The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-10-31
McDuffie Insists That Territory
Present Evidence in the Graft
Charges; Civil Service Commits
sicn Grants Week S Continuance
(From TLursday Advertis,r.l


Charges against Captain of Detect
ives McDuilie, for which he is now
under suspension, will be heard Eefore
the civil service commission week
from today, commencing at halfpast
eight in the morning. This was decided
last night at a meeting of the commits
SION at which Attorney Peters, repre-
senting the accused officer, and Deputy
Attorney General Smith, representing
Sheriff Jarrett, spoke.
The argument confined itself almost
exclusively to the Interpretation of the
civil service rules. Peters contcndod
that the rules made o speedy hearing
mandatory; that the commission was
not court Of law, but a summary
tribunal having supervision over Sheriff
Jarrett and the police department, and
that McDuilie WIS entitled to a hearing
at once.
Smith cOntended that under the rules
of the commission itself thirty days
were allowed for an investigation by
the sheriff, aud that the officers were
suspended pending this investigation
and were so notified.
- shall cndeavOr TO represent Sheriff
Jarrett, said the deputy attorney gen
eral, in answCr to Peters demand for
an immediate hearing. "The sheriff S
proper course of procedure was to sus-
pend these two men AS soon as rumors
of misconduct were heard. and he is
allowed thirty days to investigate; then
to report within that thiIty days and
notify the officers of his conclusions;
then if the charges were unfoundcd, to
rciustUte them, or il not to present the
charges
McDuflie's Appeal Out of Place.
"This investigation is not complete
1t is impossible to complete an investi-
gatiCn of this nature in ten DAYS. II
had tecn well it might have been done
but not under present circumstances
1t seems TO me that McDuiIic S appeal
iS entirely out of place at this meet
ing. Any other procedure except what
has been taken would be absurd. 1t
would be absurd to keep men on the
stan who are under investigation
| Everyone would simply work at cross.
purposes, and in suspcnding them pend.
ing investigation for the good OF the
service sheriff Jarrett was correct,
Peters answered at length, quoting
the rules and maintaining that il
smith 5 contentious We're correct the
sheriff could suspend for thirty days
rcinstate for one day suspend for
thirty days, rcinstatc for one day, and
SO on nd intinitum. 1t was not .hC
munihcent salary Of $3.50 month =
that mattered, Peters said, but it was
the fact that McDuic was suspended
and that the charges had been present
| cd before this meeting
Need Time to Investigate.
As for the length of time needed to
investigate, he said, the "mOrning or
gan of the sheriff had stated that in
vestigation had been going on since q
time previous tn McDutle S departure
which had been month and halt
ago, ''That is, he concluded, 'if you
are to believe anything you read IN
The Advertisers
Smith answered that the charges
handed to the officers were not so much
charges rs they were information for
those officers, given out in response to
constant clamor from certain people
aud because the attorney general S of
nee was getting tired of the con
stant h0wls of certain newspapers
This, he said. was the sole reason
for giving out the charges They
were not specific and il would be i'm
possible for those officers TO present
then defense because there were M
specific charges before the meeting on
some OF the counts,
Jarrett didn Z have the affidavit,
up his sleeve all the time, lie con
cmded, "As matter Of fact this Of
fce viii state now that sheriff jarrett
had no Ahidarils whateyer, And know
only iu general way what the inves
iiEutipu was about II waf the desiT,
OF this office 10 have an absolutely fiof
hHni iu lts investigation and Il wE'
only nn ihis UNDERSTANDING that "a,
took ID ap.
''Ihr Investigation lac not been GO
lnf on ln ihls 0ilifp f0f q month Ani d
haif RHs RlslFnei~ ~ u hN Mr
lhaNrr Wst a Nffl hefnre Mf fnunir re
tuWri. This ials ahoui spite Norh 7,
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