The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-11-07
SIX MONTHS FOR
BEATING WOMAN
Adam Kealakai Found Guilty by
Jury in Circuit Court in
Twenty Minutes.

As penalty for an assault and bat
terry committed on Annie Baker,
neighbor who answered the cries of
n child he was beating, Adam Kealakai
will spend the next six months in Jail
and besides this he will have to pay
the costs of his trial, assessed in the
sum of eighteen dollars and fifty cents.
Kealakai was tried before jury
yesterday mo'ring in Judge Robinson 5
court. the prose ,uton being conducted
by A. NJ. Brown and the defense 10y
Harold Gordon Spencer. The jury was
OF: for twenty minutes arriving at
verdict of guilty. Foreman William 0.
franklin, for the jury, recommended
that the court show leniency in pass
ing sentence.
The witnesses for the prosecution
were Johannes f. ,Eckardt, Annie
Baker, Mrs. G. j. Boisse, John Noble
and Mrs. Mary X. Baker. Adam Keala.
'iai aud Caroline Kealakai testified for
he defense. Annie Baker heard the
cries of a child, and when she entered
the house of Kealakai found him beat
ing the child, according to the story
told in court yesterday. She remon-
strated with the man, and he in turn
grabbed and beat her, and then dragged
her by the hair about the premises.
Annie Baker was so ill-used that she
had to be taken to the Queen s Hos.
pital, where she remained three or four
lays under treatment, she said.
Jury Quickly Selected.
The jury was selected without any
trouble, the first twelve men drawn be.
ing acceptable to both sides. These
were William o. Franklin, John Coffee,
! John II. Thompson, James p. Winnie,
George Il. Bruins, Edward c. Holstein,
James II. Fiddes, Charles p. Osborne,
Sam Pupuhi, Joseph Fernandes, Charles
J. Ludwigsen and Eugene M. Campbell.
Takinaka, charged with being found
on the premises of another at night
without lawful excuse, pleaded guilty.
and on motion of A. NJ. Brown sentence
was suspended for a period of thirteen
months by Judge Robinson yesterday.
All Fook and eleven others, charged
with Being present in a place where
gambling was being carried on, had
| their case continued until moved on
again yesterday by Judge Robinson.
zee Jan Fan, with three charges of
embezzlement against him, and All Dun,
accused of having opium in possession,
had their trials or further disposition
of their cases 90 over until Tuesday
morning mt half-past eight clock.
1t is expected that the trial of zee
chung, charged with statutory Of
Tense, and Hawaiian couple charged
as aecompices before and after the
fact, will be tried before jury in
Judge Robinson's court tliis morning,
beginning at half.past eight O'Clock
The case against All Nee and ten 9th.
ers, accused of being present during a
gambling game, while on the calendar
for trial before Judge Robinson and
Jury today, will very likely be con-
tinued until later date.
One Indictment Returned.
The territorial grand jury was in
session for an hour yesterday afternoon,
and at halfpast two clock made a
partial report, under which one indict.
nent, presumably against Chinese,
was returned and placed on the secret
| file until the accused one should be
taken into custody, During the sitting
of the grand jury four or five Chinese
men and women appeared before it.
1t was not announced yesterday when
the grand Jury will meet again, but it
will probably hold another session some
time during the coming week