The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-06
IN POLICE
COURT.
TFirty-Fi i've Gases
Appear Before
. Judge.
ALLEGED CHICKEN
THIEF DISMISSED
Several Tramps are Sentenced
and Numerous Cases
Disposed Of.

MOTHER big batch of assault
~ cases piled up yesterday for Judge
Wilcox's co.'s .deratlon. The total
gambling affairs.
Before the proceedings of the court
commenced Attorney Strauss asked that
the feeling of the members of the bar
be spread upon the minutes in token of
the high esteem and veneration n which
the late w. A. Henshall was held by his
fellow-workels The motion was allow
ed.
Hoo Leong, the alleged poultry pinch
er, went clear, as it could not be proven
that the fowls were filched by him. De-
PENDANT swore that he bought the chick
ems from Japanese, and his attorneys
defence was that his client was charged
with larceny and not with having stolen
property in possession.
Mrs f. Rowald testified that she had
lost several chickens, six, to be accurate,
VIII CHI she valued at So apiece. These
chickens, she said, were found at defend
ants house and included a brown leg
horn, white legho1n, cochin, and
yellow fellow with black tail.
The chickens were introduced as evil
dence and the Court took recess while
the birds were being chased around the
court yard of the prison by the TRUSTEES
Presently the fowls were brought in,
whereat two coons on the mourners
bench could hardly restrain their emo
ton.
Mrs. Rowald identified six of the birds
in the bunch as belonging to her, while
| her son Eddie went her one better and
swore he could see seven. The meeting
between the chickens and their legit mate
| owner was especially touching, and the
birds set up an ecstatic cackling which
caused the two colored gentlemen in the
pen to make peculiar and seemingly un-
conscious mot ons with their hands, as
| if in the act of embracing the neckS of
the feathered evidence.
E. ]. Payne and D. Haynes, the gentle
men of color who said that the janitor
of the Peniel Mission told them that they
might sleep there, VIII be sequestrated
from society for month. The janitor,
| on taking the stand, said that the men
must have been dreaming as far as his
having gwen them sleeping permits was
concerned. They were a nuisance about
the Mission, he added.
81 used to think that this wasn't a
jay town." remarked the Judge, cut OF
late I've changed my mind. We are the
biggest community of jays that ever
focked together A tramp goes up to
resident and strikes him for half g
dollar and invariably gets it, and just
as invariably he buys whiskey with it
1t isn't natural for men Ike you to work
when such congenial conditions prevail
l sentence you each to months impris-
onment with had labor
| Did he say hard labor ?" fearfuily
whispered Haynes to Payne
| ALIAS, yes" gasped his companion, IN
a tone which told only too plainly that
the worst had come to pass.
August Schuster, another of the KIND
of unfortunates who have the hardes,
time lodging a job, VII bear Messrs
| Haynes and Payne company for a term
of days identical with their own at War.
den Henrys institute of manual train
ing.
SchuSter whose proper name is Schys-
ter, was unearthed in an old shack az
Punchbowl street, where he had beer
living for a month. He said he was
happy there and had no wish to go &c
a place where he would have to WASH
himself. He was certainly the filthiest
tramp of the decade.
David KAPPA told him that if he wouiC
go with him he would put him The
way of getting three meals a day with.
out having to work very hard for, them
Schuster, philoscphically remarked that
as he lived now he didn't have to work
at all and added that he feared that a
change of lodgings would prove injI.
rious to his health.
| Other cases dealt with were:
Pong Chong, violation sanitary laws
March 6; Ed e Meyers, larceny second
degree, March 6: nine Cinnamon. gam.
bling, SIS and costs; Sadie Muller. q =.
gally selling liquor, sentence suspend,
for six months; keeping dsorderly house
nol1e prosd.: Ane c audine violation law
to mitigate, nolle prosd.; Manuel Fernan.
DEE, assault and battery on j. Silva
March 6: Kama, assault and battery of
Ogina Rora, March 6: J. Dolf Nakanal.
la, drunkenness, 81 and costs: joe Ma.
cauo, embezzlement, March s: w A
Hall, Male Kalaikoa adultery. March 9
Nakai, gambling, $40 and costs.