Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 260, 12 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The frequent burglaries now taking plaee in the community ehoulel have the careful attention of our ever-vigilant poliee. The “detectives” should be given a rest frotn their nrdent duties as politi* eal apiee, and ihey should be turned loose on the burglars. The ten haoles, who, every night are di«patched in different directions to watcb the heuses of the suspected royal’sts ahould be instructed to listen to the tread of tbe burglar rather than to the trarap of the arraed men drilling. The apeeial Arizona detective Marmont, receutly returned frora hia interview with Koolau (we hope he ha« washed hie hande) should be left to watch the roy*lists while his nine eolleagues take upon themselve« the task of prutecting the property of the people. The b!ood and thunder reports for whieh the A.-G. and the Marshal every morning hanker ean be furniehed by Marmont alone. IIis fulminated imagination and condensed veracity will be snffieient for hira to furnish a whole dirae novel every morning, and so enable the learned Smith to keep up his be!ief that be is sleeping on a vo!cano, and that he is daily developing more and more intoa fu!l-fledged hero ashe already for §ome time back, bas bloasomed out as a fall-fledged first-cias* (although «omewhal rheumatic) saint. Mr. Marmont is a whole detective Bureau in himself. so we earne*tly ■pray the power» that bo to derot« the halanee of the force U) catching aome of the prowlers *nd vagrants who now tnrn out a* barglar* and eiimioai* genera!ly. Th« tcwn i* at preaent iof«*Ud with T*grant8 who drifted to thi«

beach when th#y heard abent th« revolution. who for a whil» flnjoved tht gov«rnment pap (shghtly poisoned) in the armv and tnen got drunk and were turned adrift. Tbey have no meana even if they have any īnelinaliona to return to the eliniee whenee lhey aprang and tbev have no visible means of exifltencc. Knowing as they do the inwardnesa uf our authorit;es from their short stiV in their midst they are fully conversant with the inability and ii.c*pacity of these aQtborities to eope 8ucc«9gful!y with any disturbers of law and order and remembering ihe facility with wnien anybKly who has friends among the so!diers escapes from the prison-gang—if ever by ehanee landed there —they heeome bold and recklesa and lbey go fo work burglarizing the hou&-*s m the suburbs. We should therei‘»re re?[>ectfuliy decl<re war :igainat the vagrants now in t<>w:i. Th >se who are employed in the arn y have at present eeased to be vagrants and he needn’t botherabout them, but the Iarge contingent of two or three months residents here who h*ve no work and ean find no worx should be l«x>ked after and «ecured. Tne intimate perat>nal knowledge whieh the detective force under Colonel Marmont naturally muat have with these oth«r ▼agranta would gr«atly facilitat« the exterminatioa of them —if tha ; ‘•hawkeyes” nre willing to us« such ••kuowledg<‘.” That we eannot quiet!y allowed houses to b« burglarized or premise8 entered by u lot of thugs and hungry desperadoes is certain, and if Mr. Hitcheoek wishes to keep op his reputation 83 a shrewd and clever poliee- ; officer he should ast to work at onee [ and clear the town of the danger- ! oua eleiuenl now at large.