The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-19
QUEER PROBLEM
BEFORE COURT
Do Not Know Whether 1t Would
Be Right to Jail Man
With Consumption.

Society, after just taking up cam.
paign against the great white plague,
will have a chance to consider one of
the most peculiar problems con.
nected with the handling of the disease.
1t will have all the more chance to
consider it as its president, Sanford b.
Dole, is also first Judge of the federal
court where the problem came up yes
terday morning.
Although it may not have been the
first time in the records of the court,
it was the first time that victim of
tuberculosis came before the court on a
charge, which if proven against him
will impose on him the serving of a
Jail sentence, and bothered the author
titles.
He is japanese and for the present
his case has gone over. Meanwhile the
authorities will try to come to con-
clusion as to what to do with him if
he is convicted as the chances are he
will be.
To place him in a penal institution
such as the Oahu jail, places him where
he can spread deadly disease among
hundred men around him and where
the opportunities for the spreading OF
the disease are great. 1t may be that
the Jail has detention CELLS, or it should
if it hasn't, but even this would do
little good. There is a hospital but
it is ward and there are weakened
men in it who will be peculiarly liable
to catch it.
To work him would probably do him
no harm, hard labor would be more OF
a benefit, but he will again be in close
association with fellow convicts. If
he is permitted to go he will spread
the disease outside and the manner of
life of the japanese would help the
spreading of the disease. Besides this,
he would be criminal and may dupli-
cate his crime.
With this question before them, the
authorities have learned that the man IS
friends want to raise the money to send
him back to japan and on account of
this, his case has been set over. Should
the money be raised, nolle prosequi
will be entered and tine problem in
this instance solved. But every man
flcted with tuberculosis does not own
II IOrelpH NOME UT lHe lrleuuS W Seuu
him there.
Suit in Admiralty.
Attorney George Davis yesterday
opened the case of Dominguez Ferreira
against the American Hawaiian steam
ship Arizonan before Judge Dole in ad-
miralty. The suit is for the purpose
of recovering, if possible, the price of
racing mare belonging to Ferreira,
which slipped and broke her leg while
being conveyed here and had to be shot
and thrown overheard. The plaintiff
claims that it was the fault of the fx-
ings on the steamship.
Ferreira IS testimony had been pre-
viously taken before commission and
were placed on the stand by Davis and
the plaintiff closed his case.
Attorney Cooper. for the Arizonan,
stated that the witnesses for the de-
PENDANT were mostly seafaring men and
were now almost all on the Atlantic
seaboard. He asked for a continuance
until the sugar season started and the
boats came back to the Islands. Ac.
cordingly the case has been set over
until the April term at which time it
will be taken up and concluded. The
price at which the mare is valued by
Ferreira is $780,
Briber Bound.
The United States of America is fish
ing for man to help build roads in
the Territory of Hawaii and the man
is playing possum, feigning sickness
and doing what he can to impress the
authorities that he hash the strength
to pick a daisy.
The man is Bhodogan, the Hindu han
dy man with brides, and he made the
mistake, before he knew on what con-
ditions he was wanted in the Territory,
of saying that he could cut ten tons
of cane in day. For a weak puny
man this is going some.
His examination before United States
Commissioner Davis yesterday for at
tempting to bride Immigration Inspec-
tor r. C. Brown resulted in the produc-
ton of evidence that substantiated the
charge and he was bound over to the
federal grand jury.
They wanted to know how strong he
was with a view of seeing whether or
not he was in good enough physical con.
dtiOn to be permitted to remain; for
he was to have been deported because
he had trachoma.
Bhodogan doubled up his muscles and
swelled out his chest. 81 can cut ten
tons Of cane n day" he said.
His examiners looked rather dubious.
" But we don't want you TO cut cane, I"
they explained, "What we want TO do
is to convict You Of attempting to bride
Mr., Brown TO be permitted to enter and
then send you out on the convict gangs
10 quarry rock and make roads. +"
Bhodogan slumped like a toy balloon
with a pin in II. He turned green and
pink and all the other colors he could
master and accumulated in a few brief
moments all the diseases that have ever
been looked at under microscope. He
Is now mp 10 the grand jury.
A Fish Story
Tam Leong, n gentleman, Chinese by
nature aud a fisher by occupation, has
commenced IN the circuit court a suit
in assumpslt against Tam Shee, LADY
~ Wei he also fisher, by necessity.