The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-12-02
MAHAULU IS
ACQUITTED
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The whole of Mahaulu's attitude in
the matter was shown by one of his
answers when Mr.. Prosser asked if he
had told anyone that Boyd was in de-
fault. I did not, he said, Boyd was
my superior officer and Boyd came up
here fresh from his present abode at
Iwilei, his very clothes reeking of the
prison and said, L had so much conf
dence in Steve Mahaulu's honesty that
1 never checked over the cash. That
harping, carping, lying hypocrite had
the effrontry to put on the white garb
of innocence and talk about having
confidence in the honesty of another
man.
An old judge in the East l heard
once say that when you saw a witness
put his hand to his mouth and yawn
before answering a question, ninety
ninety-nine times out of a hundred he
was lying. That was the way Boyd
gave his evidence and the old adage
held true in his case"
Assistant Attorney General Prosser
opened by saying that the first hour of
trial would generally show whether a
defence was going to be fought out on
straight, honest principles or whether
it was to be one of objections and
technicalities. In this case counsel for
the defence had made a record. He had
objected to everything.
And firmly believe" said Prosser,
that when the last dread trump rings
out the summons which will bring out
from their graves the people who have
been resting so quietly and so long,
Mr.. Thompson's voice will be heard
loud above the awful summons shout
ing I object!'" We are all taxpayers
here and this year you are paying and
l am paying and Mr.. Thompson is pay
ing for all the fun which Boyd and Ma
haulu had with the public money. The
only one among us who does not object
to this is Mr.. Thompson, and that no
doubt is because he is getting some of
his back"
you fiatter me Mr.. Prosser," broke
in the attorney for the defence. "as a
matter of act l am not"
Continuing, the Assistant Attorney
General said that as for the two men
Boyd and Mahaulu there was little to
choose between them. They were both
liars and thieves. They both had a
finger in the pie, and when they wanted
money, either of them. they stole it
I'from the public This was the only
reasonable hypothesis. Would anyone
believe that man like Mahaulu who
saw his superior stealing with impun-
ity would resist the temptation to take
some himself"
Prosser commenced to argue the
point made by Thompson that It was
not separate embezzlement when one
sum was transferred to cover up a
former defalcatiOn when Judge Gear
stopped him saying that it was not
proper to argue that when the mat
ter had already been settled by the
court
Having received a polite jolt from
the court l will drop that matter"
said Prosser turning to the jury.
Judge Gear reproved the Assistant
Attorney General for his remark which
he considered disrespectful to the court
The court had considered it its duty
to tell that jury that such matter was
not allowed and he proceeded to in
struct the jury along that line.
Prosser resuming went into the mat
ter of the 1925 payment at length stat
ing that 1t had never been paid into
the II easury while in the $3.50 payment
IL was plain that if Mahauln mad help
cd pay or some Of Boyd's defaca-