The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-13

AND POLICEMEN
ARE INDICTED
Kauai Grand Jurys Hot Report--.police that Aid
Gambling---Loose Liquor Licensing De-
nounced--Leper Detention Scandal

class license. I imagined that their
reasons for his wanting a license, either
that he had an order to fill or that he
had been filling orders in violation of
his fourth-class license and wanted to
! put himself straight, so I granted the
: license. Had L known then that he
| had been arrested for any violation of
the liquor act, I would not have issued
him a license. While the Treasurer
has now virtually no discretion in the
matter of issuing liquor licenses, when
! ever there are any contests, the licenses
are not issued until all the contested
points are settled. I can assure YOU
| that wireless from our department
would have prevented s. Ozaki from
getting a third class license, however,
as | understand the courts have ruled
down here that license does not legal
ize acts committed previous to the date
of the license. Pleased to know that
you intend to make all license holders
| toe the mark and in that action you
have the hearty cooperation of this Of
fee, and any and all assistance this de-
] partment can give is always available
l to YOU. -
The manager of Ozaki IS liquor store
was at the time of making the wireless
|
under arrest for violating the eondi
tions of Ozaki's fourth class license.
! The Treasurer letter We submit
without comments Under the liquor
act no new licenses shall be issued
without the written consent of q ma
jority of the property holders within
certain distance from the premises for
which license is asked. We find on
evidence submitted that this proviso
! has been violated in the specific cases
! before us and we found a true bill
| against one of the persons who made
the wrongful declarations for perjury.
The other perjurers are without the
jurisdiction of this court. but should be
prosecuted when possible. We find
that the declarations were made on
form not in agreement with the provl-
sions of section Z of act 67, requiring
the written consent of majority of
"property holders the form used
and furnished by the Treasurer for
such purpose substituting therefor the
words ''property holder or occupant -
We believe the act does not intend to
give the right of petition in favor of
| liquor license in country districts to
" occupants, these having the right to
sign such petitions only in certain
places in the Territory specially named
in the act.
Our legal adviser, County Attorney
Willard, informs us that he has been
advised and authorized by the Terri
torial Treasurer to bring civil suits for
the cancellation of a number of these
licenses, but as the county might have
to bear the expenses of such actions we
would respectfully suggest that no pro-
ceedings be taken in those cases where
the petitioners limit their consent to Il
certain term. soon to expire, as such
licenses require new petition for an
other or renewal license, so we are in
formed. In eases where consent of pc
titioners is given without the stipula-
ton of limited term, we would recon-
mend that strong endeavors be made to
have the Territory institute and pay
for the proceedings necessary to have
the more Objectionable licenses can
celled.
CORRUPT OFFICIALS.
Charges of misconduct having been
made against certain public officials,
the grand jury Investigated such
charges and true bills were found
against several of these public officials
for various offenses.
During our investigation into mat
tefS pertaining u tue PciANC - oB'-
ment in certain districts we found that
in one district the deputy sheriff and
two policemen are closely related by
ties of blood and marriage. We do not
think such conditions tend to guaran-
tee an honest conduct of public busl-
ness and we would suggest that IN APP |
pointing public officers their relation |
ship to other officers in the same dis |
trict be carefully considered. We re- |
gEet to state that in our opinion part
at least of the police force of this
island is utterly unfit to hold their re-
sponsible and honorable positions.
POLICE AID GAMBLING.
We have a great deal of testimony |
10 show that policemen not only do |
nothing to convict the Keepers OF
gambling houses, but actually frequent
such dens during the time gambling Is
carried on, nay they even keep watch
outside and invite those they know TO
90 in and join the game. In regard to
some of the Lihue police it has become
so bad that numbers of japanese wit
nesses testified before US that they had
no fear of the police, as they knew ana
believed from the conduct Of the po-
lice that they were in the pay OF the
owners or keepers of the gamoi1ng
houses. District magistrates likewise
in some cases, in our opinion, have been
appointed to an Office the dignity OF
which they seem to be quite unable to
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