The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-25

! the hall IN which stairway 4ed0s 10
the upper Offices Here. screened from
the view of passersbv, he took the
twenty-five dollars from Humane, Civ
ing the following receipt:
"Oet. %, 1907.
nReceived from Otto $500 for in
re Ter. VS.. Otto to settle the case.
IS. ADACHL"
What Humane Says.
The following is signed statement
| from Humane, who is known some,
| times as K Otto. He is a boss car
penter in the employ of the City
| Mills, a man well spoken of by his EN-
| ployers, well spoken of by his neigh.
| bors on Pnnchbowl, and in every re-
spect a reliable man, whose one slip
/ from grace cost him dearly and led
him into the trap of the CRATER. He
says:
81 was arrested some months ago.
/ think in October 1907 last 1t was
on a charge of having stolen bicy.
Gle. I was arrested by Police Officer
EsIinda. / spent the night in the po-
lice station. Next morning / appear
ed in court and Attorney w. R. Sims
represented me- / was allowed TO go
on $50 bond.
81 was advised TO drop Sims as my
lawyer and get another one. At the
pclice station / met a Japanese, Mr..
Adachi, who told me he worked for
Mr.. Cathcart, who was a good lawyer
for me. / agreed to meet him at Mr.
Catheart s office the next day at half
past twelve o clock. I went there to
~ VI 20 A.
corner % King and Fort streets. L
met Mr.. Adachi in the outer Office
and told him of my case. He went
into an inner Office and talked my ease
over. He came out to me and said
that it would be all right and that it
would cost me thirty dollars. ] only
paid him twenty-five dollars. however,
getting a reduction of So. and getting
receipt from Mr.. Adachi for that
amount.
81 gave the amount to Mr. Adachi
for Mr.. Cathcart on the morning of
October %, after I had appeared for
trial and Mr.. A. NJ Brown had me
called. / was before the Judge, Mr..
Andrade, just about one minute Then
the japanese interpreter told me to go
home.
~ agreed to give the twenty five
dollars to Mr.. Cathcart's Japanese
clerk (Adachi) on his promise that I
would be cleared, and after / was told |
tc go in court l gave him the money. |
TOTO KUMANO.
Who Adachi Is.
Sabur6 Adachi, who makes appoint
ments for those charged with crime |
and meets them IN the office of the |
County Attorney, who has the right Of |
entry into John W. Cathcart s private
office, and who not only agrees in Cath
crime out of the danger of standing
trial, but makes his promises good. and |
who has the County Attorney and his
deputies carry out his agreements, is
a habitual criminal He has served
term in the penitentiary here in con
nection with a perjury charge arising
out of the infamous 'tTen Dollar
Club,' having been extradited from
Japan in connection Herewith. His
picture is No. BS49 in the local
Rogues' Gallery. Four times within
the past eighteen months he has been
convicted in the police court of being
a gambler, twice within the last three
months.
Nearly every day he is to be found
hanging around the police court. The
police court officials say that they do
not know what business keeps him
around the police station. but the above
story Of Humane may explain.
Statement of Judge Antoine Perry.
In. the matter of Otto Humane, who
makes the charge that he paid $25 &c
Adachi, supposedly to secure mol pros
Of criminal charge against him, /
would say that on Thursday, October
p, | was called upon by Mr.. Matheson.
! representative of the Advertiser, who
sold me that he was trying to secure in
formation concerning the charge above
mentioned from man named Otto Ku-
nano, neighbor of mine on Punch
bowl, he being married to a Portuguese
He told me that Otto had made
lim statement, and he wanted to get
t signed, but that. the japanese was
that he might be signing
away some of his rights, and did not
want to sign a paper without advice,
out was willing to take the advice of
myself.
| accordingly went to Oto's house
With Mr. Matheson and questioned himI
loosely upon each of the statements ap-
bearing upon the writing which Mr..
datheson has made, purporting to be
statements made by Oto Otto verified
Zach statement to me- | examined him
'arefully and at considerable length in
rider to make sure that he understood
what was said. He answered me clearly,
although in somewhat broken English.
am satisfied that he understood what
vas said in the statement and the man
Ter in which he made the statements
arried the conviction to me that he
vas speaking the truth.
The document herewith, having his
ignature, is the one which | examined
lim upon.
ANTOINE PERRY.
Statement of Kalakiela. Chief of
Detectives
Honolulu, October "a 1908
Statement of J. S Kalakiela, Chief !
f Detectives, Honolulu Police Depart
nent, and formerly clerk in the reeeiv- !
ng station at the Honolulu police sta
ion: :