Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-21
GOOD COURT OF INQUIRY
The Testimony All Presented and Ad-
dresses for Petitioner Delivered.
General HartWell Tells What He Knows About
Courts Martial-GiyeS q Little
Talk on "CuSSing."

intimately acquainted with Carl
Rhodes; the latter told him that
his f. Their had secured a sight of
one If the guns in the yard at
night; thought it was some time
in May; was prior to Capt. Goods
arrest; Rhodes was in witnesses
Office when he told him about the
sight; said his father had taken
the sight to test the effica-
cy of the guards; Rhodes
said his father would let it
be known that the sight had been
taken.
w. II. Thone: At one time a
member of Go. f, served three
years and one month; was a cor
poral; bad cleaned the guns in
shed; had cleaned the guns three
or four times; when he cleaned
the guns they were complete;
when Capt. Good was arrested he
was working at the quarantine
station.
The Judge Advocates irony
was lost on this witness.
HI. s. Hagerup. Belonged to
to Go. F; discharged in March,
1896; noticed a gun without a
sight; sergeant Gumpfer was not
surprised when informed the sight
was missing.
Capt. Good was put on the
stand and testified as follows:
When he was aware of the alb
sence of the sight be asked Ser
geant Moore when the sight was
last seen; Moore said he did not
know; he was officer of the day
and on his round of inspection
when the sight was reported miss
ing; the day the sight was laid
on my desk l was not on duty;
Co. E was on guard; when he
missed the sight he asked Sergeant
Moore what had become of it and
Moore said he had put it back on
the gun.
Up to the time the captains
ceased to be officers Of the day,
from Christmas '95 to May '96, he
had inspected the guns and the
sights were not missing.
Gross, examined by Kinney -
Co. E had cleaned the guns the
day before the sight was laid
on the table; Coyne was Off
Ger of the day; when
Carlyle laid the sight on the table
where witness was writing, wit.
ness did not consider it put in his
charge because the officer of the
guard was at the table at the time;
witness did not take the sight and
put it in his dressing case; did
not kow that he was charged with
taking the sight until a couple of
hours before his trial.
The deposition of Herman Lit
tlefeld was read; also a written
statement from A. Fisher, sailor
on the Claudine.
The petitioner here rested and
General Hartwell craved the in
: diligence of the Court and asked
to be allowed to address them, as
he would be unable to be farther
present at the trial. The court
allowed him to speak. First
the General was reminiscent
and spoke of court martial he
had assisted in, in the fall of '62
in North Carolina. 1t was the
trial of an officer for cowardice
He knew how extremely sensitive
officers were of brother officers
honor. If Capt. Good at any time
during this trial has displayed
any feeling it is only human ma
} ture. There is an old saying that
court martial is packed to con-
: vict. That is to say there is to be
no nonsense. The speaker then
, took up the charges. 81 have
read law papers for many years
and am pretty familiar with docu-
ments. When got hold of these
charges L had to read them sew
eral times to make out what they
really meant. The charge of
growing at reduction of pay was
paltry one. Swearing was not
very gentlemanly, but how many
gentlemen swearp One of the
finest gentlemen he ever knew
swore like trooper. On occa-
sions it was almost necessary to
swear. If Capt. Good had
been found guilty regarding the
sight because he did not report
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