The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-13
The COURTS
WORK LATE.
Tramways Trial Is
Nearing the
End.
WILCOX GIVEN
| LICENSE BY GEAR
Judge De Bolt Gives Brute the
Limit of the Law-Other
Criminal Matters.

The trial of Hutchinson VS.. Pain was
resumed yesterday before Judge ROD
inson, and will go on again today. The
plaintiff rested at noon and the defense
began with the tram driver on the
stand, who gave his version of the col
lision. He testified that the tram was
proceeding only. at the ordinary rate
Of speed, and that the accident was
the fault of the driver of the water
wagon His testimony was corrobora-
ted by another native driver.
CRIMINAL COURT.
John Comes was found guilty of ma
licious assault upon a Portuguese girl,
barely five years of age. Judge DE
Bolt sentenced him to five years i'm
prisenment and to pay fine of $1,000,
| remarking as he did SO, that the law
| fixed that sentence as the limit.
| Pedro Moline, found guilty of receiv-
| ing goods stolen from the S. f. Chill
lIingworth home, was fined $25 and costs,
and sent to prison for three months.
| A nolle prosequi was entered in the
case of A Sac charged with assault and
battery.
Judge De Bolt affirmed the sentence
/ of the district court in the case OF
Kadoka who had been sentenced to
| prison for four months
/ In the afternoon Juan Veles, a Porto
| Rican. was put on trial for the crime
of burglary in the first degree. He Is
| alleged to have robbed Japanese store
at Eva of cigars, sardines and grocer
les. Judge De Bolt denied a motion by
the defendant to instruct the jury to
return verdict of acquital. Veles was
/ put on the stand in his own defense
and testified that he had found the sto-
len goods floating in a basket at sea.
The trial was not concluded at the
hour of adjournment
The following cases are set for trial
before Judge De Bolt today:
No. 81, Territory of Hawaii VS.. Juan
Veles: No. q, Territory of Hawaii VS..
Antoine Perry; No. 81, Territory of Ha-
wall VS.. Sol Togo and Annie de la Cruz;
No. AZ, Territory of Hawaii VS.. c.
Chamberlain and Mrs. VIM. Kekipi;
No. A, Territory of Hawaii VS.. Yee
Chew.
WILCOX AS A LAWYER.
Delegate Wilcox intends to put his
| influence over the natives to good use,
in turning an honest penny for him
self. Yesterday Judge Gear granted
him a license to practice law in the
| Territory of Hawaii the application
being made by ex-Judge Humphreys,
the petition being in his handwriting.
The application was as follows:
1.-The petitioner, r. w. Wilcox, re-
presents to your honor that petitioner
is resident of Honolulu, Island OF Ca
hu, Territory of Hawaii; that petition
er is of the age of A. years and has re-
sided in said Territory of Hawaii all
of his life, except for about the period
of one year, during which time he re-
sided in the State of California, that
the petitioner is citizen of the United
States and of the said Territory Of Ha-
wall.
Petitioner further represents unto
your Honor that he is a person of good
moral character and that he is, as he
verify believes, duly qualified to prac-
tice law in the district courts of the
said Territory and before Circuit Judg-
eS at chambers on appeal.
Wherefore the petitioner prays that
; he may be licensed to practice law in
all the said district courts and before
, Circuit Judges at chambers on appeal
! r. w. WILCOX"
w. G. IRWIN TESTIFIES.
The deposition of w. G. Irwin in the
! matter of the extension of MILAN
street was filed in court yesterday. Mr.
Irwin appealed from an award against
him of $40 for betterments alleged tc
! have accrued to the opera house prem
! ises owned by John D. Spreckels ane
himself Jointly, by reason of the ex
tension of that street. Mr.. Irwin in hi:
deposition before D. H. Case testifie:
that he had given a strip of land along
Merchant street to the government fret
| of charge. Also that he had donated
another strip along Militant about sew.
en- feet deep on condition that the gov
eminent lay a sidewalk in front of the
opera house, and that there should bt
TO charge against him for betterments
!. The agreement was an oral one made
with Minister King.
COURT NOTES
Notice Of appeal was given yester'
day in the Dole divorce case from the
order of Judge Gear overruling the de-
murrer and allowing alimony.
Judge Gear made an order yesterday
allowing the Hawaiian Trust Co to in
I tervene in the Holt will case.
George Ferris has been granted thE'
;, ty days within which to file bill Of
, exceptions. Ferris is now in Oahu Pris-
> on, under sentence of death
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Hoarseness in child that is subjec
to Group, is sure indications of the
approach of the disease. If Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is given as soor