The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-19
TREASURER
WRIGHT IS
INDICTED
Grand Jury Makes
Preliminary
Report.
NOTHING OF BOYD
OR CHIEF CLERK
Nigel Jackson Indicted for Arson.
Still investigating Public
Offices.

The grand jury made preliminary
report to Judge De Bolt yesterday
morning of the work already COM
pleted Indictments were returned
against William II. Wright for the
embezzlement of s17,s49.91. and against
Nigel H. Jackson for arson in the first
degree. No report was made upon the
cases of J. H. Boyd and B. H. Wright
committed from the district court.
and Foreman ]. G. Spencer stated to
the jury court that the grand jury still
had some work to do.
Yesterday was spent by the grand
! jury in investigating into the fight of
Treasurer Wright. J. S. Splitter, the
man who sold somebody the grip
Wright carried away on the day of his
departure, High Sheriff Brown and the
telephone girl who saw Wright in Ma
goon's Office, were before the inquisi-
! ton.
| There are now but fourteen working
members of the grand jury, which is
/ c4utOGI NiiC SLAdiACSS A0AAOCi tA0L toAA
legally hold sessions. Spencer was ap-
pointed foreman yesterday b.. Judge
De Bolt, because of Cleghorn's illness,
and he signed the indictments present
ed In court. A number of Chinese were
before the jury yesterday.
! The Indictment against Wright
charges that he on. the 23rd day
zl.1 nf3n
of the Territory of Hawaii, employed
in the treasury of said Territory, to-
1 wit, as treasurer of said Territory of
Hawaii, and being then intrusted with
and having possession, control and
custody, by virtue of his said Office OF
treasurer, of a thing OF value, to-wit,
$17,949.91 of the lawful money of the
United States of America and the Ter
ritory of Hawaii, then and there.
feloniousfy did embezzle and fraudu-
lently convert and dispose of to his
own use and benefit, without the con-
sent and against the will of the said
Territory of Hawaii, the owner there
of and entitled thereto"
The indictment against Nigel jack
son alleges that he ION the goth
day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and two,
and in the nighttime of said day, will
fully, maliciously and feloniously, did
set fire to and burn the dwelling house
! of Edward Brown Friel there situate,
in which said dwelling house there
were then and there at the time of
such burning certain human beings,
occupants and inmates, to-wit, the
said Edward Brown Friel. Isabella
! Cornwell Friel, Mary Isabel Jackson,
Henrietta Cornwell Friel, Georgiana
| Macfarlane Friel, Anabel Boiler (Voel-
/ ler). John Braddock Watson and one
Tobriner whose full and true name is
| to the grand jurors unknown, and did
then and there and thereby commit the
| crime of arson in the first degree"
! The defendants indicted are ordered
to appear before Judge De Bolt at $3.50
o'clock this morning for arraignment.
Besides Wright and Jackson, the in
dictments are against the following
persons: Larceny, Lee Hon, Kahau-
leleo. All Chew, Juanito alias Lingua
de Ia Cruz, Hoopii. Kekoi, Kimura,
Kealoha, Pedro Rodrigues, Geronimo,
Gregoria Abile and Eliza Rosalio, All
Sing; assault and battery, Juan San
chez. Joe Tomokichi, Owen Holt, Jr.,
Nakayama, Daikichi, August Herring,
A. Reveira, Hioki. Miamoto. H. Mo:i;
burglary, E. Naone, Jacinco, alias
Liingua de la Cruz; arson, Akoni Au:
malicious injury, Spianola, All On and
Pat Chez.
The following are the cases ignored:
Keoni Keawepua and Hoopii, larceny
second degree; Hama Ke Aloha, larceny
second degree; John Lua, larceny sec
ond degree; Kalama, larceny second
degree; Yamasaki, Namura. Kuraatsu,
Mprasima, Sato and Takanashi, mali
cious injury; Joe Green, larceny first
degree: John Doe, alias d. Kahai, as
sault and battery; Sam Keoniu, mali
cious injury; Shimada, larceny second
degree; D. Kat Snyoshi, larceny second
degree; Sam Keoniu, malicious injury;
/ Kuakini, larceny second degree.