Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-03

LlHuSdE. No, not during III" Jap
anese strike.
Ashford: You were here?
Lindsay: Yes.
Ashford: Who was your predece5-
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
Prosser or either of them as deputies
or 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:. | believe he did.
Ashford: Did you acQuaint him
with the fact?
Hemenway: | may have mentioned
il 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 nae as deputies attorney general.
Ashford: After they held that
commission they were still engaged
in that general enterprise.
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.
Ashford: How many did they
break open? -" -
Hemenway: So far as know, one.
Ashford: Isn't it 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
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Hemenway: That may be.
Ashford: What police officer, IL any
was along, if you know, at the time,
and conducted the proceedings?
Hemenway: l think the High Sher-
if. .a
Ashford: That is, Mr.. VIM. Henry?
Hemenway: Mr.. Henry:
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 a day and a
right.
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: / 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.
a shford, do not know how many?
Ashford: Do you know of a system
that was in vogute at that time OF
taking a number of men into custody,
looking them in the station house,
hCldingt them for forty-eight hours un-
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
end 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
Ashford: l think that is all 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
opened with his acquiesence. learn
ed of those facts when | was on Ha-
v ali and was very much put out. AS
soon as | returned | ordered All IN
Iestigation. disapproved very strong
iv and gave orders that nothing-thlt