Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-21
MANY NATIONS
FURNISH. GRIST.
TO POLICE Mill
From Russian to Chinese and
Korean, Cases Given Quick
Disposal at Court

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Twenty-odd nationaIities meet in Ho-
nolulu. as the Pan-Pacific Club Is fond
Of stating at its banquets, but the only
place where the 20-odd shake hands
daily is the police court. Seated on
the prisoners bench in Judge Monsar.
rats court this morning was motley
crew which the police and Detective
Captain Arthur McDuffie's sleuths had
gathered in to the fold of the law.
andre Gregoriesky. Russian. sat at
the left OF the bench, a huge, swollen
man with splotched face and low fore
head disappearing under jagged black
hair. Pung Chew. gray-haired China,
man, sat next to him, 1ean-faced fell
low with blank eyes that studied the
rail in front of him. Al Porto Rican
leaned over the ran with his eyes on
the Judge, man with q coal black
skin and cadaverous face quite at
Eouts with the glitter or the eyes. An
tonic Aeosta, another Porto Rican, sat
with a semblance of grin on his
face, and O great white bandage over
his head. The Portuguese yirago, Ca
mella, a witness In the case OF Acosta,
sat near and blinked at the courtroom
and Kim Don Hung, little Ko-
rean, sat motionless, with his head
jutting out as II his neck were de
formed, and an occasional sign Of life
when his black eyes flashed up and
down the room one moment. and the
next minute had gone blank again. =.
And while these men sat waiting,
Mrs. George KekueWa was on the wit
ness stand testifying that her husband
had brutally beaten her. The brute.
as she called him, was q slender. aged
HaWaiian who hoBbled ont OF the pris-
pner,s box With an enormous shoe on
one foot and no shoe at all on the
btfef, and on his face the dim weari
ness Of the habitual drunkard. He
was sentenced TO one month in jail
& Antonio Acosta, charged with as
saflt and battery on, a woman, Carmel
Ia, developed a sad, sad tale In the
court. showing how he had once been
thrown into the river by Carmella and
how when he was passing the next
day she had laughed at him and said
that she could do the same thing
again. One glance at Carmella, as she
sat arms akimbo in the courtroom, J
was sufficient warranty that she could
carry, out her threat. But Acosta had
rashly rushed In where angels fear
to. tread and he s11ote the Valorous
Carmella upon the cheek. .#. 49,,
AT this point In the testimony Car.
mella 'grinIfed broadly. But ieyen as
Antonio performed this yalorous feat,
a one-legged man who had been talk
ing with Carmella, heayed up a brand
new and very solid crutch and brought
it down upon the unfortunate's head.
To add to Acosta's misery he was i'm
mediate1y charged with assault and
battery and taken to the police station
and the anti-climax came when
he was fined IS this morning. AttorS
ney Chillingworth pointed out that the
mans chief crime was not the assault |
upon the wil1oWy Carmella, but his es-
tablished character. 49, .~.+
y The evidence concerning the little |
Korean brought out the fact that he |
had casually picked up a meter belong |
ing tc the Mutual Telephone Company, |
Of the value of 81. John Wo acted as
for him and repeated his
words to the court He
claimed to have only lifted the meter
In order to get at bottle which was
lying under ii. Judge Monsarrat |
smiled. He was proven to be an old
offender and finally stood before the
Judge with his square moVeless face
hitting forward tn listen.
is he a married man." asked Mon.
sarrat.
No. said Detective John Wo, who
stood beside the prisoner, and then
after another glance at the yellow
eyes, But he's-but he's pretty we'll
engaged to opium
The sentence was placed at two
the next case was called, and
the kaleidoscope whirled on.