Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-10-24

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vcrtiser attacked me about IL and
then | notified the Attorney General
that, accused as was by the Adver-
tiser, | didn't feel that | could try
the case, because there is no case that
a man can guarantee and | might
have lost the case and then the Adj
yertiser would have accused me of
losing the case on purpose, or some
thing to that effect. So the Attor-
ney General tried It. but not until
June or May, J have forgotten which,
the case was in his hands through
the latter part of January, February,
March, April, and until the latter
part of May, / think, and then he
tried It and the jury were out two
minutes only and brought in YER
dict OF not guilty.
They accuse me also of taking
civil cases. II Is true. ] took civil
cases, and you are never going to
get n man In the Office who Is worth
his salt who wouldn't take civil cas-
es. You cannot live without 1t, and
you cannot get anybody worth hav-
ing: you can get cheap man--but
they are cheap--you could get a man
there probably who would agree not
to take case outside, but 1t would
be very expensive for the County.
The only charge they could bring
lawfully against me would be If I
took civil work outside and let 1t in
terfere with the duty l owe to the
County, but / have never done that,
and nobody can truthfully charge me
took gases dependent on a state of
facts which might lead to a criminal
prosecution, and they charge me with
taking the VIII case. / think that
Is the only divorce case | ever took
in which there was any mention
made OF charge of adultery.
haven't taken many divorce cases.
don't get many cases of any kind.
and this VIII case | happened to in
vestigate the charge against him OF
adultery, early in the year, and
knew there was nothing to the charge
and he was u nice boy and | hated
to see him bounded by the shark into
whose hands he had fallen, so / ap-
Ipeafed for him and did the best for
him that could, and we won out.
Now that is all they can say
against me, except something about
my appearing in the Federal Court.
Since I have been County Attorney
have never had n case in the Federal
Court--one or two cases had before
the Commissioner, but | withdrew
and have not appeared in any Grim
! inal cases In the Federal Court that
have ever been tried, and / never
have gone further than the United
States Commissioner and that,
think, In only two instances.
Just one more word. | entered
upon this Office and only wished tn
do my duty. and tried to- assist and
help the Sheriff s Office out. Here is
an instance of what | did: we tried
one case. gambling raid where they
! got 16 or II Chinese gamblers. and
the police had brought down one of
those big, massive doors that blocked
the way to the room, and when the
case came on for trial | put on my
witnesses and I had this door there,
they brought up the door from the
Sheriff's office, and witness after
witness swore to that door as being
the one taken down from the stairs
that led up to this gambling room,
and ] was just about to put another
lofllcer on the stand to swear to the
had brought up the wrong door
Laughter.) Now, ! could hay,
then, II wanted to. IL ! wasn't very
anxious to have helped the polio,
force out, I could have got up then
land there and stated to the Court
that fact, and asked that the case b,
dropped, and the Court would have
i, sustained me in 1t. but ! didn't.
thought the men were guilty, SO In
order not to discredit the police force
must do the best | could. so | CLOSED
my case, and when they proved b,
the defense that the door was sis
inches too short and six inches tor
wide to close the opening, still wen
to the jury. and got u verdict o
, guilty" daughter and applause.)
"AND AT THAT VERY TINE
WHEN | WAS DOING THAT FOf
THE POLICE FORCE, ACCORDING
, TO WHAT MIR. WALTER G. SMITH
TOLD ME HIMSELF THE POLICE
FORCE HAD SPIES ON MY TRACE
SWALLOWING ME, AND THEY Hal
CHINESE SP Il S HANGING
AROUND MY HOUSE, TO WATCH
THE INCOMING AND OUTGOING
OF PEOPLE WHO VISITED ME
AND THEY WERE ENDEAVORIN(
TO FASTEN ON ME SOME CON
NECTION WITH CHINESE GAM
BLING. NOW THAT is TIL
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