The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-17
'OUEER PROBLEM
BEFORE COURT
Do Not Know Whether 1t Would
Be Right to Jail Man
With Consumption.

n e..
will have a chance TO consider one of
the most peculiar problems con-
neeted with the handling of the disease. |
It 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
viii impose on him the serving of a
Jail sentence, and bothered the author
tiles.
He is a japanese and for the present
his case has gone over. Meanwhile the
| authorities will try to come to a 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. It may be that
the Jail has detention cells, or it should
If it hash t, but even this would do
little good. There is hospital but .
it is a ward and there are weakened :
men in it who will be peculiarly liable 4
to catch it.
To work him would probably do him 4
no harm, hard labor would be more Of
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 a criminal and may dupii-
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 4
the money be raised, a nolle proseqai
will be entered and the problem in
this instance solved. But every man }
arraigned on a criminal charge and at
1icted with tuberculosis does not own 4
foreign home or the friends to send Y
lim there. y
Suit in Admiralty. I
Attorney George Davis yesterday y
opened the ease of Dominguez Ferreira Z
against the American Hawaiian steam
hip AriZOnan before Judge Dole in ad- 4
niralty. The suit is for the purpose J
If recovering. if possible, the price of 4
racing mare, belonging to Ferreira, J
which slipped and broke her leg while
icing conveyed here and had to be shot ,
nd thrown overheard. The plaintiff Z
laims that it was the fault of the fix
ngs on the steamship.
Ferreira' $ testimony had been pre- v
'iously taken before a commission and zu
vas read in court. Several witnesses a.
we're placed on the stand by Davis and I'M
he plaintiff closed his case Hill
Attorney Cooper. for the Arizonan, lI|!I
tated that the witnesses for the de- HUH
endant were mostly seafaring men and Njl
we're now almost all on the Atlantic II|l
eaboard. He asked for continuance ll
ntil the sugar season started and the II|l
oats came back to the Islands. Ac- Hill
ordingly the case has been set over |I
ntil the April term at which time it Hill
rill be taken IN and concluded. The HUH
rice at which the mare is valued by lIII
'erreira is $780, IIIIl
Briber Bound. lIlIl
The United States of America is fish Hill
ng for a man to help build roads in n!Nl
he Territory of Hawaii and the man Hill
, playing possum, feigning sickness ilIlI
nd doing what he can to impress the Hill
authorities that he hash t the strength IIllI
. nick daisy IIllII
The man is Bhodogan, the Hindu han lll|i
Y man with brides, and he made the I||III
listake, before he knew on what con- HllIl
itiOns he was wanted in the. Territory, IIlllI
saying that he could cut ten tons Hill
cane in day. For a weak puny |I|Il
ian this is going some. l|I
His examination before United States lHi
commissioner Davis yesterday for at IlIII
,mpting to bride immigration Inspec IlI'I
II r. c. Brown resulted in the produc HI
on Of evidence that subsfantiated the -
large and he was bound over to the -
,deral grand jury.
They wanted to know how strong he SON
as with a view of seeing whether or mos
1t he was in good enough physical con- deA
ton to be permitted to remain; for ciai
: was to have been deported because heF
: had trachoma the
Bhodogan doubled up his muscles and
yelled out his chest. 81 can cut ten ~
ms of cane a day he said. "
His examiners looked rather dubious In
But we don t want you to cut cane, ioI
ley explained. F'What we want 10 do Piel
to convict you of attempting to bribe 'il.
r. Brown TO be permitted TO enter and .
len send you out on the convict gangs oou1
quarry rock and make roads. - anu
Bhodogan slumped like TOW balloon e., ~
it'll pin in it. He turned green and va, " a.
nix and all the other eolors he could l4u
aster and accumulated in few brief 80
oments all the diseases that have ever c IN
ZEN looked at under a microscope. He 'iT 81
now up TO the grand jury.
A Fish Story. be-
Tam Leong, a gentleman, Chinese by gror
Lture and a fisher by occupation. has T