Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-20
GOODS COURT OF INQUIRY
The Promised New Evidence Came in
Last Night.
Goes Against the Theories Formed by Court
Martial in Its Judgment Against
Captain Good

the rehearing Of the evidence in
the Good case last evening. The
reading of the minutes of former
proceedings was had and they
were accepted as read.
Carl Rhodes was the first wit
ness called: Is inspector of GUS
toms; son of H. j. Rhodes; his
father showed him a cannon
sight at the government nursery;
it was a sight he had seen on one
of the Austrian field pieces; bis
father did not say anything when
he showed the sight; had heard
from his mother that his father
was going to try and get some
part of one of the guns in the
gunshed; it was some time in
May, 1896; he mentioned that his
father had shown him the sight
about two weeks after he had
seen it.
Cross examined by Kinney:
Capt. Good had called at his
house occasionally before his
arrest; the visits would last an
hour or so; can't remember
whether or not he called after his
arrest; never knew that his father
had very great liking for Good;
they were just friends; his mother
did not state what reason her hus
band had for taking the sight; it
was HE Impression that his father
thought things were not well
guarded; after the arrest he heard
that his father would probably
testify at the court martial; his
father told him that he had mailed
the sight to the President; he ad-
dressed it to Minister Cooper or
President Dole; he also sent a
letter addressed in the same way.
j. w. Chapman, called. The
martial dignity of the court of in
qui y a. greatly Jared at the
appearance of Chapman in civil
ian dress, and he was sent away
to put on his regimentals. He
returned later with snickersnee
and bIunderbus and was allowed
to testify. The insulted dignity
of the court was appeared.
Edwin X. Stone-Formerly a
member of Co. f; served fourteen
months during the years 1866;
he noticed the sight missing from
the gun; his company was sent to
salute the Boston on her arrival
here; they went to get a gun to
salute with and found the one
they generally used without
sight: be had cleaned the guns;
after that on the next regular
day the sights were all
there.
Cross examined by Kinney-As
far as he remembered Gus Bur
chard, Hildebrand, Won Banner
and others were present one day
when Weatherbee's locker door
was bumped into and the pad
lock and staple fell off; there were
sixteen men in the squad sent to
salute; the next morning after the
saluting they were talking of the
sight and someone said |
Gumpfer is in "pilikia."
Witness had cleaned the guns
every other Saturday and had
never seen a sight missing except
he tims they went to salute; at
orese.ht he is running q liDe Oh
&C. t.oeners from Honolulu to Mo
lokai and Kauai; he didn't attend
the court martial because during
the trial the Men had a good
chance to jump the fence and 60
down town. he'd rather do that
than listeG to the trial.
j. w. Chapman, commissary
sergeant - Weatherbee told him
that it was he who got Capt.
Good fired; Weatherbee was very
angry with Colonel Mclean when
he told Chapman about getting
Good fired; the Colonel had just
fred Weatherbee.
Jas. McKeague - Enlisted 9th
day of August, 1898; discharged
April 10, 1896. He had charge
of cleaning squads which worked
on the guns and had never heard
of sight being missing; Capt
Camara came to witness place and
took his statement; Camara came
to his place with Good; had not
seen the sight on Col. McLean's