The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-03-05
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

interest, from several facts Connected With IL. |
appears that on Sunday last, the dwelling Of Nj
Won Holt on Nauanu street, was entered during shc
absence OF the tlmiiy, and almost every drawer, box
or conrainer Of any description rinsackei, evidently
for the purpose Of andiHg either money or keys
During the evening, and before the burglary hsi
been discovered. about a quarter before : o'clock
perhaps, while q crowd was gathered before the Epis-
cOpal Chapel, the native employed on the above
premises where the burglary had been committed
came running out Of the yard with his wife. crying
ia Hawaiian " thief" a. thief" and running through
the crowd by the church. seized a young man. a
stranger from San Francisco, who came down in the
Young Hector. The natives cries Of - haul in"
soon called out the neighbors, and Mr.. Caldwell the
American Consul and lir. Dougherty. before whose
premises the disturbance took place, came out into
the street to learn the cause Of the noise. The
natives were yOciferous with cries OF thief"
- thief" and in reply to Mr.. DIS inquiries about
the theft, they said that it had occurred at Mr..
Won Holt's, and that the person seized was the
thief He at once advised the stranger 10 go TO the
house, as the natives declared that a woman was
there, who sa" him, and see if she could identity
him. lie accordingly went, in company with the
native, but found it was only the natives wife on
the premises. and no foreign lady. In the adjoining
premises. however. there was a lady, of whom the
stranger asked. if Mrs. Won Holt was at home Soon
after, he was taken off to the station-house by the
police.
Ou Monday morning, the accused was brought
before the Police Court for examination, and the room
was densely crowded with spectators, probably nine
tenths Of whom were ready to adjudge him guilty,
so r2Pidly do reports spring up and spread. The
appearance Of the accused was anything but that Of
a rogue, and his conduct, language aud bearing are
most clearly IN his favor. After stating TO the court
his name, (Which we are requested not to insert) he
said he was a subject OF Queen Victoria, aud had
from the coast in the last packet, seeking
health. Being 4 stranger. aud entirely
innocent OF the charge against him, he declined
counsel. The testimony Of the native who arrested
him was taken first, to the purport that he found the
stranger in or near the premises Of the entered house,
that he chased him into the street and seized him
before the Consul's. all which was corrobora,ed
with singular minuteness by the wife of the native,
unfortunately had been allowed to sit in court
during the hearing Of the testimony. Next a young
testified that she saw the stranger in the prem
that evening, and spoke to him, all which, in
the absence Of counsel in his behalf looked dark.
The testimony closed, and if 4 vote had been taken
then. there would hardly have been a dissenting
voice to his conyiction-the chain of corroborating
circumstances was SO complete that be surely must
be the robber. though no one saw him commit the
act. nor had an article missed been found in his
The house had been entered, a burglary
had been committed. but there had been no proof 20
connect the accused with it. Still all thought alike
must be the man, and a most c~onsummate
scouudrel at that. The Attorney General rose and
summed up the evidence, which to him appeared
to implicate the accused. and moved that he
n r,rpffsal 20 gfapd rrioI a 2 tho Su,rarra Cn,-,
The house had been robbed, a foreigner had been
cen at the gate. and the accused had been arrested
IS that foreigner. Moreover, the young lady had
estifed 10 having seen the accused in the premises.
evidence appears sufficient to commit him, and
le. = stranger and without Il friend, was ordered by
he Judge, TO be remanded to the station house, for
rial at the April term of court, in default of bail for
1920.
But as the Judge was giving the decision. he
lluded TO the fact that the prisoner was recognized
y the young lad "a having been on The premises,
ihich he admitted. but speaking out and interrupt
ng the judge, ne asked. - Vas II not AFTER my
.rrest ?" \ fash of lightning in the I'm would
lot more suddenly have convinced the audience that
he evidence was defective, and that there VS. no
eliable testimony az yet that connected the accused
With the burglary. One side Of the story only had
cen heard, and this simple question seemed to
bake all the testimony brought forward. The
hange of sentiment in favor OF the accused was so
IIden, that several gentlemen volunteered az his
and few in the audience could be found
no still supposed him guilty. Even the legal gen.
emen who, at the opening Of the court, feared
eng called on TO act as counsel IN SO bad a case,
ow anxiOusly offered their services.
Thus the case stands We learn from several
Durces that the young mans story is as follows:
nat as he passed Mrs. keegln's on Sunday evening,
here q fellow passenger by the ] Dung Hector was
laying, he stopped and asked him TO walk along 10 :
he Episcopal Church; but the gentlemen declin-
lg 10 20, he went on to the church, and up TO the 7
orch. where he stood q short time. aud was seen by 5
everal. The church being quite full, and a crowd .
the doors, in u few minutes he left, and proceed
Y round through Kukui street, was there seized
y the native. Ii his statement eau be corrobOrated, s
surely cannot be the person engaged III entering I
Ie premises robbed that evening. No testimony {
a. been taken 10 his favor, and We know not how Y
ell his story may be sustained. The very fact that T
e is Il stranger excites our sympathy, and ought TO t
rat Of the public. He may be guilty, II 50, let
i-tice be meted 10 him without mercy. IL IS said =
lat he has no means. Perhaps it i so-but 7
overly can be no proof Of crime nor Of criminal !
How many, pray, of our readers landed
ere with ample means2 Rather let US ask, how
any Of them dill not have to borrow something ,
le day they landed? How many Of them paid their J
lssage hither after their arrival OF only worked :
passage out? Say not that poverty and crime :
re synonymous, wnen the history Of 80 many IN :
community stamps the assertion as false. j
We intended making some remarks regarding ;
1stV judgments, whether made in the street or IN !
e Courtroom, but these will not spoil by being u
.ferred Only let us repeat the Mosaic injunction, L
Remember the stranger that is within thy gates" J.
u give him every advantage that We in ike cir
instances would wish 10 receive.
WELCOME TO Dr.. ASDERsoS.-The Rev. DR.. Rufus \
Anderson. Senior Secretary Of the Am. Board Of I