The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-02
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Mkt saito to employ special counsel.
At the same time, about month ago |
the Shinpo charged that 5000 of the !
money had been given to Mkt, on his |
statement that it would be needed for
fes and expenses of medical expert
witnesses. 1t is now claimed by Mkt |
that he gave the money to Andrews.
AS far as is known Andrews is not |
aware of the charge sprung by Mkt
and brought to the attention of the
| Governor by A. S. Humphreys. 1t is
another case like that of Sam johnson, /.
1T is beginning to seem unsafe for a
man i'm office to leave the islands," said
a department head this morning. "As
soon as he gets far enough away some |
one springs a scandal on him. 1t looks /,
like a spiteful effort to injure him. His ,
| departure was announced long before
he left and the question of this 5000
was publicly raised before he left Yet
no one thought of accusing him till he
was in Shanghai"
Andrews associates i'm the Attorney
Generals Department were naturally
far from pleased at the charges and
all have the utmost surety that there
is nothing i'm them. Deputy Peters,
who was present at yesterdays dis
cussion with the governor, would not
discuss the case this morning but ex-
pressed his personal regrets. Andrews
has had a long term here without
sign of trouble of any sort" he said
land it is hard on him to have thing
like this brought up just as soon as
he leaves. No, 1 have not heard from
] him nd % mr. hi 81 bo
matter. 1 don't know whether he has
heard of it or not
THE transaction" said Mkt the Jap
anese Interpreter occurred some time
in August. 1 was going to Wailuku to
work up some evidence of japanese
having violated the Board of Health
regulations. On the steamer was At
torney General Andrews and Miss Bush
his stenographer. He was going to
attend to hearing the fishery cases at
Lahaina. He said that he wanted me
to remain at Lahaina for l could act
as bailiff of the court where he was to
sit as a commissioner or sometimes like
that. L consented to remain. On
Wednesday we received word from
Wailuku regarding the Yamagoto-
DOuse case The Attorney General
was asked whether it would be neces-
sary to have the post-mortem held on
the body of the japanese who was said
to have died from the effects of injuries
caused by DOuse pouring kerosene on
him and setting fire to it. Mr. An
drews said to hold it.
THE japanese sent word that they
would like him to come over and pro-
secute the case against Douse. We
went to Waikiki and on Thursday the
Attorney General and met about
fifteen Japanese at the house of a
Japanese to talk over the matter of the
attorney general appearing againNt
Douse. The Japanese said that they
had engaged j. NJ. Vivas to appear and
had agreed to pay him a 5000 fee when
the case was over, but as the attorney
. general was there they would like him
to prosecute. They said that it was
a case where a Japanese was against
a white man and that in all likelihood
the white man would be cleared. The
Attorney General said that that was
true, that they were fighting the
strongest company in the Hawaiian
islands and that the influence was
against them. He said that he would
appear If they would put up the ex-
penses for the stenographers and ex-
pert witnesses, They said that they
would do so and asked how much
would be needed. He said $500 and re-
piled that they would try and raise the
money and give it to him as soon as
they could.
when Douse's preliminary hearing
came up, Mr.. Andrews was present but
remained only about an hour. He told
the Japanese that they could pay the
money over to me as his agent. He
left for Lahaina and took the steamer
back to Honolulu. The Japanese pait
me 5000 and l gave them a receipt sign.
ing it as agent for Mr. Andrews. The
attorney general had told them that hC
could not accept any fee to appear fol-
them in the case and they must no
say anything about the matter. 1 die
not reach Honolulu until the follow
ing week. l gave the money to Mr.
Andrews but did not take any receip
from him for it. Later he gave m,
so of the fee.
when Mr.. Andrews was leaving 70
Shanghai l went to the steamer ant
asked him what he was going to d,
about those Japanese on Maui 1 toll
him 1 understood that Mr.. Peters wa
not going to Maui to prosecute TIL
case and 1 said that the Japanese ex
pected him. the attorney general to d.
Y So He seemed to be annoyed about tn
. matter and asked why l had men
toned the money matter before Peters
The reason that 1 had mentioned tn
matter to Mr.. Andrews at the steame
was because I thought that he Ough
to do what was right and fair to thos
Japanese for they had paid the none,
to him with the understanding that h.
was to appear against Douse."
Consul General Mkt SaitO who re
presents the Japanese Emperor her
i'm Hawaii, and whose name has bee
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