The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-04

heavy expenses, including the feeding
OF prisoners, purchase OF stable mate
rails, repairs to station, purchase OF all
manner Of office and prison supplies,
payment Of bills for electric current.
telephones for the station and deputy
sheriffs in the country. detective ex-
penses, railroad transportation for Of
ncers, transportation of prisoners to
the Reform School, hack and livery
expenses In all parts OF the island, and
II has to be maintained on $3.50 per
month, To go a little further the Su-
pervisors appropriated $1,000 for the
police department, but suddenly, when
matter of expense is held up, I am
told that more than one-tenth, or
, nearly one-fifth OF that entire appro-
priation is not for our use, but for the
use Of the Attorney Generals Depart
ment. Although that department may
use but $40 per month OF that $50, and
| have bills for over $3.50. yet I am
told by the County Clerk that under
the circumstances, cannot use a dol
lar or cent OF that $50, or the balance
remaining unexpended.
And Furthermore. the County Clerk
informs US that there Is not a scratch
OF the pen on the records of the clerks
office which designates any part of that
$1,000 to be devoted to the purposes I
have referred to, only that there is
some indefinite understanding / sup
posed that moneys to be expended had
TO be appropriated by resolution and
not by any understanding
Editor Advertiser Will you kindly
allow me a little space to explain some
thing Of the controversy going on be-
tween the Attorney General and police
departments. / feel fits UP to me TO
give the straight facts.
Last Saturday morning the Deputy
Attorney General and myself went
down TO Aiea and Pearl City, TO hunt
and examine the witnesses in the case
Of Territory V. Antoine Foster The star
witness was Virginia Kaihe, a young
girl. We were informed by her rela-
tives and other people she was at diff
ferent places; some said she was at
Aiea, others said she was at Kalihi
camp, and numerous other places, but
the best advices placed her at Eva
Mil with her mother. After the sheriff
had given me r. r. passes / imme-
diately started for that place. There
/ heard she and her parents were liv-
Ing at the beach. six or seven miles
away. / knew / was doing duty In a
country district that belonged to the
outside. But to help all concerned,
hired horse, advancing four dollars
out Of my own pocket, rode over a
rough trail until 10 o'clock that night.
When 1 reached there / found a large
crowd, the mother among them, but
Virginia was nowhere to be found. I
asked the mother where her daughter
was. She said she didn't know. She
afterwards told me a number Of places
but I'm every case she sent me astray.
After / returned to town 1 heard again
she was at Aiea, with one Henry Kua-
III. / thereupon sent n subpoena to
Deputy Sheriff Fernandez to serve.
AS / said before. 1t was not for me
to do the work of the country police
and | merely make this explanation to
show whether the police department
tried to do its duty. and didn't. as Mr..
Mllverton limited. throw the Attorney
Generals Department down. Mr.. Mil
verton admitted in court that the po-
lice had hunted high and low for the
missing witness and I think he will
agree with me that did my very best
to locate her, and the only reason for
my failure her parents for some motive
or other. misled me from start to
finish. She now shows up after a nolle
prosequi was entered.
II. A. JUEN.