The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-30
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7. HEAVILY PUNISHED
Those Who Ought To Know Bet
ter More Severely Dealt With
II , BY Judge Vaughan ~.a.

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White yiolptors pf Uncle Sans laws,
those VIE sobght 10 ka6wiBetgerS anil
especisify american citizens, may ex-
pect to ger. severe sentences In the
federal court during war time than
their brown and yellow brothers, Il, the
interpretation which could ID iplhced IN
the di differences in punishment admins.
tered Yesterday morning by, Judge
Horace Vaughan to several defenfants
sentenced In the federal court.
This was especially evident when
Joe ]. Richards, former chief steward
Of the Togo Rison Kaisha steamer
Shinyo Maru, was sentenced to one
year and one day in Jail and to pay
! fine or $500 for attempting to smuGele
fourteen tins Of opium ashore in Homo
lulu recently. Other defendants in
opium eases, Chinese and Japanese,
were given lighter sentences.
Richards, who is fifty-One years of
age and has been for many years EN-.
plOyed on passenger vessels in the
Pacific, was represented in court by
Attorney George A. Davis, who made
plea for a light sentence. He told
how the former chief steward had two
sons in the American military service
and q record of straight dealing for
years.
The offense was attributed, both by
the defendant and the attorney, TO in.
toxication. Richards, however, would
give no explanation Of how or where
he secured the opium, other than to say
it was given to him by Chinaman
aboard the Shinyo, whose name he said
he did not know. Besides the plea of
his attorney, many friends are known
to have attempted to get him dealt with
leniently,
Ought To Know Better
The judge in sentencing the chief
steward said that he was a white man
who ought to have known better and
that he must stand the penalty i'm.
posed by the law. After another argu-
ment by Attorney Davis, Judge Waugh
an explained that he was somewhat in
the position of a man who regretted he
had to do his duty, but could impose
no other sentence under the circum-
stances.
Later Attorney Davis made a motion
for an arrested verdict. intimating that
the indictment was faulty and that the
statutes prohibiting opium importation
to the United States did not include
Hawaii.
Richards pleaded guilty to the offense
for which he was sentenced.
Two other confessed opium smugglPrs
implicatefin the same transaction were
also sentepeed y yesterday morning One
of these, HitO Hisatomi, former Jap
anese quartermaster on the Tenyo
Maru. pleaded guilty to trying to
smuggle ashore a half dozen tins of
the, dope, which was given him by the
other defendant, KOck 10y, night
Waterman on the Tenyo. x
q, Hisatomi was sentenced to six mon tbs
imprisonment and to pay,a fine of $3.50,
and Kock 10y TO nine months imprison-
ment, and also fine of $3.50. The Jap
aneses was given the lighter sentence as
II was apparent he had acted merely as
| an agent for the Chinaman and had
given the court all the information he
had.
Kock 10y, when asked if he had any
thing to say, said he had wife, four
children and a mother/to support To
all inquiries as to where he got the
| opium, he replied that he found the
package ON the boat at three clock at
! night.
White SLAYER Sentenced
| Elmer Williamson, former board Of
| health inspector, was another white
American who was given a eompar-
| ntively severe sentence yesterday by
Judge Vaughan, although the defendant
had entered a plea of guilty, before a
verdict was returned by a jury which
tried him on charges of violating the
white slave act and selling liquor to
soldiers.
| On three counts for violating the
| Mann Act, Williamson was sentenced
TO three years imprisonment and on
four counts for selling liquor to soldiers
to six months imprisonment. However,
| all the sentences run cOncurrently and
three years is all he viii have to serve.
John Watson, Jr.. a part Hawaiian,
charged jointly with Williamson, who
was convicted by the federal jury, was
| given sentence Of two and half
years imprisonment.
| The two men were accused of trans
porting three women to Schofeld
Barracks for immoral purposes and
with also supplying liquor TO soldiers
at the same time. The women involved
pleaded guilty previously and were
given prison sentences.
Charles Pangelinan, who pleaded
guilty to another violation of the white
| slave law. which had no Connection with
the SchOfeld case, was fined 800 by
the federal judge.
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