The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-31
HE PASSES
THE BUCK
Carter Puts IWiIei Prob.
lem Straight to the
Legislature.

y,
Candless special committee yesterday
| the women segregated were located
pretty close to "Gearville," and the
shadow of Detective Halter was once
! more thrown upon the screen, looming
dark indeed.
Il have written a letter to High
Sheriff Henry suggesting to him very
strongly that Special Officer Paul Smith
at Iwilei be relieved from duty" said
Gov Carter, land instructing him
to withdraw even the semblance of po-
| lice immunity from prosecution from
| the women segregated at Iwilei until
we can see what recommendation the
! Senate special committee intends to
make the premises
In other words, having taken the IWi-
J lei matter in hand pending action of
| the legislature, the administration will
now make it incumbent upon the legis-
| lature to recommend a course of &C
| ton to bring about a salvation of an
: extremely unpleasant situation. And
that, according to both Governor Car
ter and High Sheriff Henry, was all
that the administration had in view in
the first place. High Sheriff Henry has
| stated, not once but repeatedly, that
/ he only acted in the interest of keep
| ing the residence portion of the city
/ decent until the legislature should as
semble and use its wider discretion.
AS to special officer Paul Smith, he
| seems to be in some measure a victim
of circumstances. He testified that he
was paid for services by DR.. Cooper,
but declined to state the amount he
was paid. This statement was made
before the McCandless committee. DR..
toll no
pressure, that he paid Smith $50 a
month for keeping his books 1t
seems that it was a part of Smiths Of
fetal duty to see that the women of
Iwilei had a physicians cards certifying
their good health; and it was a part of
his duty to DIR. Cooper to make out
these cards. DR.. Cooper examined
most, if not all of the women, and the
cards they had were his cards. If they
did not have cards, Smith had to tell
them to secure them-and as matters
We're the women went to Dr.Cooper for
the documents. 1t appears that the re-
lations between Smiths official duties
and his duties to DR.. Cooper were too
close. Between these stools he falls
to the ground.
The McCandiess Iwilei committee
examined several witnesses yesterday
witness was Gus Schumann, treasurer
of the Fidelity Insurance Company.
who said that his company owned the
property in Iwilei, Waikiki of the John
Ena property on the Eva side of the
road. There We're nine directors Of
his company, of whom he named eight, |
and one of those. s. A D. Jones, he |
said was dead. The living directors |
he named were A. V Gear. William |
Henry. Tom King, @. H. Berrey, Geo. |
Gear. and John D. Holt
The property was managed for the
Fidelity Company by the Henry Wat /
erhouse Trust Company, who had leas-
ed it to g. Japanese named Ogata for |
term of years, with the privilege of /
purchase for $4,000 at the end of five |
years. There had been some trouble
about renting the property when it
was managed by Emmett May, and SO
il was given to the Henry Waterhouse
Trust Company. The Trust Company
paid $40 month for the place, and
the Jap had offered SIS. Witness did
not know until Senator McCandless
told him what the Jap did With the
property. Ogata had told him he was
a contractor, and wanted the buildings
to house his men in.
The lease to the Jap, Ogata, was ,
dent of the company and Schuman as
treasurer. At the meeting of the di-
rectors when the lease was passed up
on there was need for one director to
make a quorum. and High Sheriff Hem !!
ry was sent for. He could not come,
but said that whatever the others did
would be all right.
At a session held in the afternoon, |
Ogata told the committee that he did
not hear that the women would be or |
dered to move to IwiIei until after he
had leased the property. He leased the
place at the request of Eseu, his bust
ness partner. There were AZ or AZ
rooms, and these rented for FROM IS
to Sc per month. When he rented the
place he had an uninvented concrete
machine, and he wanted a place to
house the men working on the machine.
There were women living there now.
He did not know the doctor who ex-
amined these women. but the women
said it was a man who formerly came
in a buggy but now rode in an autorno-
bile He did not know who ordered
the segregation of the women, but the
order was being carried out.
r K. Maxine was the next witness,
and did not know a great deal about
Iwilei. He had acted as Interpreter
when the lease OF the 1Wllel property
to Ogata was drawn up. He thought
Ogata knew the women were to be
sent to that particular place before the
lease was made. He said that detec-
tive Halter had ordered the women to
go to the Eva side of the Iwilei road.
Police Interpreter Mkt said he had
gone with Halter to tell the Japanese
women to remove to the Eva side of
the Iwilei road. Halter had told the
women it would be better for them to
move, but had given no reason for say
ing so Witness said there We're wom-
en- On both sides of the road now.
The last witness of the day was Mr..
Campbell of the Henry Waterhouse
Trust Company who gave testimony
as to the lease of the property.
HIGH SHERIFFS HENRY'S STORY.
"a little more than a year ago" said
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