In December 1878, Hutchison was arrested and sent to Honolulu's Kalihi Hospital for examination.
Around 1930, Hutchison started writing In Memory of Reverend Father Damien J. De Veuster and Other Priests Who Have Labored in the Leper Settlement of Kalawao, Molokaʻi`, his personal account of Father Damien's work on the island and a memoir of his own fifty-three year of experience living on Kalaupapa.