Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-07
GRAND JURY WILL
BEGIN inquiry
TUESDAY MORNING
InguiSitoriaI Body viii Make an
Immediate Start Inyestlgat-
ina the Vice District

Developments in the campaign
against commercialiled vice and espe.
c:aliy Tor the closing up Of the so
called restricted wee district at lwilei
appeared to mark time today and to
await the resumption of courts and
governmental offices. Wednesday.
The grand jury Will begin its inye.;
tigaticns Wednesday morning and the
city attorney is ready 10 produce, such
witnesses as may De required by It,.
Y. Ahin is slated to answer two
charges in the police court. "
Petitions asking that Iwilei be not
closed are understood to number
about six and they are said to bear
over 210 names. Charles Huber, an
Iwilei businessman, who has seen the
petitions, gave this information to the
Star Bulletin today
II don't remember 10 whom the peti-
tions were addressed" said Huber,
but | understood they were to be
handed TO the grand jury. | under
stood they were circulated by Y. Ahin,
who is now under arrest on charge
of conducting disorderly house, or
by his attorneys"
Huber says the general text, as he
remembers il, of the petitions was
that undersigned respectfully petition
that inasmuch as Honolulu is a sea
port town and because there is sucn
great number of unmarried service
men here Iwilei be left undisturbed.
tarbed.
Sheriff Rose says he has heard OF
the petitions, but denies report that
enc bearing several names had al
ready been handed to him. He says
he has not even seen the papers.
IF such petitions are being cirep-
lated they should properly go to the
legislature" says Rose, for ! have
already taken the stand which the
petitioners are said to be taking"
1t is understood that large mum,
her of signers we're obtained in wi
lei
Y. Ahin, proprietor Of several
houses in Iwilei, is to be arraigned in
the police court Wednesday morning
on two charges of running disorderiy
houses in that district.
Investigation. Starts Wednesday
Initial steps toward an exhaustive
investigation OF conditions at lwilei
Hcnolulu's so-called restricted dis
;ilct," will be taken al o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon when the members
of the territorial grand jury will meet
! in the, judiciary building to act on rec
concentrations made by Circuit Judge
Clarence W. Ashford at the request OF
City Attorney Arthur nj. Brown.
Judge Ashford's recommendations
published in part in Mondays Star
Bulletin, are comprehensive, asserting
that the power of the grand jury in ar
investigation of this kind is practically
unlimited. The recommendations were
read at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon
| following which the members of the
jury held a brief meeting, probably tc
decide on the date for the initial in
vestigation meeting. No witnesses
were called.
Will Serve Needed Witnesses
City Attorney Brown said today
that his Office will attend to the sum
mCning of such witnesses that the in
quisitors may request. He has moi
Ieen notified, / oW ever, of what form
the investigation will lake-whetheI
The jurymen will investigate as a. whole
, or appoint special committee OF Its
members. 1t is probable that the re
suits Of the investigation will be out
! lined in full in the annual report O
/ the jury, due 1t the end of the year
Among those who heard Judge Ash
| ford's recommendations, ether thai