The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30
FLOW
IN COURT
Sympathy Shown For
AmimotO.
LAWYER HANKEY ELOQUENT
Japanese Murderer Sentenced to
twenty-five Years in Prison
--Court News.

Tears flowed in plenty at the Circuit |
Court room yesterday morning, called
forth by the eloquence of +. w. Hankey /
as he pleaded for the mercy of the court /
to Amimoto, the japanese who was con-
victed of the kahuku plantation murder.
He stood beside his stoid little client and |
spoke to His Honor so feelingly that doz
ems of the men there. some of them the
very jurors who had found Am.moto gull
ty, found their eyes dimmed with tears
and others wept frankly into their pocket
handkerchiefs.
And Mr.. Hankeys words seemed to
have their influence upon Judge Sill:man,
for when he came to pronounce sentence
upon the convicted man he tempered JUS
tice with mercy and Inflicted the compare
tiv ely mild punishment of twenty-five
years imprisonment-mi.d in that it lay
within his power TO order the confinement
of the man behind prison walls for the
term of his natural life.
An argument in arrest of judgment oc-
cupied the first half hour after the con-
Ivenins of court and it was not until near-
Ily II O'Clock that Amimoto was led forth
to be sentenced. He was badly frightened,
judging from the wild look in his eyes as
he came to stand before the bar. but he
man while Deputy Attorney General
Cathcart urged His Honor to infict a Sc
we're punishment upon the convicted Then
came Mr.. HankeyS opportunity, and al
though he did not speak at great length,
he talked earnestly and with such effect
that half the court room was wet-eyed
ere he had finished
Judge Silliman asked few questions of
1.-THE defendant, ascertaining his age, which
Iproved to be twenty-siX years, and that
he had no relatives in Hawaii and was
unmarried. He then sentenced the man
to serve twenty-five years in Oahu peni-
ltentiary at hard labor. The sentence was
repeated to Amimoto in Japanese by In
terpreter Hakuole.
"Then / won't get out until I'm fifty
one years DID," he said in his native
tongue aloud, and he was led away.
LITTLE PROGRESS IN DUNREGGAN
INQUIRY.
At the present rate of progress the in
Iquiry into the stranding of the bark Dun
reagan win take this week and most of
next. Before United States Commission
or Robinson yesterday 1t was continued
throughout the day and but three wit
Inc sses were examined.
Evan Davies, captain of the ship Re-
public, who was a member of the Board
OF Survey which examined into the facts
on the question of taking from Captain
Dixon his masters certificate, told OF the
soundings taken around the Dunreggan
while she was ashore and of the different
methods which We're advocated for get
ting her off the reef. Captain c. J.
Campbell told also of a visit to the YES
sci while she was ashore. Captain J. d.
Searle of the j. A. Cummins also went
out and told on the stand of what he
had seen on board the Dunreggan. All the
witnesses were for the Spreckels company
and were examined in chief by +. NJ
Hatch, being cross-eXamined at great
length by Judge Stanley for the vessel.
BARNEY ON TRIAL.
Samuel Barney was put upon trial yes
terday morning for the murder of John
W. Lorbeer, the yardmaster of the oahu
Railraod & Land Co, on Sunday, August
18th. All the day was occupied in securing
a jury, and before evening the entire pan
el of thirty-six jurors drawn for the tern
had been exhausted; there were but elev-
en- men in the jury box and as the defense
had used but six of it's twelve peremp-
tory challenges, half of these may not be
lretained.
Barney sat beside his counsel, Lorrr
Andrews and f. E. Thompson He was
exceedingly nervous during the earlier
hours of the day, but as the time dragged
lalong and the jury seemed to be no nearer
completion than at the outset. he became
more calm and offered Mr.. Andrew:
many suggestions on the jurymen whC
were being summoned.
1t is likely that the case will last thu
rest of the week, for it will take at leas
all this morning to complete the jury.
FEDERAL COURT MATTERS.
-Four aliens We're admitted to citizen
ship yesterday in the United States Dis
trict Court by Judge Estee. They were
Thomas b. Walker native of England
Manual COrdelro of Portugal, Fred. Mey
ler of Germany, II. S. Richard of Eng
lard.
The case of avery VS.. King came up or
demurrer but owing to the absence of tn,
y attorneys for the plaintiff. 1t was post
, lponed until today. In putting the matte
over, Judge Estee said that he did 81
! only because the rules of the court wer
not fully established and known amoni
the attorneys of the city.
HOPP ESTATE
. Edwin NJ. Marshall, administrator of TIL
estate of John Hopp, the deceased mer
ichant. filed an inventory of the estate Il
the Circuit Court yesterday 1t show
that the firm of ]. Hopp e. Co, in whicl
John Hopp owned a half interest. had a
assets cash amounting to 81 ,632. 81, stoc
valued at $9.97324 and accounts receivabl
Iequalling SIS. 7s0.92, a total of $27, 1876. TIL
liabilities of the firm We're so, 437.77, leay
ing the net worth of the business SIG 9iS. 9!