Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-10
MOST fragrant ABUSE
COURT thus SPEAKS OF
ADVERTISERS ATTITUDE
WHAT JOHN WISE, cHAs. MOTLEY
AND DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL PETERS HAD
TO SAY.

GENERAL PETERS HAD
TO SAY.
In addition to the main proceedings
| fully reported in The Bulletin) In
Judge Gears court yesterday, occa.
L..aed by an item and its heading in
the Advertiser, Indignantly objected to
by jurors in the Kamuela assault case,
Juror J. II. Wise, Charles Motley and
Deputy Attorney General Peters and
the Court, winding up the sensational
events Of the morning, had the follow.
ing to say:
J. II. Wise Juror): We all know
that the Advertiser has been running
the country since 1893, running the
courts before Your Honor came to tho
bench, and naturally they were losing
q little power after you came to the
bench and other men of your stamp,
and therefore wish to have the same
old regime come back; and that Is the
state of affairs that the officials of the
country wish to have. Why, would
rather go to Jail again for ten years:
have been there one year to try to put
these men out. ] think II Is q reflection
not only on the character of the ma.
tives but on the people at large. | for
one won't stand II, whether or not II
comes from Thurston or any Of that
clique. ! am an American citizen now.
and am going to enjoy the privileges
and for people OF that character to
come up and say am not At to Judge
anybody, and but white men should sit
OF white men that the Advertiser
wishes; to disfranchise the Hawaiians
! believe we should leave the county
here to them and go somewhere else
and also feel that justice should be
done to His Honor.
The Attorney General If the Comi
please, don't know whether there ID
any insinuation' that the Attorney
Generals Office has anything to do with
the article in the paper; so far as We
are concerned, we are perfectly salts
fed, and have been satisfied with the
Jury.
Chas. Motley: wish to state tC
Your Honor that Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Peters told me yesterday the rCa
son for me being challenged on tn,
panel was because have such an alo
ha for the Hawaiians that ! would new
err find them guilty, can say that fo
seventy.five years since the Caucasian
race came to these Islands, we finC
that the Hawaiian Jurors have hum
their own people, where the Caucasian
race have not hung one. We hav,
sought justice and what is right.
Deputy Attorney General Peters
coming into court later, said: | desir
to state to the Court that yesterda!
afternoon, shortly after-I think 1t wa
yesterday afternoon-I was talking I,
Mr.. Boyd, / was standing in the maka
portion of the corridor, near the doc
of Your Honor's court room; Mr.. An
drews and Mr.. Fleming were prescott
ing before the Court, and | was sitting
there during a short recess from Judgt
Robinson's court, in which | was assist
ing Mr.. Andrade; | was talking to Mr.
Boyd and Mr.. Motley and talked t
Mr. Boyd about the Chiffon case. Mr.
Boyd brought up the statement of Mr.
Andrews that had been made by hin
in court on the return of the jury an,
the entry of a mistrial in the case o
Territory of Hawaii against Levi Dan
iels; Mr.. Motley was also taking par
in the conversation; told Mr.. Notle.
that would not have him on any othe
jury in which | prosecuted. ! said
"Mr, Motley, will be perfectly franl
with you; you are a Hawaiian an
naturally have an aloha for the Ho
waiians. there are Hawaiian defend
ants here" said: Every adyantag
that the defendant has in a crimina
case should be granted him; my dut,
. is simply that of prosecuting on behal
of the Government; and ! know tina
there Is certainly feeling In favor O
O Hawaiian defendant; but for tina
reason alone it would not excuse a Ha
waiian as a Juror; II you as Hawaiia