Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-19
DATA ON kEAL0HA CASE WHICH
WASBASISDF CRIMINAL ACTION

roll in the handwriting of John A,
.Kealoha, contained the name Of Da,
i Yid Nation. road oEerseer, for 20 days
lat $3.50 per diem, amounting to
sse,O0. above referred to. obtain
ed the information that David Mat
toon, the said road overseer, was
/ working as a clerk in the Office OF
the Laupahoehoe Sugar Company
which position he is now holding, and
HIS been for some time past
On the morning of Thursday. June
70, s1913, called up Mr. Wilson, the
lbookkeeper OF the Laupahoehoe SUI
gar Company at Papaaloa, over the
4 telephone and he Informed me, in an
fswer to my inquiry, that said David
Nation was working In his Office and
had been so engaged during the
i whole kof the month of May. 1913.
The pay roll for the month Of May,
1913, ON which the name of David Mat
toon appears for the 90 days. was for
the rock crusher plant near Papaaloa,
,distrfct Of North Hilo, and this mans
Warrantwas the only warrant on this
lpay roll which was. not assigned to
the Laupahoehoe Sugar Company. Da.
/ yid Nation was supposed to be road
oyerser for John A. Keaioha
Warrants Nos. 2a5. 246. 247. .24s,
$50, 255, 256, PSI, 25S. 259, ESQ. 263,
Ices, 271, 272, 273 and 275. lseventeen in
iaI) amounting 10 $279.25. and all dat
ed January 8, 1073s were for pay OF
laborers for the month of December,
1872. for work done in South Hilo I'M.
| der John a. Keaiolla as road superyis-
or Those warrants were all assign.
| ed to said Keai0ha The endorse
lments on these swarrants read first:
John a. KealOha.~ and then In Chi
nese characters the name of Bun
Kee. ascertained that the said Bun
Kee did business ii q small way in
groceries in a store immediate.
| ~ opposite the Mana Stables
lin HiIo, and diagonally across the
side street from the house in
which John "A. Kealoha lives with
James d. Lewis ! took the above
warrants to Bun. Kee and asked him
lif he had eashed the same and he
| told me that he had done so. and he
showed me by his books that John
Al. Kealoha had turned over these
warrants to him on the following ba-
| sis of settlement:
Accounts owing by laborers, of
which Kealoha acted as spon-
scr, some OF which accounts
were four months old $169.25
In payment Of personal cash
loan Is Kealoha . 5000
Cash advanced Kealoha at the
time the above settlement
was made go. -. i. go. 10000
ss7s.25
Antonio Marques. blacksmith at
the North Hilo Stables. was practical.
/ by loaned BIZ j Fierra, the present
road supervisor to John A. Kealoha,
Ito assist him in Installing the rock
|crusher plant for the district OF North
Hilo at Rapaaloa. Antonio MARQUES
was receiving as blacksmith at the
North Hilo Stables. daily wage Of
$3.50, which wage. per diem, he had
IreceiFed regularly for some consider.
able time past In the presence Of
Vierra, the South Hilo road supervis-
/ or, Kealoha offered Marques the sum
Of $500 per day for the temporary
work at North Hilo, progidbA Vierra
would release the man for 70 or
three weeks at the longest IN
the presence Of Kealoha, to
so release Marques. Kealos SO
agreed to pay MARQUES $500 De y,
which MARQUES then and ther9 {.
cepted This conversation and az Ne-
ment took place about the end of
April, 1913 and 1t was Immediately
after the arrangement. as above, that
Antonio MARQUES went to North Hilo
and was employed as blacksmith at
Papaaloa for John Kealoha.
$3.50 for 81 ! Day.
On the pay roll for May, 49, 10. for the
rock crusher plant, North Hilo per-
manent improvements, (which is tbs
same pay roll on which David Mattoon
appears as road oyerseer for $50 ,001
the name of Antonio Marques also APP
pears as machinist, warrant No. 91S.
MARQUES worked. as per this pay roll.
i rs, IA days, at $3.50 per day, making
a total amount of pay for said Mar
q,,es Of sl44.4o. This warrant was
assigned to the Laupahoehoe Sugar
Company, Marques claiming that he
received in cash from Kealoha his
weekly pay Consequently. Marques
never saw the warrant which was as
signed to the Laupahoehoe Sugar
Company. and I am OF the opinion
that the same procedure was worked
in the North Hilo pay rolls as was
regularly dome by Kealoha in the
South Hilo pay rolls, namely. that
the men signed, the pay roll either in
blank as regards the DAYS worked,
rate per day. etc, or that their at.
tention was not specifically called to
the amounts which appeared after
their names. and that the men were
paid from the time books rather than
from the pay rolls which were sent
to the county auditors office
Joe Correa, who-is now working as
foremansfor the Mana Stables in Hiie,
was for some time, q road luna under
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