SOUTH SEA ISLE TRAGEDY PASSES American Samoa Quiets Down After Official Scandal Charges Disproved SAN FRJANCT9CO, Jan. 10. Amcrl 'can Samoa's beetle-Inspecting chief i of police- la (Sat of jail and ihu ludge who has siveh other jobs la again . holding court, aocpl'dlhg to Sdi l( i - from Tutnila. This change liaek i normal followed a naval ItiQUln which I resulted In dissipating sit i mpt bi a naval officer and a former newspaper news-paper reporter to control the naval ' administration of the American ( ; session In the South seas, in further once of then- attorn pi tin ! naval officer, Creed H, Boucher, In I 'tenant commander, and the SX-report- er, Arthur A. Greene, enlisted the 1 support of Commander A. C. Call, n i oni in rank to Commander Warren J-Terhune, J-Terhune, governor of the Inland. The three piled charges against Terhune ;ind hln administration and finally Kali tried to send a wireless message to the navy department nt Washington Washing-ton branding his superior as insane. TEH tilt M IvILl S SICL1 With the message in front of him, Terhune, suffering from 111 healtli committed suicide. The pitiful part of this tragedy developed win n the naval court of inquiry,, already an-1 route to Tutuils from Hawalli absolved ab-solved Terhiino's administration of nil , charges, recommended ih- deportation deporta-tion of Greene, ihe conn martial otl Uoucher and the removal of Kail from Ins post. Among the charges filed against , Terhune s administration was one that officials were- drawing illegal e-tr.i salaries. J. Efurkrn slailo, native cl)U.f of police rciul Judge A hi. No- dc were especial tarfeels of BoUChi cJreene and ICall, Alter Comhiander Tcrhun shot ' himself Kali became acting governor! and he jailed MallO on charges thai the chief of police had urged the natives to oppose the activities ol Greene and Kail. Previously Boucher had alleged that Irregularities of the' Terhune administration Included pa) lug Mailo as "beetle Inspector" as well as head of the police force, but that no beetle were Inspected. Judge Noble, who besides bi Ing district Judue was secretary of nauve affairs, bulge of the probate COUrl I superintendent of education, associate ! mc rnlier c.i th' hi?h court and vice' I president of the American bank of i Samoa was charged by Bouc her una Green with being Instrumental in ul-j ul-j leged misuse of funds and authority. 1 Kail closed Noble's court win n Ihel I former became " act ing govcrnoi (Jther charges before die naval in-I in-I ciulrv Included the following. That the Terhune administration 1 was a close corporation and that many I of its acts were Illegal. That the governor was physlialh ! I unable to perform ins duties n.ii civil ana navai oiiicnrs i the j administration were inefficient and thut some were immoral. That there were gross irregularities Id. handling funds That the administration made Ann rican Samoa Ihe laughing :toc!i of the South Seas and of the United Stales NaVy. The board of inquiry sat for eight days Testlmonv revealed that Boucher Bou-cher for twenty-five of hU eighty five days service, was under Suspension on three charges carving a pistol, attempting n mullnv and falsehood Boucher's examination revealed that he posed as a secret servic e man without with-out authority; publicly criticized the Secretary of the Navy and the President; Presi-dent; InBubordlnately oommunlcated with authorities at Washington in violation of regulations: and committed commit-ted many other breaches of naval re-guls re-guls t ions. N TI I l)ls( ON IT.Vl'i ) I'pon examination he docllned to answer many questions in the sjround that the apSWSrs would Incriminate himself: He acknowledged that all charges he made were based upon hearsay and without Investigation. It was revealed ihMt documents Wen stolen from naval officers but an attempt at-tempt to introduce these by Greene, who acted as Boucher's counsel was overruled by the board The testimony revealed also that Greene and Boucher created unrest among the natives in an effort to I honge the government and assuini control for themselves. Their ailivi- tlee resulted in organisation, of the nutives into a committee' which forwarded an appeal to President Wilson Wil-son to romovo Governor Terhune. and the native- unrest Was manifested by .several fights with the Am. rican sailors.