The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-03-19

early in the morning, No Investigation
was held that dSy, March Sth the ten
lspers who had been engaged in the attack
were shipped OF 10 Molokai. Ii WIS not
till TssSsIy, March 18th. that the President
q the Bosrd Of Health thought 80 70 hold
his soeSlled Investigation. the eth day
after the occurrence, On the fsee Of il
this Seens most lax. hut when we look
more elcsety into the matter we VIII SO
that the laNnesS on the surface Is repeated
throughout.
The investigation i held and what wit
neSSes are calleif As Tar Is can be Judged
trom the very garfield report whsch hiss
heen Published they Sre al On one sSGle
The SIDE Of the steward Is heard. byss- aet
that Of the unfcrtanates who were sum
marty Shipped of without 3 chance cf
| giving their version of the affair. But
even the evidence that has been siven
shows an extraordinary condition Of affairs
The charge which the leper pStientS m9ie
| against Van Geisen COMES to light. The
witness Moikeho. says that ~he went 10
assist in the row because be Was told that
/ Van GeiSen was committing fOrnicatiOn.
I Further on in his evidence. he SAYS Il waS
told 10 10 and foin the crowd and capture
/ Van GeiSen- kaiapS, an outside police,
man stated that kaiGkapu the ringleader
IN the assault on the steward said to him
we want 30 have him Van Geisenl az
rested for adultery This then i the
charge rightly or wrongly that these men
made. This was the oStenSible reason for
the attack They bruke into the house
hoping 10 catch Van GeisCn ., F,gr,sts.
Here i certainly reason given, and they
I should have been examined u eewhether
| they cuuld Substantiate their charge Now
we come u the other part Of the evidence.
Van Ge5>en sJys he slept on the bed with
hl> clothes on : two Young women slept or
the foOr- one VI these yOunS women. a.
curyhn.s Ia the evidence Of the rohcrn,au
! - er - yparS OF asv. This i certaialy
suspicious "a >ay the least cf IT, Itwpuil
rs,lulr. : very high upt r1l character iu,is,,l
which wuQld not b. open 30 suspicion nm
der >lch circumstances. Il must b. n
usulbsry-l also that these witnesses all ~
one w1y Had those ten men been Iue>
toned they might have thrown consider
able hight on the matter They have not
been questioned The only person they
could properly have been questioned be
fore WIS the Police Justice Of Honolulu
/ We denouree this Investigation Is trans
parent sham IL i no Investigation, and
consists Of three or four er- pfy,g statements.
nothing more. Il has been held In u cor
uers the only account Of 1t Is furnished b.
j dependent Of the President Of the Board
Of Health; and even that gentleman. we
believe has said that It i garfield When
such an Investigation WIS held Representa-
tives from the newspaper press Of Homo
lulu should have been present. The pub
lie cannot be satisfied that this Star Cham
Der business Of tlrs Premier's WIS fair and
aboyebuGrd. unless there l. perfectly free
access to the evidence by members u the
Independent press
We do not assume for an instant that
Van Geisen Is guilty Of the charge; W.
only say that from his own evidence The
circumstances are suspicious. 1t seems
a. If an attempt was being made to per
shade the public that the attack on Var
Geisen was made because those ten men
had been ordered to MOlOk1i. and that
their motive was revenge. while really the
men had a far different motive. that Of *
posing the steward Let rs have an invss
tIgatiUu We can put faith in. and not this
hole and corner affair.
I Viewed calmly from the position of an
outsider the whole matter has an aspect OF
bit Of Jedwood Justice; :. e. first the exc
cUtlOu nest the sentence and then the trla
if there l. time for IT,