The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-22
CRIME AND
CRIMINALS
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lice and eight specials. The Count!
Attorney claimed that the Hawaiian
police are the poorest paid of any
give their lives for u.s. said he ''anc
lat such low wages of forty and fifty
and sixty dollars a month; can we
iwonder that there is a certain amount
of corruption in our police department:
There is and has been a certain amount
of corruption in police departments
both at present and in ancient times.
I think it was in the Advertiser, and l
was very glad to read it, an article on
| the corruption of the police department
| in ancient Rome. And you will find it
| exists right down to the present time
| and you can not stop it nor stamp 1t
! out. The only thing you can do is t"
ameliorate the conditions as far as you
possibly cam.
The records show that four policemen
have died in the discharge of their
duty since 1895. Mr.. Douthitt favored
a pension system, either by legislative
enactment providing a fund or by the
system in vogue in San FRANCHISES,
whereby $1.00 per month is taken out
of the each policemans wages as a
sort of insurance or pension or indem-
nifty fund If he dies in discharge of
duty, the policeman's widow gets $4,000,
or if he lives beyond a certain time, say
so, he is retired on half pay. The COun-
ty Attorney made a strong appeal fox
protection for the men who protect
lives and prOperty-not so much protec-
ton for the men as for their wives and
children to keep them from being
turned out on the cruel world because
their husbands and fathers died in the
discharge Of duty to the city. The APP
peal brought forth considerable APP
plause.
The cosmopolitan character of Homo
lulu's population and the consequent
diversity among the nationalities of the !
police officers was touched on. The |
utilities of the Gamewell police tele- !
graph system which not only facilitat- |
ed calling up the wagon or the ambu- |
lance, but also compelled the officers to
tenn of automatic stamps on a sort of
stock ticket, kept tab on the ocffiers,
were also dwelt upon.
Taking up the jails, the speaker said
that the federal government had on
the average of thirty to thirty-five
prisoners in the Territorial Jail, hav-
ing no jail of their own. Uncle Sam
pays the Territory for their board
and room" The city prison has ten
cells on each floor for women. The
expense of maintenance from the time
of arrest of a prisoner until he is
bound over to the grand jury or con-
victed of a misdemeanor is borne by
the county. After that by the Terri
tory. The food at both the Jail and
prison was declared to be good whole
some food of the kind to which the
several races were accustomed. Cases
of thin, emaciated convicts growing
strong and robust on the prison diet
were cited as evidence of what regular
hours and wholesome food in sufficient
quantity will do for a man. There is
said to be no limit on the amount that
a man may eat at either of these pub
lie hostelries. 1t costs SEE. per day to
maintain these prisoners 26 cents of
which goes for food alone and the
rest for shoes, clothes and road lunas,
etc.
They have medical attendance every
day, DR.. Moore being the physician in
charge. In the nine years that Mr.
henry naQ ndQ charge OIL Ine iOCe1i
prison, there had been but four cases
of corporal punishment. There were
religious services in the prison every
Sunday in five different languages.
Mr.. Douthitt spoke very interesting
ly of the Bertillon system of identi-
fcation which consists of measuring
certain distances on the body which
are found not to change but remain
fixed. He also spoke of the excellent
parole system inaugurated by the last
legislature by which a man, after he
has served the minimum term for
which he could have been sentenced
for the offense of which he was con-
victed, may apply for a parole. He
spoke in favor of the humanitarian
treatment of prisoners and of the
marked influence which Christianity
is having with men. At the conc1u-
sion of the address, J. NJ. Martin NOV
ed vote of thanks to the speaker and
remarked that he felt that the attend
ants We're not advertising the good
things we'll enough, and that the at
tendance should have been two or
three times what it was every night.
He said the best talent in the city
was really contributing to their enter
tainment and enjoyment and that it
was up to the Thursday Club to get in
nothing to attend and many do at
tend who do not go to the dinner which |
always precedeS.
PINEAPPLEs TO THE MAINLAND.