The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-09
SECRECY IS
EMPHASIZED
Judge Dole Holds 1t Is
Necessary in Grand
Jury Work.

Judge Sanford h. Dole yesterday
opened the October term of the United
States District Court. In his charge
to the Grand Jury he appointed John
A. McCandless as its foreman, and
among other instructions uttered the
following:
LAS the Federal Grand Jury of this
Territory you are the representatives
of the community in the matter of in
vestigating charges of offenses against
the laws of the United States and such
information as may come before you,
either through the prosecuting officers
of this court or the knowledge of your
members, or in any other way, tending
to show the infraction of such laws.
Your duty in these matters is very
responsible one, not only in the direc-
ton of the protection of the commun-
ity against crime. and for the conscien-
tious investigation of charges, in order
that those persons in relation to whom
there is sufficient prima facie evidence
to support a charge of crime may be
indicted for the trial thereof, but also
that such persons against whom the
y
reach is insufficient, may be discharg
ed free of suspicion or loss of reputa-
ton: in the latter case the rule of
secrecy becomes an important element.
SECRECY NECESSARY
1.-THE secrecy of the deliberations of
a Grand Jury is also a necessary fea
ture of it's work, in that it promotes
the freedom and independence OF the
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their conclusions, in which individual
conclusions the public is not inter
ested, being only concerned in the acts
of the jury as a body. There is also
a further reason for the rule of secrecy
inasmuch as the public knowledge OF
the work of the Grand Jury from day
to day might warn persons whose cases
are under consideration, and thus tend
to defeat the purposes of the Grand
Jury by giving them a chance to evade
prosecution sr to interfere with the
production of evidence against them.
The same reasons, especially the latter,
which require the rule of secrecy in
regard to Grand Jurors apply also to
witnesses who testify before the Grand
Jury. and such witnesses should be
sworn to secrecy.
ONLY FEDERAL OFFENSES.
LAS a Grand Jury of this court you
have jurisdiction only of offenses
against the laws of the United States
committed within the Territory of Ha-
wall or upon the high seas excluding
such offenses as relate to the offices
and accounts of Federal officers, and
it will be your duty to investigate all
such crimes as may be called to your
attention.
ANY attempt to influence your ac-
ton or decision upon matters pending
before you, by communication in
writing to any one of you in relation
to such matters, without the consent
of the court, would be punishable, and
if any such attempt should be made it
will be your duty to Immediately in
form the court thereof"
After vacancies had been filled by
means of a special venire, the Grand
Jury, as it received the charge, was
constituted as follows: John A. Nc
Candless, foreman; John Lucas, H. D.
M. Cobb, E. H. Paris. w. J. Forbes, j.
Shaw, A III. Otis, E. A McInerny, John
c. Lane, E. J. Waterman, T. A. Simp-
son, John McLain, F. H. Armstrong,
G. H. Dunn. Chas. Aud, A. F. Wall,
c. S. Hall, r. A. Wadsworth, H. w.
Green, C. J. Hoke, John De MeIlo, H.
r. McFarlane, John Wise.