Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 492, 9 January 1902 — SOCIETY CIRCLES ARE PERCEPTIBLY AGITATED [ARTICLE]

SOCIETY CIRCLES ARE PERCEPTIBLY AGITATED

% SCANDAL IN ORIENTAL ELITE Hasiop Defs-dmg H s Castle From Invasion and ,s Arrested for Assault—Vanuel Claudira Sentenced to Six Months for Vagrancy. Fashionable Chinese society circles have recently been shaken from c«>ter to circumference over the com plaint filed by Lau Sh». wife of Lam Yip. one of the prominent business men of Chinatown. The woman appeared before .Judge Wilcox in police court yesterday as a complaining witness to a chare- of assault and battery preferred against her husband. It is alleged that Lam Yip has for some time past treated his wife in a cruel and inhuman manner. At the advice of her friends I-au She took her troubles Into court. Owing to the inadvenable absence of important witnesses for the prose cut ion. the case was postponed until Friday morning. In anticipation of •the sensational testimony likely to be produced, the court room was thronged with Orientals of high and low degree. Ah Xgee. a confessed vagrant, was presented with three months free bed and board at the Iwilei winter resort. Ching Ah Foon. a Chinese woman, charged with desertion, was allowed her freedom, a reconciliation having been effected between herself and her husband. The charge of rape against Ho Kit was withdrawn and he was released. It was a case in which the prosecution failed to prosecute. Five gamblers, including an admixture of races from Japanese to Porto Ricans, were arraigned and a majority pleaded guilty. Three Portuguese fought the case. They were all discharged. M. G. Reiman, an aged and somewhat decrepit Italian, was advised to keep out of the premises of residents on lower Queen street if he would preserve a countenance free from blemish or disfigurement. Reiman was prowling about the yard of Charles Haslop on Monday evening, when the proprietor of the Haslop es tate sallied out to ascertain the mission of the visitor. Haslop claimed that instead of replying, or giving any information regarding his appearance on his premises. Reiman grappled with him. and a scuffle ensued in which Haslop came out first best. Reiman later swore out a warrant for the arrest of Haslop charging him with assault and battery. Judge Wilcox dismissed the charges against Hsslop declaring that under the cir i mstances Haslop was justified in ■ i fending his person on his own p mises. Manuel Claudina. the Porto Rican, caught on the premises of M' - s. Hough ' n Richards street, was charged with vagrancy, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months at the reef. Another charge of larceny in the second degree will come up before the police court on Friday. A trio of drunks were assessed the regular $2 fine. A reprimand and discharge w r? followed by the release of Geo. KauP«na. charged with disobedience to parents.