The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-12
A WARNING
To THIEVES
Long Man Sent Up
for Twelve
Years.
Boy Horse Thieves Are
Sent to Reform
School.
Wireless Case Is on Trial-OId
Bank Officers Win Suit
in Court.

| Twelve years IOT burglary winch was
the sentence imposed yesterday upon
Roger James by Judge De Bolt will
probably have the effect of putting a
stop to the indiscriminate thievery
with which Honolulu has been afflicted
for month or more past. In passing
sentence Judge De Bolt referred to the
present epidemic of crime and stated
that the object of punishment was to
deter others from similar offenses. In
this case, the court stated that the
defendant had been ably defended, and
he had been given every possible op-
portunity to prove himself innocent.
However the jury had found him
guilty and there was nothing to do but
impose sentence. The sentence of the
court was twelve years in Oahu Prison
and to pay the costs of the prosecu-
ton.
The jury was instructed and retired
at about eleven o'clock yesterday
morning and it was two hours before
an agreement was reached. The de-
PENDANT was defended by H. w. Robin
son, appointed by the court, as he had
no means. The maximum punishment
for burglary in the first degree is life
imprisonment under the Hawaiian
statutes.
THIEVES TO REFORMATORY.
Judge De Bolt yesterday morning
sentenced two of the boys indicted for
horse stealing to the reformatory for
the remaining years of their minority
The court stated that the statutes had
been carefully considered and he be-
lieved he was given authority to send
minors to the reform school, Two of
the boys, E. Marks and Frank Cal
dero, pleaded guilty to larceny in the
second degree and were each sentenced
to the reform school until they be-
come of age. The third of the young
sters, John Estrella, was sent to jail
for twenty days. He also pleaded
guilty and was given severe lecture
by the court upon the rewards of hon
esty and dishonesty. He is above the
age however at which boys can be sent
to the reformatory so the Jail sentence
was imposed.
All three of the boys were members
of a youthful gang of horse thieves |
which operated around Waialua, and |
they were alleged to have stolen mules |
from the waialua Agricultural Co.
BORE WRONG DATE.
The case of Bolles, charged with
stabbing Sheriff Chillingworth, was
called up in the afternoon, when it was
discovered that the indictment was
dated in 1902 instead of 1908. The case
was continued to permit the clerical
error to be remedied.
WE'RE AT THE WRONG PLACE.
In the case of M Ferias and Antonio
Nobre, charged with being unlawfully
lpon the premises of another. the jury
'eturned a verdict of guilty, and each
If the defendants was sentenced to
prison for term of one month. They
attempted to prove an alibi but the
ury didn't believe it. :
WAS HIS OWN LAWYER. I
Tin Soon the Chinese boy charged f
With the larceny of a graphophone and c
ate music from the Boys Brigade V
chool, was in court yesterday after
DON as his own attorney. An attorney v
ad been appointed for him by the u
curt but he was not on hand when
he case was called. and Judge De
'olt ordered the trial to go ahead. A
Try was impanelled and examined by .
ne Attorney General and by the court
or the defendant. Tin Soon ex-
ressed his willingness to accept
he jury and it was sworn to try his p
ase. Adjournment was then taken I'M
i this morning at nine o'clock.
CASES FOR TO-DAY.
The following cases are set down for y
rial today: Territory VS.. Tin Soon,
erritory VS.. Kitchitoro, Territory VS.. q
lizzie Kaui, Territory VS.. Pang Look. >,
erritory VS.. Stocki. and Territory VS.. ~
raga.
THE WIRELESS SUIT. fl
A jury was secured yesterday morn Y
lg in the case of Marconis Wireless
telegraph Co. VS.. F. J. Cross and the t
rial is already well under way. The S
uit is for royalties and for the sale
{ the wireless rights in Hawaii Most h
f the evidence put on yesterday was c