Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-10
JUDGE REGARD
IS DISCHARGED
Was Tried For Bribery
Before Judge
Kepoikai
ESPECIAL to The Bulletin)

WAILUKU, Maui, May 9.--Dlstrlct
Magistrate John REGARD of Lahaina
appeared before Circuit Judge A. n.
kepoikai in the Waikiki court house
last Tuesday on the charge of brib
cry.
During the afternoon the Judge
discharged the defendant, the prose-
cution having failed to prove their
case
From the evidence adduced it looks
like case of conspiracy against Dis
trict Magistrate REGARD by his enc
mics.
The facts as drawn from the testi-
mony make it appear that Deputy
Sheriff Lindsey arranged a mock
fight between a half-caste named Cal
low and a Chinaman. Callow was to
be arrested for assault and battery,
and he was to see the Magistrate,
feel his pulse, and see if he had an
itching palm. The pre-arranged fight
between the hapakanaka and the
pake took place at the, Pioneer Sta
bles Lahaina, owned by Okamura.
The pake came in and Callow threw
kisses at him in the shape of vile cpl
thets. The pake resented the insult
as the only living exponent of the
great and only Confucius. He lifted
his hands high in the air and was
about to land on this renegade son of
Keopulupulu when the latter showed
his assaiant the haole style of fight
ing. The deputy sheriff was on hand
Callow did not succeed in making any
bruises on the pake, but the striking
was sufficient assault in law. Cal
low was arrested Okamura volun-
tCered to stand bond for him in the
sum of $50. The deputy sheriff APP
proved the bond on the looks of the
Jap and Callow was allowed to go at
large.
Manager Barkhausen of the Pho
neer Mill borrowed two five-dollar
pieces from Frank Stark, an employee
on the plantation, and with his own
hands marked and mutilated the two
"A eagles, which were subsequently,
passed over by the deputy sheriff to
Callow for use in bribing the Lahai-
ma Magistrate. Callow met REGARD
on the road. The two went into the
Pioneer Stables office, where Callow
placed the five-dollar pieces on the
Magistrates left lap and asked him
to take it as a token of his deep ap-
probation of the Magistrates lenien-
cy towards him.
REGARD replied "Take back your
gold and pay your fine and costs with
it," and with these remarks REGARD
stood up and went out as far as the
door. Deputy Sheriff Lindsey and
Stark, who were in the adjoining
room and who saw the transaction
through the key-hole, rushed out of
their secret hiding place and placed
the Magistrate under arrest for brib-
cry.
"Where is that five dollars that
Callow gave you?" asked Lindsey.
"Callow did not give me any money"
where is that money, Callow?" ask
ed Lindsey. Callow replied that he
had given it to REGARD REGARD turn
ed around and accused Callow of ly-
ing, after which Callow went away.
Lindsey then made a careful search
of the person of Magistrate REGARD
but failed to find the marked coin on
his person. After Lindsey and Re-
card had gone away, Stark saw the
! fvedollar piece lying on the veranda
, a few feet from where the Magistrate
stood when the deputy sheriff was
ranslcking him. Stark picked up the
missing coin and took it to Lindsey
who kept it as evidence in his charge
against the District Magistrate for
bribery. Calow's case was finally
nolle pressed
The evidence being as above stat
ed, Circuit Judge Kepoikai could not
very well commit REGARD to the jury
and therefore discharged him after
giving his political opponents a some
v hat mild reprimand for their con.
nection in the case.
Another prominent citizen of La.
haina says, however, that another
charge will be brought against the
Magistrate which will stick