Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-13
Two Members of Investigating
Committee Doubt Witnesses
Against Colleague

| submitted TO the mouse OF representa-
tives yesterday by William H. Craw
ford and Eugene X. Ala. the two
members of the investigating com
mittee who failed to sign the ma
| jority<report presented last week.
AS forecast by the Star-Bulletin
Crawford's report holds kupihea
! guilty only Of some negligence but
, not enough to Justify Circuit Judge
! AshfOrd's sweeping condemnation OF
| Kmpihea as responsible for the dein
Quency Of his daughter and his niece
Aus report in effect states be
| lief that kupihea was unfortunate in
having a bad daughter and also be-
lief that much of the discriminating
i testimony Of the two soldiers arrest
ed in company with the girls was
false and should not be weighed
, against Kupihea's version Of affairs,
Crawford's report says in part:
IN brief. Judge Ashford charges
Representative Kupihea with:
First: Conducting at his home a
series of entertainments which might
he fairly described as constituting a
disOrderly house.
Second; Inviting soldiers to his
premises to drink liquor and permit
ting them to drink liquor there.
Third lndulging in gambling
games on his premises, out of which
he may have reaped some benefit.
Fourth: Having a cottage in the
same yard with his own premises in
which he allowed soldiers to use un-
occupied rooms, furnishing them the
key thereto and which. he allowed
them to use, drinking liquor with
them for the purpose of drunken de-
,bauchery and allowed his niece and
daughter with his knowledge, sane
ton and approval to mingle freely
with the soldiers.
Fifth: That under such unwhole-
some relations as those, domestic re-
lations of such a vicious character as
that, the father and uncle had only
one thing to expect in regard to those
girls, and if they have gone wrong,
surely the going wrong, it seems to
me, should be attributed more dis
tinctly to his fault than to the young
men with whom he has thus thrown
them into contact
Il find in regard to the charges
made by Judge Ashford as follows:
In regard to the first, second and
third charges made by Judge Ashford,
there is absolutely no evidence that
any of the charges are true.
In regard to the fourth and fifth
charges, the statements are SO. con-
and the charges against
Kupihea are made by
men of such low character that L do
no believe they are proved.
I'm regard to the charge made by
the committee as a sixth cause of &C
ton, to-wit, that the prior delinquen-
cies Of his daughters had been called
to Kupihea's attention and he had
made no attempt to reform them or to
keep a more careful watch over them,
think that. this is true, but this is |
not a charge made by Judge Ashford |
and does not come within the charges
made by the court and therefore the
house of representatives has no
right to state any judgment on the |
matter.
|
1lution the duties of the judiciary |
is limited to ascertaining |
and reporting whether the. charges
are true. The house alone shall be |
he Judge of the qualifications of its |
)wn members and, therefore, l sub.
nit my report to the house for such
action as they deem proper in the
premises
Aiu's Report.
Representative Aiu sums up his
conclusions as follows:
81. disbelieVe the testimony of the
witnesses against Kupihea for the
ollowing reasons:
"1D That it is unusual for a man
o allow his premises to be ill-used.
"2) That his sister is not on speak
ng terms with him.
"(3) That from my observance of
he demeanor of the several witness
s., and upon considering the record
u each of them, | have grave doubts
Is to their sincerity and veracity.
oldham and Bradbrook are the
men who were charged with the seri-
Jus offense aforementioned, and who
'ucceeded in getting suspension of
heir sentence upon their version of
he story. The girls in question are
till of tender age, and | was very
much surprised to see that there are
men of the training and culture that
hese soldiers receive who are so de-
Graded as to entertain and yield to
he temptation of having intercourse
With females of tender age. This
act alone, to my mind, is sufficient
o cast discredit upon their testimony.
observed them on the witness stand
nd | noticed from their demeanor
hat they were testifying falsely in
ONE respects, and also noticed that
he fact of their being arrested,
harged and convicted had a great
cal to do with their testimony. So
ar as the committee has been adj
ised, Mr.. Kupihea has a clean rec
I'd. and it is unfair to my mind that
is clean record should be upset and
made to give way to the record of the
NO soldiers in question. AS to the
iris. the evidence shows that. they
ave always been headstrong and I'M