The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-25

defaming and otherwise injuring my
| character as a 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
! in he, the said Lorrin Andrews, charg-
ed me with professional improperly.
malpractice, deceit and infidelity, a
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 14th 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 $4,000 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 14th. 1902.
Received from Hon. Geo. A. Davis
Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars In full
of share of Fee in re Petition for
Guardianship of ]. K. Sumner.
''s25OO. 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 $4,000 out
of the said sum of $4,000 as aforesaid, |
and should be proceeded against upon |
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 a
gainst 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 Informa-
ton against me, the said George A.
Davis, because the facts therein stat
I'd are wholly unsupported by the rec
1rd and evidence in the case of John
K. Sumner at the suit of Gulstan F.
Ropert, Bishop of Panopolis, Trustee,
and the said Lorrin Andrews we'll
knows that the said Information so
fled by him against me, the said Geo.
a. Davis, on the oath day of July, A.
D. 1903. is wholly false and unbound
ID and that the facts and statements
therein contained are wholly ground
ess.
Your petitioner therefore prays that
It the termination of the proceedings
n the Supreme Court, and after the
which has been lodged
against me has been disposed of. that
may be heard before your Honor
IS to the conduct, actions and doings
# the said Lorrin Andrews, and that
,roof as I may be able to furnish in
Of the charges herein set
orth. and that upon due proof being
made Of the conduct of the said Lor-
in Andrews in the premises that he
nay be removed from the Office Of
Attorney General by you, the said
Governor Of the Territory of Hawaii,