The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-10
HIS Niece, HIS
NEPHEWS AND
HIS money
In an Answer to Bishop Gull
Stan'S Petition John K, Sum-
ner Exhibits the Family
Skeletons.

John K. Sumner pours hot shot into
the camp OF the relatives with whom
he has been contesting regarding the
disposition of his estate, in an answer
which he has just filed to the petition
of Bishop Gulstan, to be allowed to
resign as trustee and to have another
trustee appointed Sumner says that
he wants to get away to Tahiti With
his money and that 1t is necessary for
him to 90 so in order to avoid great loss
but that his nephews and niece are
preventing him from doing so, in the
hope that he will give them some more
money.
Sumner got $4,000 for the land he
sold to the Oahu Railway and Land
company last October in cash. Accord
ing to the old mans answer the rela-
tives wanted it all. He declares that
'the said Victoria Ellis Bufandeau,
William S. Ellis and John S. Ellis
threatened respondent that unless res
pondent gave them a large part of the
money to be derived from the said sale
they would bring proceedings to put
respondent under guardianship and
prevent the same. That the sum
demanded by the said Victoria Ellis
Buffandeau,' William S. Ellis and John
s. Ellis was $4,000 each, which res
pondent absolutely refused to give.
That respondent, desiring to placate
said Victoria Ellis Buffandeau and the
said William S. Enis and the said John
S. Ellis and prevent any attempt on
their part to put respondent under
guardianship and thereby prevent the
said sale from being consummated, and
the respondent deprived of the pro-
ceeds of such sale, which he then
greatly needed and still needs for his
business, and further desiring to make
present to the said Victoria 5. Buffan-
deau, William S. Ellis and John S. Ellis,
inasmuch as they were the own
nephews and niece of respondent, res
pondent having no children of his own,
and in impecunious circumstances
agreed to give them $4,000 each. The
money was accepted, it is stated with
the agreement that the recipients cease
all opposition to the sale of land and all
"intermeddling" with Summers affairs
as well as all efforts to put him under
guardianship. Maria s. Davis was also
to have $4,000 and it was further un-
derstood that Sumner should carry out
Ibis long cherished desire of giving
$4,000 to the Catholic Church"
The money was given to his nephews
and niece says Sumner, so that they
need not wait for his death to get
money which he intended to leave %
them anyhow, but they violated their
agreement not to meddle in his dhatra
by notifying Bishops bank tnaS lneH
had an interest in the S4S,OOO which was
left out of the $4,000 paid over by the
railway company. They also notified
Bishop Gulstan not to exec lie DECD
which had been prepared, reconveying
all that was conveyed to him when he
became trustee for Sumner, who wants
to end the trust. This was done, says
Sumner, for the purpose of "harassine
and annoying" him and preventing his
return to Tahiti, Mrs. Buffandeau ano
the Ellis well knowing that it was i'm
perative that he should take twenty ol
thirty thousand dollars there at once, ol
suffer great loss, and they hoped tina
he could be induced to pay them a par
of the $4S,0OO to cease opposition to his
plans.
Sumner asks the court to discharge