Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-11-02


night with wailing and teething
youngster,-the prisoner who appears
for sentence is liable to think he
should have waited for a change in
tho moon.
All of these things account to some
extent for the apparent unaccount-
ability of some of the sentences ad-
ministered. Even the best of judges
cannot help being Influenced.
AS an example in point, Lionel
Hart, who dresses like a millionaire
spends his substance-ando other peo-
ple's--in extravagant living and who
tried to burn down the Government
oil warehouse some time ago, and
only failed because he didn't know
enough to start fire with kerosene,
got off with three years, one day this
week. And on Thursday poor devil
Of a Chinese who had broken into the
house of fellow countryman and
stolen some jade and other small
stuff, was sentenced by the same
Judge to ten years at hard labor. The
Judge must have had bad night or
POORLY cooked breakfast.
| am reminded of the case of the
negro, Woods, on Maui some years
ago, who was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment by Judge Kalua for
breaking into a country store and
stealing a few hundred dollars worth
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heavy as that of half the convicted
murderers. A man may knock his
wifes brains out, burn his children
10 death. and kill half dozen police
ofIiccrs and yet get no sentence more
severe.
And, then, there was the case of
Sailor Deneau, who was convicted by
jury of having taken the life of a
.ellow-man, the verdict being man
daughter in the first degree. Judge
De Bolt, appalled, at the horror of the
deed. and wishful of preserving the
safety of the community, and point
Ing n warning to others reckless Of
human life,-flned him one dollar and
costs.
/ If Justice wishes to be just, she
= should get a good cook.
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/ The above story reminds Of anoth-
or in the same line. A charming
young lady of this city whose envir-
OJment Is of a particularly religious
nature, has added, to her list of good
works the teaching of class OF Jap
rnese, whom she instructs in the En-
Flish language.
( The other day she asked one OF her
Nipponese pupils to spell the word
yellow
TIE little brown man went at IL
with will, spelling in loud voice,
phoneticaIly as follows:
N-e-hell-hell--o-w
But the young lady had fed in
.amazement before he finished.
II IL rather hard for lawyer to be
appointed by the Court to defend an
impccunous prisoner charged with
burglary, and after he got well into
the case and warmed up and is fight
ing as hard as he can for his pro-
,tcge, to discover that the prisoner is
the same man who stole the lawyers
watch years before.
But that is what happened to At
,torney Lightfoot yesterday. He was
'unwary enough to be caught by the
Judge and appointed to defend Por-
TO Rican named Antoine Delgar, who
was charged with burglary, in the
FIRST degree The trial was about half
over when some kind friend went to
Lightfoot and tipped him off that
Delgar was the man who five years
Iago robbed Lightfoot's house and got
away with Il valuable gold watch, for
! which the lawyer went into mourn
ing.
At the time, Delgar was convicted
of the crime and spent three years In
Jail for ia fact which LightfOOt ms
Ibis attorney was Obliged to fight hard
and unsucccssfully to suppress. But
he did succeed in blocking by his OBJ
jectiOns Prosecutor Cathcarts at
Itcmpts to make the prisoner specify
for what he was sentenced.
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It's great honor to come from Ha'
wall. You can be rated as a sugar
baron or anything you like. As Il
; matter of fact, the people will not lei
you be anything else but a capitalist
Everybody in Hawaii is supposed tC
be either wealthy person or canni'
bal. When / say everybody, | dom
include Smith. He's the Honolulu
small farmer-a horny-handed son o
soil
But to return to my subject: The
San Francisco News Letter says thai
Willard Brown owns sugar planta
tion in Hawaii. The Los Angeles
Times says that our old frient
Judge" Chas. +. Hart is a United
States Judge in the Territory of Ha
wait
Now how different is this honol