The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-04-15
j. s. GRAND
JURY REPORT
indictments Of Eleven
Persons, Mostly
Japanese.

Upon the fourth day after being
sworn in, the grand jury presented its
final report in the United States Dis
trict Court yesterday morning. Judge
Dole discharged the grand jurors,
thanking them for their earnest work
and public spirit, whereupon they filed
into the clerks office and received
drafts covering their fees.
The report showed that the grand
jury had found eleven true bills and in
two cases Investigated found no bills
Following is the list of the persons in
dicted, with the offenses charged:
THOSE INDICTED.
Saburo Adachi, perjury.
Torakichi Shoda, importation of wom-
en- for purposes of prostitution.
Hikotaro Yoshinaga, adultery.
Kobuke Mich, forgery postal money
order.
Shichiro Murakami and Maka Maku-
motto. adultery.
Naka Matsumoto, bigamy.
Ougi Shigematsu, Kunitaro Suga
and Nadi Tsunekichi, holding person
to condition of peonage and selling
person into involuntary servitude;
two counts.
Ougi Shigematsu, Kunitaro Suga and
Nadi Tsunekichi, conspiracy.
Nadi Tsunekichi, adultery.
Yonekichi Kimura, illicit dstillins
and carrying on business of distiller.
Two counts.
Frank Tesla, mailing obscene mat
ter
One of the defendants, Kobuke Nil
chi, has already pleaded guilty and
been sentenced. Adachi will plead to
his indictment on Thursday next, all
the rest having their arrangements set
for tomorrow.
CARELESS POSTAL DELIVERY.
Referring to one of two cases in
which no bill was returned, that of
Juan Storer charged with taking and
OBTAINING mail addressed to another
person." the grand jury in its report
says:
1--WE deisre to express our opinion
that the post office authorities at the
post office of Honolulu should exercise
more care in seeing that mail is de-
livered to the persons to whom the
same is addressed than was shown to
have been exercised in the case we
have investigated
JAPANESE MARRIAGES.
In regard to a case wherein it was
shown a Japanese man and woman
We're intermarried in Hawaii nothwith-
standing that the woman had been
previously married to another man in
Japan, the grand jurors We're uncer-
tain as to whether the couple so inter-
married knew that marriage in Japan
was valid in the United States.
Nevertheless they deemed it advisable
to return indictments in the case, in
order that the Oriental population res
ident in this Territory might be fully
advised that marriages in their own
country We're valid here.
THANKS TO OFFICIALS.
The grand jury records it's thanks
to District Attorney r. w. Breckons,
Assistant Attorney ]. j. Dunno and
Marshal E. r. Hendry in the following
terms:
I'm conclusion we desire to express
to the Court our appreciation of the
manner in which cases We're brought
to our attention. Through our ses-
sion no delays whatever have occurred;
the cases presented We're well pre-
pared by the United States Attorney
and his assistant; and through the eff
forts of the United States Marshal,
witnesses in these cases were always
on hand. 1t was largely through the
work of the United States Attorneys
office and the Marshal's office, that
we We're enabled to complete our work
in so short a time"
THE PUBLICATION CASE.
There are three counts in the indict-
ment against +. j. Tesla, editor and
publisher of the Independent, specify
ing unlawful publications in as many
separate issues of his paper. When
the indictment was presented Marshal
Hendry sent for Mr.. Tesla, who went
to the Marshars office, He was con-
Quoted into court, when Judge Dole
held him to plead in his personal bond
for $1,000,
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