The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-28
WHY GRANT DIDNOT WAIT -FOUR JAPS IN TROUBLE
Disturbing THE QUIET or
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Frank Ozawa Undertakes to BE
Lawyer for Himself and Companions
with Poor Results

Tom Tutana, Frank Ozawa, C.. Ma
gumura and Tommy Miluni were be
tore Judge Wilcox this morning charE-
ed with disturbing the quiet of last Sa-
turday night in "a kukui street lodging
house, where with Several pretty yOung
japanese maidpnts, they were engaged
| i'm enjoying "a luau, with music which
other people in tie neighborhood did
not like. Judge Wilcox hard an interest
| ing time of II at the trial as did all the
! spectators.
officer Kane WAS the first witpes~s
He hau made the arrests. The four de-
PENDANTS We're all singing when arrest
ed, while several girls made music and
some others laps hammered at instru-
nents the officer could not tell the
name Of. Kane went to warn the laps
at about half past ten i'm the evening
and Deputy Sheriff ChillngwOrth also
went
"Itse not twelve o'clock yet. and we
| can make all the necessary noise" said
| Tom Totana. Ozawa wanted 10 know
what time 1t was and when Chilling
worth told him said ne wanted to see
/ If the deputy really had a watch. He
started to feel and the deputy lifted
! him by the back of the neck and set
him down at a proper distance.
| Half and hour later, as the noise kept
| up, the arrests We're made, w. II. God
win, who made the compliant. assisting
| Kane in overpowering Tom Totana.
| The defense was wonderfully con-
| Quoted, with Frank Ozawa as leading
man. When asked If he wanted 20 ask
! cross examinations Ozawa began a
! speech that lasted about five minutes
| and might have lasted all day II the
| Judge had not stopped the flow Of LAM
! guage. Each Of his thick headed COM
! panions did the same.
| The defendants had "a lot of wit
| nesses" only they were at home. said
! Ozawa Then three Japs came from the
| audience, one man and two little Gelsha
| girls. They were sent back to their
| seats and one, who answered to the
| name of Shinago Hanaio, was recalled
! and took the stand Before she had got
| as far as being sworn. Totana announ-
ced that they didn't want her to tssti-
| fy, but her evidence was taken, greatly
increasing the strength of the prose-
| cution. similar experience was had
| with Weamoto CiZuko. Both girls said
they had played guitars. while the de-
PENDANTS gently warbled
! Judge Wilcox gave the defendants a
| lecture and fine Of s. each. He
thought they had contracted the ia
panese national complaint Of swelled
heads.
Ozawa got from the judge a reminder
of his former police court experience
| that was appreciated by all who knew
the references. once before when
Ozawa was up for an offense he IN
| formed the court that his imperial
majestys warship Naniwa was In the
harbor and would look after him.
"It is the American law you are up
against now" said the judge. There
is no longer a small Republic of Ha-
wall to be afraid of Japanese warships.
but this is an American court, and If
you had the Naniwa here now we might
ask YOU which mudbank we had better
put her on"
Ozawa is a very fresh Jap and looked
deeply indignant when found guilty and
sentenced. "A lot of Japs come here
and go to plantations and get httle
money. and then they come to town and
dress up, and everything fits but the
hat" said the judge.