The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-06
LORD So SURPRISED
He PAID HIS FINE
nLo COPS GATHER IN SOME
BIG MEN AS vIoLAToRs
OF AUTO LAW.
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HILO, June o. When Judge Wise
remarked from the bench few days
ago that the police department had bet.
ter cease arresting "kids" for viola.
tions of the automobile ordinance and
take to arresting prominent adult vio-
latGrs OF the ordinance, the cops got
very busy, and as a result several of
the best-known auto owners have been
pinched.
Contractor Lord was the first victim.
He was captured last Wednesday fore
noon at the corner of Waianuenue and
Front streets. Lord was arrested under
the section of the ordinance which pro-
vides that the horns of autos must be
sounded whenever street crossing is
approached, and the contractor was a
greatly surprised man, for he did not
dream of the existence of the provision.
Lord appeared before Judge Wise
yesterday on a warrant sworn to by
Officer Yotaro, who made the arrest
He was not represented by counsel, and
stated to the court that he had been
ignorant of the horn-tooting ordinance,
land never footed his horn except in
cases of absolute necessity. He pleaded
guilty and was fined So and costs. Lord
subsequently spent a profitable half
hour in the judges chamber studying
the ordinance.
! DR.. Fred Irwin was the next victim.
He was arrested for turning the corner
: of Pitman and Waianuenue streets last
! Wednesday noon, also without sounding
his horn. In this case, also, Yotaro
swore to the complaint.
Harry Irwin appeared for his brother.
! He told Judge Wise that he understood
that the arrest had been made at his
suggestion, and that for that reason he
was disqualified from hearing the case.
Judge Wise answered that he had asked
! the police officers to take note of these
repeated offenses on the part of auto
drivers. He agreed that in this case
he was disqualified, and Second District
Magistrate w. H. Smith was called to
preside.
Yotaro testified that he had been in
the Office of Judge Wise ON Waianuenue
street when the Irwin auto passed, and
Judge Wise had called his attention to
the violation of the ordinance. Judge
| Wise took the stand and testified that
he had called Yotaro, and a Japanese
witness corroborated the testimony.
All three were positive that they heard
no sounding of the horn by Doctor
Irwin as he approached the corner.
Doctor Irwin surprised the audience
by stating absolutely positively that he
had blown his horn when approaching
the corner, and he was able to fix the
event with certainty ON account of the
fact that he had seen Judge Wise at the
time.
81 remembered, F." said Doctor Irwin,
"that I had seen in the paper that
Judge Wise was after the adult auto
drivers, so l said to my wife: There
is. Judge Wise; better 60 carefully. Z"
Is that the only time you 60 care
fully, when you see Judge Wise7"
asked Deputy County Attorney Heen,
who prosecuted.
"0h, no; l do so all the time,'' an
swered Doctor Irwin.
Judge Smith found the defendant not
guilty, stating that where the negative
/ testimony given by the witnesses for
the prosecution did admit Of posi-
bility of their not hearing the horn al
though it was actually sounded, the doe
tors positive evidence admitted of no
mistake.
A third victim was G. C. Kennedy,
who was espied by ofiieer Iokepa as he
passed in his auto by the crossing of
King and Bridge streets last Wednes-
! day, and a penal summons was sworn
TO by Iokepa the following morning on
similar grounds as those alleged in the
ease of Lord and Doctor Irwin. The
hearing Of this matter was set for Sat
urday.