The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-10

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| of Mr.. SpreckelS by Judge Campbell afte
! the fact had been drawn out that the de
| PENDANT was Q member Of the firm Of Johl
u o7WGnd attends to his business then
| does he not! Ale cannot attend Il
| such business.
Ode cannoe7 A.-No, sir; he Is there
sround attsadns S 90 so% 5s Is not wSI
| other days. Some days he has 60
headache and some days not. That is jus
O-You think he has been in very feebl,
| health! Ale is not in feeble health
| but the only thing is his head: He i
troubled greatly sometimes with head
ache. He has to quit sometimes on &C
count OF it, OF course.
OF AN EARNEST RACE.
There Is one thing that you will motto,
it most conspiouously in every member o.
the SpreckeIs family, and that is tina
( whatever they had TO say they say In suct
q manner that il can be understood. They
don't come before you pretending they
have not read the Chronicle. 1t is q com
mon thing in this and in every ether com
munity for men to assume certain grand
ilouuence, if / may use the expresei n,
they are referring to the unfriendly crit.
cisms contained in some news aper say,
My attention was called to an article OF
such date" or "It has been suggested to
me that in your issue Of such a date such
and such things were contained. but these
m, belong to an earnest race race
marked throughout all tho history of
modern times with an intense. radical ear
nestncs IS which has been eXemplified not
merely in the literature. but in the achieve
ments of their men. and when they have
anything to say they say it clearly. dis
tinctly and emphatically. They are not
here pretending that he defendant is in
feeblehealth. Here is young man blessed
with a constitution which, but for the ac-
cident and for the insults of this m st in
famous sheet, would have carried him
than the ordinary troubles and
evils by which human beings are beSet
But he has sustained an injury, an in ury
which cannot be lost sight OF, either by
ironical or satiricAl tones. or by mimic, or
by foolish pantominIe, or anything OF that.
But they are injuries which speak for
themselves. not merely from the voice
but through the cAlmness of science
it is embodied by the gentlemen by
whom he was attended, and 1t don't be-
come counsel-it don't become anybody in
this case-to dare to stand before jury of
twelve respectable American citizens and
undertake in any manner or to any extent
to belittle the injury which this
defendant has so incontestibly .es-
to the departure of the defendant from
this State on his trip around the world,
says he left on account OF his health, and
QuUL1QR MS own words. ana trouble In
connection with his head" said quoting
from his own words, but that is a quota
ton from the question or my friend, Judge
Campbell, to which the witness answered
Yes 1t is to be found in the record at
page 754.
This was more than q year after the acct
dent, but friends az well as relatives 40
ticed the change which
THE INJURY AND IT'S CONSEQUENCES
Wrought in him. and excuse me for ra.
speaking of predisposing caus s. and aiu
separating the general c tect o. the c9u-
Gus ion Of the brain and the absceS5 IN t.ie
ear from the SpeS lie ELECTS OF the libel5 IN
the Chronicle. Mr.. William Center. vino
has been very intimate with the defend
ant and his family for many years. VINO
has been regular visitor At the house OF
Mr.. Claus Spreckcls, and w he has attest d
ship during the whole of this protracLed
trial. recognized a marked change i'll the
disposition of the defendant before and
after the accident. and states that. while
he used to be very buoyant, sanYuin0 and
cheerful, he became more excitable' and
less under self contryl." This Mr.. Cen
ter observed especially after bis return
from Europe, which was two years after
record, pages 90S. 909.
pause here to remark that the veneer
able Longfellow, not long deceased. once
put into the mouth Of one OF his chArac-
.:iucr O.!o u eno >O,..nAoA oAperlSnGSs "a
life words like these:
Co pack ! ye friendships long dsra5sed.
TAaC like orhOwing streaIulots started,
But now have DIV ndied. one by one.
To stony channe In the sun.
But the friendships which this young
man contracted in his carly years have
not dried up in his maturity. but still flow
freely and uninterruptedly In those chan"
aels which unite heart to heart, and do
not evaporat0 even in the scorching heat
ot calumny and publicity. The corrupt
of society do not form and can
4 q perpetuate these sympathetic rela. |
ions. |
THE CHANGE OF DISPOSITION.
Isidor Cutie corroborates Mr.. Center,
and says that after the acute sickness he !
changed" that The was not as lively and |
cheerful as he was before" page go of |
Loon WE'LL, who know him slightly be.
ore his trip to Europe, and whose testi- |
nony is mainly restricted to one incident. |
o which L shall hereafter claim your atA
ention, speaks of his former cheerfulness
md gayety. and recognizes the trouble
Samuel Sussman of khrman & Co., who |
has known the defendant since 1875. mostly
n business way, and who has always !
q our q MN pleasant. cheerful and agree,
cached here in 1882. (Record, pages 767.
49,
Here are four witnesses, besides his fataer
md brother, whoproTe the general con-
sequences OF the accident and the trouble
n the ear, so far as they could be- discoV-
red by unscientitic persons, and their tea-
imony IL uncontradicted, although you
an easily sec from the srrAy of assistants
he learned private counsel have had,
lacked as they have been by Mr.. De
(ounR himself, that San Francisco has
limsiest nature mere threads and scraps
4 unsubstantial iufJrmAtion-to sustain
heir side of this case.
But when we come to the medical wit
strong as Holy Writ" When exact
borough, educated, and experienced men,
Ike DIR. K. III. Plummer and DE-. Levi {. |
.ane, appear before q Jury. they have some
hey moan. They do not decry authority
nd prefer their own observations to books.
hey limit themselves to what they know,
nd that they know completely. They do
Anity, with no special education or prac- |
ice to justify the Profession. But when
hey deal with physioloGy, with anatomy,
WIN surgerJ, Inoy are d, home, and tnsII |
x explanations leave nothing to be desired |
The lecture which DIR. Plummer delivered
Iere for the benefit of opposing counsel
would have been model for any institu
ion in the world. After that cross examin.
ton, they practically acknowledged tn IN.
elves defeated and wisely let Or. Lane Sc
erely alone. IL they had encountered the
Ounder of that college which he has Craze
ully dedicated To his former preceptOr,
Dr.. Cooper, l expect my friend, Judge
'ampbell would have left ike Jne of those
arge and apparently ironclad insects in
ho Territory of Arizona which, when 1t !
as been sufficiently battered expands an
ldefnite number o. very gauzy wings and
makes for boz Z. Dr. Plummer assigns to |
be defendant
SEF E)Us TEMPERAMENT,
y which he fneans that condition OF
lind and bod /. which is characterized BY
reat excitab Ility of the nervous system;
n exceedingly lively. cheerful excitanle
one in which the impulses
redominate over the reasoning powers.
Record page 652.l
So that tha defendant yzas coostitutad