The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-04
NO TRUSTY'S
JOB FOR HART
Lionel Goes to the Rock Pile
in Spite of His
Request.

| bile 10 set mouse anre ana another 10
hike through the city streets in stripes
TO crack rocks, and it was probably the
| realization Of this truth that took
Lionel Il. A. Hart, erstwhile dandy and
now convict, TO the Office of High
Sheriff Henry in Oahu prison, the other
day, to make request which, while
it may have appeared simple enough
to him, struck philosophical Henry
something as a surprise.
81 would like to have a position
as a rusty" said Hart, bowling
slightly.
alt takes several years of good be
bavior, usually, to attain that distinc-
tion,' replied Henry, in effect, when
he was able to recover from the shock
of the nervy request. 'tYou are only
a beginner here and it seems to me that
you have pretty light sentence as
\ it is. You must remember, my lad,
that you are no better than any other
prisoner / think little work out of
doors will do you good.
So it was the quarry for Lionel.
Hart stalked out of the High
Sheriff's Office and back to the bench
under the big tree in the prison yard
where several new-found associates
awaited him, curious to learn the out
come of his interview with the warden.
"Told yer not to make break like
that remarked one; "you amt any
| better n the rest of us.'
Hart had had visions of being APP
pointed a trusty and perhaps put on
the prison books to keep account of
the provisions and acquisitions. Wheth-
err or not he would have offered let
tiers of recommendation from previous
employers and could have furnished
bonds was not shown, since Henry
nipped his ambitions in the bud. II
would have been enough to touch the
heart of comedy had Hart been en-
trusted with the accounts and it should
later develop that he had juggled the
kerosene supply or burned the bread
receipts or butcher Is tags.
He cant be my bookkeeper, said
High Sheriff Henry to a representative
of the Advertiser yesterday. 81 am
of the opinion that Hart got off very
easily and l do not believe that he
would in any way be benefited by
making him n trusty before he has
proved himself worthy of trust. He is
here to be punished and he should not
be treated Mt the start in such a man.
ner as TO make him forget that he is
a prisoner. 1t is not discipline to
make a trusty of a prisoner until he
has shown that he is good material
for such trust. Hart has only just
been sent here under my care and |
mean TO see that the object of the
law is carried out in his ease as in
all cases under my charge.
The day following Harris sentence
to three years Imprisonment for mali
cious burning in the second degree, set
ting fire to the kerosene warehouse,
he was ordered out with the gang TO |
break rock at Makiki quarry. With
shaven head and striped blouse and
trousers he was marched under the
guard of armed and mounted men To
the government stables where wagons
took the convicts out to Makiki and
Hart with the rest was put TO break
ing stones. To he sure he was not ex-
pected to do in his first days expert
cnee as much as old hands could ac-
and he was not rushed or
harried. but he was expected TO keep
busy and he did keep busy. When he
returned TO his cell for the night his
back was stiff and painful from the un-
usual exercise and his hands were
blistered. Many times had he sought
he waterbucket during that first day S
work and many were the sighs drawn
rom the body SO long used to PAM
,ering luxury, He, who had been used
o taking hack TO ride block, who
lonchalant and dandifed and petted,
altered ms he never suffered before.
''Hell get used to ii gradually"
avs High sheriff Henry, "and we take
are that fer the first week or two
oviee does not hurt himself on the
eek rile,'
Hart received his first callers yester-
av, since he commenced his sentence,
Fhen his mother and two other ladies
ogether visited him.
In illustration of the discipline which
equires that ahle~bodied men be sent
Ut to work. and the mercy that does
OF compel those unable To de So to
rield the hammer. there is an aged
oriental who is in for nine months
eeause he had the misfortune 70 be
ouud with piece of bad money IN
is clothes and Warden Henry has