The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-22
CAPTAIN JOHN GOOD PLEADS
NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES.

set forth in the first specification to
various members of his company on a
number of occasions within a week or
SO of May 1st, 1896.
Specification Fourth:
That Captain John Good, Company
e." First Regiment, n. G. H, did,
while drilling his company on the regi-
mental parade ground, conduct himself
in manner unbecoming an officer and
a gentleman, speaking to his men in a
highly disrespectful manner of his COM
manding officers, and did make use of
riot drill, viz: This -- half -
sailor drill; if they wanted to get some
body at the head of the regiment, why
in - didn't they get military man,
not a sailor We won't go through this
half drill of the Colonel's," or
words to that effect. Sneering language
of like import was used on several oc-
casions, but this last principally un or
about June 10Th, 1896, at Honolulu, On
the regimental parade ground.
Specification Fifth
That Captain John Good, Company
e. First Regiment, N. G. H., lid, on
the occasion of the grand parade on
July T. 1896, yell at his men at the top
of his voice, as follows: ''---- you,
guide right" to the scandal of every
body in the vicinity.
This on Miller street on the morning
of July 4, 1896.
Specification Sixth:
That Captain John Good, Company
e." First Regiment, n. G. H., did, on
or about May "a, 1896, against the mem
bers of the First Regiment, N. G. H.,
responsible for the care of the field
pieces in the Executive grounds, cause
the charge of carelessness in guarding
the field pieces to be communicated to
the Commander-in-Ch President
Dole, and caused such charge TO be
based upon representations known at
the time to Captain Good to be false
and misleading, to-wit: The repre5en-
tatiOn that a certain sight of one of
the field pieces had been secretly alb
stracted from one of the said field pieces
by a party unauthorized so to do, While
guard was supposed to be kept over
the same, and by the representation
hot OF iorhf IoH f0
mander-in-Chief on or about the said
oath day of May was the sight alleged to
have been distracted aforesaid
Specification Seventh:
That Captain John Good, Company
E. First Regiment, N. G. H, did, On
or about May oath, 1896, against the
members of the First Regiment, y. G. |
H., responsible for the care of the field
pieces in the Executive grounds cause
the charge of carelessness in guarding
said field pieces to be communicated |
to the Commander-in-Ch President |
Dole, and caused such charge to be
based upon representations known ar
the time to Captain Good to be false and !
of the representations con- |
tanned in an anonymous letter mailed
to the Commander-in-Ch President |
Dole, on or about said oath day of May, |
the contents of which letter IS as fol-
lows:
Il herewith return to you a light of
one of the large guns in the shed IN the
Executive grounds. I was passing last
Friday night and heard the hail of the
sentries, and thought 1 would give you
a little object lesson and show yo'; how
carelessly guard was kept over the Gov
ernment property. 1 went IN over the
Likelike street fence and went 10 he
shed and took out the sight and went !
out. could have taken in 200 nleu as
easy as 1 went in. 1 could have dis
abled every gun in the battery. Such
gross carelessness should not be al |
lowed.
GA Friend of the Government -
R. H. Mclean, Colonel Commanding |
First Regiment, n. G. H.
COUNSEL OBJECTS.
Attorney Robertson wished to remind
the court that the amended charges |
as read had never been served on the |
prisoner. He would waive that, how
ever, and object to the wording of the !
charges which read conduct unbe-
coming an officer" There is no such |
charge in the history of military law,