The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-07-19
TWO SENTENCES,
A Chinaman for Conspiracy and an
Editor for Libel.

sentence. Mr.. Justice McCully in
passing sentence said:
Tin Choy, you have been found
guilty of conspiracy in the I'd de-
gree The verdict was unanimous
and given with no delay. l think
this verdict was well supported by
the evidence. The offense charged
was Of combining and conspiring
with one Lam Yew to accuse Yam
Shee,a Chinese woman, of keeping
disorderly, an immoral house. This
woman appears to have been living
respe ctably and honestly with her
husband and children, and with him
earning an honest livelihood from
garden. Your plan appears to have
been to raise money by Matchmaking
her with this charge. You are
shown to have provided and spied
about the premises Of this couple
for some days, and finally at time
when her husband was absent and
she was alone in her house with her
young children, in the afternoon,
you entered and demanded 5000,
saying that you would take $40 if
she could produce no more. About
this time your confederate in this
villany brought along three police
men to the house. There does not
appear to have been any indications,
anything seen by the police to sup
port the charge which you had pre-
ferred and on which a warrant had
been issued.
l must say that the action of the
police in this affair does them no
credit.
Your countrymen are reported to
be versed in ways that are dark.
Your transactions are cloaked by
your language which well hides
your secrets.
Your unlawful combinations to in
volve others IN crime, and for the
commission of crime, have been
shown in sundry instances to have a
most serious meaning.
Doubtless the most of these go
undetected. When due proof is
made and there is conviction of
the offense the sentence of the court
should be serious. II is to be re-
GREETED that your equally guilty
confederate has escaped arrest so
far. Your punishment will be neither
more nor less from that circum-
stance. The sentence of the court is
that you be imprisoned at hard la
Dor for one year-with costs taxed
at $40.
Mr.. p. A. Dias also appeared be-
fore the Court to receive sentence
for criminal libel, "a foreign jury hav-
ing rendered verdict against him
of guilty in the second degree on
the 18th inst.
Mr.. f. NJ. Hatch asked that the
Court impose light sentence.
There was no intention on the part
of Mr.. Dias to do wrong to these
people. There was no acquaintance
between the parties, Dias not know
ing who they were. 1t was wrong
of him to publish the article on the
faith of a correspondent. There
were good reasons known TO counsel
why the defendant could not plead
guilty.
His Honor in passing sentence
said:
Mr.. Dias You are before the
Court to receive sentence for crimi-
nal libel. The article which you
published in your newspaper the @
Luso Hawaiiano, an article writer
by yourself on the basis of letter
received from Il correspondent, was
injurious and defamatory in a higl
degree. 1t would naturally infic
| great pain and excite in the minds q
the persons and families referred Il
an almost uncomfortable lndigna
ton. give no synopsis of the
article here because / wish to give
it no further publication than it has
already had. 1t seems to me to bC
entirely such case as justifies {
resort to criminal prosecution fol
vindication of character. The proofs
offered have completely met the
calumnious statements and refec
tons of your article. 1t is no lega
justification TO you that the mattel
was furnished by a correspondent
and it is but little moral justification
either. The editor of newspape
cannot excuse himself for adopting
libellous statements of correspond
ents. He should not use his offic
as a censor of public morals unit
he has authenticated tile facts oil
which he pronounces his censure
The letter of the correspondent wa
almost innocuous without your pub
lication of it. The words of Lews
| paper such as yours is, circulating
through the whole Portuguese com
'munity of this kingdom, pointing
without misunderstanding to certain
individuals and charging highly dis
graceful conduct to them, have n,
light effect. / cannot gauge tn
sensibility of the persons who ar
affected in this instance, but judg
that the attack is calculated to in
fiict the deepest mental pain.
But while ] view the offense to b
as aggravated as any which coul
be considered as within the secon
degree, as the jury has estimate