The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-07
IN POLICE
COURT.
Several Amusing
Cases We're
Heard.
JUDGE WILCOX ON
FAMILY TROUBLES.
Kewalo District Represented by
Three Assault and Bat.
terry Cases.
"HERE was luau of violence cases
in Judge Wilcox's court yesterday.

no less than ten charges of assault
and battery figuring on the calendar.
The courtroom was comfortably filled all
day with witnesses and interested spec
tators' a large contingent coming from
both Punchbowl slopes and Kewalo
The representatives of the Portuguese
brought their children and their lunches
and once inside the judicial portals COM
posed themselves to have real good
time Three of the battery cases occur
Iredsin the district of kewalo.
The case of Manuel Muniz. charged
with assault and battery on Anton Ca
bral, monopolized the entire morning. 1t
appeared that Cabral had beaten his
i wife with the assistance of several 9TH
ers, and that his wife's father, Muniz,
had sent for him, that he might reason
with him, as he put it.
When Cabral arrived at his father-in-
laws house he was struck on the leg
by the old man, which surprised and
panied him. Cabral wanted to offer as
evidence a letter from his physician, but
Judge Davidson, who defended, objected
The leg IS in court" said he.
! Muniz testified that he had not hit his
son-in-law. He only demonstrated with
Iii. linen CdDrdl ana TWO others turn
ed on Mrs. Cabral and beat and choked
her. Another witness said that Muniz
kicked Mrs. CabraI out of the house
/ Judge Wilcox sized it up as s. family
quarrel which had ended in a free fight,
and fined defendant Sc and costs.
| Lono Kapu, small boy who owns a
large airgun, was up for assaulting Mary
Smith by making target out of her. De-
fendant remarked that The didn't knov
| it was loaded" He said that Santa Claus
gave him the gun and added that he had
never killed any one with it.
Judge Wilcox ordered the cannon con.
! fiscated, and benevolent-loolxing grand
mother bore the infant away.
The Portuguese were entertained again
when Adelaide Ferreira stepped forward
to answer to having broken a cup upon
the person of V. Fernando.
! Defendant said that she threw the cup
because complainant had told her tina.
/ she had been living with the negroes IN
Africa, and that was the reason why
her children's hair kinked. An onslaught
with a broomstick was the immediate
cause of the trouble.
| You devil, I'd like to smash you with
this stick of the BROOM were the words
alleged by defendant to have been adj
dressed to her.
| The case seemed likely to drag along
for day or two when word came that
the Portuguese interpreter was needed
| in the Circuit Court.
Il advise you to go with all due haste"
said His Honor, seeming a speedy con-
clusion of tiresome case, and the in
terpreter left post haste.
This is an old woman's squabble,"
said His Honor, as he dismissed the
lease.
/ 1--WE can't try any other cases to-
day." said the Magistrate, for the in
| terpreter is gone
"Oh yes we can, If the Court please
answered Attorney Correa. There is
large and interesting Hawaiian assault
case in which l have been retained, yet
undsposed Of" And when the Judge
heard this he sighed resignedly, and the
Kewalo tribulation was introduced.
Fred. Rocha was charged with assault
and battery on w. ]. Morris, by striking
him on the head with a section of a rail
fence.
luau held in defendants house, at which
Morris was an invited guest. Morris tes-
titled that defendant and his wife were
having dispute, when, fearing violence
to the woman he and man named Rior-
dan interviewed on her behalf. This irri-
tated Rocha who went out and grabbed
club, with which he knocked Morris
senseless.
when I was out someone bit me-,
reflected Morris.
What was the trouble between hus-
band and wife?" asked His Honor.
| II think it was because Rocha stayed
out all night shooting craps" was the
reply.
! Didn't drink anything at the house,
suppose?" queried the Judge of the next
witness, Riordan.
VERY little" was the answer.
1.-THE customs at luaus must have
changed nightly of late" soliloquized
the Magistrate.
| Il don't know what I drank ex-
lclaimed Riordan. They called it bran
dy, though"
/ Mrs. Rocha swore that she had had a
little trouble with her husband on the
night of the luau about a horse which
he wanted to purchase, and in which she
had discovered q blemish.
HE wanted me to give him money to
buy the horse WITH said she, land
when / refused to do so, he slapped me.
Then Morris and Riordan jumped on
my husband and hit him in the face,
making his nose bleed. Then l got afraid
land ran upstairs"
Fred. Rocha testified that he was buy
ling horse from a Pake when his wife
linterfered and spoiled the deal; then ne
pushed her away and told her to go into
1.-THE house.
| after 1 had pushed her away the two
men sprang at me, striking me In the
then seized piece of board, and, seeing
Morris in the act of making for me
Iagain. l knocked him down and told
some one to go for a policeman"
Judge Wilcox reserved his decision I'M
It'll $50 o'clock this morning.
Other cases were disposed of as fol-
lows:
w. ]. Morris, G.. Riordan, assault and
tbattery on Fred. Rocha, February Z; Ka-'
Iaiwaiu. Kaaihue, assault and battery on
ED. KAPPA, February z; Look Ngo, che
ia. nolle prosd.; Kuu, assault and bat
terry on Sasaki, 50 and costs; George F.
Woods. alias Buckter assault and bat
terry of S. Anderson, February Z; Meku-
lbala. Kaaihue, Kalawaia, Jno. Johnson,
lMauna. Kakalia Kamana, ]. Keo, Lawns
bury, drunkenness. 81 and costs; Manu-
lhoa, NaiheIeloa, Joseph Joaquin VIM.
Haloa, Pho. gambling, February T.