The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-25
DAVIS GOES
AFTER ANDREWS
TO THE DISBARMENT
PROCEEDINGS WITH A ROAST
OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

George A. Davis responded to the dis
barment proceedings against him yes
terday afternoon with a petition adj
dressed to Governor Dole against At
torney General Andrews, charging him
with abuse of the power of his office.
The petition is as follows:
To the Honorable Sanford B. Dole,
Governor of the Territory of Ha-
wall
The petition of George A. Davis a
citizen of the Territory of Hawaii,
shows unto your Honor and
the petitioner alleges and says as fol-
lows:
III charge Lorrin Andrews the
Attorney General of the Territory Of
Hawaii with using his office as Attor-
ney General of the said Territory for
the purpose of maligning, slandering,
defaming and otherwise injuring my
character as lawyer and a citizen
in that, he caused to be lodged and
filed in the Supreme Court of this
Territory a certain information which
is absolutely false and untrue, where
i'm he, the said Lorrin Andrews, charg-
ed me with professional improperly,
malpractice deceit and inlidelity,
copy of which said information your
petitioner respectfully prays may be
hereafter filed and the several para
graphs thereof referred to upon the
hearing in this matter.
FL charge the said Lorrin Andrews
as Attorney General of the Territory
OF Hawaii with neglecting and refus-
ing to file an Information against Emil
c Peters, Deputy Attorney General
of this Territory, because and for the
reason that the said Deputy Attorney
General Peters, on the 18th day of
October, A. d. 1902. received from me
the sum of $500 in gold coin, being
part of the $4,000 with which the said
Lorrin Andrews charges me with re-
ceiving improperly in the Third para
graph of the Information above re-
ferred to- The receipt for the said
sum of $500 is partly written and
partly printed, and the written part
thereof is in the handwriting of the
said Deputy Attorney General Peters;
and the said receipt is in the words
and figures following, to wit:
October IA, 1902.
Received from Hon. George A. Davis
Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars in full
of share of Fee in re Petition for
Guardianship of J. K. Sumner.
49,, 800. MACON & PETERS"
81 charge the said Lorrin An
drews, the Attorney General of the
Territory of Hawaii, with the gross
misuse of his power as Attorney Cen
eral in filing the Information against
me, because the said Lorrin Andrews
is biased, prejudiced and interested
directly in the result of this proceed
ing, because his lawfully appointed
Deputy received the sum of $500 out
of the said sum of $4,000 as aforesaid,
and should be proceeded against upon
information which the said Lorrin
Andrews in disregard of the high
duties of his office has refused to do.
but has filed an Information which
he knows to be false and untrue
against me, the said George A. Davis.
Al charge the said Lorrin Andrews
with the gross abuse of the prerOg-
atives of his high office as such At
torney General in filing said Informal
ton against me, the said George A
Davis, because the fact therein stat
ed are wholly unsupported by the rec
ord and evidence in the case of John
X. Sumner at the suit of Gulstan F.
Ropert, Bishop of Panopolis, Trustee,
and the said LOrrin Andrews well
knows that the said Information Sc
filed by him against me, the said George
A. Davis on the oath day of July, A.
d. 1903, is wholly false and unfounded
and that the facts and statements
therein contained are wholly ground
less.
Your petitioner therefore prays that
at the termination of the proceedings
in the Supreme Court, and after the
Information which has been lodged
against me has been disposed of, that
l may be heard before your Honor
as to the conduct, actions and dongs
of the said Lorrin Andrews, and that
upon due proof being made of the con-
duct of the said Lorrin Andrews in the
premises that he may be removed from
| the office of Attorney General by you
the said Governor of. the Territory of
Hawaii, and as in duty bound your pc
| titioner vii lever pray. Dated, this
Gath day of July, A. d. 1903.
GEORGE A. DAVIS.
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