The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-10-14

be exported l have to Telegram to MIN
as per directions"
1.-THE New willard,
washington, d. c., March 6, 1902.
"My Dear Steve: / have not heard
from you folks yet-What Is the mat
ter. Say steve, you send me $500 per
draft from Bishop & Co. payable on
the Bank of California, and send the
same to my address and in care Of
Mr. Franklin H. Day. Masonic Temple
San Francisco, and drop note to MIN
to hold it for me. I may not need IT,
at any rate 1 don't want to be caught
in mire. I tell you Steve 1t cost
money to live here, and that Is all l
can say. Do this favor for me. 1 Will
know by Monday when 1 Will be able
to start for home, and 1 hope that to
be damned soon.
INV regards to all the office staff
also yourself.
your very truly,
NED"
Amongst a perfect shower Of exhi-
bits with which Attorney General An
drews surprised E. s. Boyd and his
course of cross-examining the Defend
ant upon the stand in his own behalf,
the two foregoing pieces of document
airy evidence are among the most strik-
ing.
Scores of other exhibits presented on
the same opportunity consist of e. 5.
Boyd's receipted private bills and
notes of hand, his l. o. US and
-'memorandums" that he said were not
1. o. U.'s--all of which he categorical
ly acknowledged had been paid out Of
Land office moneys belonging to the
Territory of Hawaii These acknowl-
edgments, too, were made by Boyd In
answer to cross-questions bearing up
on his sworn statement. on examina-
tion-in- chief by his own attorney, that,
after the b. H. Wright incident In the
Public Works Department, the prac-
tice of advancing money to officers OF
the Public Lands Department on I. o.
us or otherwise against their salaries
had been stopped.
The evidences of debt in question, If
here printed in fac smile, would cover
several pages of the Advertiser. They
represent some thousands Of dollars
paid on e. S. Boyd's private account
out of the public money of the Terri
tory, the payments extending over
period beginning in 1901, when Boyd
was secretary, and ending in 1904, when
he was Commissioner of Public Lands.
Many spectators We're in Judge Ro-
binson's courtroom at the height of the
divulgences, jurors released from other
courts having fiocked in, and the sensa-
ton created was intense.
Boyds present trial is upon the in
dictment charging him with embeZzle-
nents while he was secretary of The
Land office and sub-agent for the fifth
land district. Other indictments for
the time that he was head of the de-
partment as Commissioner ar. still
pending.
STATEMENT OF DEFENSE.
Mr.. Chillingworth, when the prose-
cution had rested at 1858 p. M. made
a brief statement of the line of de-
tense to the jury.
I'VE propose to show YOU" counsel
said, that in the Land office there was
a much mixed up custody of money,
that different persons were in possess
sion of combinations of the safe, that
there was no particular peisoH " Soi-
lect and receipt for money, that the
defendant was absent from the office
much of the time covered by this COM
plant. We purpose showing that
Stephen Mahaulu, the only material
witness for the prosecution, was under
arrest charged with the embezzlement
of moneys In the Land office; also that
this case against Mr.. Boyd is given
precedence over many other cases en-
tered prior TO It on the calendar. Fur
Their, we VIII show that the stamp and
signature on the receipts exhibited by /
the prosecution We're put on as a mere |
ly perfunctory proceeding"
Mr.. Chillingworth then began calling |
witnesses, whose testimony Is report |
ed In its order below.
MORNING SESSION,
J. II, Fisher. Auditor ~ the Territory |
identified Boyd's receipts for salary as
sub-agsut and secretary ~ the nth |
land district from September 1900, 10
March 1901. inclusive, at fii5 month, |
The payment ~ rent Tor HAIKU sugar
90, isi00 made by John Warehouse
II The ONCE of Alexander a BALDWIN,
Lidu as shown ~ defendants receipt
was noi eniafsi in fhn Land once
bo0kH Tho amount Was NOT deposited
% ihr Treasury witness knew This
hecnuse ~ d bad boon deposited The
Land O1lrr rash hp0h anuli have
shown mnle money deposited ihaH pus
received ArfWdlnf A. ihr receipt nf-
~ lhf an lal rf0rlW should hose boon
DO lo0 ln ihp h'Hnh fs.eiil h0Qt No
Boy pei ia HhgNH nY ihf NiinrHs SOC
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