The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-30
GEORGE A. DAVIS IS
STANDING HIS TRIAL
CONTINUED from Page s.

S. Humphreys had served a notice on
the bank not to pay the money, as II
was in litigation.
He asked Magoon to put his o. X.
on the check, but he declined to do
SO while the matter was in dispute
Witness did prepare a suit against the
bank according to his promise. 1t was
through his work that the money was
eventually released.
THE LABOR PERFORMED.
Witness undertook to show who had
done the main work for Sumner
throughout. He produced pleadings in
the Circuit Court and told of his
amendment of a fatal defect in an
answer filed by Magoon. Witness de-
clared that from first to last he con
trolIed and directed the conduct of the
various Sumner cases in question.
When Sumner testified that witness
was never his attorney, he swore to m
absolute untruth. The Ropert-Sumner
trial occupied weeks and he wished the
length of time it UccuDied to go on
record.
TO PUT ONE CRAZY.
1T don't blame Magoon SO much for
that trust deed as do Wyllie Davis.
Wyllie Davis attacked me in the Ad-
vertiser. He gave an interview aoolt
the way he said he had been treated
by his attorney. L tell you, CHEZ Jus
tice, that Sumner case was enough to
send a man to the asylum. Qaugh-
ter suppressed by Bailiff Sea- Yes, it
was the hardest $1,000 1 ever earned in
my life. Between them and the Adj
vertiser it was enough to drive a man
to the madhouse, unless he had UNI
usual power of mental resistance"
With this interlude, witness pro-
ceeded to show, from the records in
his hands, the different hearings and
the various pleadings in which ne
had part. He declared that, at the
least. that he had done as much WORK
in the Sumner cases as j. Alfred Ma
COON. His relations with Mr.. Magoon
in the whole matter, however. were
friendly and such as became gentle
men. Witness refused to consent to
the coming in of Mr.. Kinney for him
self to play second fiddle to.
ARGUMENT MINGLED.
The respondent went on, with con-
siderable of the argumentative ele-
ment, to justify his onduct in every
transaction touched by the informa-
ton. After Cashier Cooper Of the First
National Bank tore up the time de-
post receipt for $4,000, when Mr.. Ma
COON advised Sumner not to leave his
money on deposit at 4 per cent, VII
ness left the bank and from that time
had nothing to do with John K. Sum-
ner. When he had received his fee.
he handed Summer back his note for
$4,000. Sumner had told him he was
going to pay Magoon $4,000. the respon -
emf said then surely he should re-
ceive $4,000.
Mr.. Davis told about his original
employment by Mrs. Maria 5. Davis.
1t was when she was staying at the
house of Mrs. King. widow of a form
er Minister of the Hawaiian Gov
eminent, and it was on the advice of
Mrs. King that Mrs. Davis sent for
the respondent He had been ESQ.,
ciated with Mr.. King in secret societies
Mrs. Davis told him of the proposed
division of Summers property between
the Catholic church and the Ellises
without one dollar to herself his only
sister. and he forthwith entered pro
ceedings to have such piece of IN
justice prevented.
SIDE REMARKS.
Referring to the calling into the cas'
of Mr. Magoon, at the suggestion o.
the Davises, the respondent raised
laugh with an account of the way h
took it:
They tell some hard stories agains
Magoon, but 1 will trust him."
Reverting to the various suits IL
which he was engaged, the responder
said a few things, thus:
Whether it was right or wrong t
! institute these suits I leave for tn
! Court, but I had the letter of Kline.
; & Ballou saying that Sumner was in
competent
IF the property had been sold an
: the money distributed, the sister o