The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-17
POLICE COURT NOTES.
Fred Dyke Disturber of Salvation
Army Meetings to Leave Port.
r. Movers, the Band Boy, Found Guilty
of Malicious Injury - Thinks
Horse Can Climb.

Fred Dyke, the man who created g
disturbance in the Salvation Army hal
Wednesday evening, was tried in the
Police Court yesterday morning on the
charge of assault and battery on Officer
Espinda.
Defendant plead guilty, and upon mo-
ton of the prosecution sentence was
suspended in his case. Dyke is a stran-
ger in the city and has signifieG-his in
tention of shipping before the mast on
the ship Tillie E. Starbuck, bound for
New York. In this he has been encour-
aged by his friends and others.
KaaIe. in whose case for assault and
battery on All Wo defendant was found
guilty in the early part of June, and
whose sentence was suspended on mo-
ton of the prosecution, was again ar
raigned in the Police Court on similar
charge. He was sentenced to twenty
days Imprisonment at hard labor.
Mau Yok plead guilty to the charge
of having che ia tickets in his posses
sion. Sentenced to pay fine of $25.
F. Meyers. the band boy, was tried
on the charge of malicious injury, found
guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of
So and costs.
The following testimony is interest
ing as showing how different people
see things:
Pilalu-Had defendant arrested on
July 9th for malicious injury. He beat
my horse with a club about six feet
long, and threw stones at it; animal
was worth $50; have not been able to
use it since July 7th, on account of the
injuries.
Ieke-Saw defendant beating horse
and throwing stones at it; gate was
shut and defendant was chasing the
animal around the yard.
Kimokeo-Saw defendant beating the
horse near the head with big club.
Mrs Meyers-Horse was in our yard. |
My husband was trying to drive it out
and used an algeroba stick about two |
feet long. He struck the animal two or |
three times. The gate was shut.
F. Meyers--Did not injure the horse;
struck it with a stick about two feet
long; animal must have got hurt climb
ing the fence; threw stones at the horse
but did not hit him. The animal is a
little, lean Kanaka plug, worth about
so. The gate was shut but not locked
Anna Lohde-Saw Meyers strike the
horse with stick about two and
half feet long. He was trying to drive
the horse out of the yard. The gate
was shut.
Meyers, according to his testimony,
was trying to drive the horse out of the
yard with a stick and stones. He hit
the animal but twice with the two-foot
rule or algeroba beam, and failed alto
gether in his attempt to reach it with
stones, on account of it's extreme thin
ness. Then, again, the gate was shut.
Some one in the court room was over
heard to ask the following question of
a lawyer: IF the man was seeking to
drive the horse out of the yard, and
failed to hit the animal with pebbles,
just tapped it lightly on the head with
a two-foot stick, as Hermann might do,
and kept the gate closed, was said man
really trying to get the horse out of the
yard?"
But then, it was deemed possible by
several people that Meyers having got
it into his head that the horse climbed
the fence" with pole, was bent upon
making the animal repeat the perform
ance just for fun.