The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-11
SLEUTH MANUEL
HAS A BAD DAY
Is Held for Trial and Also
Suspended From the
Force.

David Manuel, accused of having
burglarized the residence of the late
Fred Wundenberg, has been COM
mitted to the Circuit Court for
trial on a charge of assault upon an
old man, and summarily suspended
from duty as member of the detec-
tive force under Chief of Detectives
Kalakiela
Manuel appeared in police court
yesterday forenoon to answer to two
separate charges of assault upon one
S. Kaluna, a Hawaiian. The first
charge arose out of family difficulty
in which Kaluna was arrested for as
sauit upon one Julia during domes-
tic alteration over money matters
Manuel was charged with having at
tempted to arrest Kaluna without a
warrant, during the course of which an
unprovoked assault, according to the
testimony adduced yesterday morning,
was made upon Kaluna.
The second charge was for an as
sault upon the same man because the
latter had swern to an affidavit eharg-
ing Manuel with having burglarized
the Wundenberg house on Pacific
Heights. Because of this affidavit,
Manuel, according to the warrant, as
sauIted Kalnnil. The latter asked that
Manuel be placed under bonds to keep
the peace.
When the testimony was finished
yesterday morning, Judge Andrade sent
for Sheriff Jarrett. He stated to the
Sheriff that jury trial had been de-
manded, and that took jurisdiction out
of his hands, but as committing mag
istrate he would commit the defendant
To the Circuit Court and fix his bond
at $3.50. However, as the testimony
showed that Manuel had committed an
unprovoked assault upon Kaluna, and
as an affidavit had become matter
Of record to the extent that Manuel
was accused of having committed
burglary, he felt that he should rec
ommend that the Sheriff suspend Man
uel from the police force, as the man
was not fit to act as an officer.
Sheriff Jarrett Immediately suspend
ed Manuel from his duties as a detee-
tive. The affidavit referred to, and
which was produced by Glenn Quinn,
attorney for Kaluna, reads as follows:
Honolulu, March J., 1909.
I, Kaluna {k), of Honolulu, Coun-
ty of Oahu, do hereby assert and
testify to certain robbery that I
saw with my own eyes committed
by David Manuel, as follows:
On certain night after the death
of Fred Wundenberg who lived on
Pacific Heights, David Manuel came
and got me, accompanied by two
Portuguese boys, about 10 O'Clock
at night, and told me to accompany
them to assist in bringing some
thing that was too heavy for them
to bring. We went up the Pauoa
horseshoe road little above the
schoolhouse to where the road had
been strewn with macadam. David
Manuel said that they could not go
any further as the wheel sank in
the macadam.
On arriving there saw an iron
bank safe on wheelbarrow, and
they then commenced to tie the
front part of the wheelbarrow with
rope that they brought, and David
Manuel told me to lift the wheel
barrow by the handles while they
three pulled the rope until we got
to the house. We then lifted it
into David Manuel's and his wife
Julia's room. David Manuel told
me to go and get crowbar outside,
which 7 did, to break the safe open
with while he hammered with a
chisel. When it was broken open
David Manuel said he thought there
was money in it, but when we look
ed into it there were only books
and dirt in the partition between
the irons.
We then went to bed leaving the
safe and books standing in David
Manuel's room until the afternoon
of the next day when came home
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