The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-22
CONTEST CASE.
STILL On
Witness Tells How "Rcd
Shirt Brigade
Voted.

hearing of testimony In the Iaukea
election contest was continued. The
first witness of the day was Tom
Pedro. a Democrat, who told again
the story of how Big jim" Kupihea
marshaIled the so-caIled Red Shirt
Brigade" to the polls on election day,
advising them that their bread and
butter depended on now they might
cast their ballots. This witness said
that he saw d number of Democrats
in the ranks of Kupihea's brigade, but
did not tell how he identified them.
Ulysses Jones, a voter of Kaneohe,
gave a description of d Republican
rally which took place at Kaneohe
shortly before the election, and which,
according to the testimony of the wit
ness, was nothing more or less than
d drunken orgie. AS soon as the
speechmaking had finished, said Jones'
the gallons of wine were brought into
present invited all men, women and
children to step right up and help
themselves to the goods. 1t was,
they announced, Republican wine and
was free for all. The good people of
Koolaupoko did not fail to answer such
a cordial invitation. Most of them
helped themselves and some with such
good will that they succumbed to the
deadening influence of the cheering cups
and became right out intoxicated.
The witness was asked where the
wine came from He answered that it
came in the L. S. mail wagon and was
delivered to Captain of Police John
Bell at the court house. The witness
could, however, not say who paid for
the wine.
The testimony at the afternoon ses-
sion related mainly to the voting of
ballots with the number attached in
certain precincts.
CASE OF BAREFOOT BILL.
The Barefoot Bill burglary case.
that is to say the case of the people
of the Territory of Hawaii VS.. William
Hoopii, was on trial before Judge De
Bolt until noon yesterday, when the
Judge was called to sit in the Supreme
Court because Justice Wilder was dis
QudIlIlSu III d. case III DEOC6SS VI uGdL-
ing before that tribunal.
Barefoot Bill is a criminal of some
local note, and the case against him
is a charge that on the same night
that William Rawlins was indicted in
to the office of Deputy Sheriff the de- |
PENDANT entered the store of Levers |
& Cooke, where his cap was found and |
also a. train of circumstances calculated
Jl,1y
been there. Whether he took anything
of much value out of the place did |
not SO clearly appear, but Detective
Halter, who worked up the case
against Bill, gave some interesting tes-
timony as to how the thing was done. |
The case Will be|resumed on Thursday.
COURT NOTES.
E. G. Ferreira has filed an action in |
assumpsit against A. NJ. Brown on a |
promissory note for 1924 which the |
plaintiff alleges was delivered to him |
by c. F. Chillingworth, and which was |
by defendant.
The Jones murder case dragged it's |
weary length along all day yesterday |
in Judge Robinson's court the defense
still working on the foundation for it's /
insanity defense.
Irene All on, the wife of former |
Police Officer All on, has filed libel |
for divorce, alleging cruelty and non
support. According to the libel the
variety of weapons with which the Ii
belize treated his better half was
marvellous; as a matter of |
fact, Mrs. All on did not find, how
ever that variety in this instance was
the spice of life. Once, says the libel, |
he hit her with an opium pipe, once |
with an axe, and once he threatened |
her with a loaded revolver. The plain
tiff wants $1,000 alimony
There was a report in circulation |
about the Judiciary Building yesterday |
to the effect that Detective Halter |
would leave for the coast finally on the |
Mongolia or the Sierra.
Mrs. Chas. X. Motley has given notice |
IF an appeal from the award made by
he commissioners of appraisement and
assessment in the matter of the ex-
ension to Kukui street from River to
Liliha street and has filed the neces-
;ary bonds. The commission awarded |
Mrs. Motley for 1862 square feet of land |
aiken for road the sum of $219.3e and |
undertook to have the improvements
)r to allow the owner 5000 for doing
he same.