The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-11

There seems to be an epidemic OF
wife beating in Honolulu and Judge
Wilcox's court has been filled with
brutes of husbands who have made a
pastime of using fists, feet, teeth and
occasionally deadly weapons upon their
wives while in their cups.A On Wednes-
day a. wife beater who pounded his
wife's head on the floor, kicked her
thighs and abdomen until a physician's
lance had to be used to open up Tester
ing wounds caused thereby, and lastly
whipped her with a rawhide, was SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment.
Yesterday morning two more unfor-
tunate women came to the police sta
ton and swore out warrants before
the magistrate charging their husbands
with brutal assaults. One of the brutes
had played the McSwillegan game by
biting his wife's left cheek. Mary Vic
tor was the victim. She told a tale to
the Deputy Sheriff, which with the
wounds she exhibited, makes her case
an exceedingly sad one. She said that
on Wednesday Kaiwiaea Kahoaiii came
to her home about o'clock and began
to quarrel with her. Nagging and
pickering was continued until nearly z
o'clock. About that time Kahoalii as
sauIted her. She alleges that he held
her head while he caught the flesh up
on her left cheek bone between his
teeth and literally tore out and bit
away all the flesh, thereby exposing
the bone. The woman's face shows the
fln,lli
and is now criss-crossed with court
plaster and bandageS.
Another Hawaiian woman also had
story of a husband who was too
active with his fists and she resented
being the object of his attacks. She,
too, swore out a warrant for his arrest.
Hatsuyo, the Japanese woman whom
Umemoto, the Japanese yardboy at f.
J. Lowrey's residence, attempted to
murder yesterday morning, appeared in
the police station shortly after noon
and swore to a complaint against the
would-be murderer, charging him with
assault with a deadly weapon. She
walked with difficulty and is barely
able to move her head on account of
the knife wounds upon her neck and
breast. Her back was badly cut and
she received slight injuries to her knees
the loft. Umemoto is still in the
Queens Hospital.
A. c. Scott, a young man employed
by P. II. Lansdale, was fined $25 and
costs for assault and battery on L.
Apiu, an employee of c. .. zee Hop,
who conducts a store at the cornerof
Beretania and Alakea streets. Apiu's
testimony was TO the effect that Scott
had entered the store IN Tuesday
evening and, going to the telephone,
;nGk CT the receiver without asking
permission. He said that Scott jerRed
the lever ur ana down and was re-
quested by ApIu 10 let it alone Scott
had not asked permission at any time
to use the phone. When Apiu again
asked him to desist, Scott is said To
have used his fist upon him and made
things lively for "a few minutes. Att
last he left the store, mounted his
horse, which had been secured outside,
and rode away, waving back TO Apiu
derisively. Scott acknowledged, when
placed in the witness box, that he had
gone to use the telephone without first
permission, but said that the
store was public place and ne thought
this justified him in making use of it.
Apiu had removed the receiver from
his hand and ne then struck the Chi
naman. The judge gave Scott a roast,
telling him that he had proceeded to
use other peoples property in a high
handed manner and he did not believe
he would have been so free in a white
mans store.
John Pike was assessed $40 for beat |
ing his sister. Malta Pike.
The case of Rose Watson a white |
woman, for a violation of the social |
laws, together with those of All Chew, |
Chise and Asayama. were continued
until today.