Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 148, 12 March 1891 — An Example of Hilo Government. [ARTICLE]

An Example of Hilo Government.

Sometimrt ago the poliee of Hanaakua attempted to capture a Hawaiian allegēd to be a leper, who was living in a hut in the woods fir removed from other human habitation. Shots were fired, and two polieman feli, and the nativē received two wounds. The attempt to capture the native was abandoned, and a devise adopted thāt reflects particular credit on Sheriff Hitchcock. The father, mother brothers and sisters of tbe wounded man were arrested and lodged in jail. Thev were • told that they were all to be hung ,f*r the murder of the polieeman. One of his kinsmen was sent to inform the rebel of the situation of his family and friends and to say that the only way to save theoa was to surrender himself into the hands of the Sheriff. So like a brave man he eame and gave himself up for the sake of those he loved. He was ohaiued with arms and legs around the mast of a schooner, in whieh position he remained for several days while being transported t« No attemp was made to aleviate his sufferings. A decter lookedmt him only onee. He was put in irons in a pen in the Hilo jail, there he lay for two or there months, his w©unds undressed, $lowly dying. A scrap of salt a tin of ditch water, were 6ccasionally pushed within his reach as to a danger@us dog. The jailors would have been more merciful, but they were forbidden by the authorities to render any assistance tothe doomed man. So this innoeent Hawaiian died in indescribable agony after months of tbrture. Su«h things are not uneommon in Hawaii, of course no blanie at taches to any of th<* officials.