The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-02
j. NJ. vIVAs SAYS HIS LIFE IS IN
DANGER.
He Testifes Against Seven Portuguese
Who Very Much Disturbed the Quiet
of Night on Sunday.

Attorney j. NJ. Vivas says his life is
in danger from the Portuguese roughs
who live in Alvarez place, and this
morning he asked protection from
judge Wilcox, after giving testimony
against seven Portuguese who were
charged with disturbing the quiet of
, night. The seven prisoners were alleg-
| ed to have taken part in what was de-
scribed as about as lively a midnight
revel as wine and Portuguese blood
can get up. There was a great deal
of Interpreting to be done at the trial,
English and Portuguese being used,
with the assistance of officer Ferreira
and Judge Wilcox.
After Police Captain Thornton had
testified to having been called to arrest
the prisoners, neighbors complaining
that there was too much noise in the
Alvarez house, Vivas was called by
the prosecution. AS he took the stand
NiVas glanced at the seven men lined
| up before the judge and remarked that
he didn't want to be assassinated and
| didn't expect the prosecution to call
| him. The accused men were not a re-
assuring lot. The man-with- the hoe
countenance was we'll represented and
one of the men looked as if he had been
hit with hoe on the right eye. Nivas
| said that the noise the men made on
Sunday was internal" They were
having the toughest house Honolulu
ever saw. By looking through a win
| dow from some distance he could see
them tumbling over one another, but
| he didn't know whether it was a free
| fight or athletic exercises. All the
| time their lusty voices kept up in a din
that could only be described, the wit
ness again said, by the term internal
| Nivas had finally sent for the police.
| one of the Portuguese, who happened
to be the only one that Nivas could po-
sitively identify, wanted to know if he
| wasn't absent from the festive scene.
! Then he took the stand and made a
statement. 1t appeared that Capan
| Thornton had made an extraordinary
mistake when he went to make the ar
rests. Just as the police arrived the
lmen who had been making the noise
disappeared and the seven innocent
| prisoners all issued from their quiet
rooms to see what was happening-and
all were arrested while the makers of
the noise went free, Judge Wilcox said
he couldn't quite swallow this theory
and he made it bad case of drunk
fning the men tres pesos each. None
of them had any pesos, so all went be
How.
'Irs aot only these seven" saiC
NivaS, but It's about thirty more il
the district. from whom my life is il
danger / have to pass them on my
way home and every time they uttel
curses and threats. l believe these mer
are a vengeful and dangerous lot anC
| want the court to warn them to keel
the peace" In an undertone Mr.. Viva,
remarked that he didn't want to haV,
to shoot any of them, but proposed tC
protect himself. The judge gave the
prisoners a lecture that should make
them law-abiding citizens. telling then
that they were now in a country il
which they must obey the laws, or else
suffer serious consequences. The pris.
oners were II. Halo, Joe Domingo, Dru
mindo Murrilo, Nick Harms, Marsudo
Dorsindo and Antonio Rodrigo.