The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-13
PAY TRIBUTES
TO THE DEAD
FUNERAL OF THE LATE JUDGE WILCOX THIS AFTER
NOON AT KAWAIAHAO CHURCH-ALL THE COURTS
ADJOURN OUT OF RESPECT TO HIS MEMORY-MANY
EULOGIES PRONOUNCED-TfIE BAR ASSOCIATION

The funeral of the late Judge Luther
Wilcox takes place this afternoon at 4
o'clock, at Kawaiahao church, The
Rev. H. H. Parker will officiate, assist
ed by q Hawaiian clergyman, and there
Will be music by the church choir. At
o'clock the remains will be taken to
the church and an hour later the SER
vices will commence.
The pallbearers will be w. O. Smith,
president of the Bar Association; High
Sheriff A. M. Brown, Henry Smith,
clerk of the courts; Judge j. l.. Kaulu-
kou, d. Dayton, Charles Lucas, w. r.
Castle and William Henry, warden of
Oahu Prison.
There will be an escort of police. The
interment will be in Nuuanu cemetery.
Governor Dole has ordered the govern
ment band to participate in the services
at the grave.
A meeting of attorneys and others
was held in the district court room this
morning when eulogies were pronounce
ed over the late JUDGE Luther Wilcox.
The services were held in his old court
room at the police station where the
dead jurist had so orten meted out JUS
tice in his own fearless way, and temp
cred his sentences with his honest droll
humor and shrewd advice to those who
had come before him in trouble and
distress.
Judge George A. Davis spoke elo-
quently of his dead predecessor. He
was followed by Judge j. L. Kaulukou
who spoke in Hawaiian, w. o. Smith,
eX-Attorney General E. P. Dole, S. F.
Chillingworth, T. McGants Stewart and
High Sheriff A. NJ. Brown. All of the
speakers paid their tributes to the
memory of the deceased and eXtolled
his splendid character and worth. The
gathering was very affecting and sell
dom has there been such a sincere sem
timent of regret over the death of any
public man, as was shown this morning
at the gathering of his Late asso-
ciates of the law.
The following were appointed a COM
mittee to draft resolutions of regret
over the death of the late judge: S. F..
Chilhngworth, Judge j. L. Kaulukou,
II. McCants Stewart, A. Lewis and
High Sheriff A. NJ. Brown.
United States Judge Estee and Circuit
Judges De Bolt and Gear all adjourned
court this morning in honor of the late
Judge Wilcox, after remarks appro-
pirate to the occasion. All who spoke
in the courts referred in the highest
possible terms to the character and
abilities of the deceased.
In the federal court District Attorney
Breckons moved an adjournment out of
respect to the memory of the deceased
as judge of the Territorial courts and
an old timer who was greatly esteemed
both by the courts and the public OF
the Territory.
A. G. NJ. Robertson said that he hop
ed the court would grant the motion. 1t
was conceded by all that great loss
had been sustained in the death of
Judge Wilcox, said Robertson. He had
long been prominent character in the
islands. In the capacity of Hawaiian
interpreter of the courts he rendered
services as valuable in my opinion as
those he rendered as magistrate, with
out belittling his work on the bench.
He was thoroughly familiar with the
ins and outs and the peculiarities of
the Hawaiian language and as Hawaii
an Interpreter was without a peer. AS
Interpreter his work covered a period
when knowledge of the peculiarities of