The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-07
LAW AND ORDER
STILL INTACT
Report of District Court Shows
Disaster Occurred to Those
Who lnfringed 1t.

Six and seventy.seventy.thirds con.
victions day is the record for the dis.
trict court of Honolulu, if the fraction
may be excused for the sake of stats.
teal accuracy. This interesting figure
is the substance of the report of Frank
Andrade, district judge, submitted to
Chief Justice Hartwell. The total con.
victions for the year, according to its
summary, were 2540; acquittals, sos,
with 800 cases nol-prossed. There were
ninety-three committals to the higher
court and 80 charged with crime were
discharged.
An ordinary citizen would be some
what scared by the number of different
ways he can break the law as exempli-
fed by the report, there being no less
than "a paragraphs of the statute books
smashed and no one knows how many
there are that the lawbreakers didn t
find.
Next to being drunk in private
place, (Which, of course, is not con-
demned by the statute) the most popu-
lar manner of infringing on law and
order is being drunk in public place.
This of course does not take into con.
sideration gambling, prohibition Of
which seems to have gotten on the
statutes by accident to Judge from the
number of people who INDUCED in it
and got caught.
There were 70S sentences imposed on
devotees of the little brown Jug, the
greatest offenders being Hawaiians
with Americans a good second. Those
present at a gambling game when the
police arrived and who were adjudged
sufficiently guilty to add to the festiv-
ity of the county's Golfers numbered
966. Two hundred and two were round.
ed up for the same offense and permit
ted to, wander out without contribut-
ing.
The majority of the items refer mere
ly to the usual daily routine of police
court, but there are several peculiar
notes of interest. One of these is that
there were no convictions for needless
driving notwithstanding the frequent
complaints, the only case brought be.
fore the court being nol-prossed.
Here are some of the varieties of
ways in which the law may be broken
with the number of those that broke
them: Begging aims, /; barbed wire
fence, prohibited, i; disturbing quiet
of night, SO; found on another's prem
Uses at night without lawful excuse, A.;
eide and dissolute," 5; obstructing
justice, i; profanity, 81; threatening,
3; and throwing dangerous substances
in public highway, 1.
To say that there were 2,540 persons
convicted gives the ordinary citizen an
idea that there is a most disproportion-
ate amount of buns and so forth in the
city. However, there are number of
| habitues who make a practice of show
| ing up in court to be sentenced period.
| ically. ~ .s=44
| There We're 1,039 civil cases disposed
of, 416 of these being for delinquent
sewer rates, and Ala for actions for
| debt, which last includes assumpsit and
| damages for breach of agreement.
The percentage of convictions for
| misdemeanors is seventy-six, four per.
| cent more than in 1908, while sixty pes.
cent of those charged with crimes were
found guilty.
| Civil cases have practically doubled
| in number over the year before, the
fact that Ala delinquent sewer rate
| this.
Fines and Costs.
Cash returns for all the work OF
magistrates and police for the year
amount to 81, 1893 95 in real cash, So,
452.70 being collected fines, 1897 be
ing bail money forfeited, $40 being
police fees and $l,30925 costs in civil
cases. Total fines of $1S,509.90 were
imposed, but over $4,000 was not col
lected, the cases being appealed or the
ones fined going to Jail.
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