The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-27
NOT YET REFORMED
WILLIE HALL REMAINS A SPEND
THRIFT.
Easier to Get a Guardian Than To
Drop Him-Humphreys On Spend
thrift Trusts.

william w. Hall will have to remain
under spendthrift guardianship.
Three months ago he asked for a spend
thrift guardian, and this morning in
Judge Humphreys court he found that
it is easier to get a guardian than to
get rid of one. The court held that a
legal showing of reformation had not
been made, and Halls affairs will con-
tinue to be looked after by George Il.
Carried. Carter did not oppose the pc
tition to terminate the trust.
The proceedings in court were en-
livened by an entertaining passage be-
tween attorneys Mechanism and Da-
Wis, the latter for Hall, and the court
gave ASSASSINATION on spendthrift
trusts in general. Mechanism was
called as a witness by Davis, and the
court wanted to know if Davis would
waive the taking of an oath. Davis
preferred to have McClanahan sworn,
and he took the oath McClanahan is
Halls attorney, but in the spendthrift
matter, without consulting Mechanism
Hall went to Davis. The attorneys
testimony was not of much Importance
in the case, but was entertaining
enough to the spectators, with Davis
questioning.
EX-Judge Kaulukou was also called.
The oath was waived in his case, Davis
having seemingly changed his mind as
to the prOpriety of compelling attorneys
to swear or else having more confidence
in the unsworn testimony of his wit
ness than in that of the opposing coun-
sci.
In deciding the case the court stated
that it had not been able to find much
in American law books on the subject
of spendthrift trusts, nor in English
common law books. "Guardianships of
this sort appear to have originated in
the Roman empire" said the Judge.
The empire was largely undermined by
the profligacy and improvidence of it's
young men, and the spendthrift trust
was invented as protection to the
community as well as to dissolute
young men.
economically trusts of this sort may
be wrong in principle, yet when one de-
votes his time to debauchery and
wastes his fortune in riotous living, he
| sets an example that is a menace to
young men growing up about him. and
for that reason it is necessary to place
him under such a trust. No such trust
is to be found in more than one or two
of the States and in fact l never heard
| of them until / came to this country.
yet there are conditions here which
seem to have warranted the passage of
a spendthrift trust law, and which
seem to warrant it's continuance on
the statute books
The court stated that the habits of
the people here had long been such as
are naturally fostered by conditions in
which living is easy, and there is no
need of laying up fortunes, and that
not inherent weakness, but the habits
! thus acquired, formed the need for
spendthrift trusts. As to Hall It was
held that two months without excessive
| drinking or spending was not enough
to establish reformation, especially as
Hall has not been allowed enough
money to enable him to continue tC
drink or spend. Davis noted an appea
from the decision.
Hall himself was on the stand durini
part of the hearing. He was asked
what he did on Maui, during his recen
visit there He replied that he abstain
ed from all wrong doing, and wen
there for the purpose of building him
self up to be good" His estate is WORT
about 100000.