The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-28
WILL MAKE INQUIRY
INTO VARIOUS
OFFICES
DEPARTMENTS WILL BE sCRUTI-
NIZED-TREASURER wRIGHT'S
ESCAPE WILL BE INVESTIGATED
JURY WILL HAVE LONG SESSION

A grand jury of the First Circuit
Court will take up an investigation of
the various departments of the Terri
torial government next week. The
jurors have already been drawn by lot
and most of them summoned, and their
session will be a most important one.
There is no doubt that the jury will
make an inquiry into the management
of all the various Observation-Disclosures
in which the recent troubles have oc-
CURED and others in which there have
been no troubles. This will take long
time, and the jurys sessions will be
much more extended than grand jury
sessions have been recently.
The matter of the defalcations of
Treasurer Wright and the alleged en-
bezzlements of B. H. Wright will be
presented to the jury and indictments
may follow in both cases. The grand
jury will also look into the Department
of Public Works, and the matters
which have been investigated by the
Auditor and Governor and Secretary
Cooper, will be the subject of grand
jury deliberations. The grand jurys
power is superior to any of the others,
and it is thought that Judge De Bolt
will specially instruct the jury on the
subject.
The matter of Treasurer Wrights
escape is another subject which will
make the grand jury's sessions inter-
esting. The Attorney General will
present the evidence in the matter and
those who have been alleged to have
assisted Wright to get out of the coun-
try will have to explain.
The grand jury will also have a long
list of criminal charges to take up, and
the calendar for the term will include
over a hundred criminal trials. Be
tween three and four hundred civil
causes added will make up the longest
calendar the First Circuit Court has
ever had, but as Judges De Bolt and
Robinson are both going to hold court
at the same time, and stick to long
hours, the calendar will be a good deal
reduced before the term is up. Judge
De Bolt has issued the following notice
as to how the business of the term will
be handled
During this term Court will open
each morning at o'clock and adjourn
at 4:SO p. m, except on Saturdays,
when an adjournment will be taken at
II m, Cor not until 1880 p. m, if actu-
ally necessary.
Recess from II m. to 80 p. M, lex
cept Saturdays).
THE first half hour, from to $50
each morning will be devoted to the
hearing of nOn-contested divorce suits
and eX parte matters on motions.
''At $3.50 a. m. each day, except on
Saturdays, jury trials will be taken up
and continued, to the exclusion of all
other matters for the day.
"On Saturdays, from a. m. to II M,
Divorce suits will he heard.
"BY ORDER OF THE COURT"
At the head of the list of criminal
trials, the transition" cases appear
once more. They will be postponed
again, to await the decision of the Osa-
XII Mankichi case at Washington, as
they have been waiting for over a year.
The criminal cases include those of
Alexander Thompson and Joseph
woodward, indicted for embezzling
money from the tax office. Thompson
and Woodward are apparently going to
make a hard fight, for they have en-
gagged Brooks Robertson e. Wilder and
Humphreys, Thompson & Watson to
defend them,
A majority of the cases are larceny
and assault and battery charges, with
Japs and Porto Ricans in a majority
as defendants. There is one charge of
larceny against Jean Sabate, who is
serving a sentence imposed by Judge
Estee for OBTAINING mail matter.
The grand jurors have been summon
ed to appear at $3.50 on the first morn
ing of the term, next Monday, and the
trial jurors at 1:30 p. m.