The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-16
CEASES COME
Up AGAIN
Transition Period
Criminals to Be
Re-Indicted.
HOBRON PAYS FOR
HELMS GOLD HUNT
Many Orders Made by Little and
Gear on Closing Day
Of Court.

The grand jury summoned for the
new term of Circuit Court which be-
gins today will have a bigger under
taking than any grand jury has had
for years. 1t will not only be COM
PEELED to consider the commitments by
the district courts for the past two
months, but also all the cases of men
convicted during the transition period.
now held in prison.
It has not been definitely decided
whether all these cases are to be pre-
scented for the consideration of the new
grand jury, but it is certain that all
prisoners who were released on habeas-
corpus and then rearrested Will have
their cases brought up by Deputy At
torney General Cathcart today. In all,
there Will be over forty cases to be
considered, and the jury will be kept
busy for three weeks if not longer. In
some of these habeas corpus cases, the
defendants pleaded guilty at the origi-
nal hearing to minor degrees of their
crimes, and were given this benefit in
their sentences. In the indictments to
be brought by the grand jury no lem
iency will be shown, and where the evi.
dence is sufficient the man will be in
dicted on every charge of which there
is a possibility Of verdict of guilty
1t is not altogether certain that the
cases of All Oh and the five remaining
prisoners whose convictions were found
legal by the Supreme Court, will be pre-
sented to the grand jury, but the re-
mainder of the habeas corpus cases will
be taken directly before that body, as
fast as they can be reached, and be-
fore these other matters are reached.
some decision as to their disposition
will have been agreed upon
The reopening of these cases will
mean a heavy expense to the Territory
but as there seems no other way out
of the difficulty. this procedure must
be followed. 1t will also result in again
crowding the calendar, but as these
men have all been tried once the sec
ond hearing will not take so long A
conviction in some of the cases is
doubtful, as the witnesses have scatter
ed or disappeared entirely, but High
Sheriff Brown has been busy gathering
up the missing skeins of evidence. and
he Ixy 70
grand and petit juries in due time. The
Kahuku riot cases will probably be the
first ones considered, the witnesses hav-
ing been summoned for today. During
all these habeas corpus proceedings the
attorneys for the criminals have never
contended that their clients were in
nocent of the crimes with which they
are charged, and the fight for freedom
has always been on q mere technicality
of the statutes, and never with a
thought that an innocent man was be-
ing unjustly deprived of his liberty.
Now that they have by these tactics
compelled a rehearing they will have
the almost hopeless task of attempting
to prove to the satisfaction of a jury
the innocence of self-confessed crimi-
nails. In the majority of these habeas
corpus cases there were pleas of guilty
at the original hearing, circumstance
in itself hard to combat even If not al
lowed to legally be presented TO the
jury.
The prisoners now at Oahu Prison
convicted during the transition period
whose cases will very likely be con-
sfdered by the grand jury which will
Aug "a, 1898, w. D. Hamilton, man
slaughter End degree, Honolulu. Stanley,
s years.
March 8. 1899. Bent Kuphea. rape, Ka-
uai, Purvis, 3 years.
May %, 1899 Tiara Ichigoro murder 1st
degree Honolulu. Perry. hang, commut-
ed to life.
May %, 1893, Osaka Mankichi man
slaughter 1st degree. Honolulu, Perry,
May q, 1899, 'chida Manzaboro, man
% years.
May 2, 1899, Yamane Nenchiro. man
slaughter End and srd degrees. Honolulu.
Perry. Is years.
August 10, 1899. Geo. Wade, murder End
degree, Honolulu, Stanley, life
August Is, 1899. CAN'T, assault with
deadly weapon, Honolulu, Stanley. 800
fine and Z years.
December 9, 1893, Yong Lock Nee. muir
der End degree. Maui. Kalua, life
March 10, 1900. Lum Kon. larceny 1st
degree. Honolulu. Perry, IS months.
May "A. 1900 Kaiuna, burglary 1st de-
gree, Honolulu, Stanley, Is years
May IS. 1900. VIM Ester. manslaughter
list degree, Honolulu. Stanley, 20 years
June s. 1900, Lono opio. rape, Maui
Kalua. years
May s. 1900. Nalopi, malicious burning,
Honolulu, Stanley, 2 years.
June u. 1899. All Quong, rape, Hawaii.
Wilder, life.
January II. 1899. Wong CheunE Hung.
manslaughter End degree, Hawaii. VIII
der. 10 years.
April s, 1899. Huekoni alias Kaie, bur
glary End degree, Hawaii, Wilder. years
October 6, 1899. Hanale Napuupahee.
murder End degree, Hawaii, Wilder, 70
years.
october IS, 1899, Lo On Pau, burglary
End degree. Hawaii, Stanley. L years.