The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-25
Honolulu, March %, 1909.

Honolulu, Mafcn y, 19U9.
Editor Advertiser: What disgrace it
is to read such a verdict of the Corenor
jury that sat at the inquest of the death
of Harold Waterman the poor little boy
that was killed by hack couple of
nights past. It is a disgrace to see
what verdict they came to. Why
the idea of saying that he Harold Wat
erman came to his death by accident!
Have you ever heard of such a thing?
I would like to know if any of the men
who sat at said Corenor's inquest and
that gave such q verdict happened to
be in the hack at the time that said
ACCIDENT as they say, happened, or
at any place near by, to see if it was
an "aeeident?' And if not, how in
the name of God could they say that it
was an accident. If they are SO sure
that it was one as they say, they must
certainly know who the driver is and
the number of the hack, and if they
were not anywhere near the place that
the accident happened how could they
come to such verdict?
This way of coming to verdict l
should say, as well as good many of US,
is fraud; it is disgrace to the ones
that came to such a verdict.
Where is such law that such a thing
like verdict of accident should be
brought? Where the men that sat at
the said inquest at the place that the
accident took place? Where the men
that sit to the jury did not see what
took place? If not, they should be more
careful to come to such quick concfu
sion as they did in this case of Harold.
1t is well enough of course that we
all who sit on jury cannot be at the
place where such things do happen like
has past in this Harold case but it is
their duty to bring and come to diff
ferent conclusion as to what they came
to in this case as accident. Is that the
only word they could fnd2 Could they
say that he (Harold) came to his death
by being carelessly run over and killed
by a hack driven by a man unknown
and that said man should be found by
the Police Department and after the
said man is found he should be prose
cuted for been responsible for the death
Of Harold Waterman? Then the public
would feel little better to see that
some of our good citizens are taken care
of the good will of the community.
| should say that such verdict are
and should be taken up by the Grand
Jury and lei them see what they could
see for themself as to such a verdict
that the Corenor jury came to.
/ should think that it was the Core
nor's duty to wait for report from the
Police Department as it is nothing but
careless piece of work on part of the
driver that was driving said hack that
night.
Now another thing the Sheriff or the
Mayor should and are to do is to enforce
a law compelling each and every hack
to have in large white paint the num-
Der of the hack in the back part of
the seat so that any one could see the
number after the hack has passed by
you, and at night they should have a
light in such a way that the number
could be seen something similar as some
of the Automobiles have (some of
them); then of course something may
be able to be trace up by the Police
Department or by any citizen that is
around Until such law is not inforced
by the Sheriff or by the Mayor the so
called accident will never he traced
Get busy Sheriff, get busy Mayor and
do something in order to be able to trace
up things and get after such drivers of
hacks and also of automobiles, other
wise we will have to go and make our
home in safer place than Honolulu, in
place where there are no hacks and
no automobiles, say like the Midway
Island.
I hope the Grand Jury will take the
matter and show that they will protect
our poor little boys and even us grown
people that walk the streets.
Yours truly,
c. F. COLLINS.