The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-01-03

Duil0ingS on the lanu SCI dsluc loI
that purpose We notice the Normal
School is being built in a most peculiar
position relative to the rest of the lot
and adjoining properties. We find Kaa-
pokua School absolutely Unfit Tor school
purposes. II is situated in a narrow
lot. surrounded on three sides by back
yards and outhouses. and all the sani-
tary conditions are bad. especially for
young children. We recommend the
abandonment of the place for school
PURPOSES.
This Grand Jury further recommends
that school buildinp be built within
the District of Kaimoki for the use of
school children residing in the districts
of Kaimoki. Kapahulu and Palolo.
This grand jury is further informed,
and therefore reports. that the teachers
employed within the District of Homo
lulu, are in receipt of Christmas gifts
from the children of their classes. We
recommend that such habit be pro-
hibited. Acts of this character are re-
dictionary and result in an assessment of
parents. 1t not alone reflects upon the
teacher. but causes unhappiness in the
children unable to donate their pro rata
OF the cost of the gratuity.
CASE OF TOEPELMANN.
4. Investigation of Police, in re Os-
car Toepelmann.
Upon the complaint of H. A. Isen-
berg, Esq, resident consul at Honolulu,
representing the Empire of Germany,
and Mr. Henrv c. Phuger, resident
and taxpayer of this Territory this
grand jury Investigated the alleged inn
proper treatment by the police authori-
ties. of one Oscar Toepemann, citizen
of Germany, arrested on the evening of
November 10th. of this year, and charg-
ed with the offense of drunkenness.
The ground of complaint was that Mr..
Toepelmann, respectable resident of
this city. while suffering from stroke
of paralysis, and in a critical condition,
was confined in the receiving station of
Honolulu, unattended by a physical
from II az p m. on the evening of said
November 10Th, until 800 a. m, or
thereabouts, on the morning of Novem-
ber I7th following.
Your grand jury. without going into
the evidence and details, find the facts
to be, that on the evening of November
10th. between the hours of 2 100 p. m.
and Io:45 p. m., the said Toepelmann
had INDUCED in an undue amount OF
sDirituous liquor; that he was last seen
at II :o3 p. m, on the corner of King
and Fort streets of this city, at which
time he appeared to be under the in
fluence of liquor; that at about II 20 p.
m. of the same evening thereafter, Toe
pelmann was found in an unconscious
condition. lying on his right side, on a
small roadway running at right angles
to King street, and 1870 feet more or
less Eva of the Eva corner of Liliha
and King streets. The place where he
was lying was six feet from the corner
of the sidewalk abutting said roadway
and the curb of the sidewalk stood from
3 I-2 to 4 feet above the roadway
A police officer, upon finding Toepel-
mann, summoned the police patro
wagon, by which agency he was taker
to the police station and detained upor
the charge of drunkenness From the
time of his discovery until several day:
thereafter. he remained in practically
the same unconscious condition in which
he was found Upon his receipt at th'
police station no marks of violence OF
wounds were visible upon his person
from his nose there was a slight dis
charge of blood. The arresting officer
the officer in charge of the patrol wagon
two turnkeys and receiving clerk tes
tilted that the man smelt noticeably o.
liquor Neither at the time of his ar
rest, nor at his reception at the polio,
station nor afterward while in the Gus
tody of the police. was TocpelmanI
conscious or able to speak. Subsequen
examination developed a confusion upoi
the right side of the head, running bacl
from the hair line, two or three inches
and hidden by the hair, and an abrasion
of the skin upon the right shoulder ant
the right elbow.
EXONERATES POLICE.
Toepelman was confined, while at til
police station, in a cell by himself, an
, there administered to by the turnke
: in charge Medical evidence adduced
, to the effect that Toepelmann was, a
1 the time, suffering from a partial pa
/, ralysis of the right side OF the bod,
c and that it would have made no differ
! ence, as far as Toepelmann's conditio
!, was concerned, whether he mad bee
/ conveyed to hospital upon the evenin
n of his arrest, or upon the followin
4. morning.
After a full and complete investiga
tion, we are, therefore, able to report
/. That the Police Department exeI
l. cised every precaution called upon b
: the facts of the case.
<. 2. That this grand jury believes tn;
d Toepelmann, while intoxicated, steppe
e off high sidewalk. and, falling, wa
Ie thereby injured.
During the investigation of the for
e going matter, this grand jury becan
lie cognizant of the fact that there is nc
IS located permanently at the receiving ST
II. ton, a police doctor; that the physicis
IS now in charge makes but short c.
D daily, about the noon hour, and that Il
i only way that the receiving station phi
10 sician could be summoned would be
Is transmission of message to that {
S, feet by bicycle police officer to Il
s place of residence of such physicia
n which is some distance from the poll
N station. Your grand jury believes, al
ne therefore reports, that everything pc
al sible was done for Toepelmann, by 4
or police authorities in charge, at the tir
90 of his reception at the police station,