The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-03-11
WILL We HAVE
A JAIL SCANDAL +?
SHERIFF PUA SAYS HE COULD
TELL THINGS THAT WOULD
sTARTLE LBdIsLATURE.

HIL0, March 7.-If the legislative
committee appointed to investigate the
matter OF the treatment Of the prison.
ors at the Volcano road jail, or any one
else wants any information that will
make them sit up and take notice,
Sheriff Pua is the Toy that can furnish
il. just what the facts in his posses
sion are the sheriff will not say; but he
says that they are startling, and that
no will not hesitate ut producing them
when the proper time comes.
The sheriff spoke of the subject after
his attention had been called to tho
following statement which appeared in
The Advertiser last week:
Complaints come from Hawaii that
in spite of the statement of High
Sheriff Henry that he was surpr sed the
police on the Big Island permitted ter.
ritorial prisoners to have access to
many enioyments not anticipated un-
der the law, Rufus Lyman still con-
tinues to have unlimited use of the
telephone, talking over it for n quar-
ter of an hour at time and is accord
ed other unusual privileges. F"
Amused at Henry.
Pua was inclined to be amused at the
attempt made by High Henry to pass
| the buck to him, rs the county sheriff
has no authority whatever over the
territorial prisoners at the Volcano
road Jail.
"That does not worry me,'' said
Pua. "Let Henry try to pass the blame
to me, if he likes. My shoulders are
broad, and l, as long as know that L
am in the right, 1 don't care.
GAS a matter of fact, have, of
course, not the slightest authority oyer
the prisoners in the Volcano road Jail.
The only connection l have with that
institution lies in the fact that 1 APP
point the guards who look after the
prisoners. That is done by me because
the county pays their salaries as the
use of the territorial prisoners by the
| county is considered in the way of n
favor extended to this county / have
no authority over the guards, however,
and they are completely under the au-
thority of the jailor, who is appointed
by the high sheriff
Is liable to Tell
81 have never had anything to do
with the prisoners there. On the other
hand, l would be able to tell some facts
to the high sheriff or the legislators
which would startle them.
81 passed the Jail there Just the
other day, and l heard the talking that
was going on there, and l tell you, it
was interesting'
The sheriff was asked what was said
but he answered that he did not want
to say anything for publication at
, present.
Discharged in Stripes.
: Another matter relating to the mis-
management of the Volcano road Jail
which should be taken up by the legis
2 lature while 1t is on that interesting
subject, is the manner in which dis
charged prisoners are treated--that is
( of course, those who are not favorites
The poor fellows without friends or in
fuence are, when they are discharged
sent in their prison stripes all the way
to Hilo, distance of some thirty.fvt
miles, part of which they make by
l otage and part by rail. When they ar
rive in Hilo they have to marcl
through the most frequented thorough
: fares of the town, still in their prison
$ suits. AS matter of fact, they ar,
not given their civilian clothing unit
they reach the Hilo Jail