The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-06
UNLAWFULLy
CONFINED
japanese Held Fourteen
Days Without a
Hearing.

| ton, where a man can be thrown into
jail upon a private request and LEFT
| there, without d trial, to stew in his
lperspiration for days and weeks In
deed, the victim may Ianguish in his
| cell, with intervals to sun himself in
the jailyard, indefinitely if his situation
Go not chance to become known to
someone Who, for the sake of justice
or compassion or an attorneys fee, will
interfere to end the outrage upon the
| liberty of the subject
! Last week there was the case of Joe
Ford, arrested on board the steamship
| Ventura upon the simple order of a
mate OF that vessel, who was taken
out OF jail under a writ of habeas cor
pus after having been confined there
four days without being brought face
| to face with his accuser. without in
| deed the scintiIla of any authority of
law for his detention.
Now is divulged the more fragrant
case of a friendless japanese, ignorant
| OF the language of America, who is
hastily showed out of jail, at the first
show of inquiry: on his behalf, after
having been confined there for fourteen
days and never in that time brought
into court for examination into the
cause of his Imprisonment.
c. Shiozawa, editor and proprietor of
the Hawaii Shinpo, was the active
agent for the mans deliverance. He
has laid the matter before the Japa-
nese consul and Governor Carter re-
ceiving a prompt assurance from the
Governor that it would be Investigated
ldr. Shiozawa has made the following
statement of the case to an Advertiser
reporter:
Last Monday a Japanese hotel
keeper came to my place and asked me
to help a certain Japanese who was in
jail He said the man had no friends
in the islands, as he belonged to part
of Japan whence few people come here.
According to what the hotel-keeper
told me, a Japanese by the name of
Komori arrived in this country the
middle of April this year by the steam
ship Mongolia. About two days after
ward he went to- Waimanalo planta-
ton. After working there fifty days
he found the work pretty hard for him
and had to quit. He looked for an
easier job and finally a friend got
position for him in the house of a white
man on Nuuanu street. komori did
not talk English nor understand it, so
he had a pretty hard time to get along
with his employer. However, a Japa-
nese servant woman next door would
come over and act as interpreter be-
tween the mistress and the boy.
Nothing happened for six days. On
the sixth day after supper the master
and mistress called the neighbours
woman and had her tell the boy that
they We're going out to pay a visit
somewhere and order him to look after
the children who were in bed. There
We're two children, girl of two and a
boy of four years old. After the couple
went out, about 8 or $50 o'clock, the
Japanese boy brought a chair for him
self near the bed where he could watch |
the children.
LAS the folks had not returned at /
10 o'clock the boy, having become |
besides being bothered by mos
quitoes, thought there would be no |
harm in crawling in under the netting |
with the children. He lay down in the
extreme corner of the bed away from |
the children. About 11:15 the master |
and mistress came back and called him.
He jumped up and the master told him
% go to his room and go to bed. Next
morning he got up as usual, working
around the yard
by and by hack came and the
Japanese woman was called from the
neighbours house to tell the boy to go
to the police court. that he was wanted
here. He jumped into the hack and
vent to the police station. where ne
was detained on some charge-tne
tel-keeper did not know what. Be
ng ignorant of the laws and having
no lawyer he stayed in jail. Therefore
he hotel-keeper, as his friend, came
o me. A lawyer had told the hotel
keeper that he was held for $1,000 bail.
Il told County Attorney Douthitt
about the case and he said, Let's go
Town to the police station and fnvesti-
gate We went there together on
Monday night and we searched the rec
nd. and found there was no japanese
uttered there by the name of komori
Ne looked over the record for several ;
lays covering what We supposed was
he period of Komoris detention.
Then I proposed that the turnkey
all Komori in the yard. He did so
,e came there on the 18th of June.
We found by the record that he was {
eld for investigation, but with no
barge whatever stated.
After Douthitt had talked with y
henry Vida, the deputy sheriff. Vida t
urned to me and said, This man is L
ischarged.' He said he would like to
now where the man lived, so that II g
5anted he could be got.
After going out l asked komorl IL
e was ever brought before the magis- c
rate. as the statute requires that t
risoner shall be brought before the I
Magistrate within forty-eight hours 1
fter his arrest. He said no only a G
mite man came one day and told him g
9 was charged with committing an d
ltrage.
-Four or five days afterward the t