The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-18
BAD YOUTHS FACE
CITY MAGISTRATE

Yesterday was children's day around
the police station and in the police
court, seven boys. the oldest of whom
is seventeen, being confined there for
various offenses. Three of these are
part of a crowd of young shavers who
have looked up to and followed the
lead of Alfred Freitas, their hero wor-
ship having led them into series of
petty crimes for which they will now
have to answer. Recent disclosures by
the police have shown that 1T is to
these boys that much of the petty pill
ferings around Honolulu are due, a
large amount of loot having been found
in their possession or traced to them
The three boys are A. Freitas, Frank
Gomez and Abraham Lincoln Buckley,
the latter a little kinky-haired negro,
prominent among the city newsboyS.
His appearance while undergoing ex-
animation yesterday, was strong re-
minder of "Sambo and his funny
noises" He was explaining the pos
session of three five dollar gold pieces.
'.Ah sees a Portugee arunnin up
Fort street an L goes along wild him.
'Heah's sum money, he ses, and An
got tn fifteen. All tink he found
purse All don't know dissactly how
much dere was in it, but it went PUNK,
PUNK, PUNK in his pocket when he
was arunnin.
The articles stolen by these boys, so
far as the list has been completed, are
a Panama hat, valued at 49, taken
from Rosenberg's and sold to a post
office employee for fifty cents; another
Panama hat, which Chinaman
bought for a nickel; a coat, sneaked
from a tailor shop on Nuuanu avenue;
a quantity of cheap jewelry stolen
from Japanese store; ukulele, f1lch-
ed from Fort street dealer, and a lot
of miscellaneous plumber. the source
and ownership of which has not yet
been traced.
Freitas, who is sixteen years old and
very small for his age, appeared before
Judge Whitney yesterday on charge
of gambling. He was sentenced to a
year in the Reform School. This morn
ing he will be up again with the other
two on charge of larceny in the sec
ond degree.
John. Gomez, Manuel Andrade and
George Silva, three Punchbowl youths,
We're up to answer for the theft of a
by Detectives Taylor and Leal in a
way to prove the truth of the old re-
mark that the wicked fee when no man
pursueth. The officers had visited
Punchbowl to look up a bicycle which
had been stolen from the Judiciary
building recently. the property of the
Territorial government. They stopped
to ask some directions from a group
of boys, three of whom promptly bolt
ed at the sight of the officers, their
action being So suspicious that they
were followed home. Under the house
where one of the boys lived the parts
OF a bicycle were found, and investi-
cation led into confession that the
wheels were part of a bicycle stolen
at the hShmarket some time ago, the
frame being thrown into the lantana
pack of the powder magazine.
Two OF the boys were yesterday
committed to the Reform School for a
year, the other, George Silva, having
his sentence suspended, for the reason
that his parents were about to move
to Maui and take the boy away from
his companions. Manuel Andrade. one
of the boys sent down, has served a
term in the school once before.
kamakawaa, who had stolen a pig
for New Years luau, was fined Sc in
the police court for the offense. his
crime being mitigated by the circum-
stance that the shoat had wandered
into his yard of its own free will at a
tme when pigs were greatly in de-
mand.