The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-01

United States Marshal Hendry and
District Attorney Breckons yesterday
obtained complete evidence to fasten
the guilt of Privates Cooper Bolton
and Jackson, 2sth Company, Coast Ar
tillery, under charges of making and
uttering counterfeit money.
All three soldiers were bound over by
L. S. Commissioner Mailing to the next
Federal grand jury, with bail fixed in
the sum of $500 each.
Yesterday forenoon the officials, &C
companying the arrested men, went to
Camp Mckinley. Private Jackson
took the Marshal to a date palm tree
in the vicinity and, showing his hand
behind the leaves, brought out a pack
age which contained five counterfeit $40
pieces. He looked a second time and
coin was found, making $50 counterfeit,
but a search for still another that
should have been there, according to
the guide, was unavailing.
Then Private Cooper escorted the Of
ficerS to a cottage owned by w. O.
Smith, but which Cooper has been sur
reptitiously occupying. There he said
he had made" the spurious s. and $40
pieces. There also he had made plaster
Of paris casts. He had thrown these
through a window and the broken
pieces were found outside. A bottle of
alcohol and some mixing powder were
ole croth
plete confession, and SO did Jackson.
Cooper felt uneasy about Bolton, to
whom he had given some of the
coins to pass. Bolton, on the other
hand, says he gave the coins to his
wife. The officials have Mrs. Bolton
under arrest She denies knowledge of
the coins and says the soldiers have
lied. Privates Langley, Peterson, Col
well and Abbott, who were arrested on
Thursday, were released yesterday,
there being no suspicion against them
whatever
At the preliminary hearing before
Commissioner Mailing yesterday after
noon, Attorneys Ashford and Creighton
appeared for Bolton and Jackson. The
courtroom was filled with soldiers.
Bolton was the first to take the
stand. He had previously said he would
produce the coin given to him by
Cooper, but failed to show it 10 the
court. He had conference with his
wife, but that failed to produce the
coin.
Private Cooper testified to having
made the coins and to have given
some to Bolton, but he felt that Bolton
did not really know what was in the
package.
Jackson testified to having met Boil
ton on Saturday evening, when the lat
ter gave him nine $40 pieces which
were spurious. He said Bolton asked
him to pass them, and said if he did
Jackson said he was pretty drunk when
he received the coins
Marshal Hendry took the stand and
was asked by the District Attorney to
show the coins which had been taken
from the palm tree. He dug down into
MS pocket and brought up nine coins !
which he jingled in his hands as if !
hey were a stack of blues. The coins /
gave a rasping, untrue sound. Ash I
ord objected to their admission in that |
manner and so they We're deposited on
he table. The attorney tangled two or
hree, a sickly smile stealing over his
Commissioner Mailing decided the
evidence was sufficient to hold Jack
ION, and the District Attorney thought
he full limit of $500 should be i'm
posed as bail. Ashford objected and
suggested $1,000. The bail was finally
placed at $500, and this was applied
o all the cases.
Hi1son, who passed the So piece on
Conductor Reeves on an electric car,
vas to have his preliminary examina-
ion this morning but, at the last mo-
nent, concluded to waive it and stand
committed.
Mrs. Bottoms examination was set
Or next Friday at 2 p. m.
For the making of counterfeit coin. |
n imitation of gold or silver coinage,
he penalty is fine of not more than
5000 and Imprisonment at hard labor
or not more than ten years.
For the uttering or passing of coun-
erfeits of gold or silver coin the penal
y is fine of not more than $4,000 or
dl nara labor for not
more than five years, or both fine and
With regard to the degrees of GRIM
naiity as indicated by the penalties,
! strange thing was done by Cooper
before the Commissioner, which the Of
icials had difficulty in regarding u.ith
traight faces. At the beginning he
vas held under the charge of "uttering
nd passing" though the evidence
arly developed a case of making"
he law allows a raising of the charge
N preliminary examination. contrary
o the rule that forbids such a thing
n jury's verdict.
Cooper, on hearing the original
'harge against him, voluntarily inter-
ected a speech assuming the brunt of
he graver charge, in these words:
Il wish it distinctly understood that
am innocent of uttering the coins
md that 1 made no attempt to pass
he coins. I am the maker of the
oins and nothing else
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