The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-01-14
KAPIOLANI BATH HOUSE
Trial of Chas. Molteno for Liquor
Selling.
Full Report OF the Evidence-HonOluIu
at Night NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and Sentence.

out license at the haplOIam baIh
House on the night Of August oath last.
On Saturday morning Judge Bickerton
sentenced the prisoner to six months
imprisonment at hard labor and the pay
ment OF a fine of $500 and costs.
Deputy ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Peterson
was assisted by Mr.. Antoine Rosa in the
prosecution, while Mr.. Kaulukou con-
Quoted the defense. Upon the trial be-
ginning Mr.. Kaulukou objected to Mr..
Rosa on the ground that he had been re-
tanned as counsel by the defendant pre-
vious to the first trial, that resulted in
disagreement of the jury. The Court
overruled the objection, and the trial
proceeded, the evidence taken being
fully given below.
Akaneka, W, sworn: Know defend
ant Molteno; was at his place the even
ing he was arrested; was there Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday of that week !;
previous Tuesday went there alone; was
there on Thursday night, with lots OF
other girls; there were lots of foreigners
there that night; (witness gives names
of female companions; j saw young May
buying liquor there that night; saw
him buying gin, beer and whisky; he
paid the dollar in the small room in the
back; they were dancing the hulakui
that night foreigners treated us because
we danced; the liquor did not belong to
any one person; anybody could treat,
natives or foreigners; that little room
was the center OF attraction; L was there
on the Friday and saw foreigners buying
liquor there that night; SO many girls
were there that do not know them all;
was frequent visitor to the bath house
previous six months; | drank beer there
and May paid for it; on the Saturday
night | had one drink and stayed till the
police came-Larsen and Hopkins; they
came to door and raped but couldn't
get in, 50 Hopkins climbed over the
door.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Kaulukou:
Charlie Molteno did not ask me to 90
there Friday night; he only asked me
to go there Tuesday night; Charlie
never sent for me on any of these nights;
went there because l wanted to go; May
was there Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day; he was hulaing Thursday and Fri
day but not on Saturday; when [ went
there was sober and when l left [ was
partly drunk; all l drank was in the
house saw foreigners off the steamer in
port at that time buying GIN; Ito juror
did not carry any liquor. there, nor see
anybody else do SO at any time.
Re-examined by Mr.. Rosa-I said it
was Molteno's liquor because he handled
and sold it.
The Court takes recess from II m. to
l :25 p. m.
Hama, W., sworn: Began giving testi-
mony when a Juror expressing a desire
to see the bath house, the Court ad-
journed thither to view the premises.
On returning the examination proceeds
Billie cassie gave me and another girl
half dollar each to buy beer with, and
we bought beer from Molteno; three
bottles of beer were set up for the house
and poured cut in the glasses when Hop
kins (police) came in.
Cross-examined-Did not say in Po
lice Court that did not see anybody
buy whisky; table was in big room
Thursday but not Friday night; drank
nothing Saturday, as Hopkins came in
when beer was in glasses; Ito the Court
when 1 went there on Friday l was
sober, when l came away l was drunk.
Mahu, w, sworn: Know defendant
and where he lives; was at KapioIani
bath house Saturday night he was ar
rested; three of us went together; was
there when police came; there also Sat
urday night same week; on Thursday
there with two last witnesses; we were
drinking there; there was dancing there
but did not dance; Billie cassie was
there; l and Hama were in room when
Billie gave US the beer; [ was one to
whom he gave half dollar for beer, and
bought it from Molteno; drank again
after that bottle, white men treated;
was a great many people there, white
men and native girls; Charlie would
bring beer in from small room when
wanted; l was not there on Friday
night, had beer there often before that;
saw May buy liquor on Saturday night,
he bought gin; at the time he treated
saw him put his hand in his pocket,
heard the rattle of coin, but did not see
him pass the money.
CrOss-examinatiOn-W there Satur-
day night; sure | was not there Friday,
but on Thursday and Saturday nights;
Billie cassie did not give me money on
Saturday but on Thursday night.
Pauelua, W., gave similar testimony to
that of previous witnesses.
Annie Ehu, swOrn-know defendant,
have been at his house often l was
there Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day nights the week of his arrest on
Wednesday Parson treated me and
another girl bought liquor myself from
Charlie all three nights; had to pay
money before he would give me liquor.
ross-examined---LOt of people in
room generally, if strangers are enter
tanned with dancing; ParsOn, myself and
Mary Halili were sitting on veranda
when Parson treated; he paid so cents,
1 drank gin, Mary beer, he drank
nothing.
Ane HilO, w, sWorn-I know the de-
PENDANT, have been at his place very
often; was there Saturday night when
he was arrested; went there to have
some fun and dance; was there Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday; Charlie Mol
teno brought liquor out from a small!
room drank; a foreigner (name given
before and strangers off steamer treated :;
know Molteno sells liquor because l see
strangers buy it of him and pay him.
Cross the girls in Court
were at the house am not certain what
happened late, as l got drunk; know
because he is a good dancer of the
hula kui he was drinking, and hallOing
and dancing the hula; Ito the Court
went there that night because Charlie
Molteno sent for me in a hack.
Nav, sworn-I know MOltenO; was
At his place when arrest was made {;
nothing going on when he was arrested /;
| it was on a Saturday; was there night
| before; not there on Thursday to my
| knowledge, may have been; think Mol
| teno is charged with selling liquor with
| out license; [ bought liquor from him