Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-27
GRAND JURY SOON
TO REPORT RESULT
OF PROBE OF VICE
Developments Come Rapidly,
Following Crusade Against
Commercial Evil
POLICE ANNOUNCE ARE
NOW AFTER CREATURES
WHO EXPLOIT WOMEN
Alleged Panderers Arraigned
! in Police Court and Held on
$3.50 Bail; Underworld is
Shaken BY News of Arrests

S1dken by NEWS Vi ATfeSlS
Rapid Developments in the lWilei
situation, resulting from the movement
Of the citizens against commercial
vice In Honolulu, today include the fol-
lowinq:
I. At 8 O'Clock this morning, under
orders from Sheriff Rose, Deputy
Sheriff Asch and Capt. Of Detectives
MeDuffIe led big squad Of detectives
and patrolmen TO IwiIei and raided the
resort.
z. Thirteen men were arrested
charged by the police with attending
q place used for the purposes Of COM
mercial vice. In palmer language, the
police charge these men with being
"pimps" and panderers.
8. They were arraiqned in police
court at 10 o'clock, after consulta-
tion between Police Judge Monsarrat,
Capt. MeDuffle and Deputy City Attor-
ney Chiillngworth and formally
charged. Then chiIIingworth asked
the court to continue the cases until
Wednesday, setting bail meanwhile at
$3.50 each. The Judge complied with
the request.
4. The territorlsl grand jury,
which has been Investigating eondi-
tions az iwliei and commercial vice In
Honoiulu For several weeks, was called
by City Attorney Brown and Foreman
w. n. Mcclellan 10 meet at this
afternoon. The cases Of the 13 men
in police court were put over, the city
attorneys office states, 90 that the
grand jury can take up this new phase
Of the matter.
S. Probability developed during the
day that the grand jury may have
report on it, lwiieI investigation to
present either late today or tomorrow.
6. Rev. c. n. McNey, pastor Of the
KalIhi Union church, who succeeded
In getting . conviction Of q woman
owner Of q dlsorderIy house last week
In police court, 10 one OF the witness
es TO pe called today. u 10 presumed
the grand Jurors wish to hear what he
personally knows concerning vice out
side lwiiei.
z. A special meeting Of the board
OF directors Of the chamber Of COM
neree has been called for Wednesday
70 consider the vice situation.
8. v. s. Marshal smiddy appeared
AZ the police court hearing Of the men
taken at lwllei, to see II any evidence
is brought out warranting prosecution
under the federal law. Such proseeu.
ton would probably be under the Ed
nunds act.
The underworld" of Honolulu was
shaken to its obscene depths in the
early hours OF this morning when
more than a dozen of its habitues-
men alleged by the police to be those
creatures who live of the earnings OF
fallen women and exploit shame and
yice-were trapped in a sudden and
spectacular raid of Iwilei by the Ho-
nolulu police.
The raid was made between and
a o'clock. II reports are true, an hour
later the alarm had been widespread
and the underworld was wise" to
the fact that the police had acted with
unlooked-for suddenness.
The. following is a detailed list of
those arrested with the names they
gave and other particulars:
Philip Otinger. French. newcomer;
Charles Raymond, French, here some
time; Louis Goldie, American, chauf-
feur; ]. Johnson, ex-soldier; Edwald
Guffe,, French, here two weeks; Juan
Bellane. French, here two weeks; Sam
uel Folk. French, chauffeur; Dave
GeIler, French, chauffeur; Abel Rubin,
lfrench; Joe Goldberg, American,
iwsrking in billiard parlor in Iwilei;
Abraham Farber. American, jeweler;
A. Henry, French; Harry Delson, Am
erican.
Before noon today every defendant
was free on bonds or cash bail.
Counsel for Otinger, Goldie, Johnson.
Folk, Geller, Rubin, Goldberg and Far
Der posted bonds, and A. Henry-the
one who is alleged to have taken the
money from the woman-had enough
cash on his person to furnish the
necessary $3.50 as soon as the required
amount was stated. Inside of few
minutes he had returned with $1,000,
with which he bailed out Delson,
Bellane, Guffe and Raymond, all
French like himself The police say
Henry made a 'bee-line" when free
for the Yokohama Specie Bank across
the street, where he turned a key in
a safety deposit box.
II was by starlight only that four au-
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