The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-22
Charge Of Selling Liquor TO Sol
diers Clearly Proven But They
Held Out For AcqplttaI =. I.

49, = 49,.
Eight members Of jury in fedora
court who held out for aequittal Of FL
'esa Bolton, charged, with selling liquor
to soldiers, were snmmafily disehatged
from service on the petit Jury by fed,
'ernl Judge Horace w. Vaughan, yes.
terday, on the grounds that the case was
50 clear for sonsiction that they are
shown to be not ct for jury service in
criminal cases. HI I'd, ...- ..
The discharge, Of the men from the
petit jury, under circumstances that are
unusual In federal practise, was or.
dered as a. penalty for negligence in
their duties as jurors. When the fore
man Of the jury, H. G.. Bailey, an
1ouneed that the jury had been nm
able to agree on a. verdict, Judge
Vaughan demanded the names Of the
men who had held out for acquittal and
hey were furnished by the foreman
The court promptly ordered that these
men be dismissed from service in the
oetit jury. s. l''
Case Is Clear s-E
II want to say to these jurors tina:
his is perfectly clear case," saie
/ he court. 20 You have allowed the de
PENDANTS attorney to influence you
tgainst the government and I don 4
want men Of that kind on my jury"
h The Jurors whose names were given tC
the court pnd who were discharged
from the court room were as follows,
Simeon Akaka. employed by the tvoP
/ Hamm. Young Co :9Sidpey Turner, May
y Co; Vida Thrum. Of the Thrum
RoolS Storei Ernest Renkin, T., Rum
gold ef Wall & Dougherty; g., Blanca
Edward McInerny, Jr., and Clarence
Macfarlane. The four who reported
that they had held out for conviction
were requested to return this morning
Cor further service. 49, y. q.
Unduly Influenced, Says Court
. The point which the court is believe
to have referred to in the charge thai
the men had been unduly influenced II
that of an attempt. on the part of the
defense TO show that the whole prose
,cution was "frame-up" on the part
of soldier named Druke who, it was
sought to show, had offered the six
witnesses against Mrs. Bolton IN in
ducement to testify against her.
I An objection on the part of Unit
led States Attorney Huber to this ties
timony as hearsay and not competent
in view of the fact that Druke could
not be produced to testify. the court
"uled out all reference to Druke from
he testimony and instructed the jur'
o disregard the inference which thu
defendants attorneys had eontrived t.
have written into the record. judy
Ranks. assistant United States Attor
rev, stamped the whole thing as an at
''empt on the part Of the defendant t.
'mnnte Irregular methods to the fedora
authorities.
The objections made bv the govern
0ert to this line of testimony wer"
."str inPd nv the court in every re
meet. and it is understood that thr
orrt = belief that these tactics Of th'
'eferse succeeded in spite of hiT
aused the unusual action to be taker
'ay They Bought BooEe
Mrs. Bolton was held on three count
inder the federal regulations agains'
cling HquOr to soldiers or sellin'
ianor at all within the five mile radiu
rom military reservation. The ties
imonv Of the soldiers was to the ef
'ect that they had purchased both bee
nd liquor from the defendant herself
% rebuilt this evidence the defendan'
laced eleven Of her former roomer
the Occidental on the stand to test
;" that thrv had never seen nor hear
- li"nor being sold on the premises
Eight men will be selected from To-
Aw venire this morninG to take tn
'n"" Of the eight discharged 10 TIL
Hmrinin0 eHscs that are to come be
IRE the petit jury,
w g.