The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-29

init that Captain Camara has testlhed
Atrorney spoke of Mr.. Rhodes as a
reputabie man before he came here and
afteTwaTd.
Counsel contended that Col Mclean
had shown himself 10 be almost ridicu-
ious when on the witness stand and
in view Of his actions there it Is not
90 be wondered that he did not like
him.
Judge Advocate Kinney cOntended
that the conduct of Captain Good came
under the head OF conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and a gentleman and
stated that Captain Good had been in a
state of chronic characterization. He
was entitled to his own opinion of
Colonel Mclean but when he used his
position TO talk as he had, his bounds
were already overstepped. No private
was called upon to listen to such talk
and each had a perfect right TO prOtec-
ton. There was no one in sympathy
with Goods actions. The men under
him were simply compelled to listen 10
him He not only persisted in that
kind of talk but didn't know where to
quit, keeping it up until his arrest.
Such conduct was clearly conduct I'M
becoming an officer and a gentleman.
Any man that allowed his feelings and
passions to master him was sure to
end up in trouble and that was just
where Captain Good ended. The best
of men under such circumstances would
fall into the ditch.
The serious thing against Captain
Good was to be found in the last two
specifications treating of the matter of
the sight. There were sixteen sights
in all. Colonel Mclean took off one
last year from the Waikiki gun. 1t
was placed in his office.
Regarding this matter, Captain Good
was perfectly innocent until the sight
referred to in the evidence of various
witnesses came into his hands. Judge
Advocate Kinney then cOntrasted the
brightness of memory in regard to Ger
tain points and the dizziness of memory
in regard to the missing sight as shown
by Captain Good in his evidence. His
words my memory is so dim" were
quoted in a sarcastic tone. The sight
come into Captain Goods hands and
he failed to report it. He held it and
awaited developments in case that
called upon him in the most urgent
manner to report upon. He held back
to see what he could do and this dur
ing six weeks when the Government
was cropping around in the dark trying
to get some clue.
Where was the sight? 1t must have
been with Captain Good or on the gun.
1t was in Captain Goods possession.
Judge Advocate Kinney then referred
TO the relations between Rhodes and
Captain Good, handling the former
without gloves. He referred to the
friendship existing between the two
to the visits paid back and forth and
then TO the meeting of the two during
the time that the discussion of the loss
of the sight was at it's highest pitch in
military circles. That the two should
meet and fail to refer to the matter
was absurd. The proof of the missing
sight was in Captain Goods hands at
the time. Why did he not report it?
Rhodes was in the confidence and had
placed himself in the power of Good
His testimony on the stand was pro-
duced by the prosecution when it was
found that the ship was about to be
lost. The whole story of Rhodes was
absurd and improbable and the court
could not believe it.
Then came the time that Captain
Good was before the Court OF Inquiry.
Asked point blank do you know any
thing about the sight missing from
one of the Austrian field pieces, he SHE'D
off What did such tactics mean on
the part of an officer who had sworn
as an officer to tell the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but truth.
In view of all this it was but fit and
proper that the sword should strike
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whole trouble had come about through
blind passion, fact very much to be
regretted.
Captain Good had done great service
for the government and he was still a
staunch supporter of it, but he ran up
against a man he didn't like and al
lowed his feelings to get the best of
him.
Judge Advocate then said that Lieu
tenant Colonel Soper, the mouthpiece
of the President, knew of the sight
matter before charges were preferred
against Captain Good. He went car
rying il around with him and failed to
report. There was no imputation of
the completely of Colonel Soper in the
matter, but the fact still remained that
he did not report.
win q rev OJner remarks Judge
Advocate submitted the case to the
Court
Attorney Robertson pointed out a
weak point in the argument of the
prosecution. 1t had been admitted that
the theory that a sight had dropped off
one of the guns and then it had got into
Goods hands was correct. If such was
the case there must have been two
sights missing and the matter would
have been reported at once.
At about 1890 a. m. President Fisher
gave the order to clear the court room
and the court martial retired to de-
liberate.
WHY SHE LAUGHS.
Il always laugh to myself" she said,
when 1 see that sign, Beware of Pick