The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-30
WILCOX FIRES
SOME HOT SHOT
"ROASTS" MEMBER OF ATTORNEY
GENERALS DEPARTMENT FOR
PERMITTING MEN TO ESCAPE.

Judge Wilcox fired some very hot
shot this morning at some one connect
ed with the Attorney Generals Depart
ment. The occasion was in passing
sentence on A. Bonavitz and NJ. Souza
young men who were charged with
assault and battery on Moaulilii deaf
mute native boy last Sunday in Pauoa
valley.
The pair of defendants were charged
with having tied the deaf mute boy up
by the feet and then hung him by the
neck in a very cruel way. Owing to
there being no one in court who could
act as interpreter of the deaf and dumb
language no attempt was made to
swear Moauliilii. The two defendants
claimed that they had simply been
playing with the deaf and dumb boy
or The Dummy as they referred to
him. Souza had tied a moose in the
rope and put it around the feet of the
boy for the purpose of pretending they
intended to hang him as the rope had
been put over beam. The deaf and
dumb boy slipped from a chair but
neither of the defendants had pulled
him up by the rope. Both also de-
MED that they had pulled him up by
the neck although the boys neck show
ed red marks which went to show that
some body had tried to hang him.
scene of the attack on the deaf mute
| addressed the court and urged that the
defendants be punished as the case
was especially aggravated on account
of MOauliilii being a deaf mute. Deputy
High Sheriff Chillingworth spoke brief
ly and urged that the defendants be i'm
prisoned.
Some thing must be done" said
Judge Wilcox, ito stop these assault
| and battery cases. 1 did practically
nothing else yesterday afternoon but
! sign warrants for assault and battery
cases. There is little doubt of the
guilt of these defendants, as counsel
has practically admitted it. In i'm
| posing sentence, the court has in mind
the attitude of the circuit court toward
this court 1t has gotten to such a
pass now that lawyer say oh, that is
all right, it don't make any difference
what Old Wilcox does, We can take
an appeal to the Circuit Court I pro-
I pose to infict a sentence that will make
it worth the while of people to appeal.
why we have the very recent case
of three young men who were in this
court for having set fire to an old ma
| tive man and treating him shamefully.
| They We're sentenced by this Court to
| imprisonment but took an appeal to the
! circuit court and because one of the
| young men was employed in an estab-
| lishment where a certain member Of
the Attorney Generals department had
| an interest, the defendants We're let
| off by paying a small money fine. l
! don't care if the attorney generals
| department hears what l say on this
! subject and ] hope that they Will add
| ed the court. 81 sentence the defen-
dants to serve three months at hard
| labor and to pay the costs"
| 1t is understood that the case to
| which Judge Wilcox referred this
morning is where b. Hartman, Der
Gallagher and a man named Campion
were sentenced by Judge Wilcox to
serve three months at hard labor for
having set off frecrackers attached to
an old natives clothes, showing an
| umbrella down the old mans back and
otherwise hurting the native. Appeals
were taken and the defendants were
permitted to plead guilty in the Circuit
| Court to assault and battery and es-
| cape serving the sentences of imprison-
! ment by the payment of fines.
| Notice of an appeal was given.