The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-15
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!. OPENS PEI AT CAPITOL;
SIXTEEN ARRESTED
Accused Men Are Carted From
Senate Chamber In Patrol
Wagon To Station
MORE DELIN0UENTS TO
BE CALLED UP TODAY
Preliminary Hearings Before
Commissioner To Be Held
This Morning


With the arrest in the senate cham
Der of the capitol building late yes.
terdaY afternoon of sixteen men, who
are accused of violating draft restric-
tiOns, and who were on the eve of leav-
ing the Territory. a general roundup
Of slackers opened and will be renewed
his morning when il is expected that
Iditional arrests will be made.
The men who were taken yesterday
are FilipinOs and had engaged passage
on the Steamer Venezuela which is to
sail tomorrow for the Philippines. They
will he given n preliminary hearing be
fore United States Commissioner
George 8. Curry this morning.
Follows Inquiry
The arrests followed an investiga
ton that was started by Captain II.
GoOding Field, draft officer, shortly af-
ter the time for fling questiOnnaires
closed. In accordance with the regula
tons when this period expired lists of
those who had failed to return Ques-
tiounaire blanks or had failed to ap-
pear for medical examination and elias
sification were supplied to the police
on all OF the Islands.
Though n number of scattered arrests
have been made in the past several
weeks 1t was apparent that n large
number Of registrants were evading the
law, disappearing and leaving no trace
behind. This condition led to study
Of steerage lists of outgoing steamers
and of groups of plantation labOrers
dismissed at the expiration of their
| contracts,
To Question Workers
Under an arrangement reached with
the Hawaiian Planters Association,
laborers whose terms Of employment
have expired are to be sent to the office
| Of the draft officer for examination.
The first BATCH of seventeen of these
| appeared yesterday afternoon with the
result that of the number sixteen were
held. The seventeenth was found to
be over age. Fifteen of the sixteen
held had failed to return QUESTIONABLE
blanks and one of the number never
had registered, according to infOTma.
ton that Captain Field obtained in his
examination. All were plantation la
AT the conclusions of the inquiry the
police were notified and the patrol
wagon was sent to the Capitol when
one by one the men held were chec ked
| off and sent to the police station where
they were held last night as federal
prisoners.
Captain Field expressed the belief
Yesterday that number of plantation
| aborers have been violating a number
of sections of the draft law and have
been making their way out of the Ter.
ritOry without the, passports that are
required and without permits from
draft Officers.
Plead Ignorance
In the course of the examination
Yesterday the men admitted that they
had neglected to return QUESTIONABLE
blanks, taking refuge in plea that
they did not know .thatLit was required.
1t is understood that evidence to show
information concerning the draft was
given to, all of, the accused at the time
the QUESTIONABLE blanks were ISSUED
will he presented in connection with
the cases..
fOuUwlng the preliminary hearing
before Commissioner Curry this morn
ing il is stated that formal charges Of
violating provisions of the draft law
| will be made against the men and they
will be called for trial in the federal
court. The penalty for the infrac.
tion Of which the sixteen are accused
is one years imprisonment at the end
Of which the delinquent is drafted in,
to the military forces in the same man
ncr As though he were a Class man.
The men arrested yesterday are: Pho
Pacap, ApOlonio Lazaro, Simon Boga-
| rim, CristiRoI. DacO, BernadO Orong, Ma
merto AlageDip, Pedro Lasaro, Emeh.
anO Caiaule, Lorenzo Baudesto, Andres
Tomas, Miguel Ersan, Pedro Ni"ulas,
Gregorio Gabriel, Flahano Soliven,
Gaudencio Lumaupong and Antonio
Pasrtia. tS.s"I5