The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-26

| The pirates get month and one dol
lar fine from Judge Dole. What they
| will get from the court-martial for de-
sertion after they finish their sentence
in Oahu Jail remains to be seen.
Stephen Smith and Charles Deus
bury, the two deserving soldiers from
| Fort Shafter, who took the schooner
| Lady out of the harbor, wrecked her
near Waianae, and then took some of
i the material from her to make a camp,
rwere sentenced by Judge Dole yester-
day morning, on their plea of guilty.
/ There was quite crowd in the court
room at the time, for it was under
stood that they intended to make an
address to the court in their own be-
half.
They were represented by Attorney
Greenwich, who stated that they de-
sired to withdraw their plea of not
guilty and enter plea of guilty.
Judge Dole asked them if they under
stood this, and they said they did
Have you anything to say why
sentence should not be pronounced on
you?' asked Judge Dole.
i DO you mean shall we tell you
about stealing the boat, sir?" asked
Smith.
| eyes" replied judge Dole.
''Where do you want me to begin?'
i ''Tell your story replied the Judge
"I'd like to tell my story in full, y
he began. 1--WE took that there boat
sir, not with no intention of taking it
away, you know, sir-we found the
boat right there, sir, in the harbor,
sir. We got on this here boat on
Thursday, and we stayed there two
days, and we was going to stay there
until we could stow away on another
ship 50 we could get away from these
Islands. We couldn t find no. ship, sir,
so we thought we d have to go out on
this boat; it was too late to turn back
then, because we had gone into this
thing, sir. -
care you sailors9' asked Judge
Dole.
H'No. sir: / amt no sailor. SIR
&. How did you get out of the har-
bor?" asked the Judge.
I'VE had a pretty bad time getting
out, sir. | was at the wheel steering,
and there was pretty good wind, and
| got steering and she kept going to
one side and then to the other, and
we nearly went into a wind TANNER,
sir, big sailboat. and then she went
over to that side the other way, and ,
just SKINNED along, and / didn t know
what to do; when we got out of the |
harbor / was still at the wheel, and |
Deusbury he was up at the bow, and |
would tell me to turn the wheel right /
or left, sir. 1t was a moonlight night |
going out there and we were going /
along fine, sir; / thought I was alright /
for a sailor: we was hitting it up /
about twenty miles an hour, the way /
it looked, looking astern, and we was
going fast, and when we got outside,
outside of them lights, it was going up
and down like that, sir, and l wanted
to go right back.
eve got seasick, sir, we were heav-
ing up our stomach; there was nothing
there, pretty near dead, sir, and
don't want to be a sailor no more
after that.
"Well, sir; I went to sleep, tried to
get to sleep down below, but every
thing was topsy-turvy. After I had
been down two or three hours, Deus
bury went down below, and | came up
and didn t see no land in front or on
the side or on the left, and I began
to get scared; it was late out there,
and I looked around, away baek-all
sea-and then I saw what l thought