The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-06
URAND JURY SUBMITS ITS FINAL
REPORT AND RECEIVES DISCHARGE
Leading Charge to Jury BY Judge
Humphreys is Snubbed
by that Body.

his managers. MI kanematsu or Mr.
: O'Sullivan, at from $12 to SIS month.
There is no evidence that any other
property at Iwilei is used for immoral
purposes.
/ A tenement house establishment, say
one-eighth of a mile away on the Eva
side of the corral, was at one time in
tended being used for similar purposes,
i5but at 4theepresent time 1t is used as a
tenement$only, although no doubt,
many of the prostitute class live at
this place, carrying on their business
at night in the corral proper. This
tenement house property is under the
g, control of the Honolulu Investment
Company, under lease from John Ena,
Esq.
on Saturday night FEBRUARY 10th,
rooms We're occupied within the corral
by 143 women, II of whom were French
women, the rest Japanese, all OF whom
are registered under the Act TO eMiti-
gate.
n policeman is detailed by the High
Sheriff to preserve order within the
corral, which is the extent of police
supervision. Supervision by the Board
of Health is confined to eXamina tons
weekly by medical man, and a seq
, reSation of those who are found in an
unhealthy condition. These latter are
required to go under treatment, and to
suspend occupancy of the quarters at
! IWilei corral.
I This Jury has been unable to verify
that any Government officer or bureau
receive any fee, make charges of any
nature, or issue licenses for prostitlI-
ton. the published statements of va
fious parties to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The condition of the premises, and
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opinion of this Jury, as satisfactory as
il is possible for a place of the kind
To be. The location is Isolated, and so
far remote from the city that the evils
of prostitution are now probably con-
fined to this locality instead of being
distributed about the city. 1t is, per-
hapS, not out of place to state here
that Mr.. Ena, owner of the Iwilei prop
erty, leased the same long prior to the
place being sought for it's present uses,
and he claims that under the terms
of his lease, he has no control of the
property, and cannot restrict the uses
made of it.
During the visits of the Jury to Ivi-
lei, no children We're seen within the
enclosure and the police officer sta
toned there stated that no children
We're allowed therein. This jury is
unable to agree upon any Indictment
owing TO conditions that exist at Iwi-
lei
EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS I'M SA-
LOOMS
The Grand Jury ascertain upon
sworn evidence that minors are en-
ployed in the saloons of the city of
Honolulu.
, INVESTIGATION OF HONOLULU
| POLICE COURT CLERKS AC-
COUNTS.
This Grand Jury have In obedience
. nYfc oInr a
careful investigation of the system OF
accounts kept at the Honolulu police
court, and have employed expert assist
ance in making an examination of the
. accounts.
! We have ascertained from an alb
stract from the records verified by
vouchers, that all costs in criminal
cases under appeal to the Circuit
Court, have been fully paid over to the
; Circuit Court in the final sum of
. $3.50. 90.
Civil Cases, Appeal Costs-The
Grand Jury ascertain that the sum of
5000 20, costs of appeal in civil cases
pending in the Honolulu police court
prior to transferring the civil cases t.
, the Second District Court, should be
in the hands of the clerk same not
> having been paid over to the clerk of
the Circuit Court
Judge Wilcox has testified before this
Grand Jury that he has this amount IN
his safe, it being the custom of the
, clerk to pay into his hands all receipts
of cash.
In the matter of balances due attor-
neys, being amounts of deposits IN ex-
cess of costs of court, this Grand Jury
finds great difficulty, and an endless
+ amount of work imminent, IN order to
, get at an accurate statement of the
standing of this part of the police court
clerks accounts.
The examination of this matter has
gone back to February, 1897, since
= when balances due attorneys have ac-
= cumulated, amounting to 0.10, ana
> balances due from attorneys, being
= amount of costs in excess of deposits,
2 have accrued in the sum OF 30.S0, as
shown by statement hereto attached.
covering twenty-one pages of type
written matter, and marked Exhibit
i c." How much of this sum Of $3.50 10
has been paid to the attorneys by
$ Clerk Fabian the Grand Jury does not
= know, and 1t can only be ascertained
, by checking of his receipts. which
:. would consume several weeks time as
( the clerk of the court is at present
e overworked and can only give small
part of his time daily to this work, and
in any case, we believe it would require
more time than is available during the
e present court term.
o Moreover, it is within the right OF
: any attorney to demand a settlement
so far as he may be interested in these
e balances, and a refusal to settle same
e would be sufficient excuse for such at
d torney to file proceedings against the
d clerk for misrepresentation of funds
l. and we believe this course preferabl,
j. to any apparent procedure open to thu
Grand Jury.
= The Grand Jury have found no evi
n dence of embeZzlement or defalcatiol
in their investigation of the polio
IL court accounts but there is an abso
L. lutte absence of system in the keeping
of accounts of the court. No cash
-e book or ledger is kept and the none
a paid in is noted on the record of tn
le case to which it pertains. and an off
IS setting memorandum made when tn
l. money is sent up to the Circuit Court
lc or otherwise disposed of.
lie AS stated above, all moneys paid, tn
'r clerk, and for which he gives receipt