The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-07-14
THE AGONY
IS ENDED.
Briefs Will End
Disbarnent
Trial.
(From Saturdays Daily)

Humphreys and Frank e. Thompson
before the Supreme Court. After the
Attorney General had concluded his
reply to the closing addresses of the
respondents at noon, the court asked
for briefs to be filed within five days
If practicable.
Mr.. Humphreys took the occasion oil
this routine arrangement 20 throw a
farewell mudball. Mr.. Thompson ven
tured an inquiry as to whether ten
days would be agreeable to the Attor-
ney General.
II will ask no favors from the At
torney general Mr.. Humphreys
snapped out and glared at Mr.. An
drews.
RHETORICAL FIREWORKS.
Mr.. Thompson, at the opening of
court, spoke in his own defense FOR
about two hours. His style was high
ly rhetorical with argument interlard-
ed. The opening sentences are fair
example, thus:
We have Travelled a considerable
distance in this case, from the pubic
archives of Washington to the alkali
plains of Arizona, to the Isle of TAHITI
and back again here. Argument has
taken us to the shores of the Celestial
Empire and within the theatres of that
realm, following the pot of gold.
This suit is one of the largest that
a lawyer could try. Judge Weaver has
kindly conceded that We are not now
following the pot of gold, but some
thing infinitely dearer.
MACON STARTED 1T.
;,,N-
esis of the case, making out that the
charges We're the result of j. Alfred
Magoon having been personally stung
in an alteration in the trial of Ro-
pert VS.. Sumner. Coming down " the
Attorney Generals part, he said his
report condemned and exonerated in
a single breath. Geo. A. Davis was
condemned because he received $500
for working faithfully and hard for
his clients. Magoon was bathed In
quasi judicial whitewash. If Ma
goon's testimony was "ken as true
it amounted to nothing.
AS the matter was sifted down In
this trial it came to a question or
whom did Humphreys, Thompson &
Watson represent, and how did they
represent. Mr.. Thompson referred to
a proposition of the Assistant Attor-
ney General, that, though they were
accused of unp,, --ional conduct in
relation to Sumner, yet IL found to
have been negligent of the interests
of the Ellises they should be dis
barred.
The prosecution thus had jettisoned
their original contention and were
providing for ground to stand upon IN
any event. They did not claim the
humane provision of the criminal law
which required the proving Of charges
beyond the shadow of a doubt. but
they did claim that the evidence must
be clear and satisfactory.
BRAKES OFF.
Mr.. Thompson broke through all re-
straint of the traditional calmness of
a supreme court when he reverted
again to Magoon. Here is an almost
verbatim example:
Magoon is the man who brought the
charges in this case. Magoon! Moved
by the greatest passion possessed by
MANTLE emotion stronger than
mothers tender love-revenge!
Are we to be broken on the rack
of this mans contradicted statements,
are charges TO ne SuStdlHeu against I'D
on testimony of this kind?
Consider the motive of the accuser!
Consider the accuser HIMSELF
Shades of poor old Thomas Christ
ley! Shades of Rebecca Panee! Shades
of his own mother-in-law, Julia Along!
Shades OF the decrepit James Love!
Shades of that poor little imbecile New
England girl who listened to the lying
lips of a rapacious perjurer and who
sighed away her life on the shores Of
waialua, until at last her rich father
purchased her liberty and took her
from this Magoon! Appear before us
now and tell us of this man-this man
who charges us with wrong!
This Magoon, the accuser whose
bowels of compassion are made of Ma
Mia rope; whose milk of human kind
ness Is but rancourous Limburger
cheese: whose religion is rapacity;
whose Bible is blackmail; whose gold
en- rule is gluttonous greed: whose
prayer is perjury; whose god is gain,
and whose creed Is calumny.
OTHER TARGETS.
Mr.. Thompson said he would rather
be disbarred at the age of ~ than
practice "A years to become such an
exponent of infamy as Henry E. High
ton. All the appreciation of professional
ethics possessed by Highton could be
put into a two-grain capsule and 1t
would then rattle like shot in a tin
boiler.
There was more of the same sort and
a challenge of Highton's testimony in
the face of that OF the Ellises. the
respondents and others for the de-
Tense. Either Highton told the Ellises.
Judge Stanley and respondents that
the Sumner deed was irrevocable or
else he pulled the mantle OF his years
over his memory.
]. Lightfoot was spoken OF as ma
goon's man Friday" but his testimony
was claimed by the speaker as corrob-
Grating the statements OF the respond
ents.
'Wyllie Davis was referred to as "the
bum boatman, the hackman, the sa-
loon keeper. who had to o. X. Ma
goon's investments under the power