The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-23
A MO TLEY
COLLECTION
Human Nature as
Revealed in
Court.
FINES
MANY OFFENDERS
Sweet Emalia Goes to Jail-Man
With a Bear Skin
Mask.

in Judge W1lcoX'S court yes |
.erday morning to plead to a charge
If drunkenness. Just week ago she |
promised the judge that never again
should he have to take her to task on
,hided her for having broken her
promise, and ordered her kept out of
the reach of temptation for ten days.
Kaanaana, charged with drunken
ness, was discharged on a technicality
Officer Maitland testified to having ar
rested defendant for drunkennes.-. oa
Liliha street. Kaanaana stated that it
was not Maitland who arrested him at
all, but Patrolman Axe. AXE, on being
sworn, told the court that he had ar
mittiag nuisance The. judge, yisibiy
affe, ted by the divergence of testi-
mony. said you can CO."
Ben Kauha and H. Kapao. charged
with gambling. We're discharged. The
men were arrested on one OF the
wharves where a dice game was IL
progress. Nothing could be proved
against them, other than that they had
been on the wharf when a raid took
place. Judge Wilcox said that Were
everyone locked up who happened to
be on wharf when a crap game was
in progress, the Jail would be filed
with ships captains ana bookkeepers
who go down to the waterfront to sing
hymns to the sailors.
George Kikiia, j. Boyd and Fred
Ross were fined s. and costs apiece for
gambling.
And you, Kikila,p said the judge.
should be much more stiffly fined,
though not for this particular case"
Karl Peterson, fox-faced man, who
visited lady at $3.50 a. M, with his
face disguised with a false beard and
whiskers of bear skin, was reprimand-
ed and discharged. The charge against
him was being unlawfully on the
premises of another by night.
Mrs. Kalauhini testified that Peter
son had been found in her yard early
yesterday morning. He wore a facial
disguise of bear skin. She fancied that
he had come to visit some young won-
en- who resided about the place, and
did not think that she was the at
traction.
1 Peterson : said that he was a friend
of the family, and had been invited
to the house.
There was evidently some attraction
for you to be about the place at that
uneauhly hour said the court. IL
you cant arrange your visits without
getting caught, I shall not tell you
how to do it. And the next time you
visit ladies by night discard the bear
skim. It does not improve your looks.
II your face is not sufficiently attract
i've to the ladies au naturelle, l am
afraid your case is hopeless.
Ed Williams Ham1fD and Da-
vid were charged with vagrancy. Their
cases We're continued in order that
fuller inquiries as 70 the defendants
might be made.
Williams told the court that he was
a stevedore, and worked one or two
days each week. Hamlin stated that
until week ago he was employed as
a cabin boy. David said that when ar
rested he was looking for work In
answer TIC a query by the court as to
ways ard means, Williams said that
he had 50 put away, and David stated
that his last money vanished when he
paid his board bill.
David KAPPA says that last Thurs
day night the two hired Chinese
hack and asked To be driven to Pala-
ma. From Palama bridge they wanted
to go to the fertilizer works, and from
there to EVA After the fertilizer
and turning around. hurried back to
town. When the river was reached
the occupants of the hack sprang out
and neglected TO pay their fare. It is
thought from the strange behavior OF
the men, that robbery of the driver
was intended
Mania, Japanese, was fined SIS and
costs for fast driving. He jumped
from the frying pan into the fire. De-
CT cd hof To- ly
preaching ard that he was fastening
homeward, his speed accelerated by
the fact that his vehicle bore no light
While thus laudably engaged patrol
man arrested him for needless driving
Kalama was fined $50 and costs for
having committed assault and battery
on Mrs. Mitsunaga. 1t appeared thai
Kalama had been playing baseball
and that complainant had seized the
ball which, she said, was thrown al
her. Thereupon, Kalama seized, struck
and threw the woman down, causing
injuries which prevented her coming to
court.
Defendant said that the woman put
the ball down closet, which made
him mad, and caused him TO act some
what roughly toward her.
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth remark
ed that complainant was i'll. and
lcnaTacteIized the case as DelnS par
ticularly aggravated one.
Hoohuli and Aqua, charged with
mayhem, appeared in court with theil
faces strangely swaddled and were re-
manded until this morning.
Other cases dealt with We're:
zee Wo, false personation. nolle
pressed; Ing Hawai-, assault and bat
terry on Malta, July 23d; Charles K
McFarIane, larceny, second degree
July Esd; Matsumoto, larceny, SECOND
degree, July 23d; Takanaga, violation