The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-15
III At Home, He Calls For Papers
And Then Sends Official To
Prison, Where Former Waiter
Is Found At Piano and Freed
SEQUEL TO CRITICISM
OF ASHF0RD'S DECISION
Verdict Causes More Talk Than
Worlds Baseball Series and
War, Leniency To Bank DefauI-
tiers Being Bitterly Denounced

tiers Being Bitterly Denounced
ID ICHARD RAMOS, the for
N mer Filipino waiter at the
Roselawn, who was convicted Of
raising a seven-dollar check to
seventy dollars and sentenced on
Tuesday by Judge Ashford to one
weeks Imprisonment at hard la
Dor in the territorial penitentiary
and to pay a fine of $500 and the
costs of court, which amounted to
three dollars and fifty cents, is a
free man.
Ramos was pardoned by Gov
ernor Pinkham at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon and shortly
afterward he left the prison. The
pardon is a full one and removes
the stigma of the charge on which
he was convicted.
The pardon was given ION the
initiative of Governor Pinkham.
| No friends of Ramos asked execu-
tive clemency. No special COM
mittee of the territorial grand jury
which indicted Ramos asked the
Governor to intercede.
Ramos Finds Friend At Last
The only openly avowed friend
of the Filipino was the Governor
himself. In a statement given to
| The Advertiser the Governor
gives the reasons which swayed
him in pardOning the man.
| The Governor was not in his
Office yesterday afternoon. He has
not been feeling we'll and had re-
tired to his cottage in the resi-
uence grounds of DR.. Charles B.
Cooper. He directed Attorney
General Stainback, however, to
prepare the usual form of pardon
required in such cases. This was
done and George R. Clark, private
secretary Of the Governor, sent
Chris Holt of the office of the Sec
retarV OF Hawaii to the residence
of the Governor with the pardon
Ramos At Piano When Pardoned
The Governor signed the par
don and directed Holt to take it
| to High Sheriff Jarrett at the ter
rlturlal prison. Jarrett was out
:, when Holt arrived. Holt found
Ramos playing ats a Long, Long
Way TO Tippe~ary" on the Office
piano. Ramos is a.. accomplished
musician, Rev. Father Valentin,
,, who happened to have been pres
/ ent, sand. High Sheriff Jarrett
SAID last night that he was glad
> to see Ramos go, but he was sorry
to lose good musician.
Ramos was released from pri-
son almost at the same moment
he was registered there. 1t hap
pcned that he remained at the city
Jail after he was sentenced on
Tuesday and was only sent across
to the penltcntiary yesterday af-
terno"n. The high sheriff was
absent when his new prisoner ar
rived. While waiting for the ar
rival Of the official, whose duty il
was to register him, Ramos en-,
tertained himself and a few Others
who happened to be in the Office
at the piano.
Regarded a Fortunate Man
The waiter is regarded as a particu
larry fortunate man among his fellows
Ordinarily he would have been sen
fenced to three years and half Il
prison for his crime, but it happened
that his sentence was reserved unit
Louis Abrams and Frank l.. HOOg
pleaded guilty of embezzlement AM
were sentenced.
When Abrams, whose original defal
cations amounted, it is claimed, to SEQ,
500, and IIoOgs, whose defalcation
reached $lO,40O, were each SENTENCED
to pay n fine of $1,000 and the cost
of court, amounting in each case t.
three dollars and fifty cents, Ramo
was sentenced by Judge Ashford to on
week in prison and 10 nav "A fine OF