The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-25
.DUFfYS SUIT CASE
.LADENWITHPHONY
DICE AND DOPE Tins
Former Messman of Northern
Pacific Has Peculiar Belong /,
ings u His Grip
CUSTOMS GUARD NABs
MAN WITH REPUTATION
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Thought To Be Party Who Snug
gIed lack McGrath Aboard
Army Transport .>.&

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| Customs Inspector John Oiveira yes
terday morning arrested Leon Duffy, a,
he was leaving the steamer Northern
Pacific, carrying a suit ease
In the ease were found ten empty
opium tins and three cuts for printing
opium labels; also more than 200 dice
most of them loaded; tools for drilling
dice, powder for loading the same
brushes, solder, and white, red and
black paint for covering up and hiding
the holes when drilled. A vice, file,
and hammer were also included In
the kit go
Oliveira turned Duffy over to In
spector McNicholl, who, in turn, re
ferred the matter to United States Dis
| trict Attorney Horace W. Vaughan, Tho
man meanwhile being held pending IN
vestigation. EE '.ela =.
Vaughan got in touch with the polio,
department with a view to ascertaininI
If Duffy was wanted by them. Oh.
learning that such was not the case
Duffy was released, there being or
statute under which he could be held
Second Trip to Steamer with Grip N,
Duffy returned TO the steamer and
PRESENTLY left the vessel carrying an
other suitcase, which was prompt,
.pOuneed on by Inspector Oliveira ThT
suitcase. however, was found to con
tain nothing more IN Eliminating thar
few, clothes and a tube or two, o:
black paint. Ess~ ...',-
The property taken from DUFFY re
mains in the custody of United States
Marshal Smiddy, who will, in all prob
ability, eonfscate IL. g. "..i
70 II Is Believed that Duffy intended
working the old itphony'' opiurs
trick on'tsome rnsnspccting Celestialr
in Honolulu. The modus operandl of the
bunkO scheme ~ to I'll several tim
with No. One Hongkong molasses and
TO have one Sin of the "real Mccoy
handy. ~. t1..af
How Trick Is Worked 1
The prospective customer is invited
to sample the straight goods, and, af.
ter the deal has been closed, Is handed
several tins filed with nothing more
seductive than molasses. This trick
has been played with varying success
in Honolulu on a number Of occasions
some of them comparatively recent.
Just what Duffy was going to do
with the loaded dice is a matter Of con.
lecture. Probably, however, he was
going to sell them to the gang Of pro-
fessional gamblers which. infests this
city. @+6GsSsr ~,
Duffy has been working ms a mess
man aboard the Northern Pacific, IL il |
stated, and was paid off here. He is
openly spoken Of being the man who
Struggled Jack McGrath aboard a
transport, after he had escaped from
Oahu prison. go ~, - .a Il
Duffy Thought To Have Killed Man
Duffy is very well known here and has
been mixed up in number of shady |
He has worked regularly |
On the transports, and was at one time
employed in the stewards department |
IF the steamer Wilhelmina. Wherever
he has gone he has gambled, and wher. |
ever he has played he has played .
crooked game. II is said that he is |
we'll known to the San Francisco police |
On account, among other things, Of
having killed man in that city.