
in Leilehua His statement that he
was introduced to me by G. Akana,
the Chinese tailor at Cashier, and
that he arranged to pay and did pay
me S. per week to let his game alone
and keep him posted about raids
from Waialua, Is absolutely false.
"As for Alma and ing Ching or
ing Chong, who say in their affida-
Wits that they paid me IS aweek to
let their chefa game along at Wahi-
ava, / have seen them before-yes.
Last October / arrested them for
running a chefa game. They asked
me to let them out on bail and re-
fused 60 do so. I telephoned to Capt.
of Detectives McDuffie and he said
not to let them get out on bail. He
wanted to stick them and break up
their game. They were convicted and
their case is now pending in circuit
court on appeal.
'The fourth man who made affida,
Wit is Yuen Yick. Away back in Jar.
rett's time this Chinaman was an
informer, but he never did any real
work at it that saw. He was around
Wahiawa a couple of times and final
ly came out there as a runner fol
Ahina's chefa bank, and worked for
that bank from about February / up
to the time he was arrested by us.
From none. of these men did
ever take cent. / was told by va.
rious Chinese that / could make some
easy money that way but l am not
in that kind of business. And when
the Chinese found they couldn't fix
me ! was told that they would get
me sooner or later.
How Affidavlts Were Made.
From what ! can learn of the in
side of this affidavit making, Chang