The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-07

and does in fact depreciate the value
of property Whereabouts, and render it
less safe and desirable as a place of
abode, or. If 1t is calculated to make
that neighborhood a rendezvous for
questionable characters, you may COM
ment thereon.
If you find during the course of
your Investigations that any retail
liquor dealer within the Jurisdiction of
this Court has in his employ in and
about his bar-room any minor, then
that would be a condition proper for
you to comment upon, and to direct
public attention thereto, If you SO de-
sire.
HOUSES OF ILL-FAME.
charge you, gentlemen of the
Grand Jury, to fully investigate the
conditions under which Japanese
houses of prostitution are maintained
in the district of Iwilei; and 1 charge
you further to inquire, to whether
or not any police officers are paid
their salaries or are receiving compen-
sation of any sort from those prosti-
tutes or from the landlords of the
buildings which they occupy. Police
men are public officers, and should not
under any circumstances receive COM
pensation for the discharge of their
duties from either corporations or In
dividuals, much less from those who
are engaged In a shameless vocation
upon which the law has ever set Its
seal of condemnation.
1t has come to the information of
this Court, and i charge you to make
diligent inquiry into the fact, that
police officers in Honolulu are in the
habit of making raids upon Chinese
gambling houses, of selling the mon
ey which may be In sight under the
pretense of using il as evidence
against those arrested. but in fact
appropriating it to their own use. If
this be true the practice referred to
is a species of larceny, committed
under the guise of law and authority.
which deserves the severest censure
and some punishment.
You will investigate any other con-
dition prevailing, or alleged to pre-
vail. in this community of which you
may have individual knowledge or
which may be brought to your atten-
ton If In connection with these con-
dstions crimes have been committed,
YOU will return indictments against
the persons committing such crimes,
and IL no crimes have been commit
ted in connection Herewith, and you
yet believe that such conditions are
menace to the public peace, to public
safety, and to the good order or tine
| community, or unlawfully hamper the
| liberties of the citizen, you may com
| ment thereon in your final report Il
! this Court. and thus direct public at
! tention thereto.
| The oath which you have taker
: obliges you to keep secret the. pro
ceedings had before you and VOL
should constantly bear this In mind
/ II Is the policy of the law that TIN
preliminary inquiry as to the guilt o
innocence of a party accused shouls
be secretly conducted. One reason 70
this may be to prevent the escape o
a party should he know that proceed
ings were in train against him; an
other may be to secure freedom
elaboration and opinion among tn
Grand Jurors, which would be i'm
paired IL the part taken by each nigh
be made known to the accused.
A third reason may be to proven
the testimony produced before yo
from being contradicted at the tria
of the indictment by subornatfon o
perjury on the part of the accused
RULES OF THE JURY.
You may elect one of your numbe
| TO serve as your clerk, II you so dc
sire. to preserve the miputes of you
proceedings. At the conclusion {
your labors these minutes should /
verified by the attestation or you
clerk and foreman, whereupon yo
may direct that they be delivered
the Attorney General.
Witnesses appearing before 20