Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-10-28
Grand Jury Reports
With IL Indictments
Governor Not Called

Territorial Grand Jury. headed by
Foreman J. ID. Tucker, with every one
Of the seventeen members present,
filed across from their chamber of Sc
cret meeting in the Capitol to the Ju.
dietary building promptly at noon to.
day aud filed report with Judge Gear.
Seventeen indictments were return.
ed. In fifteen of these cases the par.
ties named as defendants are not yet
In custody and the true bills were
therefore ordered placed on the secret
file. One Of the matters put on the
open file was an indictment against a
Porto Rican. Eugenio Arroyo, charged
with murder in the first degree for the
alleged killing of fellow Porto Rican,
AdolphO RIVERA by name. The other
was an Indictment alleging robbery,
against Robert Kaliiaa, a Hawaiian.
Both Of these defendants are In Gus.
tOdy.
Judge Gear excused the Grand Jur-
ors from further service until Wednes.
day morning next, at which time the
Attorney Generals Office will have
further work for them to perform In
the way OF investigation. In the mean.
while the Jurors being divided up into
committees with separate matters for
examination, the general work OF gath.
ering information concerning public
institutions will continue informally,
committees reporting at the next regu-
lar session of the inauisition.
Today all members of the Grand
Jury were supplied with copies OF the
report Of the Superintendent OF Pub
lie Works just issued.
Deputy Attorney General W. S.
Fleming waited on the Investigators
today. There was much to be done.
The work of finally arranging indIct.
ments In the seventeen cases referred
90 was rushed so that the jury could
report 10 Judge Gear by noon.
Witnesses before the Grand Jury
this morning included police officers
and large number of Hawaiians.
1t was expected that the Governor
would be called. the jury having pre-
viously requested that the Executive
present himself today, but, for some
reason. his presence was not required
today; probably for the reason that
the Governor in an interview publish.
ed in The Bulletin, expressed the hope
that the Grand Jury would not require
OF him at this time the report OF the
doings and findings Of Detective Hat.
ter. The Governor stated that the ef.
fectiveness OF the work performed by
the Pinkerton man might be material.
ly reduced by the production OF the re.
port at this time. He hoped that the
result of the detectives Investigations
would show itself eventually through
other channels.
Governor Carter neither appeared
before the jury today nor did he send
any report to that body.
Several of the members of the In
QUESTION realized today for the first
time that there exists behind the dais
in the Hall OF Representatives where
they hold their sessions, tiny com
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as a retiring room In the days OF roy
atty, when the Capitol was the Palace
This apartment can be entered from
the rear veranda Of the building and
also has door opening, between the
curtains, on to the dais, where the
Speaker sits during the Legislature
and where the foreman Of the Grand
Jury now makes himself comfortable
Being on the lookout for leaks, some
of the Jurors were suspicious of this
little hole in the wall and have seer
TO II that the door is made fast on thc
inside.
A lady was among those who hat
business with the Grand Jury this
morning.
A question being asked around thu