Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-21

TO the bank. After ! had made up
the payroll and submitted II 20 the :
county auditors Office. Then | w@Clc
get the money and sometimes | put Il
in the bank in my account because Ii
stood good for some of the Toys store
bills. These | would pay afterwaTd.
bills" he said +.
''BrecAons thinks" Kealoha contin-
ued, That put names of people on
the pay roll that never worked and
: kept the money. j could find all who
lever did il they would give me the
money to help look for them. saw
some OF them in Kau. Kona and kso-
lhala. Some of them have gone to sea
and are now on the eastern coast.
Told to Think it Over.
| Kealoha was asked what the usual
weekly. pay roll was for his district.
He said it ranged from $500 to s700I
and then grinned when he said:
l"Course, election times, sometimes as
much as 5000"
Some attempt was made to learn
just what Breckons had threatened to-
do to Kealoha, he being asked IL it
was true that he had been given until
the attorneys return at the end of
this week to make up his mind wheth-
er he would confess, IL guilty, or to
fight the case The supervisor says
THAT Breckons told him Ito think it
over or he would put it up to the
grand jury. = This last Kealoha cor
irected by saying that he meant COM
mission and not grand jury.
Ned Austin, former supervisor, ex-
plains the way the weekly paying OF
llaborers started and how securing the.
money to pay them was arranged. He
lsays, Many of the men were borrow
ing money at a high rate of interest
from the Hawaii Building Association
and | believed it a hardship for them
to have to do so. ! talked the matter
lover with Kealoha, who expressed q
i willingness to make our weekly pay
trolls, although he did not have to do
so. The bank agreed to let me have
the money, holding me personally re-
tsponsibIe until the end of the month
when the bills could be approved by
the board. / simply gave a personal
receipt for the amount of the pay roll
and this was taken by Kealoha to the
bank and the money drawn. l always
lchecked up the totals of the amount
Ito lie paid, but not the extensions. At
first | used to go to the bank with
Kealoha but afterwards did not
Additional Squandering.
For several weeks Civic Expert Field
has been carrying on an audit OF the
county road funds and intimated last
Iweek that he was about ready to make
some reports to the commission, but
1.-THE nature of these he refused to di-
Ivulge. He freely admitted though
that his investigations had shown
there had been additional squandering
-,of county money and that it was por-
5 lions of the road fund. He advised, In
to all questions, to read his re-
e port made to the hoard of trade last
! fall II which he pointed out extrava-
: ganees in the road department and
said that over sixty per cent OF the
money charged to road building was
= waste.
:. Speaking of this report, he said:
on will notice say in that report
7 the money was wasted by unscientifiC
and other methods" The expert en-
phasized the words, "other methods,
and continued, ''the representations
II made are coming true as shown by
the work of one detailed audit.
That Field is working on another
t line than the suspected padded pay
I rolls is evident this week. He has Wis
I lited many of the merchants to secure
0 statements of the purchases and cred
d its of lAealoha during past years. Tni'
a may indicate that he is following GU
a clue as to road supplies bought D!
1.-THE department, while Kealoha wal
overseer, or it may mean that he
trying to find out if the money Kealoh'
had in his personal account was KEEP
Ito pay store bills of laborers.