The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-23

HOT LARD
COUNTY JAIL INCONSISTENCIES
HEART ACHES AND COOK WANTS
REVENGE.
My heart aches"

"My heart aches!"
Thus spake a woman from behind
the bars of the City and County Jail
to a representative of The Star this
morning.
A certain prisoner was wanted as a
witness, in an important matter that
is soon to come before the grand jury,
and the reporter accompanied an Off
Ger to interview the outlaw. 1t hap
pened however, that the convict was
out on the road doing work and could
not be seen until 4 o'clock this after
noon, so the officer had to possess his
soul in patience until the prisoners
regular Office hours. In the mean
while, while the officer was otherwise
engaged taking a tally of some Of the
latest guests of the institution, the
scribe was courteously conducted over
the premises by one of the polite
guards.
The City and County Jail, separated
from the Territorial institution, and
under charge of Tailor Asch, is a
scrupulously clean establishment with
accommodations for about hundred
guests if but one inmate is allowed to
cell At a pinch, however, two
guests can be entertained in a cell, so
there is room enough for the leaders
and others of a riot, if necessary.
my heart aches!"
This was the expression, in effect,
that greeted the guard and the reporter
upon arrival upon the third floor and
approach to the barred gateway that
separated the female from the male
ward
There are at present but three fe-
male inmates, Portuguese, a Portu-
! guese-M Moor and a Porto-Rltan. They
have the runway OF some dozen cells
and occupy at the most, but three.
Now and then the Porto-Rican and
| the Portuguese-Moor double up for
| companys sake, because one is 1nclin-
ed to be lonely; the one whose heart
aches"
| But her heart is likely to ache UNI
oomforted for the next few days for
she is in for violent vagrancy, though
10 such language would appear in the
official charge. She is married and
her husband, she fears, has by this
time fallen in love and perhaps left
the country with some other woman.
| Thus is it that she explains her heart
ache, and she explained it all to the
reporter in some fanciful hope that
he might be able to shorten her stay in
the women's ward of the City and
County Jail.
The guard explained that even
though her heart ached She was not
likely to die of a broken heart, for
while she bewails her separation from
her husband it seems that the only
time she appreciates his more or less
steady devotion is when she is in Jail
The Portuguese woman was busy
patching a pillow, while the Porto
Rican was endeavoring to ornament
> her cell with paper flowers.
In a cell by himself in a secluded
ward was the japanese who did uT
a fellow countryman at Waipahu, suf-
fering from rheumatism, his tin plate
of food untouched.
AS the officer passed out by the
barred window of the kitchen of the
Jail he was hailed by a voice from
within, saying, with an oath; 50
know you!"
The officer stepped just a little BIZ
more lively for the Japanese who hat
hailed him was frying cakes in lart
and it was the officer who had beer
the main instrument in landing the
temporary cook in Jail.
eve don't want to get dash of hot
lard in our faces" he said; that char
would gladly get even with me if hi
could"