The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-02-27
South Hilo Blind Pigs Render up
Fine Harvest Of Coin in
Penalties and Costs.

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.Ds
HIL0, February 23-During the past
weak the, police court was in almost
constant session, the thirty three liquor
selling cases from Hilo district furnish
ing the grist for Judge Wise smiIi. 80
far total Of ten cases have been dis
posed Of IN one way or another, the re-
suit being favorable to the police in
eight cases, while in two the charges
fell through. The fines were 500 for
each guilty one. g., .a
Too Good To Be True.
The trial Of the eases brought out
some interesting points. In one case
the woman defendant secured her dis
charge largely because the witnesses for
the prosecution told tale which the
court could not believe. The main wit
ness in all these cases is a Filipino in
former, while the other witnesses are
friends whom he took with him to the
houses of the yarious defendants, where
NC bOhEAit AlH0Ol .NdilOuh HhinuS Will
which he treated the friends. From
camp to camp sped the informer, and
with him followed the procession of
friends, into whose capacious maws
went copious quantities OF beer, wine,
samshu,, whiskey and other kinds OF
firewater. ..sLf.. j. ''.., Wy
The friends testified that they did not
know that the dispenser of all this Joy
was an informer and that his purpose
was the securing OF evidence. They
insisted that they followed him from
camp to camp, rillingly and gladly, re-
garding him asia reincarnated Father
Christmas and heing themselves too i'm
pressed with their great good fortune
TO venture to spoil the dream by ques.
tions, presumably they remembered
that il, is considered gnueherie to look
gift horse in the mouth. The Judge,
however, took the view that the men
were taking liberties with the truth,
and the defendant got the benefit Of
the doubt. lyH ..,.,.' -.
wine Makana. . ( . Y
In the case Of the Okino hotel cook
surprise was produced by the calling
to the stand by the police of a popular
citizen who testified that he had par
taken of beer in the Olino establish,
ment. lie explained that the beer was
his own property, but that he kept il in
the okino icebox as a matter Of con,
venionee. As the defendant had ties.
titled, however, that there was no liquor
of any kind ON the premises, this evi
dence cooked his goose.
The police much enjoyed an incident
which occurred when Attorney Russell
in his cross examination of the inform.
er, asked him TO give the exact words
of his demand for liquor.
''Wine malsana, ME kaukau," was
the reply. .... $50,
Russell does not include knowledge
Of the local lingua franca among his
numerous and varied Accomplishments.
and he had to admit that while he had
gotten his answer, II was no good to
him. Ia
Bottled Moonslldne.
In one of the Waiakea cases the pc.
lice found several bottles of distilled
liquor which seemed something like
'oloolehao IN its nature, but which had.
probably been made from rice. As ii,
licit distillmg is a very serious oifense,.
the origin of this liquor is a matter of
interest TO the authorities. The woman
in whose house II was found probably
thought so, too, for she discreetly for
feited her bail. H,...I'.
In another Waiakea ladv's house was
found concoction which Captain Silva,
who ofIiciated as booze expert, pro,
nounced to be swipes. The wohan dis
agreed with him, insisting that IL was
substitute for soyu, which she made
herself. She failed 70 explain why the
stuff had been carefully hidden in her
bed. ~. :. ""
On tho Water Wagon.
The raid has created much excitement
in the Japanese community, and as
many of the ignorant plantation labor.
ers misunderstood the situation, a wave
of total abstinence which Ia some IN,
stances reaches absurd lengths has be-
come prevalent. Thus inssome cases the
japanese are destroying, empty demi-
johns, fearing that they might be used
as evidence against them. They claim
that while many of the defendants are.
without doubt guilty, Others are just
as surely quite innocent and that in
some cases a great hardship has been
caused. .: IT,. ...t.e.s.7 .,si. , 49,.
49, '. - ". . q. Il