The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-13
MAYER DENIES CHARGE
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ons, Mayer said that he had these
books at his Office. He also had there
the books showing certain payments
which had been made to the company
by Sing 10y & Co. He was perfectly
willing to show all the books of the
concern to the prosecution, provided
that it would go to the office to see
them.
Before We adjourn he said, sT wish
10 say that Mr.. Hart has been suspend
ed from the service Of the company
on orders from its officers in San Fran
cisco. and he is now being investigated
for shortage OF funds
You might state what the short
age amounts to-" prompted Frank
Thompson, his attorney, who was pres
ent.
The shortage amounts to about
S1700.'' continued Mayer 81 trippet
him up on an order Of 800 cases which
were sent 10 Eva. I asked him If he
was short in his accounts. and he said
that he had not taken anything, while
al the same time had it in black and
white that he had.
The reason why nothing was said
about this matter before was because
I was SO ordered by the officers of the
company. They told me that as Hart
was under bond of $1,000 furnished
by trust company, should not en-
gage an attorney TO prosecute him. as
the trust company would attend to
that"
Following the session at the police
station the members of the jury and
the officers and lawyers proceeded to
| the Office of the Standard Oil Com
pany az Iwilei, where the books were
! examined. Here Hart told that the
/ original books had been destroyed and
q new set made on purpose for the
/ investigation, while yet another pho
| ney set had been prepared for other
contingencies. He further stated that
! Mayer had drilled him on the evil
dence he was to give at any investisa-
/ ton regarding these books. His state
ment respecting the books and in an
swer 10 what Mayer had testified to
. at the inquest, was:
we also made up another set of
! dummy books as a blind, which were
not 10 be shown unless everything was
o. K, but here you can see them here
I was instructed as 10 what testimony
1 should give in regard to them. Only
| the stubs remained in these books
The orders were burned by Mayer
himself.
We did not need new supply of
order books, and I did not tell Mayer
50. As q matter of fact, we had q
large number Of them in this drawer
up TO the Saturday before Labor Day.
On Labor Day Mayer called me over
70 the Office He showed me the draw
81 and called my attention TO the fact
that II was empty, IN spite OF the fact
that I had seen the books there on
Saturday. He then ordered me TO
order q new set Of books from the
Star.
'on another occasion, before the
fire, when there was a shortage
amounting to several hundred cases.
Mayer had that charged to leakage" ("
Following the revelations made at
the last two sessions OF the inquest It
was thought by the police department
that formal charge OF embeZzlement
against Hart should be laid and that
Mayer should be arrested and held for
investigation, but on the advice Of r
". Breckons this has not been done
i Hart is still being held in custody
and no one is allowed 10 see him. II
was stated yesterday that his confes-
sion was secured through q threat that
otherwise prosecution against him I'M
der the Edmunds Act would be COM
menced- u 6 District Attorney
| Breckons denies this. however.