The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-28
MEHEULA AND
THE GRAND JURY
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that the vouchers were all there and
that they must be all there. Voucher
number sol was missing and we asked
him about it.
Number sol was i'm favor of Meheu-
la, for $50 and we asked him what it
was for He replied that il was prob
ably for salary and the remark was
made that this could not be so, as there
were other vouchers for all of his salary
of $40 per day.
I'VE asked him if he ever issued
warrant without having a voucher and
he replied that he never did"
As result Of objections from Ash
ford, Dunno read the rules of the House
which counsel had stipulated might be
introduced i'm evidence, and Adams pro-
ceeded to give some interesting revela-
tions of the grand jury proceedings. He
said that Meheula testified that it was
his custom to draw warrants only on
vouchers, approved by the chairman of
the House committee mourning the ex
pense, and by the chairman of the Com
mittee on Accounts. Adams showed
some warrants which were not signed
| by the chairman Of any committee in
curing the expense and others unsign-
ed by the chairman of the Committee
on Accounts. As to the latter he said,
they are here by the Dozen" but the
remark was stricken out on motion of
| Ashford. Twenty-Five such warrants
were named by the witness by numbers
Adams said that when the grand jury
10, to
heula stated that he had sometimes IS
sued warrants without having vouch-
ers.
Adams testified that Meheula told the
grand jury that he had had the vouch-
ers in his possession all the time since
the session of the Legislature, and the
grand Jurors asked him about turning
them over to the Secretary.
He said he did not consider them t
be documents that should be turned
over, but that they were the propert!
of the House Committee on Accounts,
said Adams. He would not turn then
over, said Meheula, without an orde
from the chairman of the Committe
on Accounts. He was asked if he ha,
not heard and read of the comment
passed upon keeping them from tn
public and said that he had, but did no
consider them public property, an,
when demands were made for them h
had said he did not have them. Tn
Jurors asked him if newspapermen ha
come to his house to ask for them, an
Meheula said that they We're not tn
property of the newspapermen, an
that he withheld them because h
thought that they would be used to hel
to disfranchise the natives.
I'VE asked him how, if the voucher
b were above board and honorable an
z attempt could be made to use them
help to disfranchse the natives sal
Adams.
He made no reply"
Dunno called Daniel Logan of the Adj
vertiser and George F. Henshall of I'll
Star, to testify as to statements of Me
heula regarding destruction Of tn
, vouchers, also his statements that n
had not them i'm his possession. o.
cross discrimination of Logan Ashfor
sought to show that the talk about de
f. stroying vouchers was in the nature o
. "joshing" but Logan said 1T was II
= joke"
= Henry Hapai was the next witnes
- called In the face of numerous objec
2 tions from Ashford, Dunno introduce
through Hapai, the warrants represent
r ing the payments for which the vouch
4 ers are missing. These are the vouch
, ers which it is alleged were destroyed
The following jurors are hearing tn
p case: +. A. r. Ross George Hawley, a
: Mckenzie, G.. w. Hayselden. A. G
Furgerson, r. 3. French, w. Wagner
II. p. Roth, James MerseburE, II. w
Adams, r. l.. Calvert, John Coffee.