The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-19
COLORED LAWYER REGISTERS
A KICK IN POLICE COURT
Has Solomon lsaacs Client Who Transforms
Judge WiIcoxs Temple of Justice
Into an Auction Room.

man than myself. The assertion was
made that 1 was drawing a fee of IS from
my client, sab, and 1 emphatically deny
the assertion
The Deputy Sheriff retorted that as long
as he was Deputy High Sheriff and in
charge of the Police Station he would
run it as he liked. Mobiles had told him
he should take his word for 800 bail
but he did not know that Mobiles had
that amount of money. He said he had to
eject Mobiles and would do again.
Mr.. Mobiles was again on his broad feet
saying: These Were the words / said.
asked for my clients release on his
own recognizance, not mine, sab. for
amt insuring anybody. / won't take no
insult. sab, not bit of it. may it please
the cot. I don't see any law for his pro-
/ secutin in this cot. There is an Attor-
ney-General and his staff, and it is their
duty. Under the statute he is not allow
cd to hold two Offices The Legislature
should decide this important question,
sab. 1 wish to repeat. however. that Mr..
Chiilingworth abused me and he cannot
do 1t again
The deputy said he would show him
whether he was capable of ejecting him
when it became necessary, and the color
ed lawyer retorted that two could play
at the game.
! When Matthews case was finally taken
up the real comedy began. Matthews is
deaf and uses an ear trumpet attached to
| a long tube. When the judge began to
speak he applied the small end to his ear
air as if trying to catch words in chunks.
Once in awhile the acoustics seemed to
be in perfect accord with the funnel and
it stayed poised for a few seconds and
then us owner began swinging it on a
new tack
| Mobiles occasionally talked into it and
then applied the funnel end to his own
ear to get Matthews response which con-
vulsed the audience. When the judge de-
cided to discharge the defendant, Mat
thews went up to his desk handed over
the funnel end and held novel converse
ton with the Judge. The old mans face
lighted up with pleasure when told of
Ibis release, and then clouded over as he
saw the twelve volumes lying on the
table.
do I take de books, too?'' he inquired
in a voice which would have delighted .
Hebrew comedian.
The Judge looked stunned for an instant
and then said he could have them. Mat
thews shrugged his shoulders waved his
hands for a moment in the vicinity of hl'
ears and then rushed to the table to gath
er UP his treasures
"yat a piece of luck, vat will you gt
me right away" he inquired of the crowd
II sell 'ern to you sheep, very sheep,
sell ,em at sacrifice. vat loss to me
Heinz
AS court had adjourned the crowd anus
ed itself with the junk dealer.
I'm give you five cents apiece"
s.yould you rob me- would you rob
poor man? Qvick, 1 sells 'em for tel
cents apiece; it's bargain. How mucl
am | offer for desc beautiful books, hov
much am I offered?"
How much farther he would have gon
toward turning the court chamber INTO al
auction room is a question, but Clerk Mc
Kinnon told him he might get arreste
for turning the temple of justice into
tmoney-changers den, and the bargainin
came to an abrupt close.
II think you ought to pay your lswVe
a hundred dollars for getting you out G
the scrape," said attorney Brooks
"Mein gott, a hundred tollars? A nur
dred tollars? I'm poor man, II voul
ruin me-" cried the Hebrew.
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