The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-24
SHOWING MERCY
To PRISONERS
Acts of Clemency Which Are
Recommended for
Christmas.

Besides recommendations by the
Board of Prison Inspectors for acts
Of clemency toward certain prisoners
on Christmas Day, Acting Governor
Mott-Smith yesterday received a petit
ton from P. Danson Kellett. Jr.. for
mer clerk to Judge De Bolt. for res
toration of his civil rights forfeited by
| conviction for embezzlement of trust
funds.
After some elaboration on his own
part, the Acting Governor turned the
applications for clemency over TO At
torney General Hemenway with di-
rections to report thereon this morn
| ing. Which meant a night shift in
the Territory law factory
Between and o'clock this after
noon, the Acting Governor will see
anybody who has anything TO say
for or against the granting of any
pardon or Communication of sentence.
Edmund s. Boyd, former Commits
sioner of Public Lands, applied for a
full pardon. The inspectors recon-
mend that four years be Cancelled of
his term of ten years. under convic-
ton on October 10, 1905, of embezzIing
public funds. He has been an exem-
plary prisoner. and therefore is enti-
tied to a reduction of two months
each year. Hence the ciemency ad-
vised would mean that Boyd would
only have to serve five years alto
gether.
Chida Manchitora, convicted May %.
1899, of manslaughter in the first de-
gree and sentenced to twenty years
penal servitude, is recommended for
a full pardon.
Osaka Mankichi, convicted at the
same time and for the same offense as
Chida, receiving a ike sentence, is
listed for a five-year coupon clipping.
Mankichis conviction was affirmed
only by bare majority decision of
the United States Supreme Court, as
in his case the question was raised if
the constitution followed the flag. A
transition period convict, he had not
been indicted by grand jury, as
grand juries We're until that time un-
known in Hawaii.
Tiara Ichigura, convicted of murder
in the first degree at the same time
as the two lust previously mention
ed, was sentenced for life. 1t is pro-
posed to commute the sentence to
twenty years. These three Japanese !
were involved in the Kahuku riot be-
tween Iaborers of their nationality and
Chinese working on the plantation.
William Ester, who stabbed man
to death at a lodging house on the /
waterfront and whose case dragged for !
trial a long time, was convicted May /
25, 1900. of murder in the first degree.
He was sentenced for twenty years, |
but may get a reduction of five years
on condition that he will Immediate
" leave the country when released.
George Wade, who shot a steward I
on board the steamer Australia as she
was leaving the harbor for San Fran
cisco in 1899, was convicted of the two
offenses of murder and assault with a
deadly weapon, The second charge
was on account of his actions in re-
sisting capture, and would not have
been pressed had it not been for I'M
certainty, pending a desperate legal
defense on the graver charge, about
his conviction for the homicide. He
was sentenced to terms of life and of
ten years respectively. 1t is suggest
I'd that the major sentence be COM
muted to twenty-five years.
A reduction of two years in a term
If twenty is recommended for Kishi-
motto Yochisuki, convicted of murder
n the second degree June Is, 1901.
A full pardon is recommended for
Zoe Caceres, sentenced in May, 1894.
to twenty years at hard labor for
murder in the second degree. The
condition of leaving the country wnen
'eleased is attached.
Samuel Barney, sentenced to a term
# fifteen years August 81, 1900, for |
in the first degree, has
lad two years taken off already and |
5 recommended for further reduc-
ion of one year.