The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-05-02
WA|MANALO
HOMICIDE
Lugan is Let Off
With a Fine
Of $500.
(From Saturdays Advertiser.)

From Saturdays Advertiser)
Otomatsu Kawaro was put on trial
for manslaughter before Judge De Bolt
yesterday. Deputy Attorney General
Z. Z. Peters prosecuted and j. W.
Cathcart appeared for the defendant.
The indictment charged the defendant
with having killed Yonehara at Wal
manalo, Koolaupoko, Oahu, in Novem-
ber last.
Yonehara was stabbed in a drunken
row on the 3rd and died on the 5th of
that month.
The following jurors were impanel.
ed: F. A. Potter, C. G. Bartlett. VIM.
Green, Chas. Lambert, VIM. l.. Austin.
II. b. Saylor, E. Henrioues, +. J. Ro.
bello, b. Guerrero, d. NJ. Ross, H. A.
Juen and +. NJ. Kiley. The trial is
still on.
LUGAN SENTENCED.
After denying a motion for a new
trial on various grounds presented by
Z. w. AshIoru for the defendant, Judge
De Bolt yesterday sentenced M. p.
Lugan to pay fine of $500 for embez-
element. Lugan was convicted of TAX
ing about $500 belonging to the o.
IL. d l.. Co. while clerk in the ticket
office of the Honolulu station. In
confession by Lugan admitted in evil
dence lie had acknowledged a shortage
OF not more than about one thousand
dollars, when the railway officials uues-
toned him about an alleged shortage
of $4,000.
Judge De Bolt recognized the jury's
recommendation to leniency; also took
account of the statement of his coun-
sci that the defendant was without
means, and expressed his opinion that
Lugan was young man who, not hav-
ing criminal instincts, had yielded to.
temptation. Therefore he would not
sentence him to prison.
MoANA HOTEL LIQUORS.
Judge De Bolt, in pursuance of tho
Supreme Courts decision, has vacated
judgment for plaintiff for recovery of
the articles sued for, or their value of
$S9S.22, in the suit of the Hawaiian
Trust Co. against A. NJ. Brown as High
Sheriff, and rendered Judgment for de-
fendant for his costs. The High Sher-
iff seized the stock of liquors of the
Moana Hotel Co. under an execution
for debt, and the Hawaiian Trust Co.
as trustee of the company's bondhcld-
ers brought replevin suit against him
to recover the liquors or their value.
Judgment was given by the circuit
judge for plaintiff, but the Supreme
Court found that the hotels stock Of
liquors, kept and dealt in under a re-
tail license, was not included in the
property covered by the mortgage Sc
curing the company's bonds.
Long before the decision was given
the company's property had been sold
under foreclosure.
THE oLDs ESTATE.
Z. A. Mott-Smith, Larry Dee and
James Olds, Jr., have petitioned for
probate of the will of the late James
Olds of Kaneohe, in which they are
named as executors and the two sons
and three daughters of the testator as
devisees and legatees The estate con-
sists of homestead in Kaneohe valued
at $3.50 and personality at $50, but
as the real estate has already been
wiped out by sale under foreclosure of
mortgage the estate will not repay the
usual cost of administration.
Judge De Bolt orders that only ac-
tual costs be paid.
AsHFoRD'S DAMAGES.
Nidrehce w. AshIoru sulJ 1Or uam-
ages against the Rapid Transit Co. for
the hauling OF him to its car barn in
stead OF 10 MS destination when he had
paia ms rare is the subject OF re-
mlttltur from tine supreme Court TO the
iohoiulu Dlstrlct Court, with lnstruc-
tiohs TO assess damages ana enter
judgment in favor of plaintiff"
pack of fools? iIc. because the Chris
tian voter crawls under the seat of
partisan politics.
"Civic Federations are spreading all
over the country which are Christian
and manly. and the Christian voter
now proposes to scratch his ticket and
mount the bandwagon of civic fearless
ness. (Applause).
You can use the ballot boxes as
washbasins in which to cleanse your
hands of completely in the liquor traf-
fic."
has suffered tremendously. I now re-