Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-06-21
JUSTICE As DEALT
At Waikiki COURT

Editor Evening Bulletin:-The Cir
cult Court that dispenses Justice in
Waikiki is doing great work. The
Deputy Attorney General-De Bolt
Is arguing blandly to the jury that a.
poor coon is guilty Of intent to MUIR
der. when the evidence shows to me-
to the jury too, guess-that he fred
, off pistol in the darkness and scared
two policemen to the point of feeling
bullet pass through their anatomies.
or SO close that the sensation was the
same. There was woman In the case
two Of them-and both were beside
him at the time with another male
coon. He was supposed to have tried
to kill another coon near the brave
disciples OF the law; but the other coon
had q big stick and was bold bad
coon, and the shot was fired to scare
him away from the smiles Of the dusky
maidens. believe the jury will acQuit
him.
| A Mr.. Wells. manager, think, OF the
prosperous Waikiki Sugar Co. was
personally present in court to prose-
cute Japanese from the Land Of the
Chrysanthemum. an employe for six
years at his mill, who had taken from
the plantation twenty pounds OF sugar:
and that was six months ago. and the
poor chrysanthemum representative
had been kept in Jail awaiting trial for
this period! The deputy attorney gen.
eral said he did not wish to press the
q, ,at n
Wells. In this merry month Of June APP
peared on the scene and after little
conversation with the d. A. G. the case
assumed a different aspect In the voice
of the ID. A. G. and he told the court
after all he thought an example should
be made of some one for these terrible
petty thefts, and really this was the
time to commingle with the opportun-
ity. And the court thought so too. and
said that twenty pounds Of sweeteAina
stolen one day and twenty pounds the
next day, and so on without end was
too much. that by and by there would
be q bankruptcy of the poor Wailuku
Sugar Co.. and to prevent this dire
calamity the chrysanthemum had bet
"
beguilding hard labor. And bitter
sweet self-satisfaction blossomed In
the heart of the representative of sugal
for the justice that was given!
Another flow of justice was the i'm
prisonment for Jife-on the strong plei
Of Geo. A. Davis, ex-deputy attorne,
general for this June term-of anothe
, representative OF the Sunny South, VIII
robbed a plantation safe Of thou
sand dollars by the light Of desire an
the moon. Nobody was there to b.
hurt and there was nothing brough
forward to show the young man hat
been previously arrested or convicted
but the man was a desperate Niger
and might have even committed muir
der II anybody had tried to stop him
, and the Judge thought so too ant
thought confinement for life-a trivia
thing for others-a good thing for him
and he got 1t!
Another little Alabama coon was hel
six months in jail for taking IA site
of sugar cane Zoos he was hungry
The plantation did not press the cas-
In the goodness of It's corporation soul
III And thus we deal out law, for tn
Regeneration of our evil-doing fellow
=. and we SO saintily-generously
~ copiously, so much Of II poor justice
must feel sick at heart as she sadl
., contemplates the usurpation o. her III
blemished name.
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