The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-05
guilty. for the purpose Of allowing plea
in abatement to be substituted.

guilty. for the purpose of allowing n plea
in abatement to be substituted.
John Louis. another youth charged
with larceny in the second degree, viii
be defended by Robertson. by the courts
appointment. The boy. in response to
the questions OF the court, said he had
only one relative in Honolulu.
What kin is he to your" he was
asked.
Hes lawyer" responded the boy,
and the examination ceased.
A Gczen or more new cases were enter
ed upon the calendar of appeals from
other districts, and cases inadvertently
omitted. These will follow the cases al
ready Sc, down for hearing. The GRIM
inal part of the docket was completed,
and cases set as far ahead as November
| 2lst The orders in these matters were
| not final however and 1t is not expected
| that all the cases will be reached upon
| the day set for trial, though the attor-
| neys must be ready to proceed whenever
| they are called.
THE NEW JURY. ... ...
The Jury was called the first thing yes
| terday morning by Bailif Hopkins. and
| all of the thirty-six answered TO their
| names as called, as follows: Isaiah Bray,
Jas. h. Merseberg. John a. Noble, Louis
| A. Rostin, Edwin X. Blake, Charles f.
|
Arthur X. Jones, Ruby a. Dexter. Chas.
| Dudoit Jr.. John w. Smith,es, Hermann
| Levy. Abraham st. Chad Piianaia, Jo-
seph Richards. William Herrick, Edward
Woodward, Harry 5. Swinton, Guy Liv-
ingston, Isaac ii. Harbottle, Samuel w.
Spencer, John s. Andradc, Alexander X.
Aona. william G. Rowland, John L.
Hansmann. Alexander G. Nicholas,
James Kahalepua. Haughton c. Bick-
| Ia,
Jacob Lando, George w. Macy. George
*. Kaia, James NJ. Sims. John G. NJ.
Sheldon and Benjamin r. Campbell
| The court then asked those having ex-
cuses to present to step forward. Edwin
| ST. C. Piianaia and Samuel Spencer were
excused. The reasons given by III. s.
Levy, James NJ. Sims and Arthur Jones
were deemed insufficient. Isaac Harbot-
tie was excused for ten days.
NEW DIVORCE SUIT.
| The little demon of discord has entered
| the home of +. @. r.. Walker and his
WIFE May l.. Walker, and after little
more than four years of married life,
the wife seeks to have the matrimonial
bonds broken. In suit which she has
brought in the Circuit Court, Mrs. Walk
er recites that they were married in this
city on March 10, 1897. and almost contin-
ually since then her husband has treated
her in an unnatural and cruel manner,
and frequently and constantly inflicted
upon her much gricvous mental suffering,
and has used personal violence toward
her.
ON May II, 1880? she relates an incident
upon which she lays great stress as
character!zing the manner in which he
has treated her. At this time she says
she was very i'll, and confined to her bed
of l.
months-old child Her husband, sh,
states, acted toward her In manner cal
culated and intended by him to annoy
and torment her, and he called her vile
and opprobrious names ana cpithets and
finally struck her. thereby throwing heI
head back on the pillow, and he also
threatened to take the child and leav,
the house and never return
Since then he has treated her in a crue
and inhuman manner; would refuse to
speak to her or spend any time in her
company, and that he failed to provid.
her then or at any time when she was Ill
with medicines. He left her for days anc
weeks at a time, leaving her Ill in bed
alone in the house, without food, care oil
= attention, tho care of the child also de
volving upon her. She asks for an abso
, Lutte divorce and monthly alimony.
COURT NOTES.
Another phase of the Cummings estate
matter came up yesterday in an applca
ton from George Markham to have one
half of the sum of s7ll.70. ordered paid t.
r. b. Cummings, held to await the ina
adjudication of the suit of T. b. Cum
mngs vs. George Markham ct al,
An order has been made i'm the Alma
estate case requiring J. A. Magoon, ad
ministrator, to pay into court the sun
of SJj.56, held to be due the estate by tn,
|, Supreme Court.
Frank G. Bertelmann and Henry G
Bertelmann yesterday, through George
Davis, instituted suit to compel the spe
cihc performance of a contract to loai
and advance to the plaintiffs the sum o
81, 900. The defendants named in the com
plant are i. NJ. Brooks, Susan Kahili
mia and husband, Katy Scott and hus
: band, Helen Smith and husband, Ange
lima Mossman and husband. Hattie Ban
mister and husband. Sylvester Stopper
guardian of the Bertelmann minors, anC
the kilauea Sugar Company.
; plaintiffs claim "A two-thirds share t.
land on the Island of Kauai owned for
7 merly by Christian II. Bertelmann, de
ceased. and now leased TO the Kilauei
Sugar Company. They allege that +. NJ
! Brooks offered to lend plaintiffs the sun
of 5000 upon a mortgage on this LAM
on condition that the title and interes
of plaintiffs in the aforesaid land was u
good as represented, The loan was q
have been made the first of November
but upon the claim of defendant that tn
! title was not good, he refused to carr
, out the agreement. An order of court
/, asked to compel the defendant, Franci
!, NJ, Brooks, to carry out his part of tn
.. contract, the plaintiffs alleging that the
are willing to perform their part of it.
, HOMFSTFADFRS