The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-01-31
SCRAPPING OVER
PUPULE PEOPLE
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in the morning by the police. she Add
been sent over from MoIokai but the
proper papers had NOT been made out,
and Doctor Peterson had To draw them
up for the Judge and send them over
10 be signed II WAS week before
they came back during which time he
was forced to hold the woman at per
soual risk as the police refused to have
ANYTHING to do with her, He warned the
police that he would turn her loose on
the road if they did not come after her.
but they merely said that he had better
not and made no attempt to take her.
If Peterson had turned her loose on the
community as he had a right to do and
a- he should have done according to the
law. the police might have had a com
motion on their hands.
Three or four Of the buildings in the
Enclosure. including one Of the wards,
the kitchen and the laundry. have been
built by the inmates themselves, as the
legislature has refused to appropriate
money enough to build them. Build
ings that We're condemned some tim.
ago as unfit to live in are stlIl standing.
as the legislature did not provide for
a new one and some shelter is needed.
Doctor Peterson has fixed 1t up as well
as he could.
The police have lately turned over to
him. Fong Fook. the insane Chlnaman
who murdered All Sing, making three
insane murderers he has in custody
without any facilities for keeping the
criminalIv insane. In TINS case the re-
quirements of the law have been sat
isfied. but the law should have Sent
them to the prison, he says.
Another bone Of contention between
the insane asylum management and the
police are the few who have escaped
from the asylum. The police, says
Peterson, have been harping on this,
while at the same time refusing to com
ply with the law by keeping the pris-
oners until the proper papers have been
made out.
Doctor Peterson points to his lack of
guards and the other handicaps he has,
and then at the roar that certain af-
ternoon paper made over the matter
without taking the trouble to investi-
gate the conditions it was writing
about. The Korean who escaped
Saturday and who got on the nerves
Of the afternoon paper mentioned walk
ed out Of the building during the night
and was recaptured eight hours later.
He was sleeping in a ward with forty
SIX men and there was but one guard
to watch them. He had to leave the
room and did so with the guard 5 per
mission. As the latter still had forty
five men to watch he could not follow
the one, who was a trusty, and the man
climbed over the fence. All the 9TH
ers in the same ward are trustees also,
and it is only these that have the slight
est opportunities to escape. They are
perfectly harmless and have been de
clared 50 by medical men. The escape
Of a native woman the day before was
under different circumstances and The
guard who permitted it viii lose his
position today.
Meanwhile. Doctor Peterson claims,
the police practically refuse to hunt for
those who do escape, preferring to SIT
around the police station and talk about
it to the discredit of the insane asylum.
All Of which betokens war between
the police force and Doctor Peterson.
What Police Say.
eve have no fight and want none
with Doctor Peterson,' said Deputy
Sheriff Charles Rose last night. 1.-The
arrangement by which he has been tax
ing care of the suspected insane before
examination was made during the pre-
VIOus administration. 1t is merely an
agreement made between Iaukea and
Peterson and as far as | know he has
never refused to accept any that we
sent up there until he refused Guss-
man. ! don t know what caused him
TO do that or what has made him break
with US unless it is the incrent of the
woman from Molokai
We had nothing to do with that
The woman arrived on the steamer
from Molokai early in the morning and
the officer sent down with her tele-
phoned from the wharf for the police
patrol which went down and took her
TO the insane asylum. That was our
only share in the matter
As far as not assisting him in find
ing his escaped lunatics | can say that
he never notifies us. As matter of
fact we found the Korean on the street
and as he was acting queerIy we ar
rested him and sent for him to see if it
was one Of his escaped inmates, which
he turned out to be-
His taking care of these people for
rs is merely a matter Of accommodate
ton. When we arrest them Saturday
afternoon We have to keep them here
over Sunday until they can be exam
med and committed. We have no facili-
ties for them and don / know how to
take care Of them. We have only six
cells and these are always crowded over
SATURDAY and Sunday If it was a
week day We woudn t care -
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