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


Hairikiri is the additionally honor
able method of Japanese suicide, the
method used by the samurai of old,
and still invoked on special occasions.
haps a newspaperman had told him
about it. 49,. ~.
what I read in the paper that af-
ternoon was absolutely the first /
knew of the affidavits. >..':
But It 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.
Answers Each Affidavit.
Nov as to the men who made these
affidayits: f..
81 never saw All Tong before in
my life, to the best of my knowledge.
l am told that he was given 500 to
testify against re. 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 C. 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 S. week to
let their chefa game along at Wahi-
ava, have seen them hefpre-yes.
Last October l arrested them for
running chefa game. They asked
me TO let, them out on bail and re-
fused to do so. 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 q couple of times and final
ly came out there as q runner fol
Ahina's chefa bank, and worked for
that bank from about February l 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 I 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. H. 7.
How AffidaNitS Were Made. r..
qFrom what can learn of the in.
side of this affidavit making. Chang
Chau came down to see City Attor..
ney Brown and said that he had the
dope on me for taking bribe-money
He made several statements of this
kind, ! understand, and Brown told
him to bring some witnesses and
swear to complaints. This was about
March 20 and the affidavits we're
made public on March 30. 1t was not
until after that that / heard about
Chang Chau's having made these
statements to Mr.. Brown and he also
made them to Sheriff Rose. The sher-
If did not tell me about this until
after the affidavits we're given out,
though he knew for some time be-
fore they we're made public that
they we're being fixed UP.
ING Chong, Alma and their bunch
have been pulling off crooked stuff
around Wahiawa whenever they could
and / have been right after them.
| The records will show how much they
have been arrested for various viola
tons Of the law--I caught them and
| they were convicted and fined last
Ocfober and November and Decem-