The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-02
DOINGS AROUND
POLICE COURT
Motormah Wright Goes free
Wilcox Not Yet Well Enough
to Work.

Judge WILCOX was AGAIN absent from
the District Court yesterday on ac-
count of illness and Judge Dickey Of
ficiated in his stead
In the forenoon he tried the case of
Wright, the motorman of the Rapid
Transit Company, charged with heed
less driving. The case grew out of the
recent collision on Hotel street between
trolley car and one of Pains mule
cars. Attorney w. A. Kinney appeared
for the defense, and Attorney De Bolt
for the prosecution.
| In summing up the case Judge Dick
ely said;
There is considerable divergence, in
| important particulars here, between
witnesses for the prosecution as
against each other and the witnesses
for the defense, witnesses who to the
court seem entirely unprecedented and
unimpeached, but / believe from the
evidence that the electric car was 60
ing at a rate of about four miles an
hour, or less, as it approached the
crossing; that the driver was ringing
his bell to give warning to any pass
| ing vehicles on Nuuanu street, and
that he saw the car practically as soon
as it came in sight and did his best to
stop before the collision, and the fact
| that there was collision was caused,
| not by his careleSSneSS, but by the
| carelessness of the driver of the other
car l find the. defendant not guilty,
and discharge him"
At 100 p. m. Judge Dickey COM
menced the regular business of the
day in the police court. The calendar
contained thirty cases.
The following cases We're disposed of:
| Sing Chong, assault and battery on
| Nakamoto, $40 and costs; Nee Nam,
assault and battery, $50 and costs;
Elima da Souza, assault and battery
on Mrs. r. Farrab, 50 and costs;
Chapman, assault and battery on II.
Downing, nolle pressed; Sau Tin, vio-
lating carriage regulations, So and
| costs; Alani keahou, profanity, SO and
costs; w. Nakaa alias Tin Soon, receiv-
ing stolen goods, committed Circuit
Court; Ben Diager alias Frank, Ia
naka, Frank Ormond, Henry KIemme,
drunkenness, 81 and costs; Piipiilani,
E. E. Miller, drunkenness, bail forfeit
ed; SunaWara, common nuisance, 81
and costs; Jacient Lewis, common
nuisance, S. and costs; John Koenen,
Vagrancy, nolle pressed; All Chat,
needless driving nolle pressed.
Frank Ormond, fined for drunken
ness, was arrested on Monday night
by Special Officer Duncan, outside the
| Gambrinus saloon. He and another
| man gave the officer lot of trouble,
and in the melee Duncan's club was
taken away from him and used on
himself. The other man, who is an eX-
soldier, escaped.
All Chat was arrested on Bethel
street about II a. m. on a charge of
needless driving. He ran into another
rig. Captain Parker ran the man in.
The Chinaman explained to: Judge
mixed, and consequently went the OPP
posite way to which he had intended.
| The case was nolle pressed.
| Charles E. Donnell, the hackman, is
in trouble for blocking the Rapid Tran
sit track on Hotel street. The mo-
torman and conductor of the car say
| that Donnell refused to move when
asked. There has been considerable
friction of late between the Hotel
street hackmen and the electric car
motormen. The former say that the
trolley car people proceed at such a
rate as not to allow them to get their
rigs out of the way. The motormen on
the other hand allege that the hack
men get in the way purposely. The
case has been set for tomorrow.
| Yesterdays arrests included:
| Fred Walker, common nuisance; All
Hoy, surrendered bail; F. Ormond,
drunkenness; Mrs. c. All Sing, deser-
ton; Lawrence, drunkenness; A. F.
| Canteiro, rape.
Four prisoners were sent to Kohala,
on the Kinau, yesterday. They have
been kept in Oahu Jail for some time
awaiting trial. One of the men was
Kamai, who is charged with having
committed murder at Pahala, Kau, Ha-
wall.