The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-07
A CHARGE OF
!. CONSPIRACY
poepoe
Is Accused by
KauhoIa.
CASES
BEFORE DE BOLT
Davis Represents Two Sides-At-
torneys Must Come
10 Time.

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made against ohn Thomas and Attor-
ney j. NJ. Poepoe in a suit filed yester-
day morning entitled Kauhola VS.. John
Thomas. In her complaint the petit
Ii, 1897, the owner of a one-half interest
in land at Alewa, Honolulu. On June
14th of the same year the petitioner
in consideration of he affection she
bore for Manuhi and Kaleo. the per-
sons from whom she acquired the land,
consented to convey to them a life in
terest in the property, and J. NJ. Poe
poe was requested to draw up a deed
i with that effect.
The plaintiff alleges: THAT said de-
PENDANT and his attorney, the said j..
NJ. Poepoe, intending to cheat n de-
fraud this plaintiff, did on, to-wit, the
18th day of June, 1897, and for several
days thereafter, unlawfully combine,
confederate and conspire together to
cheat and defraud this plaintiff of a
portion of her said land, and did draft
an instrument recorded in the Hawaiian
Registry of ~Conveyances and fraudu-
lentIy secure the signature and ac-
acknowledgement of his plaintiff to said
instrument, whereby this plaintiff pur-
| ported to convey to said Manuhi and
Kaleo a life interest in said property,
and to said defendant a fee simple in
terest in that portion of said land COM
prising fifty feet frontage by one nun
| dred feet depth where the defendants
house then stood, and the said defend
ant and j. NJ. Poepoe concealed from
said plaintiff the true purport of sale
deed, and concealed from said plaintiff
the fact that said defendant was in any
way mentioned in said deed, but pre-
tended and represented to said plaintiff
that the said deed was solely a deed to
Manuhi and Kaleo of the said property,
for the term of their natural lives
The plaintiff further alleges that h
is ignorant of business matters, and re-
lied upon Poepoe's statements, and that
after the death of Manuhi and Kaleo
she first learned the true import of the
instrument, and ~thereupon requested its
cancellation. This request was refused
and it is further set out tina the de-
PENDANT is trying to dispose of her prop
erty, and she asks for a restraining
order to prevent this.
A temporary injunction was granted
by Judge Gear.
CRIMINAL COURT BUSINESS.
Judge De Bolt disposed of four crimi-
nal cases yesterday. In the morning
the trial of Jose Reveira and Chito, the
two Porto Ricans charged with steal
ing a watch, was ended by a conviction
by the jury. Sentence will be imposed
this morning.
The second case taken up was that of
Manuel Moral, Kamo Martin and Flor
ence Andino, also Porto Ricans, in
which the defendants were alleged tC
have stoned and stabbed a japanese.
The bloody knife was exhibited in the
court room. The jury was out but a
few minutes, returning a verdict o"
guilty as to Andino, and finding the
two younger boys mot guilty" Sen
tence is to be imposed Saturday morn
ing.
Sentence was suspended by Judge De
Bolt in the case of Mrs. A. Toogood
upon motion of Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Douthitt. The defendant was on
victed of selling liquor without a Ii
cense, in the lower court, and was fined
800.
A nolle prosequi was entered as to
Rudolph Duncan charged with mali
cious injury.
BEFORE JUDGE ROBINSON.
Jury was waived in the case of Lau
Yin n Lau Tong, administrators,
against W. c. Achi and the trial was
held before Judge Robinson. Verdict
was rendered for the plaintiff. A SINH
lar case of the same title was submit
ted to the court and the decision re-
served.
In the afternoon Judge Robinson
agaln found himself ready for trial with
a jury but the attorneys were not ready
In the cases they had announced as
ready" when the calendar was called
Judge b stated tina in the
future when cases were announced as
ready for trial the attorneys must be
ready to proceed. Where the plaintiff
was not ready for trial, judgment fol
defendant would be entered or the case:
dismissed, n where the defendant wa!
not ready judgment would be entered
for plaintiff by default, unless good ant
suff1cient reason for a continuance il
given Judge Robinson's new order viii
cause the attorneys to come to time.
DAVIS IN QUEER POSITION.
George Davis represented both tn
defendant n plaintiff in the same cas-
for a short while before Judge Robin
son yesterday. The erratic attorney ha
been representing the Kamalo Suga
Co., in the past, and his name ap
pears on the printed court calendar a
its attorney in the suit of Hawaiia.
Hardware Co. VS. the Kamalo Sugar C
Yesterday afternoon Davis announce
in court that his name was entered a
attorney for the defendant by mistake
as he was the attorney for the plain
tiff, having been so notified by Gee
Brown prior to the latter's departur