The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-27
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MURDER
The Sheriff Stops
tiiIo Crime
Drama.
PRINCE KUHIO ON
ISLE OF HAWAII
Political Meetings Arouse Repub-
lican Enthusiasm-Porto
Rican Runs Amuck.

there are also Japanese dramatists play
are also Japanese dramatists, play
writer's and stage artists here who dou-
BILE discount the enterprising sensation
hunters who haunt the theaters of San
Francisco and New York. The latest
adaptation in Hilo's Japanese theater
was not from popular novel, nor a
stage depletion of striking situations
drawn from real life among the smart
set. It was nothing more and nothing
less than the reproduction of a murder
case which lately occupied several
| weeks of the time of the local District
Magistrate.
/ The dramatization of the Motohira
murder and the trial of the Japanese
accused of his felonious taking off was
done by an obscure but talented local
to reproduce upon the stage were of
such recent occurrence that his memory
alone was drawn upon to the relief of
his imaginative powers.
|
the thoroughfare on which the defunct
Motohira came to grief. If the Sheriff
had not stopped the play before it had
| closed, it is supposed that court scene
and possibly a prison scene, showing
Watanabe and Funicoshi on the reef in
charge of Jailor Henry. would have
been produced. Motohiro did not have
a chance to cut his own throat or have
it cut by his mock torturers. The play
so far as it went was witnessed with
interest by Carl Smith, Messrs. Wise &
Ross, and w. H. Smith, attorneys in
the case, as well as representatives of
the Sheriff.
The Sheriff stopped the play.
The prisoners committed to the Grand
Jury on the charge of numbering the
Japanese Motohiro were brought from
Honolulu this week by Sheriff Andrews
and put through one more stunt of APP
pearing before the court ito be re-
manded to the custody of the sheriff
This time the prisoners were taken be-
/ for Judge Little and all were re-
bonds. His bond was pronounced de-
faulted.
1t all came about because of the spe-
cial term of court held at Hilo this
month These prisoners were commit
ted by the District Magistrate to the
next Grand Jury at the ensuing term
of court At this special term Judge
Little called no Grand Jury and the
| Sheriff grew alarmed lest his oft-re-
manded prisoners should claim that
they were not permitted to appear at
the next term" So he brought them all
lover, including Teddy Scovelle and had
them remanded to the next Grand Jury.
FunicoShi, Watenabe and Scovelle
| show the marks of care incident to life
on the Reef and steerage travel on the
Claudine. AS they each stood up before
Judge Little, Sheriff Andrews asked
that the prisoners be remanded, the
counsel for defendants objected to the
allowance of the Sheriff's motion. The
court overruled the objections and dis
allowed exceptions. The court explain
ed to the repeated objections of Messrs.
LeBlond and Ross that he was taking
no jurisdiction over the defendants be-
yond the point necessary to remand
them to the custody of the sheriff
What further complications may arise
in these cases has not developed
Tribune.
REPUBLICANS ENTHUSIASTIC,
AS soon as Prince Cupid supped after
landing from the Claudine Wednesday
evening, he with his party was taken to
the Waiakea meeting house where big
crowd of Hawaiians were awaiting him.
The head. of the ticket Immediately
Launched into spirited speech and was
greeted with applause at every turn +
The sensational incident of the even
ing was the interruption of Prince
Cupid by Kaniho. the campaign spokes-
man of Palmer P. Wood, candidate for
the senate on the Home Rule ticket
He openly called Prince Cupid a traitor.
whereupon the speaker poured a few
hot shots from the rostrum that sub
dued his accuser. The Prince intimat-
led that such impoliteness might call for
corporal punishment.
| The meeting at Waiakea sent Cupid
stock booming. Others who addressed
the meeting were Judge Kepoikai, Ar
chic MahauIu, Admiral Beckley and S.
L. Desha.
Yesterday afternoon the Republican