The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-05-20
GRAF 7 PROBERS
HOLD SESSION
At PAHALA
Unwilling Witnesses Give
Damaging Testimony
Under Pressure.

(Mal oNcclal TO Inc huNehusViJ
HILO, May 1S.-Prosecutor Breek
ons aud the graft commissioners held
an interesting session at Pahala, Kau,
Friday. The main witnesses were po-
lice officers, from BOTH Kau and Kona.
They were examined on more or less
the same lines as were the Ililo officers,
namely in regard to the way in which
they have received warrants for their
pay, while at the same time assigned
warrants had appeared for the same
sums, which the officers had never seen.
Other new phases of the investigation
were also brought out, the defunct
county auto figuring IN one matter.
Unwilling Witnesses.
The officers were not very willing
witnesses; as a matter of fact, some
of them had to be reminded of the Sc
robustness of the giving false testimony.
Some Of them made statements which
they later on had to retract, or qualify
materially. They were made to swat
low their own words when they were
shown letters which they had them
selves written TO Auditor Mcguire. 1t
appears that Breckons has gotten hold
of a handful of Maguife Is letters from
various parties in the county, and APP
parently some of these are highly in
teres,ing.
The Kau witnesses subpoenaed were
Police Officers KAPPA, Kainoa, Kupuna,
Kauwe, j. w. Kuaimolku and Kainoa
Kawolu. These are the five whose
names appear again and again in the
records against purported $lS5 assign
ments. The commission did not secure
testimony from all of them. KAPPA
had died the previous Tuesday, Kainoa
Kupuna was at Kailua and Keauwe
was in Honolulu. They examined, how
ever, one officer who had not been sub.
puenaed, named II. j. Ahu. Deputy
sheriff Kekaula was present, but he
was not called.
Damaging Admissions.
Roth E<pa;molu and Kavou claimed
thnt tbev olwnvs rot their own regular
warrants. and admitted that they had
never seen thc assigned warrants which
were shown to them. 1t seemed sig
nifieant that the naifie o FIX etsiHla ap--
peared as the assignee on o large num-
Der of theme
Ahu s tsstimonStNAsNpartlcuiariy IN
terestins where lie connected up the
famous Hawan Loan commission. lie
had borrowed Sioo from that outht,
he SAID, ana IN payment the sum OIL
$io month was coiieeted from ms SUI
airy ior Ten months us wsii us %I.tvpai
month IN audition TO this, the natter
sum lepresexlhg lnoerese' ~ 3 y
VI the Mona wltnesaos, Depuey 2netf
WI Laharo was Inr',eu'afi in' SD,sa az.
nc was nv W. " w aoouS sne
warrant business, ana anong osne.
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Senator Baker was somewhat sim
liar witness. He gave evidence regard
ing the time he was member oil the
| liona police force. He testified that
he had given motto to the Hawaii 10,
moi Hui, an organization which loaned
| 'IVhtl, "'N - rien inVoi"hui anu
Mcguire were prominent officers. Baker,
also, insisted that he had never applied
co Mcguire for money. He had done
al his business through heolanui, he
aid.
Breckons produced another clineher
rom His bunch of Mcguire correspond
nee 1t was letter from Baker to
| Mcguire, asking Tor money. There were
others.
Baker admitted having written the
letters, but was not sure, he said, how