The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-28


and went home. Kept the sight until
! the Tuesday following when l sent it
! with d note addressed to President
Dole or Minister Cooper Qetter shown
That is the letter | wrote. That is the
tag (tag shown the note was wrapped
around the sight and another piece
Of paper around it. Took it to the
post office, placed two five-cent stamps
| on it. Sight looked bright.
Had a conversation with Captain
Good at my house some days after that.
Discussed military matters and i'm
nediately he mentioned that he had
had a tiff with the Colonel about mis-
sing sight and the Colonel denied it
had been on the gun. Told him that the
Commander in Chief knew something
about the sight and would probably
hear more about it. The conversation
took place after | had sent the sight
to the President Told no one of my
intentions of coming into the grounds.
Captain Good had not the remOtest
idea of my intentions. | am solely
responsible for my action.
Gross Examined: Have held a COM
mission as a special from the President,
Marshal Hitchcock and Marshal Brown.
AS member of Company E was de-
tailed by the President for outside bus
mess. Had nothing to do with MAX
ing arrests. Received a commission
from Marshal Hitchcock in 1894. Held
this until the early part of the year
l think; it was renewed by Marshal
Brown. Have occasionally reported
to Marshal Brown; sometimes in his
Office occasionally in the street When
/ had anything to report | did So No
one told me to report to the President.
Never reported the sight episode to
anyone because I did not think it neces-
sary. The matter was not in the
Marshals department consequently /
did not report it to him. Intended first
to report it to the President but did
not because I wanted 70 await devel-
Opments. | considered it my duty to
the government to correct any evils
which 1 might see. Communicated
my information to Col. Soper and At
tOrney Robertson.
| tell the government whatever I
consider necessary, there is no dividing
line between what / want to tell and
what I do not want to tell l am not
in the habit of writing anonymous let
ters, this is the first one I ever wrote
Have known Captain Good since
June 10, 1892. Was on guard once or
twice during the year l was special.
have helped make ammunition here
in the building during the time the
Queen was expected to be reseated I
drew $25 month during that time as
we'll as $50 at the nursery. Have never
limited that l wanted a position in the
executive building; never said I would
like to take charge of the artillery.
After l took the sight home I kept it
in my desk; took it to the big house
Tuesday afternoon and did it up and
marked it that night. Have visited
Captain Good seldom; probably once in
two months; the Captain has visited
me perhaps once in two weeks but
there was no regularity. Once visited /
Lieut.. Coyne at his room when Captain /
Good was not here. Called a few
times on Mr.. Greene. Saw no one but
Mr.. Greene We were all over the |
grounds looking at the plants. Never
called on other officers in the evening. !
Was on Molokai during the month of
February. May have called on Captain !;
Good during January and March. More
than once perhaps; can't say how many !
you may take your choice. I left it for
sight had been in my possession. Usu- /
ally talked with Captain Good in the
presence of other officers.
Sergeant Moore called and identified |
as one of the men present during the /
interview with Captain Good.
One of the strangers at DOdd's cor /
ner remarked that 'Those d--n fools .
down at the corner are making fools Of
themselves; they have their guns in
position and their wagons filled with .
in a position that the enc /
my could turn them on them Did /!
not go into the hotel because I could /
see no use for it. Supposed that the
men in the hotel had perhaps the
same information that the three men
had. Cannot say when | made my |
last report. Am not drawing pay as a
special. Have said TO President Dole
that l did not particularly like Col /
Mclean. Cannot tell the date of my /
first dislike for the Colonel. 1t was
the first day the HOtchkiss guns were
tried at KakaakO when the Colonel /
bounced Captain Good for something. /
Have not made a practice of telling .
people that l do not like the Colonel |
Don't think the subject has ever been
under discussion between Captain Good
and myself Have considered the guns
badly guarded ever since they have
been under the shed because L have
passed there frequently at night and
never heard a call from there. Once
called on the President in reference to
the ammunition for the Austrian guns;
wanted the government to procure more
This led me to go to
the President Did not think any
thing about it. L knew they needed
more ammunition. Reason [ did not
go to the President after removing the
sight was because | wanted TO see II
a guard would be put over them after
il was shown that the grounds could
be entered Learned that there was
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