The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-12-24

The preliminary examination of
! Jean B. Sabate. charged. with detain-
I ing United States mail. came up be-
I fore United States Commissioner Rob
& inson at 1870 o'clock last night in the
I Federal Court room. United States
: District Attorney ]. J. Dunno appear
! ed for the Government. while Attor-
aey Edwin S. Gill represented the de-
I fendant
! Briefly, the case was as follows:
About the middle of November, T. w.
4 Walker asked Sabate. who was at that
! time a letter carrier in the local post
Office. to go to his house which was
near where Sabate lodged and get a
/ package there and take it TO the post
office and mail it. Walker gave Sabate
I twenty-five cents TO pay the postage.
Walker had given Sabate letters and
I packages to mail prior to this time.
Sabate obliged Walker by going to the
house. getting the package. tying it up
and making it ready for the mail, and
taking il to the post office.
| It was during the noon hour when
4 Sabate arrived at the Office with the
/ package A steamer was in and the
day was a busy one. Sabate left the
package on his desk and forgot all
about it. Cashier Kenake saw the
9 package later and took 1t into his
+ private Office. When he saw Sabate
+ he asked him about it. Sabate said
I the package was to be mailed. Kenake
supposed il was all right and said
nothing more abou it. On December
/ LIST. Kenake again saw the package
3 where he had first seen it. on Sabate's
desk Again Kenake took the pack
age to his private Office. He said moth
/ ing to Sabate about it at the time.
feeling that there was some irregular
ity. Sabate had not opened the pack
I age. nor had he tempered with it in
: any way On December Bird. Sabate
resigned his post on with the post
Office to accept more lucrative EN-
! ployment.
As Friend OF CARRIER
Mr.. Walker WAS the first witness
called. He said that he asked Sabate
to so to his house to get the package
and mail it and had given him twenty
! five cents for postage.
| Upon cross-eXamination Mr.. Gill
/ asked the witness if ne had asked
/ this of the defendant as friend or
as letter carrier, as an employee of
I the post office.
1T was a favor" said Mr.. Walker.
I as | had no right to ask him TO go
/ 10 my house To get the package. |
I did not know whether he was on duty
OF. not
Did you know whether the pack
age was ready for mailing or not?"
asked Attorney Gill
When Sabate went to the house
the package was not ready for the
mail. | know now that the package
was not tied up"
Was the package stampede"
No sir
did you consider it anv port of
I the defendants duty to stamp it?'
We'll. he could hardly mail il with
out stamping it."
But you asked him to do this for
/ YOU in the same way that you would
have called a messenger bow and told
him TO do what you asked Mr.. Sabate
TO do. did YOU not?"
! II cannot define my feelings in the
matter at that time"
| Was the package mai'able?"
Il can't saw il was: there were no
stamps on the package; it was not
tied up
/ When kenake Told Walker.
After you asked Sabate TO mail
the package. when was the next ref
erenee made to it?"
About week after"
What was said?'
Il asked Ssbate If he had mailed
the package and he said he had
Now. after Mr.. Kenake had notified
! YOU that the package was still in the
office. on December IL, did YOU see
Sabate 81 any time and ask him ab@ut
/ TT
Yes. and he said he would sneak
to the clerk to whom he had given the
/ package and ask him about it."
Was the defendant then employed
4 al the post Office"
NO. not ST that time
On redirect examination Mr. Dunno
asked IL. when Wa ker had seen Sa-
! bate week after the package had
i been taken TO be mated. he had asked
ANYTHING about the postage.
4 Mr.. Walker said thst he had asked
what the postage amounted TO and
SSbate had said that il was nineteen
/ cents.
i Was ANYTHING said alb ut the other
six cents ,"
i No. sir
kenake OF he Stand.
Louis 7. Kenaks. S--hier in the
post Office. was then called ami ,eSti-
ned that sabate had joined the let
ter carrier force on August IS. re-
signing in the lstt pat OF Noyem-
Der. the resignation taking effect
early In December. He could not re-
member the exact day on which he
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