The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-23
Davis Applied for
Habeas Corpus
Writ.
JUDGE FREAR
GRANTS THE ORDER
Prisoner intends TO Remain in
the Islands the Rest Of
His Life.

B. H. Wright appeared yesterday
morning in the police court before
Judge Wilcox to answer to the charge
of embezzling $4,sS2.1O of public funds.
for which he was arrested on Tuesday.
The defendant was committed to the
circuit court for trial, the examina-
tion being waved by his counsel.
The defendant was represented in
court by George Davis, who took occa-
sion to pay his respects to the Adyer-
tiser for its accurate account of the
proceedings had before Judge Gear the
day before relative to the release of
Wright from prison on the first charge
preferred against him.
Davis swept his arms about in wind
mill fashion, creating quite breeze,
and amusing the audience, which grew
interested as the lawyer got fairly
under way.
did you see the account in the Ad
vertiser this morning" shouted Davis
to the Judge. The Judge replied that
he had not. He had seen the Adver-
tiser, but had failed to notice anything
about the agitated attorney before him,
or the Wright case. ''It was there, all
right enough" shouted the attorney,
"and it was libelous statement"
Davis then waived examination; the
defendant was committed to the cir
cult court, and bail was fixed at $4,000
This brought the excitable attorney to
his feet with a bound. 1t was an in
justice to place the bail so high, and
he began citing authorities. His con-
tention was that the bail should not
exceed one-third of the amount alleged
to have been embezzled. He intimated
that the matter would be brought be-
fore Judge Gear to be lowered.
Judge Wilcox waited calmly until he
had an opportunity to get in a word
edgwise, and then remarked:
81 have fixed bail at $4,000. This
court expects to keep its skirts clean
in this matter, no matter what another
court may do about its skirts"
Wright was then remanded to the
custody of the high sheriff, and had
lunch at the Grill. He remained in
the office of the deputy sheriff during
the afternoon, while Davis was shoot
ing off on various tangents in the en-
deavor to secure bondsmen.
Intellectual efforts were made by the
attorneys of B. H Wright TO obtain his
release from prison last evening by
habeas corpus proceedings. Attorney
Davis hurriedly wrote out writ ad-
dressed to the chief justice and took it
before Judge Galbraith. The latter,
however, refused to sign the writ, stat
ing that it was a matter for the chief
justice. B. H. Wright waited in the
police station all the afternoon, fra-
quently g1ancing out of the windows
to see whether his attorney was on the
way back to give him his release. The
Chief Justice later in the day signed
the writ The writ is made returnable
at o'clock this morning, and the Pc
tition reads as fellows:
B. H. Wright, in his petition to the
Chief Justice, says:
That he is now in the custody Of the
High Sheriff of the Territory and VIM
Henry, the keeper Of Oahu Convict
Prison. upon a charge OF embezziement
aud under a warrant and mittimus is
sued by :he District Magistrate Of Ho-
| nolulu.
| That excessive and unreasonable bail
has been demanded and required by
| the District Magistrate for the appear