The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-24
POLICE show SIGNS /
Of LIFE AT LAST
Arrest Large Number Of FiIipinos
+. In Connection With MUIR
der Of Japanese

Aroused to a partial sense Of its res
possibilities by the criticism of The
Advertiser yesterday morning, and also
by the yelling current of public opin,
ion, the police department Yesterday
united itself in one grand effort to
secure the apprehension of the gang
Of Filipinos, believed to number 1--WE,
who late on Tuesday night brutaTly
murdered Tsumetaro Hayashihara, a
Japanese store.keeper, at the Pail
Camp Of Libby, Mcneil & Libby, be,
tween the Pail and Kaneohe. L
During the day following twelve
Filipinos were arrested and held at the
police station under suspicion of com
plicity in the crime: lsidore Alaric,
Eduardo Asuncioh, Benito Rico, Gabriel
Yerver, Ariston Mostajo, FIorencio
Bonella, Pedro Poras, Bonifaeio Dieno,
/ Servero Aniban, Abel Bendo (w),
Amador Alberta and MateO Delay.
The police dragnet was stretched far
and wide in and about Honolulu and
every suspicious Filipino was enVeloped
| therein. a."
| News that Filipinos were being ar.
rested spread speedily throughout the
local Filipino colony and number Of
ltender.conscienced Individuals packed
up all their earthly belongings and sped
away each to. his own peculiar hiding
place. Pa" .' ~
That the arrests of those responsible
for the crime has not yet been nc
complished was evidenced by the fact
that Chief of Detectives McDufie and
number of his men spent last night
across the Pail, and in the vicinity in
which the murder took place.
Matee Delay and Amador Albeta
were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Asch
early yesterday morning, as they were
| getting of motor truck which came
to Honolulu via the Pail They have
given satisfactory accounts of their
actions on the night in question. =
Three of the suspected were arrested
at Puuloa and seven more in the vicin.
| ity of Kailua. Two of the men were
charged at the police station at half
past eight o clock yesterday morning,
and the remainder yesterday after.
noon. p.
| A revolver picked up near the scene
of the murder was found to have been
! purchased from Theo. II. Davies 4 Co.,
by Filipino woman, who gave her
address as. camp of the Libby, Me
Neill & Libby Co., on the other side
Of the Pail She was traced and
placed under arrest.
! It is stated that considerable gold was
found on the persons of several of
the men arrested. When the safe of
Hayashihara was broken into upwards
of 5000 in gold was stolen.
Auto Stolen
| Another bare faced case of auto
thieVery yo9Snrred- yesterday, when a
Cole Eight No. 1894, owned by
j, r. Wilson the well known real es-
tate man was stolen from the corner of
Alakea and Merchant Streets.
Mr.. Wilson locked his car and left
it standing at the point mentioned at
eight O'Clock yesterday morning.
Shortly after four o'clock yesterday
afternoon he went to get his car and
found it gone.
About half past four o'clock Wilson,
happening to walk past the Occidental
Hotel, found his car standing in front
of that hosiery, on King Street. The
ear was unchanged and none of its
parts was removed. ...,a
Mr.. Wilson notified the police of the
loss of his car about half-p four
o clock, but managed to recover it be-
fore the police officials had had a
chance to get in their deadly work.