Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-09
Representative Held Guilty of
Contributing to Delinquency
of Daughter and Niece

A. announced in the second edition
Of the Star-Bulletin yesterday, Rep
resentative David NJ. kupihea of Oahu
vas found guilty OF nearly every SC,
riUus charge made against him by
Circuit Judge Ashford in the majority
report OF the house judiciary commit
tee. which had investigated the case
at the request OF kIpihe7. The re-
port was signed by Re- rcsentatives
Crockett and Coney and by Chairman
Rawlins.
The decision reviews the entire case.
including the causes of the downfall
Of Eva kupihea. the representative 5
young daughter. The report stated that
despite the fact that kumhe4 present
ed a key to the committee as evil
dence that it had not left his pos
session, it believed the key offered
by kupihea was a new one while the
key used b. William Rradbrook and
French Oldham, the two soldiers who
admitted illegal relations with Eva
kupihea, was an old one Both would
unlock the cottage door in which the
CarOusals were said to have taken
place and the committee stated its be-
lief that kupihea gave the soldiers tho
key
Kupihea Visited Cottage.
The committee held that the sol
diers were drinking intoxicants in the
detached cottage and that Kupihea
visited the place on several occasions,
that on Christmas day he visited the
cottage when Eva Kupihea and one
OF the other girls were present with
the soldiers and that language was
used in the presence Of the girls and
kupihea which no decent or respecta.
BILE person would tolerate.
Some Charges Not Upheld.
On some of the charges included
in Judge AshfOrd's sweeping condem.
nation, the committee found no evi.
dence on which to censure Kupihea.
Thus the committee finds no evidence
that Kupihea did not at his home
entertainments of the sort
which would justify its being called
a 'disorderly house." 1t is to be not
ed here that later on the committee
finds plenty of evidence Of carousals
at the other Kupihea house-that is,
the one not far away in which Kupi-
hea has a half interest. The commit
tee also does not find evidence to sup
port a charge of gambling ON the
premises, nor that soldiers were in
vited to bring liquor to Kupiheas own
home
The main part of the judges con-
dealing with Kupihea's
neglect of his daughter and niece
and the surroundings which he al
lowed, is upheld by the majority re-
port as submitted yesterday.
Report Is Cutting.
The committee went on to state:
AT some period during 1914, these
two girls were sleeping with the con.
sent of their father in a room imme-
iiately back of the two rooms before
mentioned in this report as being I'M
Ter his control Here for long Pc
'iod they we're quartered, while the ad.
oining rooms were given over to the
Use of soldiers who carried on drunk
en- orgies. Between one Of the rooms
used by one of the soldiers and the
one used by the girls was only wire
screen door, so that at any time they
could hear what was going on in the
lext room. About November, 1914,
or some reason best known to the
,ather, these young girls were put out
If this room with their belongings,
md their aunt, through sympathy
found them place to live in lat
iced porch, In the portion of the house
by her.
eft Girls Alone.
Representative Kupihea was we'll
lware of the character of these two
girls yet he permitted them to
,ccupy alone a room in a house hun
ired yards away from his own home. [
separated only by wire screen door
rom rooms where drunken soldiers
we're almost nightly indulging in the
widest debauches, and there is little
wonder that these young girls finally
became dissolute and fallen. Other
evidence shows that these young girls
IN many occasions and at night were
'een in company of soldiers and Mrs.
HUFFMAN, whose reputation, according
% Judge Whitney, was not of the best,
Inder circumstances and conditions
hat pointed out but one end, and that
vas their downfall. Policemen test.
led to these facts, and also as to send.
ng them home, and further that they
lad told the father of all the facts.
Yet with all this knowledge, we find
heir father placing them in a placel
where further acts of a similar char.
lcter were bound to occur. There is
evidence of acts of sexual intercourse
by these girls and the soldiers at Mo.
lnalua park and at the pineapple can
lery in Kalihi, and at least on one
occasion in the house hereinbefore
but there is no evidence
hat the father knew anything about
/.
I'VE fully agree with Judge Ash
ord, that under such unwholesomel
conditions as these, and domestic con-
1itions Of such a vicious character as
hat, there could be but one result and
hat the downfall Of these young girls
md the ruination of their lives. De-
orived at an early age by death of a
guiding hand and watchful
are, it became the bounden duty Of
heir father to watch the more closely
)Yer them and nv his advice and in