The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-26
THE TRIAL OF
DEVAUCHELLE
CHARGED WITH USING PROFANE
SHERIFF BROWN AND VIDA.

Considerably over an hour was spent
this morning in Judge Whitney's court
in trying to find out whether Eugene
Devauchelle, a former policeman and
now alleged to be spy for the Adj
vertiser, said that Sheriff Brown was a
g. - -" that the sheriff might g -
-" and had also applied the same terms
to Assistant Sheriff Henry Vida.
The defendants case was looked after
by William Rawlins and Assistant
County Attorney Andrade conducted
the prosecution.
The witnesses for the prosecution
were officers Leal Rose, Espinda and
Assistant Sheriff Vida.
The first three testified that on Sat-
urday night last they had met Devau-
chelle at the Palace grill on Bethel
street where after some conversation,
Devauchelle had applied an epithet to-
wards Sheriff. Brown, which though
taken as a term of endearment in a
frontier mining camp, is not considered
as being in good form IN chaste hawaii.
Incidentally the witnesses swore that
Devauchelle had said that he would
get even with Brown and would have
him up before the grand jury.
The force of this lay in the fact that
Devauchelle's disappearance from the
police force occurred shortly after She
riff Brown re-assumed control.
After thus relieving his mind, De-
vauchelle went to the Criterion saloon,
according to the witnesses, where he
accOsted Assistant Sheriff Vida, who
had been telephoning there, and when
he saw Vida said:
Henry, if you see anything in the
Advertiser tomorrow morning don't
be mad with me-"
Vida refused to speak to him and
passed on, upon which the defendant,
the fluent Devauchelle, handed out a
bunch of language.
incidentally officer Rose swore that
Devauchelle had said that he was sorry
to do the sort of work that he was do
ing, but that the Advertiser was pay
ing him SIS for it. Brown and Vida had
jobbed him and he was going to get
even.
Assistant Sheriff Vida corroborated
in so far as the terms applied by the
defendant to himself were concerned.
All the witnesses We're asked by Raw
Inns, under cross-eXamInatiOn why,
since they We're police officers they had
not placed the defendant under arrest
at the time the alleged offence was
committed.
The three first replied that they had
passed the matter up to Vida while
Vida himself said that Devauchelle was
under the influence of liquor at the
time of the occurrence and he did not
wish to have trouble with him then.
He had intended to have him arrested
on Monday but other matters inter-
vened and so the arrest was not made
until Tuesday.
At the close of Vida's testimony a
motion to dismiss was denied.
Devauchelle was first called in his
own behalf and his testimony was to
the other witnesses on the fateful night
the other witnesses o nthe fateful night
he had never said the naughty words
ascrbed to him. He could easily have
given Chesterfield points on the gift
of polite conversation.
Thus far had the trial proceeded
when the minute hand of the police
clock closed over the hour hand and
the court became cognizant of the fact
that it was noon,-high noon.
The case went over until two of the
clock, post meridian.