The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-27
The Nashville News.


such compensation, and by knowingly
and wilfully retaining said Lewis in office
and refusing to remove him therefrom.
sa q Abram S. Humphreys knowing the
character and reputation of said Lewis
at the time of making said appointment
and retaining said Lewis in office as
aforesaid
The circumstances leading up to the APP
pointment of Oscar Lewis as Bailif of
my Court We're as follows:
About sixty days prior to said appoint
ment, Judge Hebbard of the Superior
Court of the city of San Francisco was
visiting Honolulu. Upon an occasion
when Judge Hebbard. some other gentle
men and myself Were engaged in con-
versation, Lewis came up and spoke to
the Judge. Judge Hebbard was extreme
ly cordial in greeting Lewis. and when
Lewis left the Judge remarked to me:
THAT boy used to be one of the clerks
of the Superior Court in San Francisco
and he is all right"
y few days prior to the converting of
the May, 1901. term of the Court over
which | preside, Lewis came to me and
asked if I could not give him some en-
pIoyment about the Court AT these
terms of Court, owing to the large num-
III VI = anu ana lIldl J4IpIS, witnesses
and litigants in attendance. an additional
bailiff is required, and under the law I
am authorized to appoint for and during
such term an additional bailff at a COM
pensation of 81 per diem. Remembering
Judge Richards commentator of Lew
fis. and having no knowledge of anything
discreditable to him, l gave him this
temporary appointment. His only duty,
as such bailiff, was to preserve order in
the Court room. call witnesses and attend
jurors when they retired to consider of
their verdict The juries had been sum
moned before his appointment: and nv
order appointing him limited his appoint
J ment to the then term of Court as pro-
Vided by statute.
! About three weeks after the appoint
ment of Lewis the Honolulu Star, edited
. by one Atkinson, a member of Governor
Dole's cabinet, in savage editorial at
tack upon me. criticised the appointment
of Lewis and published a list of Grim ma
cases. some five or six. in which Lewis
had figured as a defendant. Upon read
ing this article l called Lewis into my
chambers and stated that | could not
afford to have even the humbest attache
! of the Court credited with a criminal
career, and that I would hear what he
had to say in reference to the attack
made upon him by the Star.
! Thereupon Lewis said that he came to
Honolulu for the purpose of engag ing
. in the business of supplying vessels with
seamen. That upon his arrival in Homo
luIu he found such husfnoss vrboI,, mo
nonolfzcd IN, TTfob sbarfrf Prov, ttro1,e[t
his Waterfront rclioar,or -Tbo+ ,,cr,o,
ing in such busfness he antagoriza1 tTa
High Sheriff and ma +arfa1I,- dfrniDigbad
his income from such source Tbot
Brown. nv o series Of trans ARRESTS and
ra,,eecltions Of various sorts bad OUGHT
10 drive him ont of the communft,,. that
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