The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-20
CAT YIT IS FOUND
THE MISSING PLAINTIFF TURNS
UP.
An Interesting Session Of Court over
the Rapid Transit McCully Tract
Injunction,

Cat Yit the lost plaintiff in the Nc
Gully tract injunction suit, wandered
into Judge Humphreys court this
morning and took a seat. Several poll
cemen have been looking for him for
several days with aubpuenas, as he Is
claimed by the defendants to be the
only real member of the sun kwuCk
Mau Company i'm the country The
other plain ifs said they didn't know
where he was, and it appeared impos-
ible to find him.
Cat Yit. said that ne came from Heeia
IN last nights train. He had never
Ieen subpoenaed, but came of his own
viii. because he had heard that the
ompany had brought q suit against
someone. 1t appeared that he had
never heard from any of the other
plaintiffs and didn't even know that
there was a suit on, until two nights
ago.
The newly arrived Chinese was ques-
toned closely about how he learned
that there was a suit on, and said that
he heard Ii from a man who come
round peddling eggs. Cat Yit is a field
laborer and he decided to leave his job
and come to Honolulu.
Cat Yits testimony was largely a
ienial of the testimony of Griswold and
q. C.. Peters. According to Griswold.
Cat Yit told them in a conference
IL
| sold his interest in the Sun kwOck Mau
company. Cat, however, declared that
he had never seen GTiSwOld before. He
! had seen Peters, but didn't know hin
and had never had any conversation
with him. Cat denied that he had ever
! ,ouversed with Peters and Griswold
| through an interpreter
! A few tests were applied to prove
| that Cat knows English, as claimed by
! those who say they had the talk with
! MIN, but the tests We're unsuccessful.
! What's your name?" asked M-Clana-
! han quickly, putting the question di-
| IeCtly in english,
Cat Yit' came the answer.
You DO know English, don't you|'
| Cat Yit looked mysihed, and turned
! his eyes slowly on the Interpreter and
| mis- kwock Mau friends in the rear of
the court INDUCED in smiles. Griswold
| had testified that Cat Yit talked to him
| in English. and Cat admitted over ten
! years residence i'm Hawaii.
McClanahan called Breckons to the
| stand to testify as to wnav he knew
and about the confusion of Identities
among the plaintiffs. Breckons acted
as lawyer and witness both. He told
of the parties he had dealt with as
counsel. Il move that all my testimony
be stricken out" he said when he got
through and the court granted the mo-
ton.
p G. A. Long was called to testify to a
bill of sale by which five of the plain
| tffs have said their interest in the
Sun KwoclS Mau Company since the
filing of the suit The evidence was OBJ
jected to, but Judge Humphreys allow
ed it to go in, at the same time making
some remarks that had a general bear
ing on the case. This is an injunction
to restrain the defendants from doing
, injury to the property of the plain
tims'' he said, "and If it appears that
! the plaintiffs no longer have any inter-
> est in the property, l don't see why
there should longer be an injunction in
their behalf" Breckons agreed to pro-
[ duce the bill of sale in court this af-
+ tCrnOOn
4 Efforts to trace the identity of Lee
a Yin, who claims to have an original in
I terest in the case, are being made by
r searchers among Custom House and
} Immigration Bureau records. Lee Yin
a testified that he came here in the
steamship China, some years before
; that steamer ever came here. accord
e ing to the defense. He swOre tina; af-
= tel a trip to China he came here on the
Coptc in 1896, but the papers of tbs
, Coptic We're produced by former Immi-
= grafton Commissioner Girvin, anC
| showed Lees name not there,