The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-17
SMITH AND ACHI
CLASH IN COURT
OF IMPEACHMENT
First Hearing by Supervisors of Charges Against
Kekauoha-- ---Sheriff Brown Demands an
Investigation Himself.

The first court of impeachment that
Yoahu Comfy has ever had came into
existence last night. for the purpose
of trying the charges of malfeasance in
office preferred against Deputy Sheriff
George Kekauoha of Koolauloa by
twenty-five voters of the district.
The board of impeachment consists
of Supervisors of the county, and their
first meeting was brief but lively, At
torney Achi's persistent efforts to be
heard at the wrong time on behalf of
Ke8auoha arousing G. W. Smiths
moderate choler. He was finally or
dered from the floor lid the clerk in
.-diately subsequent utterances.
Present were Chairman Smith. Su-
pervisor-at-Large Adams, Supervisors
Lucas, Moore, archer and Paele.
The chair said that the board had
assembled TO sit as board of impeach-
nent in the case of Deputy Sheriff
George Kekauoha, charged with mall
i6dSance III OitES.
The following resolution was offered
by Supervisor Moore and duly sec
ouded:
THE RESOLUTION.
whereas, On the 10th day of April
1906. a petition for the removal from
office of George Kekauoha, Esq. the
dult eIe5ted Deputy Sheriff of the Dis
1trict-of .25SooIsagIloa. Island and County
of Oahu. was presented efo~tffis board,
and which said petition was signed by
more than twenty-five (25) qualified
electors within the District of koolau-
Ioa County OF Oahu. which said petit
tion requested this board TO remove
the said George Kekauoha from office
alpon the ground of malfeasance COM
mitted by him in office, and his malad-
n1inistration of the same, and
Whereas, In support of said petition
certain affidavits were annexed to the
same and made part thereof, and
Whereas, Tt is the desire of the
Board of Supervisors of the County OF
Oahu that the charges, statements,
matters and things contained in the
said affidavits be investigated by the
Board of Supervisors of this county,
now, therefore, be i.
Resolved, That the County Attorney
be instructed TO draw up formal arti-
cles of Impeachment and charges
against him. the said George kekau-
eoha, based upon said affidavits afore-
said; and be it further
Resolved. That when the County At
torney shall have drawn up said ar1-
cles of impeachment and charges as
above set forth, that a copy of the
same be sent to the said George ke-
kauoha by the County Clerk OF the
County of Oahu and that said George
Kekauoha be notified and directed TO |
appear and answer the said articles of
impea chment and charges ten Q0) days |
after the service of the same upon him; !
and be it further
Resolved, That the County Attorney i
of the County of Oahu be, and he is |
hereby authorized. empowered and di- /,
rected to prosecute the said charges I
against the said George Kekauoha be- /
fore the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Oahu, sitting as a board
of Impeachment
ACHI'S DEMAND.
w. c. Achi, Kekauoha's attorney.
hastened to introduce a demurrer, but
the chair told him 10 wait a while, as
the board was not yet board of i'm
peachrnent, the resolution not yet hav-
ing been adopted
Adams and Archer inclined to the
opinion that the charges OF the twenty