The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-07
IAUKEA TELLS IT
To HEMENWAY
frrom weanesdey.s AdvertIser.l

sheriff to permit the opening up of
Iwilei.
The Sheriff called on the Attorney
General yesterday morning and was
closeted with him for some time. At
torney General Hemenway said that
the Sheriff had made a complete state
ment of the matter to him and had
asked him to investigate it. What the
Sheriff told him, he said, had not add
cd anything new or further than has
already been published.
81 have already begun an investiga
tion of the matter,' said Attorney
General Hemenway yesterday after
noon. ''T have begun this investiga-
tion at the request of the Sheriff lust
as 1 would investigate any matter call.
ed to my attention nv an Official or by
anyone else of any responsibility. or
who made statements that prima facie
justified an investigation. If suffi-
cient develops, / shall present the mat
ter to the grand jury
Sheriff 1aukea says that he believes
that what he himself can testify to,
with what Officer Townsend can testi-
fy to, and the statements that Isoi has
made constitute sufficient evidence to
warrant the presentation of the matter
to the grand Jury. and that is the rea
son, therefore. that he decided to put
the whole matter in the hands of the
Attorney General.
fsoi, il is said. has made written
statement in japanese of his entire
connection with the Sheriff and with
the 800 note He alleges that when
the fact that the Sheriff had given a
note to him became public. the Sheriff
got the note back, giving in its place
note for 800 to Townsend, the lat
ter, presumably, becoming responsible
for the payment of the amount to
Isoi. In regard to this note the Sheriff
says:
''T told Townsend to bring the note
I had made to Isoi to me, as / wanted
to pay it, When he brought it, how
ever, ] did not have the money, so 1
made note instead to Townsend,
which he took up for couple of days
until / could pay it"
ayes; / got back the Isoi note from
Jsoi." said Townsend, "and brought
it to the Sheriff. He made out an
other note to me in its place, which
| rave to Isoi."
Townsend, whom Iaukea now in ef-
iect accuses of completely in Isoi IS
fort to bribe him, says: cat the
me Isoi requested me to be interpre-
T. refused three times. i told him
get some other interpreter. When
insisted / told the Sheriff and en-
sized to him that / was only acting
.nterpreter and that he must not
ssder me as middleman in any sense.
eriff agreed to it and therefore | in
preted.'
A purported translation of Isoi Is
written statement is as follows:
with reference to the one hundred
dollar note of Sheriff Iaukea, which is
attracting the attention of the public,
/ would say that many disinterested
people have been quoted as having con-
nection with this matter. While wish
to find no fault nor desire to make
trouble for anybody. wish to mention
first my relationship to Breckons, and
then dwell on Iaukea.
'Since July, 1908, I have considered
Mr.. Breckons as a relative and on that
account on secrets have been kept
away from Mr. Breckons because of
his honesty. In December, 1904, and
March. 1905, borrowed $3.50 from him
for opening a store in Honolulu and for
repairing houses ofahny parents in
Japan, on account ferehich generous
act of Mr.. BreckonST have the great
est appreciation of him.
when | returned the money with
interest thereon to Mr.. Breckons. he
was angry because of the interest
added to the amount of $780, Breckons
banged his table and said, I am not
a money-lender. l simply loaned you
that amount because you said you
needed it very badly He refused to
accept the interest.
up to the present time Mr.. Breckons
has not received nor accepted even
one-half cent interest from me.
ION the night of April 9TH, Iaukea
accompanied by three or four officers
came TO Iwilei and ordered me Usoi)
10 close tthe stockade the following
night, stating that If his orders were
not carried out arrests would surely
follow, no matter whether here or II
any other portion of Honolulu.
therefore gathered the women and tolt
them to close, according to Iaukea'
order. Nevertheless the women aske'
me repeatedly to work for the reopen
ing of this place, but declined to con
slider the proposition. as l intended t
go into the pineapple business.
Il knew at the same time that tn
women would start business elsewhere
On that account / interviewed Iauke
about the matter at the police station
He stated that while he personally ha
no objection to the opening of Iwile
officially he could not favor the propo
sition, as he had sworn to enforce tn
laws of the land.
1.-The missionaries said Iaukea
had requested that Iwilei be CLOSED
but If the majority of the people too
a different view from that of the mis-
sionaries he would consider the propos
tion.'
II sought the opinion of a few prom
inent people about Iwilei, and they a
condemned Iaukea's action. The
promised to see Iaukea about the ma
ter.
1.-The peoples petition which WI
presented TO me was signed principal
by the laborers. exclusive OF the wei
known people. and on that account
could not yield to their Wishes sa
Taulraa