The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-08
IN
DISTRICT COURT
Thorne, Piver and Byrne Are
Committed for
Trial.

w. H. Thone was committed for trial
yesterday by Judge Wilcox on a charge
of assault with intent to murder
1t appeared that Albert Schaefer, the
father-in-law of defendant, was in his
ant put in an appearance and started to
raise row. Schaefer demonstrated with
him and Thone went over to his own
house and returned with a revolver.
When he came back Schaefer was in the
yard with his four children.
| Thone pointed the gun in the direction
of his father-in-law, who, with the chill
dren, sought refuge in flight. Schaefer
testified that Thone fired four shots at
him, none of which took effect.
August Haselberg, George D. Kopa and
Mrs. Alapai testified to having seen
Thone shoot at Schaefer and the chill
dren while they were running away.
Bail was fixed in the sum of $500.
The case of Illegal liquor selling against
Bob Gardner was continued until
May s.
| The charge of malicious injury against
Haleakala was nolle prosd., defendant
having paid for damages occasioned by
| him to show case owned by Hing
| Chang.
John Piver and ]. A. Byrne were com
| mitted for trial on a charge of malicious
injury.
| Defendants are said to have violently
| entered one of w. II. Pains houses on
Lunalilo street and removed property be-
| longing to Piver
The case was the outcome Of a dispute
over the rent of the premises which 1T
| is alleged Piver did not pay. Piver con-
/ tends that he was still the tenant, while
! the prosecution holds that the property
had been transferred to other parties
Judge Wilcox said that defendants had
not acted rightly in breaking open the
! door and removing Piver's effects. He
| remarked that it looked very much as
1 if defendants did not care whether they
| kept the house or not, SO long as they
| got possession of goods for which MI
| Pain held bill of sale given by Piver.
| Clinton Comes, VIM. Smith, A. Alexan-
der and VIM. Howard were charged with
| having no visible means of subsistence.
Three of the defendants were negroes.
! The men said that they had come to
| Hawaii to work on the plantation at
! SpreckelSviIle on the understanding that
| they were to receive SIS month and
| board Instead they got SIS without
board After working a month they quit
their jobs and came to Honolulu.
The men said that while standing on a
street corner talking an officer arrested
them They denied that they were with
out means, and stated t4lat three of the
four had money on them when locked
up.
| Since arriving in Honolulu, they said.
they had been living with friend on
King street, who had promised to see
them through until they secured en-
ployment.
today in order that the philanthropic
friend might be called.
Other cases disposed of We're: Ma, lar
ceny second degree, committed Circuit
Court; VIM. Huihui, needless driving,
May s; Duff, Mckenzie. John Pow
ers Dunn, drunkenness, 81 and
costs; Luau. gambling, discharged; Mrs.
L. McKeague, profanity, reprimanded
and discharged; j. Woodward, desertion,
reconciled.
| The following cases in Judge Dickey' s
court We're continued until May 8: Mrs.
| Monwar, assault and battery on Ah Ho;
All Hoy, vagrancy; Tokiyama, solicit
ing; Manuel Souza, selling liquor.
Yesterdays arrests included:
All Pc, gambling; Kaihumura, Honua-
KIM. drunkenness; James Mckay, as
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| Doe. alias Henry Kekai, assault and
battery on Mrs. Frazer; Kiku. investiga-
ton; John Nolan, assault and battery on
P. F. Ryan; All Tong, assault and bat
terry on P. Johnson.
Mckay and Nolan, charged with as
sault and battery on P. F. Ryan, are
employees of the Honolulu Iron Works.
Ryan says that when the machinists
at the Iron Works struck some time ago
he declined to go out with them. This
put him in bad odor with the strikers.
On Monday night, according to Ryan,
he had some words with Mckay and No
Ian, the former of whom, he alleges,
struck him in the face with a bottle, In
fiicting painful injuries.