The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-15
i. S. GRAND
JURY REPORT
indictments of Eleven
Persons. Mostly
Japanese.

Upon the fourth day after bein,
sworn in, the grand jury presented it.
final report in the United States Dis
trict Court yesterday morning. Judg.
Dole discharged the grand Jurors
thanking them for their earnest worl
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: 3
THOSE INDICTED.
Saburo Adachi, perjury.
Torakiehi Shoda, importation of wom-
en- for purposes of prostitution.
Hikotaro Yoshinaga, adultery.
kobuke Mich, forgery postal money
order.
Shichfro Murakami and Maka Maku-
moto. adultery.
Naka Matsumoto, bigamy
Ougi Shigematsu, Kunitaro Suga
and Nadi Tsunekichf, holding a person
to a condition of peonage and selling
a person into involuntary servitude;
two counts
Ougi Shigematsu, Kunitaro Suga and
Nadi Tsunekichi, conspiracy.
Nadi Tsunekichi, adultery.
Yonekichi Kimura Illicit distilIing
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 arraignments 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 it's report
says
I'VE 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
nave investigated
JAPANESE MARRIAGES.
In regard to a case wherein it was
shown Japanese man and woman
we're intermarried in Hawaii nothwith-
that the woman had been
married to another man in
Japan, the grand jurors were uncer-
ain as to whether the couple so inter-
married knew that marriage in Japan
vas valid in the United States.
they deemed it advisable
o return indictments in the case. in
rider that the Oriental population res
dent in this Territory might be fully
ldvised that marriages in their own
ountry were valid here.
THANKS TO OFFICIALS.
The grand jury records it's thanks
o District Attorney r. W. Breckons,
Assistant Attorney J. J. Dunno and
farshal E. R. Hendry in the following
erms:
I'm conclusion we desire to express
. the Court our appreciation of the |
lanner in which cases were brought |
0 our attention. Through our ses-
ion no delays whatever have occurred; |
he cases presented We're well pre- |
AIRED by the United States Attorney |
nd his assistant; and through the eff |
orts of the United States Marshal, |
illnesses in these cases were always
n hand. It was largely through the |
rork of the United States Attorneys
flee and the MarshaIs office, that
e We're enabled to complete our work |
so short a time
THE PUBLICATION CASE
There are three counts in the indict-
tent against F. ]. Tesla, editor and |
ublisher of the Independent, specify
,g unlawful publications in as many
sparate issues of his paper. When
lie Indictment was presented Marshal
.endry sent for Mr. Tesla, who went
, the MarshaPs office. He was con-
ucted into court. when Judge Dole
ed him to plead in his personal bond
n $1,000.
ssAnd do you think" he asked, that
49, I'll