The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-10

sire to appeal to the highest tribunal
in the land and then detained:
Il am an American!-not by Act of
Congress, but b. birth, by impulse, by
instinct. and by desire! And it is but
natural that I should prefer the opin-
ion of the United States Supreme
Court TO that Of any other court.
Let me be treated as the principal
in this case; let me not shift or shirk
one single responsibility.
SOME PERSONAL COMMENTS.
Mr. Humphreys commented on the
the Attorney Generals alleged state
ments that when Watson called on him
he did not know what was in Magoon' 5
charges, also that he had never dis
cussed the matter with Deputy Attor-
ney General Peters, who had been Ma
goon's partner Yet" the speaker
said, this whole case is as much a
defense of the conduct of j. Alfred
Magoon and his partner who is now in
the office of the Attorney General as it
is a prosecution of F. E. Thompson and
a. S. Humphreys"
Reference was made to Magoon S
statement that he did not know what
case was on trial when he assisted
George A Davis. with the iibe that
Davis was in his normal condition
of not knowing what he was doing"
John K. Sumner was attacked on the
strength of the evidence of WyIlie Da-
Wis that he was "tickled to death" tC
see Humphreys and Watson in trouble
also that Sumner was going to court
in this trial to forget things for spite
of the respondents. This he maintain
ed had shown mental disintegration
gone beyond the point of moral re-
sponsibility, or utter disregard of the
solemnity of an oath, and that candor
and frankness due the court in pro-
ceeding of this sort.
THAT MIDNIGHT RIDE.
Mr.. Humphreys claimed to find in
consistent statements in ]. A Magoon' S
evidence of the midnight ride to fire,
and left it to the Justices to corrobor-
ate his own version of the conversation
en- route with special reference to the
"skinning" of B. f. Dillingham; by w.
A. Kinney. In this connection he spoke
of the unfair lease NJ. F. Crandall, as
guardian of Sumner and receiving a
full third of his income by way of
commission, obtained from Sumner for
Dillingham;.
After pitting the evidence of the
ElIises, r. w. Cathcart and Captain
James against his admission of care
lessness on the part of his firm. to
show that he had not harassed Sum
ner nor done anything to his injury,
and citing Summers cutting" him in
the street for opposing an improvident
trust Sumner was bent upon placing
himself under, Humphreys paid fur
Their attention to his brother-in-law
Magoon.
He contrasted the hospitable habits
of the Arabs of the desert with Ma
goon's diyulsAnce of confidential utter
ances under his own roof at Kaalawai.
IF had offered ]. Alfred Magoon a
bride as he would have it believed, it
is a moral certainty that he would
have taken it as he takes everything
he can lay his hands on" the speaker
declared. Yes, he would take the
MONDAY sun if he thought he could
hold it,"
Further discussing Magoon he said
he was mot broad enough to carry
filth to the DEVIL
At the afternoon session Mr.. Hum
phreys used his time mostly in review
ing the evidence. Near the conclusion
he contended that Mr.. Hightons evil
dence was effectually contradicted BY
that Of Judge Stanley and the other
lawyer called on Wednesday after
noon.
NEAR THE END.
Deputy Attorney General Weaver
watched the case for the prosecution
during the afternoon, Attorney Gener
al Andrews being absent. The prose-
cution will probably make it's closing
reply, when the case will be taken
under advisement, at this mornings