The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-26

The cases of George Ewaliko, Re.
becca Ualii and X. Kualii are still
hanging fire in the police court The
trio named are leaders of the Karratti
Lane fanatics who did such strange
things that the neighbors objected and
forged them to seek fresh fields and
pastures new.
So far no charge has been sworn to
against them, although thev are osten-
sibly under arrest, the latter two for
gross cheat and the former for repre-
senting himself as a person authorized
to perform the marriage ceremony.
1t is very improbable that these
charges can be made to stick, how:
ever, and the statutes are being
searched for charges to fit the case,
but so far without avail.
Charles F. Chillingworth has been
retained for the defence, and if he
wins the case will probably be given
the job of legal adviser to the Holy
Order of Sin Shutters, as the devotees
of the new cult style themselves.
Mrs. Sam Hook, a charming little
lady-most of the ladies of the Order
of Sin Shutters are charming by the
way-talks entertainingly of the in
ner workings of the sect.
A mice Religion"
She sought salvation in September,
1910, having gathered from what she
had been told that, to use her own
words, 'it was a nice religion" Those |
who sought to convert her said that it
was the best religion going, and that
If she Joined, she would surely see |
God, and that all her faults would be |
on herself and that her sins would not |
be visited upon her children and her
children's children, even unto the |
third and fourth generation"
She joined the sect and the elders !
had solemn session with her, dur !
ing which they questioned her about
her faults and started at once to take
her sins away
She paid SO on joining, and three
days later paid the 50 balance of the
Sc initiation fee.
Sins BY the Hundred.
After belonging to the Sin Shutters |
for a week, she was exhorted to con-
fess a few sins and thought of $50 |
before getting tired with the unusual |
exercise. They were simple little |
sins, for she was among comparative |
strangers and was afflicted with a very |
natural feeling of reserve. These $50
sins cost her an even so for the con-
Tossing,
She was living at the time with Re-
becca Pilipo at Palama
More Sins Wanted.
A month later she was fattered to
receive a request to write out a list
of 250 sins, which she did, after con-
siderable straining. She got as far as
246 and stuck there, but she was game
to the core and rather than disappoint
her spiritual advisers, committed four
sins right off the reel, thereby making
up the desired number.
She was assessed 81 for the batch,
So of which she paid on the nail and
the balance when her husband drew
his pay
Substituting was evidently arranged
on monthly basis, for month later
she got an order for 500 choice, as
sorted sins for which she was ordered
to pay $40 cash down, and the balance
when she could spare it.
Meanwhile Mrs. Sam Hook had
contracted the sin-spieling habit with
vengeance. No sooner had she
iquidated her s. debt on the old ac-
count than she started in on an en-.
-irely new series, $50 in all, and every
sin ripe, sound and guaranteed. 1t
vas a great performance, but a shock
ng commentary on the moral efficacy !