The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-05
MANY CHARGES
AGAINST A JUDGE
Continued from Page One.)


the association. JUDGE Kepoikai was
present at the meeting while the
! charges against him and the afidavits
supporting them were read, having been
sent for in order that he might know
what he was up against and be allowed
an opportunity to prepare his defense.
At times, during the reading, he shook
his head sadly and in mute denial. At
other times he broke into the reading
| and entered into explanations of GER
| tain points, desIstlng after it was point
| ed out that his off-hand explanations
would do him more harm than good.
The meeting was fallv adjourned until
one week from today, when kepoikai
will present his defense.
The attendance at the meeting was
the largest. at any of the association
meetings for very many months and
the interest shown bv those gathered
to hear the formal charges against the
Judge was intense. Many of the mem
bers were plainly for the accused, even
the one presenting the charges pre-
facing them by stating that to do so
was one of the most unpleasant duties
that had ever fallen to his lot
When Chairman w. A. Kinney
raped for order there were present w.
w. Thayer, Lyle Dickey, L. G.. KEEL
logg, j. A. Magoon, l.. NJ. Lightfoot,
c. f. Peterson, Judge Andrade, III. E.
| Cooper, A. G. NJ. Robertson, w. O..
Smith, Judge Perry, F. E. Thompson,
Judge Stanley, c. +. Clemens, A. l.. G..
Atkinson, w. A. Greenwich, r. D. Mead,
Judge KIngsbury, A. u. Correa, A.
Lewis Jr., A. F. Judd, D. H. Case, l..
j. Warren, D. L. Wilmington, E. NJ.
| Watson, P. /. Weaver, I'll. G. Middle
ditch, Charles Achi, w. T. Rawlins, G..
H. Olson, NJ. T. Prosser and Frank L..
Hatch.
There was good deal of fixing of
minutes after Secretary Greenwich had
presented them for the last meeting,
the members showing a desire to clean
up things as they went ahead and leave
no loopholes behind them for any trOu-
ble.. A committee report, recommend
ing that the association take no action
regarding charges laid against District
Magistrate w. A. Mckay, of Maui, by
Attorney j. Vivas was adopted without
debate Vivas was the Maui lawyer
who was sent to Jail for contempt by
the magistrate and whose ease came up
on habeas corpus proceedings a short
time ago. The report was adopted as
it was shown that no complaints had
been laid with the Attorney General,
the proper person to hear them.
Judge Cooper rose to question of
privilege before the Kepoikai matter
was reopened He statedsthat he wish
al ~, ~ Sfa MT
that d. H. Case was a candidate for
Kepoikai IS position, Mr.. Case having
assured him that he was not. He then
asked that his motion that Judge Ke-
poikai be endorsed for reappointment
be considered
At this stage of the game Kepoikai
was not present and after some argu-
ment and after County Attorney Case
had stated that he had formal charges
to bring. J. A. Magoon was sent out
to invite the Judge to come in, it be-
ing understood that he was close at
hand AS soon as the Maui Judge APP
peared after the status of the meet
ing had been explained to him, Mr..
Case was asked to present his charges.
Before stating these, Mr.. Case ex-
planned that the task was one of the
most unpleasant things he had ever
been called upon to do. Whatever he
had to advance was not, he wished I'M
derstood, of a personal nature. Per-
sonally, socially and fraternally he had
always enjoyed the most friendly rela-
tons with Judge Kepoikai, with the
exception of one incident. He was sor-
ry indeed to be present for such
cause but his duty as an attorney and
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zens of Maui forced him.
He then presented the four charges
which appear above.
In support of the first charge, that
of profanity and vulgarity in public,
he read the affidavit of W. +. Crockett,
of Wailuku, instancing four cases
where in public the Judge had used
expressions not tolerated in polite So
ciety, in one instance driving number
of people, including the reader and his
family, away from Sunday school
luau by the language used. An affidavit
of LUX Chan, Chinese police officer,
whom the Judge had struck twice with
a horsewhip in public, was read, and
the charge was also made that he had
quarreled unprovoked with Attorney
Crockett Just before the opening of his
court anu puDIIcI} ChItdtcHtu " bl61Ch-
snake him out of Waikiki.
Kepoikai interrupted the reading of
the affidavits to argue about the claim
of the policeman that certain moneys
were due him, but did not deny the
The second charge, that of too great |
political activity, was supported by af- |
from William Henry, of Laha- |
ina, chairman of the Maui Board of /
Supervisors and by H. NJ. Coke, editor |
Of the Maui News. The former stated /
under oath that Kepoikai acted on the /
Republican Central committee under |
the proxy of J. NJ. McVeigh and was /
pronounced and bitter in /
lfs craftsmanship and active in working !
,or the support of his favorites. Editor
Coke stated that the judge had been
active for years and had personally /
for certain candidates, re-
naming active until last month, when
lis retirement from politics was an
bounced in an inspired article in the
Maui paper.
No affidavits were presented in the
.harge Of the unsuitability of the jury
One of these. George
Waite was a brother-in-law of the
Judge; the other was Ben Lyons, the
udge's cousin. Lyons was a pleasant