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

shaken BY news OF arrests
Rapid Developments in the Iwile
situation, resulting from the movement
Of the citizens against commercial
vice in Honolulu, today include the fol
lowing:
1. At 3 o'clock this morning, under
orders from Sheriff Rose, Deputy
Sheriff Aseh and Capt. Of Detectives
Mcpuffle led big squad Of detectives
and pstroimen to lwiIel and raided the
resort.
2. Thirteen men were arrested
charged by the police with attending
= place used for the purposes Of com.
merciaI vice. In palmer language, the
police charge these men with being
"pImps" and panderers.
3. They were arraianed In police
court At 10 o'clock, after consuIta-
tion between Police Judge Monsarrat,
Capt. MoDuffie and Deputy City Attor-
ney chillineworth and formally
charged. Then chiIIInaworth asked
the court 70 conti6ut the cases until
Wsdnesdsy, setting bail meanwhile at
$3.50 each. The Judge complied with
the request.
4. The territorial grand jury,
which has been investigating eondI-
tions at IwIIeI and commercial vice In
Honolulu for several weeks, was called
by City Attorney Brown and Foreman
w. n. Mcclellan 20 meet at this
afternoon. The cases Of the IS 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.
5. Probability developed during the
day that the grand jury may have
report on its IwlIei investigation to
present either late today or tomorrow.
6. Rev. c. -. Mcvey, pastor Of the
KaIihi Union church, who succeeded
in getting . conviction Of a woman
owner Of disotderly house last week
In police court, is one Of the witness
es to pe called today. II Is presumed
the grand jurors wish to hear what he
personally knows concerning vice out
side lwllel.
z. A special meeting Of the board
Of directors Of the chamber Of COM
nerce has been called for Wednesday
TO consider the vice situation.
8. ". s. Marshal Smiddy appeared
az the police court hearing Of the men
taken at lwllei, to see IL any evidence
is brought out warranting prosecution
under the federal law Such proseeu.
tlon would probably be under the Ed
munds act. *
The underworld" OF Honolulu was
shaken to its obscene depths in the
early hours of this morning when
more than q dozen of its habitues-
men alleged by the police to be those
creatures who live off the earnings of
fallen women and exploint shame and
vice-were trapped in a sudden and
spectacular raid of Iwilei by the Ho-
noiulu police.
The raid was made between 8 and
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-
MIR; ]. johnson. ex-soldier; Edwald
6uffe, French, here two weeks; Juan
Bellane, French, here two weeks; Sam
uel Folk, French, chauffeur; Dave
Geller, French, chauffeur; Abel Rubin.
French; Joe Goldberg. American, !
working in billiard parlor in Iwilei; |
Abraham FarbeT. American, jeweler;
A. Henry, French; Harry Delson, Am !,
erican.
Before noon today every defendant |
was free on bonds or cash bail |
Counsel for otinger, Coldie, 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 a few
minutes he had returned with $1,000,
with which ne bailed out Delson.
Bellane, Guffe and Raymond, all
French like himself The police say
Henry made a Decline" when free
for the Yokohama Specie Bank across
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