The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-07
GIRL. WITH
SHORT PAU
Famous Hula Is Aired
In the Police
Court.
Ny Hawaiian maiden,
Her name IS Lulu;
Z" She wears a holoku
And a short pau.

| . She wears a holoku
| And short pau.
So runs the charming little ballad, at
present so popular in Honolulu, and
| which when once heard, causes the
nearer to hum the same until he be-
comes a nuisance to himself ano
] friends.
The little ditty was introduced dur
| ing the exercises in the police court
yesterday morning. TO the very evident
amusement of the bench, bar and occu-
| pants Of the courtroom generally.
| 1t was in the case of Mrs. Charles
terry on Mrs. Sarah Lyman, that the
| speciality occurred.
/ 1t appeared that the two ladies men
| toned had a quarrel in the Kalihi dis
got the worst of physical encounter
that followed and sought the redress of
! the law.
| Mrs. Lyman testified that she was
singing in her house on Friday and that
| defendant, who is neighbor, opened
her door and told her to ''kuli kui, -
which same being interpreted meaneth
to shut up.
81 asked her for why 1 should STOP"
| said witness. ''and she called me names
and told me to come on. didn t
i know what she wanted SO [ went out
side into the road and she grabbed me
by the hair, bit me in the cheek. sat on
me and pulled my head up several
times by the hair and let it drop on the
| ground
Complainant here exhibited her cheek
which bore the distinct impression of
dainty molars, the wound looking
something like a dogs bite.
What song were you singing2' emf
CURED Attorney Humphreys, who ap-
peared for the defendant. WAS it
You re a Dainty Little Sunbeam?' "
''No, Stree replied witness, it was
about the girl at Waikiki with short
pau"
81 also sang the Spanish Cava-
lier. - vouchsafed the musical Mrs
Lyman.
In fact you aired your vocal roper
toire during the progress of your
household work, - said Humphreys.
Witness intimated that the attorney
had the situation sized up about right.
A witness named Anton stated that
he had seen Mrs. Wagner sitting on
Mrs. Lyman s head at the time and
place mentioned.
THAT was to protect herself from
bites, 80 explained Humphreys;
| woman S hands are not dangerous,
only her teeth. -
Mrs. Wagner took the stand and told
different story. She admitted all al
legations and ratified off the following
bellicose statement:
"Mrs. Lyman sing dirty songs about
mel was SO vexed. She say pig,
pig and [ say, ''pig, pig. ,, Then
| she sing Mrs Wagner go to Waikiki
with no proper dress on-and only
| wears a holoku and nothing else. I'm
| respectable married woman and that
made me so vexed. Then we had
| fight and [ knocked her down fiat on
her back and pounded her head six
times and she said to me, go ahead,
and | went ahead. Then six peoples
come and they can't hardly separate
us and if those six people hadn t come
| and interfered I never would have
let go.
Did you bite her?'' queried
Humphreys.
my mouth happened to be open
and she must have hit her face against
my mouth l was so vexed and ex-
cited. l didn't mean to bite her but
1 was so mad because she said l went
to WAIKIKI without a pau.
"Your Honor has probably heard
the song complainant was singing?"
suggested Prosecuting Attorney An
drade.
His Honor bIushed and by a mega
tory motion of his head denied the
soft impeachment.
! Counsel for the defense argued that
defendants perfectly frank statement
of facts must impress the bench favor
ably. His client had undoubtedly
: been provoked to fighting pitch by the
iIl-timed chanting of ribald song.
? He thought that a reprimand would
: meet the ends of justice.
/ Andrade remarked that if all de-
? PENDANTS were as frank as Mrs. Wag-
t ner had been the business of the court
, would be expedited wonderfully. He
r asked for fine as a deterrent against
| similar breaches of the public peace.
I, Judge Whitney opined that relations
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