The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-29
COMEDY IN
THE COURT
Kakaako Furnishes an
Afternoon Of
Fun.

Comedy, with plenty of actors and
actresses from Kakaako to fill the
roles, held the boards in the police
court yesterday afternoon. The ex-
cruciatingly funny farce of 1.-The Cop
and the Maid proved maker and
the spectators got their moneys worth,
the participants at the request of Judge
Whitney.
Akana Espinda, who speaks Ha-
waiian, Chinese and English, his per-
lection in each being in the order
given. Akana is a special police officer
and doesn't need to wear no uni
form" as he told Attorney Chilling
worth, who appeared in court as legal
adviser to one Pavao. son of Mrs.
trouble in Kakaako a few days ago.
Akana is a comedian. Every gesture
and every sentence he utters. is full OF
rollicking comedy. He told how he
went to Kakaako with a warrant for
the arrest of Mrs. Pavao on a charge
of profanity, sworn to by a Hawaiian
lady of the district Akana said he
went to the front door of the Pavao
mansion and knocked.
"a Portugee lady come to the VIM
dow, look out and say, Who Your"
said Akana to the court. Il say, I
want to see you, you come here She
say. No Finally she open door. Then
l pull warrant out of my pocket and
hold it open about SO long. 1 speak
plain English. say, You Mrs. Pavao"
naka woman say you speak bad word
to her. She go police station swear
out warrant. / come get you, take you
to calaboose.' show my police badge
and then 1 say Wing ka.' That as
much Portugee as I know for come
along She holler No, 1 won't go,
want Portugee policeman L say
have to take her. l tell her l let her
have time to put on clothes and come.
s'Then up come her son, and he tell
his mother not to go. He ask me for
warrant. l say to him, Your name
not in warrant, / no have to show you.
You want to know who swear warrant,
you come to police station He tell his
mother not to go. He go to gate and
say it again. 1 tell him not to inter-
fere. He swear at me. 1 go down and
put my hand on his shoulder so slap
ping Jimmie Boyd's shoulder with a
whack) and say You under arrest He
grab me by throat and then he hit me
right here on the nose. grab him by
the necktie and then his mother jump
in. Her son he once more strike at me
but 1 duck and his fist Craze my head.
His fist glance off and hit his mother
right on the end of the nose. She t'row
up her hand and yell out Policeman
smash me in nose Me? no, it was her
son. Then a white man from the
Rainier brewery he run up and grab
the warrant out of my hand and go
away with it. 1 tell him to bring it
back and show my badge, but he says,
You got no business here, get out
Bimeby, 1 get warrant back, ring up
station house and then wagon come
and l take Mrs. Pavao'S son down to
station. His mother, she run away and
l no can find her. First thing, I see
her way down another street, and then
1 arrest her
49, =, AMI dozen female wit
N 80 Viro. August ted his story even
down = ~. s.I.sutest details. Mr..
Harndon, a witness for the defense,
was put on the stand. Akana's testi-
mony was that he was the haole who
had taken his warrant from him. Mr..
Harndon said he merely wanted to look
at it
At any rate, Judge Whitney decided
that the amusement was chargeable to
the Pavao's at the rate of $40 for the
son and S. for the mother on the
charge of obstructing justice