The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-15

night.
"Have you any excuse to offer?" the
court asked d. L. Conkling.
None, but that 1 am in the employ
of a newspaper as a reporter, and
That's all. you are just the very
man we want" Judge Estee interrupt
ed.
Marcus Colburn is dead, and his
name was ordered taken from the box
and destroyed.
Circuit Court Grand Jury and he was
excused with the remark, I'VE don't
want the United States to run against
anybody.
Are you an American citizen?" ask
ed Judge Estee of Frank Brown, as he
had asked all the jurors before him.
81 don't know" was the rather as
founding answer; Il never took the
oath of allegiance to the United States,
and was born in Great Britain. 1 once
took an oath not to commit treason
against David Kalakaua."
You couldn't have committed trea~
son, anyway. if you were not a citi-
Zen," replied the court. How long
have you lived here?"
Il have lived here off and on since
1S47"
It's time you were becoming a citi-
zen of the United States, then. You
may step aside"
When the name of ]. T. Stacker was
called, he answered, Il am editor of
the Hawaii Herald and there is no one
to take my place, in my absence"
Couldn't you leave it to your wife,
asked the court.
mo, sir; my wife lives sixteen miles
from Hilo, and has four sick children. -
The court excused Mr.. Stacker.
j. T. Crawley, who was serving on
the Grand Jury upstairs. was also eX-
cused.
F.. j. Perriera was the last grand
juror to be examined, and for a time it
appeared as if he might get into trou-
bic. When questioned by the court as
to whether he understood the English
language, the juror replied, TOO lit
tle."
Didn't l make you a United States
citizen on the ground that you could
speak the English language?" ques
toned the court sharply.
Yes, on plantation, but not enough
for court" replied Perriera.
You knew enough to become a citi-
zen. and yet not enough to be a juror?
l made one mistake there, and shall
not make another"
Speak too little" replied the juror.
Judge Estee finally excused Perriera.
George n. Paris stated that he had
reasons for wishing to be excused, but
would not press them. He said his
partner was serving on the Territorial
jury, and their Office would have to be
closed while he was on the jury. The
court remarked that everyone should
be willing TO give up something for his
country.
THE PETIT JURY.
But thirteen eligibles were found up
on the petit jury, and the court order
ed the marshal. to draw eleven more
men to appear Thursday.
Charles NJ. Cooke was excused, be-
cause he was serving on the jury in
Judge Gears court.
Senator ]. T. Brown failed to re-
spond when his name was called,
which led the court to remark, THAT
is no reason why the Senator should
not be here to answer to his name
w. G. Ashley was also excused be-
cause of his serving upstairs.
w. l.. Hopper is in San Francisco,
and had not been served. George Nc
Clouds name was stricken off for the
same reason.
c. H. Willis, postmaster at Hanalei,
was excused because of his being i
federal officer The court stated that
he must be receiving salary of at
least $500 a year to become exempt,
and Marshal Hendry stated that Willis
was receiving such a sum annually.
]. f. Morgan was excused because
of illness.
J. S. Martin. the tailor, stated that
his business would suffer if he was
to serve, but the court did
not accept the statement as sufficient
excuse.
r. N. Boyd, who sought to be excus-
ed because he was a government Off
cial (road engineer), was told to re-
port anyway. There are so many
court, that if all of them were eX-
cused there would not be enough left
to try the guilty ones"
Another juror who pleaded pressing
business, was kept upon the jury with
a promise that The term won't be
long, and it will be interesting while
it lasts"
Il am subject of Great Britain
said J. G. RothweIl, when asked if he
knew of any reason for not serving.
"a subject of Great Britain-hum
II you are a subject of Great Britain
you may be excused" said the court.
II. F. Singer, a baker, who said he
had to work all day and part of the
night, was also excused.
w w. Chamberlain pleaded that he
was a clerk in the law office of Smith
& Lewis, out the court ola not accept
the excuse, though the juror stated
that it had been sufficient to get his
release by Judge Gear.
NEW JURY RULE.
A new jury rule was adopted by
Judge Estee yesterday which precludes |
any possibility of the court or any Off
GER of the court, from having choice I
in the selection of the jury. The rule
which was drawn up by Assistant
United States Attorney Dunno at the
request of Judge Estee, was read by /
the former in court yesterday morn /
ing, as follows:
THE clerk of said court shall, at
such time or times as may be desig +,
mated by order of court, draw in the :
presence of the judge of said court,
from the box containing the names of
the persons originally selected for jury
duty the names of such number of
persons as the court may by order des-
ignate TO serve as grand jurors, and
also the names of such a number of
persons as the court may by order des-
ignate to serve as petit jurors. The
regularity of such drawing shall be
certified to by the judge and clerk
Nothing iii these rules, or in this para
graph, shall be construed to prevent
the drawing either of the names of
grand jurors, or of the names of petit
jurors, nor shall anything in these
rules or in this paragraph be construed