The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-01-07
THE LIBEL CASE.
REX as. w. NJ. GIBSON.

ANHSA NA1N 1AANNNF NhAT CNAA $3.50
discussion of public men and measures in
this Kingdom, we give some attention TO
the personnel and circumstances of he
occasion.
\ few minutes before 10 AN, gentlemen
OF the Court and Bar had assembled in the
Legislative Hall, now used as a Court of
Justice. The hall is lofty and spacious.
The Speaker, or President chair sur
mounted by the insignia of royalty is now
used as a seat of justice. At the broad and
polished koa wood desk was seated the faith
full and efficient Chief Clerk Barnard-Mar-
shall Parke, the trusted executive officer of
so many reigns, was at his post aided by
worthy assistants, officers William Tell,
FehlOer and others.
The Bar grouped around small tables
within the bar Of the Court call for a brief
individual! m~ention,-as our little Hawaiia
has an array of limbs of the law, that honor
the land. Attorney-General Armstrong,
quiet and suave, was coming in the journal
of the morning his latest views on the
friction of races or the non-assimila-
ton of responsive cognatism " and was APP
parently not conscious that he was person.
ally a party in the case under consideration.
General a. 5. Hartwell engaged for the pro-
s~ecution in his case, a scion and scholar of
old Massachusetts. aud a capable represen-
tative of the distinguished old Bay State,
was blandly and courteously i~nterchanging
words with counsel. His associate in the
case, Deputy Attorney-General William o.
Smith, is a young lawyer of a marked quiet
demeanor. f. Preston Esq, the senior
counsel for the defence, arrived here many
years ago from the British Colonies as a
lawyer of reputation, which has been well
at the Hawaiian Bar in a multi
of contests. He presents a portly sub
stantial British figure, and usually has the
quiet assured air, as he had on this occa-
sion, of a man who is sure of his ground.
John Russell Esq, the junior counsel for
defence is a trained Philadelphia law
yer, comingt to this country with credentials
of the highest character. His arrival in the
Kingdom is comparatively recent, but it
has been long enough to give him an
eminent position at the Hawaiian Bar.
Other lawyers in attendance on Court, on
this occasion were, j. NJ. Davidson Esq,
halls from Louisiana, and is a good re-
presentative of polished Southern courtesy
IF demeanor. He has fine gifts as a speaker
md has made a prominent mark in Ha-
yaiian Courts. William Claude Jones Esq,
represents the South West of the States.
md is an old war horse in forensic and po-
itical contests. r. f. Bickerton Esq, our
Police Justice, though somewhat new to
aw has established q solid character for
hoIoughness of work and faithfulness
o duty. William r. Castle, Esq, a son
If these islands, and a young lawyer
If promise, who enjoyed excellent oppor-
under the legal training of the
'minent lawyer and secretary, Evarts. f.
Il. Hatch, Esq, the associate of Mr.. Castle,
With a Boston legal training, and also that
f his eminent uncle, the late Chief Justice
Harris. Cecil Brown Esq, a young lawyer
harged with important trusts, and deserv-
B. Dole, Esq, another son of the islands, IA
of the confidence reposed in him. S.
onscientious and painstaking lawyer, of Il
turn of mind. Besides these gem
lemen of foreign birth or extraction, were
resent Hon. j. l.. Kaulukou, a native law
er of ability, Ia is at present a member
the Hawaiian Legislature. w. L.. Ho-
Esq, a native Hawaiian lawyer
dignified bearing and highly respected
the Courts. 4
Some personal peculiarties of the Bar Z
yere noticed, as they were engaged in a !,
leasant interchange of words prior to the J
rival of His Honor. Seven of these gentle l
len preserve the moustache alone, whilst ]
,ur display the whole beard. The nous ]
lche is usually esteemed Il military c
Lshion but as one with a military record J
reserves the full beard, the moustache may t
e set down more probably as a diplomatic q
yle. And it is pleasant to see in this |
Optical and howery cline, gentlemen with /
dainty white rose bud or sweet pansy in :
button-hole of the left lapel, as on this S
1t is an evidence of genial humOr
nd pleasant tastes and also that some r
ir and gracious hand has assisted in the -
ecOratiOn. !,
At precisely 10 AN His Honor the First e
~ssOciate Justice, L. McCully, entered the II
,urt-room- all present rising, aad remain II
g standing until His Honor the re- o.
'esentative of His Majesty was seated. D
.arshal Parke then called the court to n
der. u
His Honor after calling attention to a
veral cases, called the case of Rex VS.. w. n
d. Gibson. The defendant arose and stood q,
the bar of the Court. In this position he II
ust have reflected upon past scenes in
II same hall, when as legislator he stood q,
} an accuser and interrogation. He now II
to the Indictment against him, =
I'd by General HartwelI, as follows =.
THE INDICTMENT. p
In the name of His Majesty the King of 81
e Hawaiian Islands, Oahu, to wit At
term of the Supreme Court of the Ha- a,
allan Islands, begun and holden at Homo c,
on the Island of Oahu, within and for al
e said Hawaiian Islands, and more es- OF
cially within and for the said Island of 81
thu, on the second day Of January in the &C
ar of our Lord, one thousand and eight al
and e~ighty-two. pi
The Acknowledgement of the Kingdom, to
behalf of our Sovereign and Lord the
upon his official oath presents that II
alter NJ. Gibson, of Honolulu, in the Is te
of Oahu, and within the jurisdiction til
this Honorable Court, on the tenth day en-