Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-16
FATHER BLAMED
FOR DELINQUENCY
OF YOUNG GIRLS.
Court Suspends Sentence on
Soldiers But Warns Offend
ers of Heavy Penalties

| William Bradbrook and Frank Old
han, two enlisted men who were ar
rested a fortnight ago in company
with two girls less than IS years Of
age, the daughter and niece Of Repre-
sentative d. 81. Kupihea, pleaded
guilty to the statutory charge in Cir
cult Judge Ashford's court today. Sen
tence was suspended for Is months.
The minimum penalty for the crime is
three years.
Clemency was recommended by Dep
uty County Attorney A. M. Brown and
Judge Ashford in granting it related
the attending circumstances as they
had been told him and roundly scored
the natural guardian and protector of
the girls. He declared the father OF
one of the girls, who also is uncle Of
the other, to be directly blamed for
the entire affair.
Said the court:
The facts as they come to the court
would indicate that the father of one
of the girls, who also stood in the re-
lation Of parent to the other, being her
uncle, has for long time been con-
Quoting at his home series of en-
tertainments, chiefly for the men in uni
form, which might perhaps be fairly
described as constituting a disorderly
house. In any event he has invited
these young men to his home in num-
bers and Unfortunately invited or
at least permitted them to bring with
them liquid refreshments; to consume
those liquors in his home and upon
his premises and should say, if the
court is correctly informed, indulge IN
gambling games, out of which perhaps
he has reaped some proft-but l do
not know,
I'm addition to that and in addition
to the house in which he made his
home with his family he has cottage
in the same yard, consisting Of several
rooms, at least two of which have
been unoccupied With regard to those
unoccupied rooms, he has placed them
at the disposal of these soldier boys
at all times, and l understand, has
furnished the key, perhaps more than
one key to one or more of the soldier
boys; and if my Information Isl cor
rect one Of you boys has the key to
that house at present. ~ t:@=.- /.
And together with that he has invit- |
I'd you and others to practically make |
such use as you might see fiji of those
two rooms, to come there, bring your
friends, bring your liquor and have
a good time; and you and others have |
responded to that invitation and while
there, having your good time. these
two young girls have been permitted /
with the knowledge and perhaps the |
entire sanction and approval OF that
father and uncle to visit this detached |
cottage and mingle with you freely /
and in a manner unrestrained.
Now under such unwholesome con.
ditions as those, domestic conditions
OF such a vicious character as that,
the father and uncle had only one
thing to expect with regard to those
girls; and il they have gone wrong
the going wrong, 1t seems to me,
should be attributed more distinctly to
his fault than to the fault of the
young men with whom he has thus /
thrown them into contact If a man /
possesses q gem or jewel and allows i
it TO be handled and taken and car
ried indiscriminately by those with
whom he is and those with whom he
is not acquainted he must not be sur.
prised if after q time he either loses
the jewel itself or the jewel itself /
shall lose its lustre. =
And so in the case of these girls,
If there were occasion for surprise it I
would be that they should come
through such an experience as that
without being stained" .->
Immediately after their arrest the
girls We're sent to the reform school
by Juvenile Judge Whitney. It was
said then that one of them had beenI
in the institution before. -. /