The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-05-19
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tense set up for Philip II. Naone to the
charge of murder, Attorney Dunno an
nounced in his opening of the case for
the defendant before Judge De Bolt
yesterday afternoon. 1t was a form
of insanity which the medical scientists.
had established as being hereditary.
Proof would be offered that Naone's
| eat-grandfather lived and died an
epileptic. also that the defendant him
self had been subject to fits of epilepsy
in childhood and since
Mrs. Jessie Turner Naone. mother of
the defendant. was the first witness.
In describing her grandfather's afflic-
ton she threw fits" on the stand SO
realistically as to chill the beholders.
The old man was subject to fits until
he died. His grandson Philip also had
them in his youth. The last time wit
ness knew of was on the day before he
killed his wife. Previously the latest
she recalled was when Princess Like
likes body lay in state. This was sew
enteen years ago.
By the production of a witness there
tofore unexpected, whose evidence was
highly sensational in revealing we'll
defined motive, the prosecution In the
forenoon made a dramatic closing of
its evidence.
Mrs. Ella Mitchell, a young native
woman, was the witness. She testified
that Naone had frequently made love
to her and was eager in his addresses.
His response to her objection that he
was married man with n family was
that If she promised to marry him he
would get rid of his wife.
AS a matter of course the defense
will call medical experts to sustain its
insanity theory.
On the other hand 1t Is understood,
Attorney General Andrews will call in
rebuttal several physicians who had
opportunity of intimate observation of
Naone for several years, when he was
employed in the office of the U. S.
Marine Hospital Service.
COURT NOTES.
Martin Hiku was sentenced by Judge
De Bolt to pay fine of $25 and costs,
ON his plea of guilty to maintaining
and conducting a lottery.
In each of the two actions to quiet
title OF Lucy X. Peabody and T. II.
Mossman, respectively, against II. II.
Macfarlane and others, the executors
and heirs of the estate of II. A. Wide
man, deceased, Judge De Bolt denied
a motion to dismiss the complaint. The
property involved in each suit con
sists of one rood Is perches of land at
Pamoo, Honolulu, and 92-100ths acre
of land in the III of Pau, Oahu.
NJ II pain hiu att Ill
g. Stanley, has fled exceptions to the
report of T.. A. Mott-Smith, commits
sioner in the accounting suit of Fred
erick Harrison Hayselden, administra-
tor of the estate of Walter Murray
Gibson, deceased, VS.. w. II. Pain and
Elise S. V. Neumann. He excerpts to
the leaving out of certain accounts in
making the awards, and to the various
awards against himself-indeed, to
practically all of the commissioner Is
findings.
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tanning whether there was law under
which "a creditors bill" could be
brought by the Kamalo Sugar Co.
against Egan and Foster, the co-judg-
ment debtors of Hustace. That at
least was the work given the witness
to do in the matter Peters would not
venture to relate conversations that
took place so long ago.
+. Wundenberg, business associate
OF Magoon and Kamalo man, gave
evidence of his understanding of the
company's dealings with Hustace.
j. Lightfoot the respondents asso-
ciate in law practice, was the last wit
ness of the day and held the stand
until SIP p. M, when the trial was
continued until 10 o'clock this morn
ing. He had voluminous exhibits In
hand from which he read copious ex-
tracts. Minutes of Kamalo Sugar Co.
and of its directorate showed the fol-
lowing things:
Dee authorized by company to bid
$4,000 for lot (Nuuanu property.
Indemnity bond of $4,000 from COM
pany to Dee authorized.
Dee to give notes to X. S. Co. for
price of land bought under
execution.
Dee appointed a committee of one to
act with j. A. Magoon, TO ascertain
what was to be done about the prop
erty of Frank Hustace. relative to re-
covery of balance of judgment in the
lNhiIldlO case.
Fee of $3.50 to j. A. Magoon for ser
vices to given date as attorney of X.
S. Co. II. r. Hitchcock signs as secre-
tary of meeting when this vote of a
fee was made.
Directors authorized Dee to bid for
lfS5 shares of X. S. Co. stock at a
price not to exceed $3.50 a share pro-
vided the court would allow the ex-
penses of sale.
Lightfoot. answering the respondent.
said the latter and himself made re-
port under date of July IA, 1908, on
he matter of the execution against
Hustace The report gave a history
IF the Kamalo affair beginning with
he judgment by Judge Humphreys
against Hustace. Egan and Foster,
which the Supreme Court mod fed by
,utting down attorneys fees from $780,
100 to $500.
A SAFE SPECULATION.