Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-25
.PROBEOF WAHIAWA GAMBLING And
BRIDE STORY GOES AGAINST GRAY

the prosecution. He TESTIFIED That he
wgs arrested in the raid made by
Gray the day after the affidavits were
fled that ne went TO Chang Chau's
Office right after being hailed out, that
Chang Chan told Alma, the banker of
the game and one of the affidavit
makers, Don't be afraid DO as told
you Say that You laid the officer 81
and everything will be all right
Then Charles +. Chillingworth. con-
Quoting the cross-examinatiop. qnes-
toned him. BY requesting the inter
prefer to translate very carefully he
brought out that what Chang Chau had
really said was, Don't be afraid to-
tell that you paid the officer IS a
week. DO that and 1t will be all right"
All Wing, anoeher chefa gambler ar
rested at the time OF the raid, was
next on the stand. He stuck close to
his declaration that Chang Chau had
said to Alma, Don't be afraid. Ii Is
my affair. You just say what ! said
TO you. Say that you gave the officer
IS and 1t will be all right But Chill
lingworth discredited his testimony by
proving that he had made statement
to the sheriff and then denied 1t TO A.
~. Cristy, deputy city attorney.
"Pancho villa a mid looking lit
tie Filipino, told of buying chefa tick
cts for Gray almost every day from
the first OF March and said that he
had been promised SO TIA raid was
made and convictions secured. Cross
questioned he declared that he had
not got the. SIS yet, but expected it.
This raised the first laugh Of the ses.
sion. The next one came when Chill
iingworth asked the sheriff II it was
coming out Of the incidental fund.
Pancho's testimony might have
helped Gray II he hadn't turned
around and pointed ont Alma, the
banker, and said that he had seen
him make the drawings every evening
from March ] to March 80 and had
told Gray about IL and pointed Alma
out to Gray. One of the points OF
Grays defense was that it was impos-
sible to stop the bank by arresting
runners and that the banker could not
be found except by raid.
A police officer who took part In
the raid, and the Chinese bondsman
who procured the release of the men
arrested in the raid on Ahina's bank
completed the list Of witnesses called.
The defense rested, then the prose
cution rested There was minutes
talk over whether the evidence should
be summed up or left to the commits
sion. Attorney Lightfoot ended the
discussion by asking for five minutes
to address the commissioners, and In
about two minutes pointed out neon
sistencies in the affdavits on which
the charges we're based and the testi-.
mony.
A. M. Cristy, first deputy city attor-
ney, replied that it was not the affi-
dayits but the testimony that the pro-
secution relied on, that the aim Of the
city attorneys office had been to sub
init all Of the evidence to the commits
sion and let II decide as to the truth
fulness OF contradictory witnesses.
The decision of the civil service
commissioners N the case OF Police
Officer Gray is nfal so far as the
sheriffs Office is concerned, and
Sheriff Rose has notified Gray of his
| dismissal. Not only is the sheriff.
powefless to fight against the commits
sion's decision, II he wanted to. but
| according to the statutes Gray has no
eight OF appeal to the courts to set
aside The commissions decision. So
Gray is ouI absolutely and unaltere
/ ably out.