The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-15

DISTURBED.
,Germania ParIors
Again the
Scene.
WILCOX ROASTS
TlPSY RUFFIAN
Officer Smith Interrupted a Jap
Duel-Sadie MiIler's State
Of Loneliness.

Lightning sometimes strikes twice in
the same place, despite the general be-
lief to the contrary. Just at present
street, is a case in point
Only last week the joint was raided
by the police and a number of gam
blers arrested. This apparently did not
scare the proprietor of the house, for
early yesterday morning word was
brought to the police that big crap
game was in progress at the Germania.
Messrs. Chillingworth and Agnew
promptly visited the place and effected
an entrance by means of a window on
the Nuuanu street side of the house.
So neatly did they do their work that
they were in the middle of the room
and had secured evidence money be-
fore the crapshooters were aware OF
their presence.
a rush was made for the front door,
at which the gang had stationed a
sentinel, but Agnew attended to that
part of the room, and no one escaped.
The game was a big one, for 5000 was
found on the table. Ten of the gam
blers were arrested and gave bail.
In the police court yesterday morn
ing, when the case came up, E. Har-
rison, j. Tavash, Lucien, alias Lutgert;
c. Johnson, and Benson, forfeited their
bail of $25, and f. Fernandez, j. Nc
CURE, j. Willard c. Dean and Barney
Atwood were fined $40 and costs apiece.
Two of the defendants are hack driv
ers, and explained their presence at
the game by stating that they had
been telephoned for by prospective
passengers. Judge Wilcox remarked
that by being present at the game they
We're just as liable to punishment as
the actual gamblers.
Joe Kauhimaka was sent to the reef
for one month on charge of assault
and battery on Kapouhiwa, a native
boy. Defendant, who was drunk at
the time, had had trouble with COM
plainant's father and out of spite threw
the little chap down a flight of stairs.
In sentencing defendant, Judge Will
cox said:
You are of the class who burn
houses at night because of a spite
against the owner. Men of your kind
MAIN animals because they bear
grudge against their master. Individ-
, uals of your calibre do not hesitate to
There is not a spark of manhood In
your makeup. You were angry with
a man, and in order to vent your
spleen you threw an inoffensive boy
downstairs. Oahu Jail is the best place
for fellows of your stamp
For conspiring to fight a duel with
knives in the classic Kakaako, Shigata
and Ishi We're fined Sc and costs each.
officer Sidney Smith, who arrested the
cd hot ftar-
noon he had discovered the defendants,
surrounded by a great crowd, in the
act of going at each other with long
knives The men We're arrested on the
| Beach road. Earlier in the afternoon
they had fought a round or so else
where, and each bore marks of the
combat in the shape of cut necks and
| damaged ears
Sunni, a japanese woman, was fined
| 500 and costs for illegal liquor selling.
| She was arrested on Tuesday evening
at Kakaako, together with a man NAM
| ed Hare, whose case was nolle pressed.
The couple ran a soda water stand
with the real stuff on the side.
| Liquor selling case number two was
| that of S. K. Mahio, who has been in
the habit of relieving the thirsts of the
| inmates of Relief Camp No. 2, con-
trary to the statutes of the Territory.
Judge Wilcox Suspended sentence for
thirteen months, at the same time
warning defendant not to do it again.
Sadie Muller was fined 500 and costs
for dispensing 'Honeysuckle'' gin
without having first obtained a license.
A suspended sentence hung over Sa-
! dies head, and descended with a thud
on that comely member. Attorney
Stewart, who defended, pleaded for
leniency on the ground that his client
was a poor lone woman, who had,
pleaded guilty in the former case on
account of having been nervous and
unstrung.
The prosecution took exception to the
word lone" showing that when the
fair Sadie was arrested three hula
girls and fourteen bottles of beer were
found in her company