The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-06-19
HENRY E. COOPER
Attorney General Files
Answer in Detail.
Gives His ide of the Story Of a
CeIs brated Police Court Casc.
Conduct OF Matter.

In the matter OF Henry =. Cooper.
Attorney-General. charged with mali
cious practice and unprofessional con-
duct as a member OF the bar upon the
relation. information and charge OF
Attorney y. :. Humphreys. respondent
has filed answer. In conclusion Mr..
Cooper says:
That the requesting by him OF the
said Weber TO appear for the said Car
reira was under the following circum-
stances:
1t was represented to the respond
ent by the Finance Department that
the issues involved in the charge
against the said Carreira were OF
much Importance TO and affected the
efficiency % the Finance Department
in securing to the Government the
revenue due from Asiatics for person
al taxes. and that legal assistance was
required for the defense OF said Car
reira, and the respondent was request
ed to furnish such assistance.
Finally. after said 4. 5. Humphreys
had been engaged, on behalf OF the
complaining witness, as special coun-
sci for the prosecution, the respondent
| asked the said Weber If he would be
willing 20 attend to the case: that II
he had no objection the respondent
would like to have him appear for the
Finance Department I'm the matter.
The said Weber, n licensed practition-
er. was - the time engaged as ste
| nographs- and clerk in the Attorney
| General'S Office, but was not n deputy
of the A..Orney-GeneraI, nor a public
prosecute. The said Weber expressed
his willin sness to appear. and the
matter IVES left entirely in his hands.
That 2: no time did the respondent
assume any direction or control OF the
defense OF said case, but the matter
was attended to by said Weber i'm the
interests % the Finance Department;
and at no time, and in no manner did
the respondent interfere with or di-
rect the prosecution OF said case
against said Carreira, but the same
was carried on by the said Humphreys
as he saw st.
| That IN the action taken by him in
the said prosecution OF Carreira he
acted in he utmost good faith and
pursued @ course which was proper
and consistent with his duties as At
torney-Gen.ral, ard IS an attorney OF
this court
That the information laid herein by
the said a. $. ,sumphreys is not justi-
fled by The facts, and Is malicious and
scandalous. aad the ruic should be
discharged.
| George J. Campbell has been ap-
pointed receiver for the estate III he
late James J. Dcwsett. under bonds OF
$4,000. The appointment Is made un-
der a bin u the Bishop estate to fore
close a mortgage drawn up in 1886 for
$4,000. with siOI9.15 interest. The
mortgage3 property is the Rose ranch,
The case Of tho John Ii estate vs.,
Helen Boyd. t-espass. was argued be-
fore Judge Perry yesterday. II will
come Up sSain this morning.
John Buckley. j. J. Sullivan and VI
ID. Monsarrat have submitted to- the
Supreme Court without argument a
question INVOLVING a piece OF land ad-
joining ne old fire house on Union
street. TIE question submitted Is
whether o. not Monsarrat's divorced
wife. who has since remarked. still
retains IL right Of dover TO the prop
! erty