The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-08-15
LAWVEBITIS IS now
EPIDEMIC IN MILuA
MeBRrDE AND 1dCnTrooT SHOW
NATIVES HOW THEY DO n
M HONOLULU.
(M0n special to The AdverlI.or.l


HlTo, Aug. ll.Ashcria sam Pua,
Manager J. l.. Daniels Of tho coffee
company at Keokca, South Kona, clau
dius Mcbride, his attorney; and
Filipino, named Ricardo del Rosario,
are the chief actors in thrilling
drama, which is being unfoIded at Ka.
ilun, the circuit court beng the stake
During the course of the events the
sheriff has been charged with ASSEMBLING
his prisoner, and Mcbride has instituted
habeas corp1s proceedings.
Ricardo is being held on a charge of
assault with weapon, arising from
an affair which happened at Keokea
The defendant has already pleaded
guilty to one charge arising ont of his
fight and has served two months in
Jail therefor. The petitioner says he
appears as such because Ricardo is be.
ing held exeommunieado by Pua, and
further because Ricardo was formerly
in his employ.
The rest of the facts of the case are
not quite so plain, as, owing to the dis
lance, it has been impossible to OBJ.
tain full details 1t is, however, Ger.
tain that Sheriff Pua was brought be.
fore Judge Matthewman on a charge of
having maltreated Ricardo while that
gentleman was In his custody, presum-
ably on some motion based on the
grounds that the sheriff was not a prop.
er person to hold the defendant. This
attempt appears to have flashed in the
pan. In a letter to Beers, Pua says
that he appeared in his own behalf and
cleared himself in good shape There
was considerable amusement, he adds.
Lightfoot Busy, Too.
! Pua has other troubles on his hands
as well, for unless he leaves PAX Kee
Hong alone, says Attorney Lightfoot,
of Honolulu, he will have an action
for damages brought against him.
PAX Kee Hong is Korean from
Kau. He was arrested few months
ago ON a charge of having committed
| perjury in civil case before the Kai-
iua circuit court. The sheriff brought
him to Hilo to stay in the local Jail
until he could face Judge Matthewman
at the next term of the court.
Some time later LightfOot arrived in
Hilo from Honolulu. He had been re-
tanned by a Korean association to look
after PAX. Yelled charges of cruelty
on the part of the police towards the
prisoner were limited at, and then
Lightfoot returned to Honolulu, stat
ing that he would appear before Judge
Matthewman when PAX came before
him.
Lightfoot asked Pua what was the
amount of bail fixed in PAX g case. The
sheriff said it was thousand dollars,
and Lightfoot wanted to be a surety
himself, and 'phoned Judge Matthew
fan. He turned around and told them
that Matthewman said it was all right.
Later Pua went to Kona with his
prisoner, and there, it appears, he found
cut that the bail was $4,000. Matthew
man is said to have declared that he
never sanctioned the $1,000 bail. Any
how, lively mix-up followed, and Pua
sent wireless to Lightfoot, in Homo
lulu, telling him that bail had been
fixed at $500. instead of $1,000.
This message brought forth wall
from Lightfoot. He pointed out, in a
letter to the sheriff, that bail in the
sum of $1,000 had been approved by all
the officials. and he wanted to know
what right the district magistrate had
to fix the bail in the ease, anyhow.
He ended his note by informing the
sheriff that in case he arrested PAX
before the $1,000 hail furnished be-
comes forfeited, an action for damages
would follow. Kailua has troubles of
/ its own, for sure.
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