Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-03
HOMESTEADING AND LABOR TROUBLES FIGURE IN
HEARING THIS WEEK BEFORE SECRETARY FISHER

Ashford: You were attorney gener-
al during the Japanese strike, Mr.
Lindsay?
Lindsay: No, not during the Jap
anese strike
Ashford: You were here?
Lindsay: Yes.
Ashford: Who was your predeCeS-
sor in office. Mr. Lindsay?
Lindsay: Mr. Hemenway
Ashford: | would like to ask Mr..
Hemenway-- Mr.. Hemenway, will
you state whether, during the Japan
csc strike either you or the governor
commissioned Mr.. Kinney and Mr..
Prosser or either of them as deputies
OF the attorney general?
Hemenway: | did
Ashford: Was that with or with
out the sanction OF the Governor?
Hemenway: Without it.
Ashford: Where was he?
Hemenway: | think he was on Ha-
wall or Maui.
Ashford: Did he return to town
during the time that those gentlemen
were acting in that capacity?
Hemenway: l believe he did.
Ashford: Did you acquaint him
with the fact?
Hemenway: | may have mentioned
it incidentally.
Governor: learned it before re-
turned to town.
Ashford: During that time can you
say whether those deputies of yours
were instrumental in procuring the
raiding of private premises and the
looking over of private safes and 9TH
er repositories of papers for the pur-
pose of securing evidence for the
prosecution?
Hemenway: They were instrument
al in breaking open the safe, but that
was before they held the commission
from me as deputies attorney general.
Ashford: After they held that
commission they were still engaged
in that general enterprise. i.
Hemenway: They were prosecut-
ing and were looking naturally for
evidence. have good reason to be-
lieve that they did not break open any
more safes. III
Ashford: How many did they
break open? 4 "
Hemenway: So far as l know, one.
Ashford: Isn't it a fact that they
actually broke open one with dyna-
mite or other agency of that kind,
whereas another one they found the
lock was not shut, and they opened
that without the necessity of violent
measures?
'Hemenway: That may be-
Ashford: What police officer, If any
was along, if you know, at the time,
and conducted the proceedings?
s Hemenway: l think the High Sher-
iff. +
Ashford: That is, Mr.. VIM. Henry?
: Hemenway: Mr. Henry. E. r
ashford: You understand that he
vas acting under the instructions of
those gentlemen?
Hemenway: believe he was.
Ashford: During how long a period
did that series of acts occur?
Hemenway: About day and
Eight. ..
Ashford: Did the administration,
either through yourself or through the
Governor, do anything to discounten-
ance those acts and restore the prop
erty and papers to tie parties?
Hemenway: l might say that the
administration strongly disapproVed of
The methods which were followed, but
they did not return many of the pa
pers
Ashford: And the administration,
OF which you were at the head, name
ly the legal administration, went
ahead and used that evidence for the
prosecution?
Hemenway: We did
Ashford: There was no search war
rant or anything of the kind?
Hemenway: Not during this period:
Ashford: Do you know if there
were any considerable number of ar
rests made without warrants about
that same time and of that same
class?
Hemenway: There were some, Mr..
Ashford, | do not know how many?
Ashford: Do you know of a system
that was in vogute at that time of
taking number of men into custody,
looking them in the station house,
holdingt them for forty eight hours I'M
der the pretext that the law allows a
man to be held for that long, and then
al the end of that time release him
and then rearrest him?
Hemenway: | do not know that
any such system as that was follow
ed
Ashford: Well, you practically gave
them full swing?
Hemenway: Yes, l left matters
very largely to the care of Mr. Kin
ney and Mr.. Cathcart. Mr.. Cathcart
being directly in charge of the general
prosecution.
Ashford: think that is all l want
to ask Of Mr.. 4Iemenway
Fisher: The Mr.. Kinney you men
toned, was that Mr. W. A. Kinney?
Ashford: Yes.
Governor: In the testimony-in the
matter of the second safe, the owner
accompanied the officer and it was
oEened with his acquiesence. | learn
ed of those facts when | was on Ha-