The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-02-04

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tiff was beating about the bush until
he gave him an opportunity to say
what he wanted. Mr.. Crowley could
not accept the political service owing
to the publicity, yet he had kept
himself very prominently before the
public throughout the campaign. 1t
was very strange, if the proposal
came from Mr.. Thurston, that Mr..
Tnurston should have told him that
he would have to see Mr.. Smith
about it. Mr.. Crowley had put him
self in the position of being contra
dicted by number of respectable
witnesses. He would submit that
the plaintiff had no legal claim for
damages, leaving the case in their
hands.
Mr.. DAVIDSON closing for the plain
tiff read the statute of libel. He
described the circumstances of Crow
ley & IIastie's assignment, and ask
ed why Mr.. Atherton had not pro-
duced the list of assets furnished TO
him by Mr.. Crowley. That list would
have proved that Mr.. Crowley had
made due return to the assignee of
the very articles wrapped up in those
burlaps which had been concealed.
HASTE was man who had left New
Zealand with bad reputation.
Counsel, to whom he gave credit of
great ingenuity as well as ability,
had asked them what HASTE, not be-
ing an upholsterer, could have done
with those trimmings. Why, he
would have taken them to the auc-
ton room as be did the package of
razors. Would he not as readily
defraud Mr.. Anterior as Dillingham;
& Co.? There was not particle of
evidence that Crowley took those
goods upstairs. He had high res
pect for Mr.. Atherton, but it was
evident that he had it in his heart to
get even with this man. He had
been' asked to produce documents
referring to this matter, yet he only
brought such as would prejudice
the case of the plaintiff. His men,
DRY was very hazy on the matter; he
could not even tell in whose room
the goods were found; probably
rise in sugar had swept these trivial
things like cobwebs from his brain.
Counsel referred to the bad pass
things had come to in the United
States from the license of the press,
hoping that this country would never
descend to the level of that country
whose Congress was the most corrupt
in the world, unsurpassed even by the
Decemvirs and Triumvirs of Rome.
There was not man in this commu-
nifty knee-high about whom there
was not gossip ahoat which if en-
larged would put him in holokus to
work on the roads. About the hula
dancing it was only shown that Mr..
Crowley was performing little hon
est service for friend. He was
pursuing at the time the industrious
example of Him in whose name
spires glisten on every continent and
island almost in the world. Was it
not atrocious that on the tlimsy ba-
sis established such charges against
man honestly striving to make
living by every honorable means in
his power should be printed and sent
into eleven hundred homes in this
land? Reading the reference to Mr..
Crowley going where the most Doodle
was in sight, and the Advertisers
challenge to other oppositionists to
contribute their sea lips to its collec-
ZION, counsel asked if the paper
spoke i'll the sense understood by
Indians. No, the declaration was
that their intention had been to scalp
this mans character, to damn his
reputation. If they did not wish to
endorse such INSCRIPTIONS attacks on
character, they should recall the pro-
verb, "a living dog is better than a
dead lion" 1t was better to he the
dead King sleeping in that Palace
over yonder than to be man walk
ing about among the living when his
character had been ruthlessly muir
dered. That Mr.. Crowley should
have initiated the proposal to sell
out the Mechanics UniOn-a tran
saction that if feasible might have
cost him his life-was absurd. Mr..
Ihurston was the one who appeared
to take a lively interest in the
scheme, for he did see Mr., Smith
and he did see Mr., Damon about it.
The briber is as bad as the bribed.
At the worst, so far as the plaintiff
was concerned, the matter had not
been proved more than a piece of
harmless badinage between the two
men certainly Mr., Crowley did not
concern himself sufficiently to speak
Ia Mr., Damon or Mr.. Smith Coun-
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