The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-19
FlliihOs Beateioll
up, They Say,
BY Police Officer
One Is Terribly Bruised and Cut
and Accuses Detective Ma
chado Of fundamentally As
saulting Him and His Com
panions

panions
His right eye so bfackened and |
swollen that he could not open Il, his
nose apparently broken, his temple
blackened, his right ear cut, his flesh
smashed into pulp over his cheek
bone, his lips lacerated and so swollen
that he could only humble and his body
black and blue from the waist up, Don.
icio Fernandez was taken TO the Office
of DR.. G. B. Wood yesterday for med,
ical treatment.
The police, who put Fernandez,
Filipino, under arrest on Tuesday,
charging him with being present at
street game of craps in Iwilei, say that
he attempted to escape and in the hurry
fell and got bruised up on the coral
road. Fernandez himself says that be
was not present at the game, which
was being carried on by soldiers, but
that he was met some fifty yards away
from IL by Detective Machado, who
knocked him down three times and who
then beat him into Inconsistencies.
Says He Was Kicked
Eight Filipinos were arrested in the
raid. Three of them bear the marks Of
their arrest on their bodies None are
so horribly smashed up. as Fernandez,
but Francisco Gujaieres, one of the trio,
suffered excruciating agony from the
| treatment he says he received at the
hands and feet Of Detective Silva. His
knowledge Of the presence of the po
lice raiders came, he says, when he was
dubbed over the head and knocked
PROSTATE. While on the ground, &C.
cording to his story, he was kicked in
the groin by the officer, being able to
walk yesterday only with difficulty.
Sick Man dubbed Il
Francisco Layosa, who is out of the
Eva hospital only short time, hav.
ing been laid up there with six.inch
stab in the stomach, got of the light
est of the three. All that happened to
him was few blows over the head
and face from the club of Detective Bel.
mont. He has few cuts and bruises to
back up his statements, -...
These Filipinos have retained w. T.
Rawlins to defend them from the
gambling charge. Mr.. Rawlins became
so indignant yesterday when he saw
his clients and the Filipinos gave him
their version of the affair that he
called in the members Of the police
! commission - Messrs. Sheldon, Aluli
and Fogarty-to survey the alleged
work of the police, which was, unless
the Fihpinos are lying, about as brutal
a treatment of men as local police an.
mails record. = ,2sa4.u #sf@f
Mr.. Rawlins win bring formal
charges before the police Commission
against the three police officers named,
he says, and Is already Drafting the
formal papefs in the ma terri 4 T.
At the emergency hospital last night
it was stated that the record for Tues
day. shows one Filipino treated for
bruises on his face, received, accord.
ing to the explanations made by the
arresting officers, through the prisoner
having fallenS con the road. T|, g,
Police onicials Quiet b., -.
Sheriff Rose questioned on the mat.
ter last night said: y.t.l s..
~ know all about the matter but
must decline to make any statement.
win neither deny nor affirm the truth
of the charges alleged to have been
made; the truth of the matter will
come out at the hearing of the civil
} service commission. - faa.ss o
Chief of Detectives McDuffie said
"You know how il is when gang
of crap shooters are arrested; everyone
beats il and in the ensuing scuffle with
the police someone is bound TO be q
bit bruised up. There were about for
ty men participating in that game AT
!; Iwilei and the fact that only. eight
were arrested shows that there. had 10
be lively work on the part of the men
of my bureau.
elm a case like this the arrestinl
officer is always placed in the wrong
light. My men have duty to perform
and they have to 60 through with it
even though someone gets a bit mussed
up. And j want to say right here, that
when an officer butts into a game like
the one in question the odds are all in
, favor of him getting mussed up him
.. self"
, Machedo's Record
} Detective Machado, charged with the
. worst offense, is the man who beat W
; w. Bergin in an ARRAY at the old Wal
J, kiki Inn, now Heinie 8 Tavern, in which
affair Bergin's ankle was broken. Ma
5 chado was fined fifty dollars for that
) He is also the man who served a jai
term for having dumped an unconsciou,
t man out of his auto into Atkinson
P Park, after he had knocked the mar
! down with his auto and carried hin
! off under the claim that he would rusl
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