The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-12
HEARD BY
WILCOX.
Forty-F our Cases
Claim Judges
Notice.
CLUBBING SEASON
IS NOW ON
Drunks, Gamblers and Migrants
Make Up Long
Calendar.

The drunks and the assault and bat
teries had it all their OWE way in
yesterdays police court proceedings.
while the ''vags' and the gamblers ran
them "a close race. The total number of
cases stated for judicial consideration
was forty-four
Fourteen inebriates were disposed of
in double quick order at the usual ratio
of 81 and costs per. The list included
such police court celebrities as Gordon,
Green. Jack Burton, Pua and Ryan.
Thomas CLICKS name was called
thrice by the clerk, but the owner was
found wanting
John Lind also drunk, staggered up
to the mercy seat and would have gone
clean over it and out OF the window
had not the magistrate told him to
halt.
Il was not drunk, your worship"
said he.
Defendants breath must have had an
unnerving effect on Judge Wilcox, for
he let Lind go with a reprimand
Pong Chong, the defer of sanitary or
dinances, was up again, and once again
was the case against him continued.
A poor little woman by the name OF
Mary Alapai, who brought into court a
big black eye, appeared as complaining
witness against her husband, Sam Ala
pal, big hulk of a fellow, whose only
visible means of recreation is beating
his wife.
You quit rolling the bones" and
keep your hands off your wife" said
his honor, as he fined defendant S25 and
costs.
Defendant said that his wife visited
the neighbors too promiScuously, and
added that he beat her in order to
learn" her better.
nearly gave the deputy sheriff lockjaw,
was charged with assault and battery
on Mrs. G. NJ. White. Defendant is
employed by complainant, and when
the latter told him to do q. job of work,
he felt so insulted that he laid hands
chance to explain this morning.
Tracy assaulted officer Dunn, done
him up, SO to speak. He was fined IS
and costs, as the onslaught was Of a
very trivial nature.
Simbria, charged with having no
lawful or visible means of support, will
swing sledge for the government for
the next thirty days. His only mission
in life seems to be that of decreasing
the visible supply of chickens.
When this case was called, the Jap
anese interpreter, who had gone out
to get fresh one, got it hot from the
bench.
There is no excuse 70 his absence,
whatever" remarked his honor. II
NODDED he
cult Court, as only matters of probate
are being considered there today
Tanaka started to interpret the case,
but he scared the defendant out of
his senses, and the judge called it off
until the official interpreter should re-
turn.
David Kanakupihea, Solomon Kalani
and Paahao, three typical kakaako
toughs whose latest criminal achieve
ment is the breaking into small pieces
the face OF officer MulIeitner, We're
remanded until the 18th instant, com
planning witness being confined to his
bed with a fractured jaw. Paahao is
an old jailbird, having served two or
three terms on the reef for assault and
battery.
William Larsen, of Larsen's express,
who courted contempt proceedings by
vigorously masticating chewing gum
beneath Judge WilcoX's very nose, was
in trouble for ill-ueating a horse. 1t
will be decided this morning on whom
the horse is.
Mathew Brady, Fred Smith and
John Conley, charged under the va
grancy laws, were reported to have
shipped for cruise on a Whaler, and
the charges against them were accord
ingly nolle pressed, and someone said
they weren't looking for work!
John oliver and John Dale TWO 9TH
ers of the vagabond brotherhood, were
given two days in which to find en-
ployment.
The ARRAY between Shaw and Ander-
son must have been remarkable af-
fair, judging from the evidence. Both
men testified that while proceeding
peacefully down Nuuanu street last
evening, some unknown per-
son struck them and knocked them
down. The officer who gathered them
in swore that defendants were fighting
one with another. Said Anderson:
II had had four beers, common beers.
your honor, and was walking to my
ship, intending to go to bed when
struck me. Then police
man gathered me before l got a chance
to hit my man back, as l intended to-
You were not short Of good inten-
tions, anyway" observed Judge VIII
cox, land 1 don't think your vessel will
ever be short of wind as long as you
Defendants We're reprimanded and
All Kwan was charged with having
assisted in the conduct of a lottery
game A native testified that defen-
dant had sold him che ia tickets. All
Kwan told a wondrous tale of his past
career and is without doubt romano
lst of the advanced school. The case
against him wobbled painfully, how
ever, and he was discharged
'If the police department can't make
out a better case than this one, in
which they offer as sole testimony the
word of a confirmed gambler, they
won't get many convictions in this
court" concluded his honor.
Other cases disposed of We're:
Raphael, selling liquor without Ii
,ense, March 18th; Edward Genet, ma
icious injury, discharged; o. Kahele-
kllla, larceny second degree, nolle pros
sed: All Wing, You Chong, All Tim, All
King. Henry Espinda, gambling, IS and
costs; All Wal, permitting gambling on
premises, $50 and costs; Lau San, che
"a tickets in possession, $40 and costs.
Uo,,r;c+c and visitors should not fail