The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-30
REPORT OF
GRAND JURY
,From Saturdays daily

through Walter 4. Weldon, It's fore
man, presented Judge Estee with the
following formal report:
To the Honorable NJ. NJ Estee, Judge OF
the United States District Court, Ho.
nolulu. Territory OF Hawaii:
The United States Grand Jury, who
were sworn and received their charge
from the Court on April ?. 1901, having
completed the work brought before them.
beg leave to present this. their first re-
port.
A number OF cases have been brought
before your jury and evidence submitted.
True bills have been found In the follow
ing cases:
1. Thomas sanrey. forgery and utter
ing forged check
q Capt +. o. Sodergren, assault and
battery on high sea.
3 Capt. +. y. Sodergren. In connection
with Nelson Il. Stuart. assault and bat
terry on high sea.
T. William Walsh, assault and battery
on high sea.
6. Mike Moretta, assault and battery
on high sea.
g. Pennel d. Day, assault on and in
terfering with customs officer.
T. George E. Lee, assault and battery
on high sea.
s. Andrew Conlin, assault and battery
on high sea.
In the other cases, which were bound
over, no bills were found, there being a
want of such evidence as would seem to
Justify the indictments against these
persons.
We regret that, while in some cases
there was no doubt whatever in the
minds of the Jurors as to the guilt of
certain persons. 1t was impossible to
obtain the evidence which could reason
ably be expected to bring conviction; es-
pecially is this true in the cases of the
HNr.l nf To- I'D ar,
and girls in a form of slavery for pros
titution or otherwise. Your jury would
recommend that special effort be made
to secure such legal evidence regarding
this and crimes of similar character as
will render convictions possible. Such
evidence has not been presented to this
Jury; yet from the information we have
received we are fully convinced that a
most deplorable condition of evil in the
form of involuntary servitude exists in
our midst, and your jury would express
the hope that all required assistance be
supplied to the United States District
Attorney to make possible the convic-
ton of those who are principals or ac-
cessories to this crime.
Complaints having been brought to
our notice regarding the methods en-
ployed in caring for those persons who
are detained in custody pending their ap-
pearance as witnesses in the United
States District Court, the jury gave this
matter their careful attention. Many
witnesses were examined and the facts
obtained seemed to the jury to demand
an immediate report to the Court, which
report was at once submitted From evil
dence taken since this report was sub
mitted, We find that the food received
by these persons has at times been quite
an improvement upon that which they
received before the investigation of the
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tons are practically the same as when
the subject was first taken up. Your
jury submitted a report upon this SUBJ
ject which did not reflect upon the man
agement of the Oahu prison, for 1t was
and is the unanimous opinion of the
jury that no fault could be found with
this institution or those in charge so far
as the care and treatment of criminals
is concerned. We claim that those reg
ulations regarding food and confinement
which apply properly to condemned
criminals are not just and right when
applied to innocent persons who are
simply detained as witnesses. and we
wish to re-affirm the statement, made in
our former report, upon this subject,
that we regard the United States officer
who knows nothing OF the condition of
those persons committed to his charge,
and who has never visited the place In
which they are incarcerated, who ad-
mitted that he did not even know where
they were kept or what they had to eat,
Is remiss in the performance of his OFF,
clal duties and deserving of censure.
Your jury would again urge the neces-
sity of some provision being made by the
United States authorities for the proper
care of those persons who are detained
in custody pending their appearance in
the United States District Court.
Obeying the specific charge OF the
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gate the facts" in regard to Iwilei
and its conditions, we have given this
subject most careful investigation. AS
in the community at large so In our
jury room were found decided differences
of opinion regarding this subject, yet
there was no disposition manifested to
allow personal opinions to influence the
action of the jury. The instructions CIV
en- the jury by the Court We're so ex-
plcit that we had no choice in the mat
ter.
We would report the following as be-
ing the facts as developed by our inves-
legations.
The first inception of the Iwilei scheme
admittedly rests with Eugene p. Sull-
van, who, associated with one j. NJ. Ka-
nematsu and It. Masuda, entered into an
arrangement to erect and maintain the
present so-called Iwilei stockade. Before
the required capital was advanced by r.
Masuda to erect the buildings. he con-
suited the High Sheriff of the Territory
regarding the proposed scheme and Sc
cured from him the idea that he would
be allowed to maintain the proposed
houses of prostitution If the same We're
conducted under the regulations given
by the Police Department and Board of
Health, Accordingly, the lease of GER
tain land belonging to John Ena, AMI
held by two Cinnamon named Chung
Lum and Leong Cheau, was obtained by
the payment to the Cinnamon OF a bonus
os 5000 and a quarterly rental of $3.50.
lease, erect the buildings and to furnish
the same was about $4,000 The cost Of
maintaining the establishment is about
$500 per month. which amount pays a
bookkeeper. collector OF rents. janltors.
electric lights. etc. but does not include
the payment OF the salary OF one police