The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-12
BOYD IS
ACCUSED
BY S. MahauIu In
| Open Court at
the Trial.
Important Develop
ments In the Land
Office Case.
EmbezzIement Charge Brings
Queer Money Transactions
to Light.

E. s. Boyd, former Commissioner of
Public Lands, now being tried in Judge
Robinson's court for embezzlement of
public moneys. was yesterday accused
in open court by Stephen Mahaulu,
former sub-agent for the Fifth Land
District. of having converted to his
own use $500, the cash proceeds re-
allied on T. n. Davies & Company's
check which had been presented in pay
| ment On lease held by the firm.
The accusation was made suddenly
and following it there was a moments
silence. No one spoke, the jurors
riveting their attention on the witness
as if waiting for more developments of
the same kind.
Mahau1u stood pat On his statement
and could not be shaken in it. Tt was
the first time that any public tangible
accusation has been filed. and COM
ing from such a witness has an i'm
portant bearing on the prosecution of
| the case.
The following jury was filed out yes
terday morning to try the Boyd case:
Percy Lishman, Chas. P. Osborne, j.
]. Sullivan, L. c. King, Willard E.
Brown, j. c. Cohen, Patrick Ryan,
Norman Watkins, Harry A. Wilder,
VIM. T. Erving, j. r. Moniz and c. j.
Falk
Attorne1 General Andrews appeared
for the Territory, assisted by Mr..
Fleming. S. F. chillingworth appeared
for the defendant Boyd. Jacob F..
Brown, former Commissioner of Public
Lands. was the first witness put on
the stand by the prosecution. The At
| torney General filed in evidence two
| receipt books for 1900 and 1901 He
also introduced receipt No. 3O2 marked
Exhibit c, bearing Boyd's signature,
dated September %, 1900; receipt for
| $675, marked Exhibit D, dated March g.,
1901, Kaneohe Ranch Co., to Commits
| sioner of Public Lands; receipt for
| s1552.5O, marked Exhibit E, dated March
| 5, 1901, Hamakua Mill Co., to Commits
sioner of Public Lands; all receipts
signed by Boyd.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Brown
| was cross-exannined by the defense. In
| answer to a question he said he be-
| lieved Mahaulu lad the combination TO
the safe as well as Boyd. When Boyd
went to Hawaii in connection with
olaa land leases. Mahaulu took up
| Boyd's duties in the Office.
NJ. T. Lyons, at present sub-agent for
the Fifth Land District, and chief clerk
in the Land Commissioners Office,
brought to the witness stand the lease
books of the Office, which We're offered
| as exhibits. The Attorney General
/ called for several specified leases bear
ing on the Boyd case. The first was
lease AS. to Haiku and Paia planta-
| lions. Maui, entered September 80, 1898,
to expire September 80, 1916. The a
mount of the lease calls for $500 per
| annum, payable semi-annualIy, as did
all subsequent leases; lease payments
due September 80 and March 80; lease
| No. $40 Hamakua Mill Co, made May
Is, 1899. for Is years at s1035 per annum,
| payable May IS and November Is.
/ John Waterhouse, treasurer for Alex
ander & Baldwin, testified as to a
check issued by his firm to the Com
missioner of Public Lands for leases
held by the Haiku Sugar Company,
dated September 20, 1900 for $500. The
1 or Il
and presented for payment, for which
the company holds a receipt
George F. Davies, director of the T
| II. Davies & Co, Limited, was shown
check. marked Exhibit f. He was
| also shown a receipt
II received this receipt said he
when 1 was acting as cashier for Da.
vias & Co. It has been in possession
since. / received it from Mr.. Maha.
ulu.''
Did you pay him the money? 2"
Yes, and received a receipted bill
I paid him by check
This check was for 1852. so and wa
dated March 6, 1901.
Mr.. Davies. was there not anothe
I demand made on you for this SAM
sum of money! inquired the Attorne,
1 General.
| Yes upon the cashier"
III c. Bolte identified a receipt given b,
him on behalf of the Kaneohe Rancl
| Company TO the land Office for pay
ment Of lease
MAHAULU ACCUSES.
Stephen Mahaulu was then called
While Mr.. Boyd was chief clerk unde
Commissioner Brown. NahauIu wa
clerk under Boyd. On the latter