Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-29
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the reason that the persons or firms
aggrieved had made no complaint.
This statement was forthcoming
when Mr. Schumap as president oil
the brewery, was asked 10 answer the
charges made by the city and county
attorneys office that the directors OF
the brewery were largely responsible
for the getaway of Charles G. Bart,
lett, erstwhile president and manager
of the company.
"Let EN- Co"
THAT has been custom: or rather
method of procedure In these is
lands" Mr.. Schuman said. Il have
been here 81 years, and. while ! do
not say ii is right, still, 1t has been a
custom. ] know of entertainments
and forgeries in practically every
large bank and commercial house in
Honolulu, and the persons have never
been prosecuted. / know Of but one
instance of a prosecution. That was
in the case of Chinaman In local
bank, about three years ago. Even in
the big sugar houses and the churches.
and in bodies handling charitable
funds, people have embezzled and
have been allowed to get away.
Il can't remember of anyone ever
being brought back, with the excep-
ton Of the Chinese. could count
dozens of men who we're connected
with local institutions who left the
territory and who have never been
heard from. This has not been lately,
however.
az think the man who is trying to
evade the law Is being as badly pun
ished as the man who is in jail. !
would rather be in Jail than know that
people were after me all the time.
One could have more peace in jail.
Mr.. Sehuman declined to talk on the
charges that the brewery directors are
largely to blame for Bartlett's get.
away.
81 was elected president three days
after Bartlett landed In San Francisco,
so really do not know anything about
it," he explained.
Wadman Scores Inactivity.
DR.. John Wadman, superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League, declared to-
day that both the brewery directors
and the city and county attorneys Of
fee are equally to blame for Bartlett
not being located and brought back to
Honolulu for trial after he had been
indicted on six counts by the terri
torial grand jury-four for embezzle-
ment and two for forgery.
tSTrY1. - ox,nh11,1o1 Rv-,,,, ff1o
brewery, he sinned against public con-
science" he told the Star Bulletin to-
day. For the sake of public welfare
the public has a right to know why
the officials the city and county at
torney and his deputy-should not do
their duty in bringing to justice a man
who has so outrageously offended
against the public welfare"
He added that, in his opinion, the
city and county attorneys office should
have taken immediate steps to locate
Bartlett and bring him back, whether
the brewery officials requested 1t or
not
What are these men in office for,
If it is not to maintain law and order?"
he continued
"If embezzlement is not a crime
against public order, then what is it?
In spite of the fact that the board
of directors of the Honolulu Brewing
& Mating Company not only did not
assist the liquor board in its investi-
cation of Bartlett's sin against public
conscience. it really endeavored to
block the way so that at one time it
almost seemed as If 1t were going to
secure an injunction against the
boards investigation and to bring Fl.
Gooding Field to task for a so-called
violation of confidential privilege.
Brewery Directors Should Have Acted.
THE board of directors of the brew
cry has a public trust to discharge on
behalf Of the stockholders, so that in
their attitude toward the whole Incl
dent the directors were not only try
ing to shield themselves individually.
but at the same time, as corporate
body, they were emitting the duty
they owed the stockholders whom they
''In being a public body, therefore.
they also sinned against public con-
science.
"1f the brewery directors had been
men with strong convictions and a
keen sense to the best interests of:
public welfare, they would have come
forward and cooperated with others in
the endeavor to maintain the claims
of justice and order"