The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-16
KAMITANI'S LETTER.
r. C. Shiozawa,

To Mr.. C. Shiozawa,
Editor of the Hawaii Shinpo: On
the night of December %, 1903, bur-
glary was committed on my premises
and 1 was robbed of tailoring goods to
the extent of three hundred dollars
worth. The robbing was duly report
ed by me next morning TO the police.
Nothing, however, was heard of it until
April II, 1904, when, during my alb
sence at the island of Maui, detective
McDnffy came to my shop and report
ed that the perpetrator had been ar
rested, of which fact | was informed
by my men on the 18th of the same
month upon my return to the city.
Thereupon on the 18th, l presented my
self at the police station, only to be
told to go to the circuit court. Di
rectly l repaired to the court where I
was told to call again next day, which,
of course, | respected. The next day
and the day following I received the
same order, and thus there was moth
ing doing until the visit was repeated
in ike manner for at least half
dozen times or more, when, one day,
the officials condecended to hear my
story-regarding how I was robbed.
Then and there | was told to go home
nothing was heard several months.
Becoming inpatient of the silence,
| resorted to the court several times to
find out how the matter stood, but on
ly information / was able to gather
through Interpreter Yamada was that
the Attorney General Greatly felt sor-
ry for me for this unusual delay and
hoped / would wait trifle longer
Meantime my aged mother in Japan
fell dangerously i'll and my folks over
there wrote me repeatedly urging me
to pay a visit home. Therefore, on
the Both of November, / went to cir
cult court and requested that the mat
ter be settled soon, as my folks at home
had urgently written me to come home
on account of the critical condition of
my mother. A week or so afterwards,
to wit, ON the 5th of December, at
about p. M, I was surprised to be
arrested and taken to the police sta
ton. | asked of the cause of arrest
through Mr.. Mkt, as / could not speak
nor write English. Mr.. Mkt told me
that it became known that 1 was GO
ing to Japan, and that, as the case
would soon come up, if [ should go
away the government would lose an
important witness, and that 1 was de-
tanned for the purpose, and that / could
be released on bail of $500. There
upon, 1 telephoned to Mr.. c. Miyamo-
to. By the assistance of MIR. Miyamo-
to and Mr.. Ammo l was released about
10 p. m. that day.
I have been waiting since for the
day of trial, expecting it would come
today or tomorrow; weeks and months
passed, but nothing come to my knowl-
edge. On the 9th of May of next
year, about 2:15 p. M, / met Mr.. Nc
Dafie 90 who told me that the case
is pau and that I can get things at the
court, if L go there on Monday or
Tuesday following. 1 went court on
the following Monday, which was the
Sth of the month. The Attorney Gen
eral told me to come next day. So /
went to the court again on the 9th,
when the Attorney General told me
could get my things in the police sta
tion, and he said something to police
man in the court, who gave me a piece
OF paper on which he wrote something,