Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-09-05
Thursday, August 10, 1908,
q A. NJ
Testimony Of c. p. iaukea.

MN MiINER oN--
Q. Your name is C. p. Iaulsea, is It
not? A. Yes, c. p. Iaukea.
Q. And since January, 1907, you
have been Sheriff of the County of
Oahu? A. have.
Q. will ask you whether you have
with you, Sheriff, note signed by you
and dated about May list in favor Of
one lsoi? A. have.
@. Who filed out the blanks on
this note? A. did.
q. i see there Is marked across
the face of the note the words paid
by issuance of new notes." do you
recollect when that new note was
issued? A. The day that note was
brought to me, when 1t was due.
q. June LIST? A. About June LIST
or End, whenever II was due.
Honolulu, May LIST 1908.
500.
month after date promise to pay
to the Order of T. Isoi One Hundred
Dollars. at Honolulu, value received
with interest at per cent. per
annum.
No. Due
c. p. IAUKEA.
Paid by issuance of new note
c. p. IAUKEA.
Endorsed N. lNOUYE
@. Have you the new note that Is
referred to on the face of the old
note? A. have not.
q. What has become of that note?
A. Will you let me now explain.
destroyed the note when the 800 was
paid-about two or three days after
wards. I got the money and paid the
new note, the substituted note.
q. About what was the date Of the
payment of that substituted note? A.
About two or three or four days after
the due date of this note.
@. What negotiations did you have
In reference to the borrowing Of this
800. A. Well about the end of April
last ] asked Townsend, a police officer
in the Special and Detective Service,
II he knew where could get the loan
OF 800; that had this amount to
pay and that l would consider II a
personal favor II he could help me
raise the money. Townsend said he
did not know. but that he would try
and get the money from some of his
friends, this was late In the afternoon
after Office hours. The next morn.
ing Townsend came to me and said
that he had succeeded in getting the
money and will bring 1t in a little
later. When he brought the money
to my Office ! asked him who was
to make the note payable to, he said
friend of his, T. Isoi. | asked him
about the interest he said his friend
did not want any, that It was-the
money was given to him as personal
accommodation. then took out my
note book, filed out the note as re-.
quested, signed II and gave II to him.
When the note became due | asked
Townsend to bring It to me so that |
could pay 1t, and when he did bring
the note ! didn't have the money.
Some rent that l expected in that day
and which the tenant, my tenant.
promised to bring in didn't come. so
] said to Townsend If Isoi, the holder
OF the note, would object to my CIV
ing him, issuing a new note to Town.
send, who had negotiated the loan
for me. and | would see that II was
paid as soon rs ! got the money,
which ! expected In any moment.
The man did not bring the money In
for three or four days afterwards
$100-$l25. then told Townsend to
bring me the substituted note. | paid
him the 800 and then destroyed the
substituted note. The original note
was In my desk at the time.
q. How was that substituted note
made out, do you remember? A. The
substituted note? IL was made out
payable to Townsend for the same
amount--a demand note. On demand
promise to pay wrote II out my.
self.
q. And that note was endorsed by
Townsend over to Isoi? A. think
so.
@ Had Isoi been pressing you for
payment of the 800 note? A. No
sir.
@. 4 Or had he requested you OF
made any demand on you at all for
payment? A. No, sir.
@. What was your idea In taking
up the original note and substituting
the note to Townsend? A. Because
did not want my note to get back In
the same hands. l wanted to take II
up.
First Learned Of Isoi,
@. For what reason? A. Because
found out after had given the first
note, that the Isoi mentioned In thai
note was the same Isoi of Iwilei.
@. When did you first find that out
do you remember? A. About-with
In week think after | gave the
note.
Q. From what source? A. I fount
out from Mr.. Townsend, Isoi, MAJ
by the name of lsoi, this same Iso
OF lwilei, came to my office one da.
after | had given the note, three o.
four days after, to ask me II ha,
changed my attitude as to the closinl
of lwilei; that he had heard rumor
to that effect; that | would consen
to open Iwilei during the time tina
the feet was going to be In Honolulu
told Isoi through Townsend, the of
cial Interpreter, that the rumors tina
he had heard were not true that