The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-14
REPORT OF AGENTS
may BRING ABOUT
FURTHER ARRESTS
d, l1VpSligatQrss Findings Are Now
81, ..l1,Hands Of United States
In asAttbrneys Huber .r,.. /,
800 va EE S1-A----ssg a ,al-,
EXTENT or OPIUM PLOT Il .r.
W IS GENERAL SURPRISE
Several Days viii Probably
Elapse Before Further Sus. q
'"1 y poets Are Taken In .

D atpof6 and Sselll 3UpiHh11 in Hawhii,rth
Cnited, States and Mexico, uncovered
by the ceaseless work for the past sin
weeks Of government secret service
men in Honolulu and San Francisco,
will not be mnde hereNuntil District
Attorney s. c. Huber has had an OF
! portunAy'.to study the voluminous re
port submitted to him yesterday by the
Honolulu naval intelligence officers
who conducted the loca investigation,
Submitting Of the report to the dis
triet attorney was scheduled for yes
terday, and 1t is evident the San Fran;
cisco government men made their report
and ordered arrests one day sooner thar
was anticipated here - I,
II is frankly admitted that the hold
ing up OF the arrests and the secret
service report for o few days longer
on the Coast might have resulted in
still further sensational developments
. locally. However, the local authorities
feel that the FASTENED action made pub
lie in San Francisco was for reasons
not yet known in Honolulu, and thaf
there will be little difficulty in securing
corrections of the others still to be
arrested in this Territory, as there Is
n mass of evidence. much 0g it corrol
borated by confessions.
May Deter Others
Hopes are held that this expose of the
big opium conspiracy and the informa
tIOn gained as to the methods of the
smugglers in the illicit drug will pro
viue n means for preventing repetitions
of the ofenses and deter the from
sixty to a hundred persons engaged
in the traffic in Hawaii from continuinp
in the trade.
While charges, with every promise Of
successful prosecutions could be lodged
against nearly all who have been in.
Nestigated by the naval intelligence
mhcen, wholesale arrests will not fol
low at present, it is authoritatiyely said
% Many of the potential defendants
have earned their freedom, temperate.
ut, least, by furnishing evidence to the
authorities which have brought about
the arrest of the ring leaders, some
of whom are believed to have been in
.Volved in the trade since 1911, &Thos,
who are to be allowed their liberty arr
the smaller .Sry,'' the, dope peddlers
sampah crew men and other employees
Of, the ring leaders.
Magnitude Surprises
Frank astonishment was expressed
yesterday by those familiar with the
tactics Of the dope importers but VIII,
were not cognizant of the work which
had been done here by the governments
secret agents, at the number of arrests
already made Of "hgher ups" and the
lesser principals Involved. In spite OF
The many Oricnta1s and white persons
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Spirucy by the navy intelligence men
for the PAST month and half was not
known to any others than the federal
officials here and one or two trusted
newspaper men.
Silence Well Observed
E,Nen the Oricntals questioned by tn,
federal agents refrained from telling
OF their experiences after being give.
tao third degree for fear that their com
PaIions iu' the conspiracy would have
them murdered for the evidence they
gay" in confessions.
One Oriental, after he had made i
fu'l confession, WIS given his liberty
but ON the following day returned t.
the federal Offices and insisted that h
he charged, 30 his old associates would
be led to believe he had revealed moth
ing. AS his evidence was important
and also as it was intended to arrest
him later as one of the principals, the
Oriental s request was granted. He i'm
mediatelyr furnished bail, fully conf
dent the charge of having committed
crime would entirely camouflagr,
4 knowledge of his confession from h.
friends. AS he is still living, it is pre-
cd
Coos Over Report
District Attorney Huber said yester
day he thought it would take him sew.
crnl days to go through the report sub
mitted to him by the naval intelligence
officers This he intends do at home
he says. in verbal summary of thu
report given him by "the lawyer of the
intelligence service" there is now,
foundation for two more conspiracy
charge cNses. From four to six per
sons will be involved in each of these
asses. it is asserted, which will resulLj
in from eight to twelve more Our uetk
sometime this week. Eleven others ar,
already dhder arrest here on; the opium
conspiracy charges, most Of whom have
been released ON bonds Of $1,000 each
KuNey Bail Fixed
Five thousand dollars is the amount
Of the bond which the Coast authorities
require for the releasing Of Joe Kubey
arrested by Marshal Smiddy FRIDAY
evening on cahled instructions from the
m"in"md. Setting Of this figure b,
I've Coast court is taken here as an IN
dicaton Of how deeply the f6tmenr He
nnu'u pOst0flice man is thought TO be
indicated in The cohspifatE.