Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-07-31
VIII.

ttENo, my lttulh WIN WIG
lily, | made several excursions into
the South, once going to Riverside,
with two chance acquaintances.
We came on the Southern Pacific
to Cotton. which was then nothing
but a sand lot, surrounded by sage
brush and the desert" Here,
while waiting, we met and got the
history of poor man of sixty, who
had Just been released from the PEN
itentiary, where he served SEN
tence of forty years for murder. He
was entirely innocent, as TRANSFERRED
later, and his story told me that
day at Cotton. was well circulated
in the papeSs later. Arrested as a
young man of twenty, he was con-
yicted on circumstancial evidence,
and not until the real murderer
had confessed on his death bed, was
the innocent victim released And
yet there was no recourse at law.
The terrible injustice done him by
our system of Justice" could not be
righted. He must lose not only
forty years of his best period, be
branded as a murderer. but go at
last without means or the qualifica-
tions to secure them. without so
much as an apology! This incident
impressed me more than anything
else with the dreadful inadequacy
of our courts to administer justice in
difficult cases, and my faith in 1t
has not been strengthened by later
experiences.
As medical men we are blamed
for our uncertain" science. and our
want of ability to meet u given case
but think alongside the law our
system is ideal.
We went to San Bernardino, an
old fashioned, typically Californian
town, at this time unprogressive
though interesting, more so, think
than any other place in Southern
California.
II had the atmosphere" of the
days OF 40, as unlike the newer,
more strenuous towns, as could be.
But, as We were looking furi wol II
as well as adventure, we turned our
faces towards the much advertised
colony which we could see In its val
ley about seven miles distant. We
walked the distance. one bright De-
cember morning. which was as fresh
and crisp as u new dollar, enjoying
the exhiliration of our sensations.
We found a boarding house run
by Mrs. Reinstein, and located in
the center of the town on Main
street. Here We met several other
boarders. chiefly persons from the
East. who had come for their health,
their weak point being the newt
able bronchitis" throat trouble"
or cough '-never the real thing.
Mr, Reinstein himself was phythisical
My two companions soon got jobs,
while secured employment in one
Of the several packing houses in the
town, for even then. Riverside was a
great orange-growing section. Pick
ers were paid $3.50 a day, packers
by the box; an equitable arrange
ment since there was margin for
great difference In the work of pack
ers. Some We're slow and sloyenly.
Others neat and rapid. Mr.. f. b.
levine, manager of the German
fruit Company, where he worked
was Rochester, n. Y, man, well
educated and connected, though at
that time he lived at the hotel and
saved nothing. He passed through
experiences, too, having served as
a railroad hand from Arizona to
Riverside He amused us greatly
with his dialectic accounts of Irish
bosses. whom as an Irishman him
SELF, he could appreciate. Even
with his salary. he got hard up"
sometimes. and once borrowed SIS
from me which he paid back
promptly. Later he became a prop
rietor OF business, then a land and
householder, marrying a woman of
wealth In the city.
Our bookkeeper, Irving. at that
time lived In great style at the hotel
dressed to kill" and seemed to be n
good FELLOW. He paid us of Satur.
days, group of exiled boys and gre
sarious Cinnamon. all glad to get
the weeks earnings. Mr.. Irving's
large, flowing silk tie of green i'm.
pressed me more than anything else
ABOUT him, and several years after
when | met him recognized him at
iirst sight, by the fact that he didn't
have the tie on.
Mr.. Shelly, now a wealthy, packer
or California, once remarked that
me ablest men in the city had been
packers of oranges; but he may have
oeeh biased as he began as a packe,
himseif, and each man is generally
proud OF his cult. Judge Stepben-
son packed In our room; James Mills
a prominent lawyer of the city; C. r.
PARSONS, Phi. ID. who was sick at