The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-08

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= yesterday was the second day
of the great assault and battery
festival which has been occupy
ing Judge Wilcox's almost exclusive at
for hearing and of them nve were dis
charged, one nolle prosd., one continued,
while only one resulted in a conviction.
In the case of Fred. Rocha, charged
with assault and battery on W. j. Nor
ris, which decision was reserved until
yesterday morning, Judge Wilcox fined
defendant Sc and costs. The Judge said
that complainant had no right to inter-
fere between husband and wife and that
defendant was in the wrong in pursuing
Morris with CLUB after the first gla-
mour of the trouble had passed away.
The victim of the clubbing had gone
somewhat too far and therefore the fine
4 imposed would be light.
/ W. J. Morris and G. Riordan were dis
lcharged on charges of assault and bat
terry on Fred. Rocha, growing out of the
tabove case. And SO ended the trouble
which was brewed at Kewalo-by-the-Sea,
where the ozone plays mad pranks with
the varnish on the piano stools and
where the swipe mills run night and day
and overtime on Sundays.
All Woy, alias All Wal, is a Chinaman
who has chicken on the brain. This Pc
lculiar form of mental affliction brought
him into court on a charge of hen-nap.
ping. All Woy said that the other fel-
low got the rooster and then got away
I1ao1,ino i'm, aynlain TnQttQrS fO the
lpolice. The case was continued until to
day. SO 80 ,. a.
Okakichi charged with assault ant
battery with q deadly weapon on a Chi
naman with whom he had had a gam
bling dispute was discharged. 1t ap
lpeared that the. Jap had made a. winning
whereupon the Chinaman kicked ant
otherwise maltreated him. Then tn
Jap seized a pocket-knife which was "
ling handy and carved his way to free
dom.
1.-THE law says" said His Honor, "tha
when a man is in imminent danger h
is justified in defending himself, even
it be with a weapon" Taa
| HAWAII and Kaaihue. charged wit
assault and battery on Ed. Kappa, wer
discharged. This was a gambling cas-
IcIosely resembling the preceding one i
many of it's phases. Complainant ad
mitted that when he had money he gam
Ibled and that when the contrary wa
THE case he worked.
You were all gambling said tn
Judge, land you had little differenc
lover money which you expect me to sci
tie. You ought all to be arrested on
charge of gambling
Manuhoa, Naiheleloa, Pho and JOSEF
Joaquin We're charged with being pres
ent at a place where gambling was be
ing carried on. The quartet was muic
ed ten bucks apiece.
High Sheriff Brown asked for. sti
fine. The game of I'll was, he said, tt
cause of nearly every crime short {
murder.
IT never saw such thing" remarke
the Magistrate. Why, everyone
shooting craps. Aged women, youn
children, gray-haired men and maiden
all unite in the chorus, seven come ele'
en- Only the other day I was waite
upon by a deputation of husbands, WI
told me with tears in their eyes tn;
their dinners were uncooked becau:
their wives were shaking the bones Wi
neighbors. 1t amounts to a regular er
demic and I'll see what can do to pr
vide cure for the disease"
The High Sheriff will issue warran
for the arrest of the principals in t
above three cases on a charge of gar
bling.
8. K. Kaialiiln paid 50 and costs f
the privilege of disturbing the quiet
the night. He said he was only yodeli
to attract his wife's attention. He W
probably -yodel more wisely and lie
loudly in the future.
Strange to relate, there was not a 81
gle charge of drunkenness and the mi
with the boisterously-tinted olfacto
3 organ was conspicuous by his absence.