The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-10
THERESA on
The STAND.
Says Humphreys
Was Good to
her.
PRINCESS WAS THE
HOME RULE BOSS
Judgment Against Mrs. Wilcox
for Printing of the Home
Rule Republican.

Judgment was awarded against
Princess" Theresa Wilcox yesterday
by Judge Robinson for the sum OF
$64.S7, being the cost of printing Home
Rule literature. The suit was brought
by the Grieve Publishing Co. and the
delegates wife admitted ordering the
printed matter, which included a spe-
cial edition of the Home Rule Repub-
lican but objected to the way the plain
tiff attempted to collect the bill.
incidentally Mrs. Wilcox nodestly adj
mitted that she was the Home Rule
Party in the absence of her husband,
and testified that Judge Humphreys al
ways allowed her as long as she pleased
to pay for her paper while he was rum
ming the Grieve company. Mrs. Wilcox
claimed further that the edition which
was not delivered in time was response
Bile for the defeat of August Dreier at
the special election in the Fourth Dis
triet.
Employees of the plaintiff company
testified that the items in the bill
had been ordered by Mrs Wilcox
and that the papers had been printed,
but not delivered until paid for.
Mrs. Wilcox testified that she was
the proprietor and editor of the Home
Rule Republican. and that her regular
edition is five hundred copies, and that
she had no agreement to pay for the
printing Immediately upon delivery.
II have been editing the paper a long
time, said the Princess, when Mr..
Robinson, who is relative or nephew
of Judge Humphreys was in charge, it
was all right. The dodgers for the
Home Rule meeting were not ordered
by me but by George Markham, though
told him to get them for the Home
Rule party. 1t should be on their books,
l am surprised that these men keep
such bookkeeping. These papers were
to be printed before the election OF
August Dreier and left at Fernandez
but they were not left, and they were
not there when 1 went down. 4 had
to look after the election while my
husband was away in Washington, SO
I had to do all the work here. When
the papers weren't out in time for the
Dreier election they weren't any good,
and I didn't see why should pay for
them. Some one else ordered the dodg-
ers but l instructed him to. l was
willing to pay for the cards when
these men come off their high horse.
Mr. Wilcox was away so they took adj
vantage of me. I would not pay them
because they came in a rough manner.
1 had no trouble about paying when
Mr. Humphreys was there. He would
let me go a week or more at time
when l wanted to, and oftentimes l
paid in advance.
THE Dreier issue they wouldn't let go
out, because they didn't want people to
read it, and what use was it after cleo
ton. l had written some things es-
pecially for Mr.. Dreier's election and
they simply let it go by.
Il couldn't wait for the paper any
longer for had to go to the election.
l don't know whether 1t Is politics or
not, perhaps that is their kind of pol
tiles. When Mr.. Wilcox came back
he told me not to pay for it and let
them sue
Mrs. Wilcox talked in the same
strain for half an hour, and at her con-
clusion the court ordered judgment for
the entire amount.