The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-05-25
POLICE AFF|DAv|TS
IN CLUBBING CASE
Admit Blows But Claim They
Were Given In SeIf-Defense
From Nasty Names


yesterday, II postponed its hearing of
the police brutality charges until to.
day at noon. II Is doubtful whether or
not an actual hearing of the charges
will be made; IL has not yet been de-
cided on, as q matter of fact, but il is
probable that the commissioners will
20 over the affidavits supplied by Sher'
III Rose and come to some conclusion
as to their diities in the matter.
Democrats yesterday expressed their
opinion that the commission would
probably throw the hooks into Rose
for political reasons, the election be-
ing less than two weeks of. They
,lisclaim any intention that Officer Ka,
lilinoku and his eonfreres, beat the
sailors from the Alert with their night
sticks for political reasons, =
Rose hlcd his affidavits, five in mum
Der yesterday, with the commission.
Declare own Innocence ...u =
The affidavits are naive in their de.
Tense. The first is by j. KealiihOohie
Makainai, Jr. He details the events
which led up 10 the alleged assault, en-
nmerating the rubbish cans which the
sailors Knocked over and the 0rientals
they pushed OF the side walk. He stat
cd that they were drunk. When he
came to the point Of the assault on the
sailors by the police he stated that Ka.
lilimoku "then pulled his club out and
struck at them y The affidavit there
and then discteetly ended. Further
events are left for the other affidavits.
Isaac Waiaolama, u police officer,
states in his affidavit the same pre-.
urinary details and admitted joining
in the fight but says that he did not
pull his club. -
Assaulted Man was Drunk ....
Hugo Kanae, who Is employed by a
protective agency, former police Of
iicer and now candidate for supervis-
or on the Democratic ticket, is another
affiant. He states that Kalilimoku hit
his man, meaning the sailor, and bran.
,lished his stick. He relates what he,
HlsO, claims to be extenuating circum.
stances, namely that the sailor was
drunk and called the officer names.
Joseph Kalaukoa confessed to hav.
ing accused sailor whom he saw run.
ming down the street "of doing some,
thing wrong" and arrested him when
. the sailor denied the soft impeachment.
5 He took him up to where kalilimoku
was playing solos on his sailors. Ka
lilimoku called 70 him that the man
had been pushing rubbish cans over
and he was accordingly marched to
the lookup.
Finally there is the affidavit Of s. X.
Kalilimoku, the accused officer, him.
self. This man states that he followed
the sailors up King Street; watched
them push the cans over and finally
asked them what they were doing that
for They answered, he claims, by
calling him a nasty name. The rela.
ton Of Subsequent events is hazy but
he states that he ''hit some of the
sailors for the purposes of protecting
myself.'' ".f '$ lE .... NtaE
Amazing Defense saars e.e
The defense, therefor, is that several
sailors who were drunk walked up King
Street from River to Smith Street
pushing rubbish cans into the cutters.
The officer followed behind them for
most of the instance. II might be re.
marked that the distance named is
three blocks but the first effort to stop
the sailors from their mischief was not
made until Smith Street was reaehed
Kalilimoku then asked the sailors, nc.
cording to his statement, what they
were doing, and they called him names
The melee commenced. Still accord
ing TO the affidavits, one of the sailors
cAfled up the street to some of his com
rades and asked for help because Hthev
were. being beaten up. The sailors
came to the rescue and the hight sLarL
ed. The afiidavits say there were not
more than six sailors present.. A ehiei
petty officer is mentioned as standing
by and doing nothing. He is described
as d sailor with a cap, by the Rose
instructed officers. '..' ,r.
One Sided Evidence f"@ .H
There is not O single affidavit pre-
scented from a DISTINGUISHED witness
The descriptions of the actual fight
are carefully wOrded with portions OF
il left out in each affidavit so that Il
makes it appear that the sailors started
the assault. There were too many af
fidayits filed, however. BY pieeing the
relation of each of them together II il
seen that the story upon which they
all agree is an actual confession OF
the charges preferred by Captain
Clark, the local naval commander, ex'
cept that the men actually dubbed
were not the men who were drunk anC
pushing the garbage cans over.
III Olhef WOfust hccOfhihB 10 Inc pO
lieemap, few sailors who were under
the influences Of liquor and misbehav
Z ing themselves were approached by AZ
officer and called him names, whereby
on he struck at him with his club, hi
him, and called for help. According
10 the beaten sailors, they were simply
within reach when policeman had
words with SOME other sailors.
The results Of the naval. investiga
tion, which is always most completed,
made, stated that the police did no
strike the sailor who had been mis-
behaving but several entirely innocen
naval men who were coming up be
hind. The afidayits avoid any direct
statement ON tnis point, Also the af
fidavits, by treating of separate in
eidents, make II appear that only one
sailor was hit, while there were actual
~ three sailors mauled around and ne
fore the naval surgeon with injuries.
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