The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-01-20
WILL PLEAD
INSANITY
trpn. wednesdays Advertiser,

. The desperate battle for life being |
made by the attorneys for the defense
in the trial of Edward Jones upon the
charge of having murdered his wife
was continued before Judge Robinson
yesterday. 1t Is a fight in it's prelimi- |
naries so far, in that the regular panel
has been exhau ted and eight of a spe-
cial venire of fifty, with only seven
jurymen in the box who have been
passed for cause. An indication was
given by Attorney Alex Robertson, for
the defense, in the course OF the eX-
animation of A. ]. TAFT as to his quart
fications to serve on the jury, that
Jones will base his hope OF freedom
upon the plea of insarity. H. was only
an indication, however.
The attorneys for both sides are
rather inclined to felicitate themselves
hat they have progressed as well as
they have in the matter of drawing the
jury, as the belief had even been ex-
pressed in some quarters that 1t would
be practically impossible to get any
twelve men in Honolulu, who had not
formed strong opinions relative to the
case on trial.
yesterday morning and were instructed
relative to their duties IN the matter.
but there were still sixteen If the reg
ular panel left and of course these were
exhausted before the special men were
called into the box at all. When court
adjourned for the day yesterday the
two had been increased by five, making
these seven men who will face the fire
of the peremptory challenge: e. T.
Dreier r. Weldon, E. e. Hartman, A.
winterstein, w. ]. England. A. ]. TAFT
and T. p. O'Brien.
DE BOLT BEGINS BUSINESS.
Judge De Bolt began business for the
term in his court yesterday morning,
calling the list of jurymen ais follows:
John M. Area, S. j. Allencastre, M.
Brash, F. X. Beardslee, M. j. Bissell,
Andrew Brown, e. NJ. Boyd, Elmer M.
aCheatham, C. NJ Cooke Jr., Charles S.
Desky, Thomas Honan, A. H. Howe,
Ed Imhoff. e. Ingham, Charles M. Ke-
amin. Charles Lambert, T. r. Lucas,
Ernest z. Lyman, John MCGUIRE, H.
w. North, Charles O'Sullivan, John H.
Rankin, John H. Thompson, l.. NJ. Vet
Lessen and Chris j. Willis.
Thomas Honan was excused because
he was a United States employee. A.
Brown and H. w. North were excused
on Doctors certificates.
E. NJ. Boyd asked to be excused, as
he was the only one who was familiar
with the work of the Promotion Com
mittee which would suffer material
losses by his absence. He was excused
until notified
A. w. Hall was Rapid Transit mo
torman and was excused COR as long a
period as he remained in that position.
Charles Keanini was employed in the
mail service and was accordingly ex-
cused.
Mossman said that he was a freight
clerk and might be discharged If he
had to do jury duty. He was excused
for a week.
Judge De Bolt then proceeded with
the calling of the calendar of criminal
cases which were assigned to him by
Judge Robinson yesterday.
Attorney General Andrews stated
that the prosecution was ready in the
six Chinese burglary cases. He want
ed to try the first two of these cases in
which all the defendants, including
those charged in the remaining cases
were involved.
In the meantime, ]. w. Cathcart
counsel for the defense, was in Kona
and would not return for a week.
The trial of the Geneau murder case
was then taken up after the attorney
for F. ]. Tesla had made the statement
that he would be ready for the trial OF
the libel case on Monday next. The
case was set for that date.
LEVINGSTON'S CREDITORS ACT
I. Livingston, doing business as /;
clothier and furnisher in the Alexande
Young Building, was alleged to be {
bankrupt in proceedings in involuntar!
bankruptcy begun against him in thu
United States District Court yesterda!
on behalf of numerous creditors by At
torney Magoon and Cecil Brown. Ma
COON is acting as the assignee on nine
teen promissory notes given by
Levingston to j. w. w. Brewster il
furtherance of partnership deal en-
tered into some time ago.
Magoon claims that there are $1519.1
due on the promissory notes. The othe
creditors make claims as follows: TIL
.Guyer Hat Company of Boston, $3.50. 92
| Heller, RothschilG & Lang of Ne,
York, se51.54; M. S. Levy & Sons of Bal
timore. $76S.OS; the Tanhauser Ha
Company of New York, $54762; Hutch
inson, Pierce & Co. of New Yorl
s419.32; the Willard Manufacturing &C
of ST. Adams, Vermont $141.4O
EXHAUSTED THE PANEL.
BY the peremptory challenge of Juro
Willis by the Attorney General the reg
ular panel was exhausted in Judge d
Bolts court yesterday in the trial c
.Geneau for the murder of Harris an
; the court adjourned after instructor
that special venire to twenty-six b
i drawn, and made returnable at
O'Clock this morning. Willis was e2
cused because he had said that he ha
known Harris In hrs lifetime and "ha