The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-20
WORK OF THE
MAUI GRAND JURY
A NUMBER OF INDICTMENTS ARE
RETURNED -- GAMBLING, AND
MOLOKAT POLICE MATTERS.
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WAILUKU, Maui, March 19.-The
Grand Jury on last Saturday afternoon
filed it's final report and were discharg-
ed for the term.
In the case of the Territory VS.. Pack
Seong Sick, indicted for assault with
to the Indictment and was sentenced to
pay a fine of 800 and to be imprison-
ed at hard labor of four years.
The case set for trial today is Ter
ritory VS.. Ramon Rigo, charged with
assault with deadly weapon. Trial
had found guilty. Sentence tomorrow
| The Grand Jury report is as follows:
%. 1t has come to the attention of
this Grand Jury that the police depart
ment on the Island Of Molokai is rot
disciplined as it should be. 1t is re-
ported that members of the police force
on the Island of Molokai are often in
a state of intoxcation while engaged
! in the performance of their duties, and
that, by reason of such intoXication,
serious mistakes are made and inno-
cent people are put to inconvenience,
discomfort and unnecessary hardship;
investigation by the police officials and
in many cases innocent persons are de-
tanned in the jails when efficiency and
strict attention to duty on the part of
the officers would have prevented such
mistakes. This Grand Jury desires to
call this matter to the attention of the
Sheriff of the County of Maui, with a
4 recommendation that he make a care
full investigation of the conduct of the
officers of his department on the Island
of Molokai; and that he remove from
the service such officers as are unfit
for the trust reposed in them.
(2) This Grand Jury recommends
that an investigation be made by the
police department of this County with
reference to violations of the liquor
laws by retail liquor dealers. 1t has
come to the attention of this Grand
Jury that certain retail dealers are in
the habit of selling in larger quantities
than is permitted by their licenses. Thai
certain dealers, while holding retail H.
ycenses only, are engaged in the whole
sale liquor trade. These violations OF
the law are not committed openly, and
while no evidence sufficient to support
indictments, has been secured by this
Grand Jury, yet this Grand Jury has
information sufficient to state that 9
careful investigation by the police au'
thorites of this County will develoT
that such violations are of frequent
occurrence. The retail liquor dealers
should be required to keep strictly
, within the limits of their licenses, 81
that those who are engaged in thu
wholesale liquor trade shall receive tn,
protection intended by the liquor laws
! (3). This Grand Jury also desires t.
call the attention of the Sheriff of tn
County of Maui to complaints that ar
made by plantation officials in regart
: to the presence and operations of pro
: fessional gamblers in the plantation
camps. 1t is reported to this Gran
- Jury that the plantation camps ar
{ visited on pay-days by Japanese pro
fessional gamblers, who bring intoXi
< eating liquor with them into the camps
that they supply the laborers with Ii
quor without charge, and when the la
: borers are in an intoxicated condition
fleece them of their hard earned wages
These conditions tend to create unrcS
and disorder among the laborers; tn
Il good order and well-being of the labo
conditions are menaced and the plan
tation officials are put to great annoy
ance and inconvenience in their at
tempt to maintain order i'm the planta
ton camps. The members of thi
Grand Jury believes that if frequer
raids were made by the police official
on these professional gamblers, the ev
could be done away with.
(D. 1t has been reported by men
bers of this Grand Jury that certai
liverymen and hackmen in Wailuk
district are working horses under sue