The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-09-01
STIRRED UP A
HORNETS NEST
From saturday's AavsrtIser.l

nv United States Attorney Breckons
secured information regarding the
charges against him, as Mr.. Thwini
alleges his belief TO be, stirred up
hornets nest. The Governor and Sec
retary Mott-Smith were very much
concerned, and at once set on foot
m investigation which made 1t cleal
that whatever information Breckon'
may have had or may not have had he
did not get it from the Governor S
Office.
f'The matter is very serious one,
said Governor Frear "If it were true
we would be more interested in know
ing it than anyone else. If untrue II
is serious charge to bring against
the employees of the Office without proof.
Mr.. Thwing called on me at noon to
dav and said that he did not think he
had gone as far in his statements re
carding the leak as the Advertiser rep
resented him as going, though he prob
ably did.
ue ignores the fact that he has
talked of this matter with number
of people, and that number of peo'
ple were interested with him in thii
matter, and that twenty people ha
signed one of his documents, and as
sumes that because, as he supposes,
Mr. Breckons knew about the matter
that therefore he got it from this of
fee.
"Mr. Breckons says he did not get
his information from this office or any
attache or employe of it, and the whole
trend of the evidence is that he did
not. In fact it is certain that he die
not"
Secretary Mott.Smith went to SC,
United States District Attorney Brec-
kons early in the forenoon and was
assured by the latter that he had re-
ceived no information regarding the
matter from the Governor s office. Mr.
MottSmith feels that the matter is
one that concerns him personally as he
is in charge of the office force. He
gave out the following interview re
garding the matter.
al sent for Mr.. Thwing to substan-
tiate the statements accredited to him
in the morning paper, that informn
tion had been given out by the staff
of the Governors s office. On this mat
ter j called on Mr.. Breckons this morn
ing and he stated he had already given
an interview to the papers denying a
untrue any claim to that effect mad
by Mr.. Thwng. Now it is important
to me to know whether Mr.. Thwing'i
statement is true or untrue, since the
staff is directly under me. If true, /
will not, as head of n department of
this Importance, tolerate such n state
of things for moment; if untrue such
statements will not be tolerated by me
for moment.
'fMr. Thwing called on me and o
the grounds so far submitted in sup
port of his statement, which he sal,
was substantially as reported, am sat
isfied that his conclusions were unwar-
ranted.
"Mr. Thwing stated that he based hii
conclusion upon the assumption tina
Mr.. Breckons knew all of the twent,
names although he did not know tha
fact to be SO; upon the further assump
tion that Mr.. Breckons had told Mr.
Lightfoot that he knew the said name
although he (Thwing) did not knoN
that to be SO; upon the further assump
ton that Mr.. Lightfoot had correctly
reported to him (Thwing) what Mr..
Breekons had told him (Lightfoot) al
though he did not know that to be so;
and upon the further assumption tina
one of the twenty names who signet
the paper had given out such informa
tion although he did not make any ef-
fort to ascertain whether this wer.
true or not since he regarded any such
inquiry as unnecessary, and upon th'
single fact that he knew that a copy
of this paper was in the Governor s
office"
p. C. Jones, whose name has been
connected with the matter of the
charges against District Attorney
Breckons, says that he with Others
signed letter asking that an investi
CATION be made of the charges against
Mr.. Breckons. He did this, he says,
not as an enemy of Breckons nor neces
sarily with the belief that the charges
were true. But they were serious and
if true he ought to be removed, and
if they were not true he ought to be
yindicated.
Among the charges against District
Attorney Breckons is one based on tho
testimony of PAX Chez, a Chinese whos'
wife, Portuguese woman, was grant
ed a divorce by Judge De Bolt two o
three days ago from him ON the groun'
of cruelty. PAX Chez is or has beer
an employe of the Man Sang Vat Po, {
Chinese newspaper. PAX Chez mad
complaint to Breckons against his wifi
and a warrant was issued for her AZ
rest under the Edmunds' act. Whel
she was brought in she came with
babe two weeks old in her arms, an
Breckons refused to have her sent l.
Jail. In his statement, which is quot
ed in the charges sent to Washington
PAX Chez after relating his trouble
says he went to Breckons' house, an
there, 81 tell him If you don't hel
me in this case l will print it in tn
newspaper Then he tell me to &c
out of his house"
Breckons says that PAX Chez doe
not tell the whole truth about tn
incident. He says that PAX Chez di
make that threat to him, besides otl
ers, and that after calling his Japane
servant and his bulldog, he ordere
PAX Chez ont of his house, fguratiyel
kicked him out.
Thwing Asks Explanation.