The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-27

Lucy H. McWayne, all the present liv-
ing beneficiaries in the viii of James
Robinson deceased, and it appearing
to the court that said investment was
disallowed on the ground that, at the
time of the purchase, said Mark P.
Robinson, one of the trustees of the
said estate, was treasurer of said Hiio
Railroad Company, but that said Mark
P. Robinson has no longer any official
connection with said Hilo Railroad
Company, and it appearing to the court
that said petition should be granted;
1T is therefore ordered, adjudged and
decreed that said investment of one
hundred seventy thousand dollars
in bonds of the Hilo Railroad Com
pany, Limited, at par, be and the same
is hereby approved and allowed.
]. T. DE BOLT,
First Judge of the Circuit Court OF
the First Circuit.
Honolulu, October 26, 1907
Judge De Bolt granted the motion
of Frank Andrade for a commission to
take the testimony of N. Gordon Mon
70, Chris Holgate, William Edward
Bishop Taylor and E. C. Bellows, all
residing at Yokohama, japan, in the
Cutter, deceased.
In the action to quiet title of Lucy
K. Peabody VS.. Emily P. Judd and
others, Judge Robinson allows the
plaintiff thirty days in which to file
her bill of exceptions to the Supreme
Court.
Return of summons as duly served
has been received from P. L. White, a
chr A 10 do ty Ta1
fornia, in the divorce case of William
E. Hadley VS.. Rose A. Hadley.
A general denial of all the allega-
tions in the complaint has been filed
by defendants in the suit of Kamakee
(w), VS.. J. H. Schnaciz, Harry Juen and
William Savidge, claiming damages for
wrongful ejectment of plaintiff from a
house.
For value received c. c. Biting as
signs judgment in his favor against
Vincent Fernandez for s262.40 to James
E. Fullerton.
ACQUITTED T IS TIME.
Joe Kekipi was put on trial in the
afternoon before Judge Gear for assault
and battery. w. S. Fleming, assistant
Attorney Genaral, appeared for the Ter
ritory; C. F. Peterson for the defendant
After seven or eight challenges fol
cause and peremptory had been exer.
cised, the following jury were accepted
D. F. Thrum, Jas. H. Davis, 6. W. Hay
selden, L. r. A. Hart, c. B. Lemon
James B. Pakele, L. J. Nahora Hipa
NJ. C. Pacheco, w. M. Bush, Jas. D
Cockett, E. H. Wodehouse and w. A
Hall.
This case was tried at a former tern
of court, when a mistrial took place
The complaining witness was Frank
Davenport, whose evidence showed
that, while he was driving the defend.
ant to the funeral of the defendants
| mother at Kaneohe, Kekipi interfere6
! with him to make him drive faster and
after grabbing the reins out of Dav-
exports hands, attacked him viciously
so as to mark his face.
| The jury retired at $40 and returned
| twenty-five minutes later with a yer.
dict of not guilty.
SANTOS SENTENCED.
Judge Gear yesterday morning called
up F. J. Santos, convicted of embeZ'
| Element, for sentence. There was 6
| recommendation of leniency from the
jury and the court stated that he would
not impose the full penalty of si1
months, but would sentence the defend
ant to Imprisonment at hard labor fol
five months and twenty-five days.
1t will be remembered that Santo:
was acquitted on another indictment
for embezzlement, Immediately preced
| ing his trial in the case wherein he wa:
| now sentenced, the jury having beer
out about twenty hours, standing mos
of the time, as they divulged, seven fol
acquittal and five for conviction. II
that case Sartos had served one o
| three months to which Judge Gear sen
! fenced him, on appeal for mitigation
for the very same offense as that fo
which he was indicted after the court
!, Infamous offense" decision.
I INTERPRETERS CITED.
! These four Circuit Court interpreter
John E. Bush and c. L. Hopkins, Ha
waiian; Joseph de Frias, Portuguese
and Chester A. Doyle, Japanese-and
Maurice McMahon, stenographer, wer,
lined up before Judge Gear under a CT
tation to sho--- cause why they wer,
absent from court on Saturday. TIL,
interpreters put it on the clerk, saying
he informed them there was nothing
doing on Saturday.
t Judge Gear refrained from giving
reprimand but gave the officials to un
derstand that they must not be absen
when the court was sitting. Further
he objected to the japanese interpre
4, ter's acting for the police court. II
! answer to Eir. Doyle, he stated thu
hours of court to be from $50 to II, ant
T. 80 to a.
officers of the court, as we'll as at
torneys, have frequently been held il
attendance on Judge Gears court al
through the morning recess, with thu
result that he officers suffered from go
ing without any refreshment between
early morning and late afternoon
They will be glad now that regula
hours have been fixed.
| THE PARKER DIAMONDS.
Ben. Gallagher and Hugh Roone.
We're arraigned before Judge Gear yes
terday upon Gallagher 70
| burglary, second degree, and lar
ceny in the first degree, and Roone
| for receiving stolen goods-in connec
| J. ~. d., II