The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-19
MUST KEEP
The PEACE
Cummings Put Under
Bonds of 500.
JUDGE WILCOX MORALES
Cannot Threaten a Man With I'M
purity if He Does Owe
You Money.

Threats to break another mans
cheekbone or his head because he de-
clines to pay the wages claimed by
his hired man, are denounced by Judge
Wilcox as contrary to proper inter-
probation of the law, and also as usu-
ally making trouble for the man who
is inclined to do violent acts. M.
Cummings, formerly a United States
Army teamster and packer, found this
out to his sorrow in the police court
yesterday, whence he had been hailed
sby Liveryman Carly, who had him ar
rested for threatening to kill him. In
Cummings case the Judge was of the
same opinion as Mr.. Carly, and be-
lieyed that if he was not put under
police restraint he might carry out his
threat In lieu of a bond for 500,
Cummings will spend the next three
months within the four walls Of Oahu
prison.
The Iiveryman had a number OF wit
nesses all of whom testified that Cum
mings was bold, bad man, and had
up d IIlllh DolllS " D<ath Ills eNS-
sertion that he would kill Carly" or
break his head" The trouble occur
red in Carty's stable Thursday morn
ing. According to the liveryman's story
Cummings had worked for him seven
nights, and had been engaged to clean
off wagons and carriages, hitch up
horses. and generally look after Car
tvs night traffic in rigs. Cummings
shirked his work, and as the liveryman
said, He didn't do enough work to
earn $50 a month" Cummings came to
him on Thursday morning after his
nights work, and demanded his pay at
him to go and he would pay him when
he got ready. Cummings said he would
take his money at once.
II seq to him, said Carly, you can
go if you want to, but I'll only pay
| you at the rate. of So a month With
that he SEE, you'll pay me right now
| or I'll break your head Yes, sir. He
said he'd break my head | saw he
| was a dangerous man. | told him &c
pay him $13. He ups and says, if yot
! don't pay me what / ask I'll kill you,
| and he picks up bottle near by an(
| comes at me- got out OF the way
and called a policeman. / tell you
Judge, l believe my life is in danger i
that man is allowed to be free. l be
lieve he will carry out his threat, ant
don't think my life is safe a minute
He's a bad man"
Cummings said that he had a toucl
of rheumatism and decided to quit
and he therefore told Carly to pay him
but that Carly objected to paying hin
at the rate of $50 a month. With tina
he had told the liveryman that HI
him if you don't pay me $25 I'll breal
your jaw, that's what I said. Why,
didn't want to hurt him, and didn'
intend to, only / thought I'd scare hin
by making the play at raising thu
| bottle at him.
! The defendant told the court that h,
came to Honolulu on the transpor
Conemaugh last October as a teamster
having shipped at Manila to San Fran
cisco and back again. When he ar
rived here, he and three others wer,
disconnected because the four of then
/ had to take care of lightweight ami
4 mails, while fifteen others mad only 125
and he thought he was imposed on
and so he quit the ship with $65 to hi.
credit He went to Hilo and returned
in time to secure a vacancy in Carly
establishment He said he had ex
cellent letters of identification and rec
concentration from the officers of tn,
ship and places where he had previous
ly worked.
Il don't take any stock in these let
tiers of recommendation, said tn
Judge. Let me look at mans face
and that's the recommendation I want
Why, it happens oftener that a MAJ
writes a letter of recommendation jus
to get rid of the man asking for 1t
l know that for a fact. And as for tn
officers giving out these letters, VIII,
they write thousands of them, and min
times out of ten they don't know tn
man any better than I do you. Thi
letter of recommendation business is
farce
Now, let me tell you another thing
In the United States, that is, on tn
Mainland where the country is big
perhaps you can break a mans hea,
when you want to get money out O
him, but down here the place is small
and when you try to do that you will
get into trouble every time. You can
go out and take money out of man
skin. If you want it, why there's
court where you can sue him. It's
bad business to go up to a man AM
say, If you don't give me that none,
III Kill YOU You can't do it in Homo
lulu. Your method of soaring him int
paying it won't work-not in Honolulu
I'll put you under bonds to keep tn
peace for 500, and if you can't furnish
the bond, you'll have to go to Jail"
Cummings protested that he knew n
one in Honolulu and had no money. bu
the judge was unrelenting, and the of
fender of Carty's peace of mind wen