Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-23

say that we owe it to this woman, to
these children, to keep her away from
there" said Chillingworth.
The Judge asked question.
my husband" said the woman
then. speaking for the first time, lis
serving year and a half In the stock
ade at Camp Cashier"
"And the children" said Deputy
Chillingwcrth, Your Honor, the chil-
dren can't he worse off in Jail than
they were at Wahiawa. Two of her
children are now in the Castle Home.
two others are being taken care of by
the Salvation Army. And they are all
wesk,minded."
The little golden-haired girl, in her
restless circuit ca the room, by this
time was back at the prosecuting at.
torney's desk She stood between her
mother and the tall deputy city attor-
ney She hooked up into his face and
tried 10 take his hand. but her. arms
were too short to reach the distance
So she contented herself with finger
ing the big book in which the motaer
was charged with selling booze il
lieitlW.
The Judge fixed the bail at 5000. The
woman, soothing the tiny child in her
arms and taking by the hand the
scarcely larger child went back to her
seat on the bench with other offenders
Near her sat another woman. This.
other woman was also before the
Judge for the Illicit sale of liquor. Her
husband was not in a stockade. Even
then he was sitting in the prisoners
dock ten yards ,away-a fat. powerful
staggering negro, his head close
cropped. his dark face immobile, his
eyes alone restless and uneasy. His
wife is a white woman. The negro
husband is also accused of selling
booze without authority of law.
AS the two women sat there, the
little girl began to whimper. She
needed the attentions of a mother
Turning her hack to the crowd and
shielding herself and the little girl as
well as she could, the mother tried y
attend the child. But the baby in hdE
arms made the task impossible. Then
the other woman, the negros wie,
bent forward and took from the moth
er's arms the squirming baby and h4d
il gently until the mothers task WIS
done. And for q moment all hardness
fed from the faces of the two women
They exchanged the faint, worn, son
rowful ghosts of smiles
Both women are well-known to the
police. Illicit liquor selling is not all
ascribed to them. The little bent
woman whose husband is serving a
federal sentence is, say the police
guilty of graver offense than sellt
ing liquor, an offense at which the deU
uty city attorney limited when he
spoke of her little, dirty room at Wa
hiawa and surroundings so dreadful
that Jail for a babe in arms and girl
of three is preferable to that dishch-
ored home. Thinking of these SIX
children, four of them known to be
weak-minded. the other two yet too
small for intelligence; thinking of the
mothers queer. distorted, empty face;
of the husband shut away from he.
of poverty and misery-thinking of
these things the observer al the POI
lice court feels less indignation than
pity at the thought of what she Isl
charged with and what is whispered
about he- .=. =.
Yes. the police-court crowd had its
morbid. staring, unclean curiosity
gratified this morning. The news had
gone forth that Wahiawa's blood
Town" had been raided. and these
were some of the people who have
helped give that town" its unloyeIy
and significant name.