The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-12-18
POLICE ARE
INEFFICIENT

Judge Lindsay and Attorney Light
I foot made some rather sarcastic re-
marks concerning the inefliclency OF
| the police department yesterday during
the progress of the Farlu divorce trial
The call was made by the bailiff for
some of Mr.. Lightfoots witnesses and
there was no response. MIR. Llghtfoot
had the clerk produce the subpoena
which bore the return of the police
officer who alleged that due and
dillgent search" had been made for
the persons named and that they could
not be found. Mr. Lightfoot said this
was very strange, as he had partlcu-
larly stated in the subpoena that one
was employed at the Honolulu Soap
Works at Iwilei and the other either
at Kunawai or on Liliha street, MIR.
Lightfoot went to the telephone In he
clerks office and on returning stated
that the man wanted had been at the
soap works all day and that no police
officer had been there to see him. The
mans employer had also stated to him
that no officer had inquired for the
person named.
tied through the inefliciency OF the
police department, 1t was time some
thing was done to prevent it" said Mr..
Lightfoot.
Judge Lindsay issued an order for
the police officer who was given the
subpoena to serve to appear before
him. He proved to be one of the Por-
tuguese detectives of the police sta
ton. Judge Lindsay sharply question
ed him as to his return. The officer
said that he had been at the soap
works and ascertained that the man In
question vas not there. Then he went
to Kunawai and did not find the other
person there. He said he made two
trips to the soap works aud Oh neithe"
occasion was the witness wanted TO
be found. Judge Lindsay locked at
the officer for minuac ARA then said
under the circumstances he would
take his word for 1t, bu: hereafter when
subpoena is issued by his court di"
rected to the Sheriff the officer serving
1t must exhaust evary effort to find
the witnesses named. That was their
clear duty and to leave nc stone I'M
turned.
The lengthy Faria divorce case is
drawing to a close, the testimony or
witnesses having been concluded yes
terday and attorney Lghtfpnts argu-
ment for the libelee, Mr., Faria, given
Judge Perry for the libelant will pre-
sent his argument today.
In the course of the trial yesterday
the matter of dancing the hula was
brought out. Witnesses for the !ibelee
said that Mrs. Faria had danced the
hula on different occasions Mrs. Fa-
ria on the stand 1eria1 this tcsti-
mony and said tina. she haG merely
tried to dance" the hula az othnrs
did at gatherings she had ATTENDED,
but it was not the hula. kun
One witness, a aiy who had known
Mrs. Faria for the pas sIxte"a years,
said she knew nothing against Mrs.
Faria's character. AS she left the
stand Mr.. Lightfoot sm;,ingly asked
If she had anything more &c say
well, I might say SHE Is a very
good little girl" was the smiling re-
Joinder."
Beyond the mere matter Of request
for a dissolution of the marriage bonds
of a boy aged six years.
BELLINA WINS COW CASE.
"She is "A grand cow" was the bur
den of the argument of attorney
Dunno for the defense in the action
of Henry e. Cooper VS.. Charles Bel
lima, presented before Judge Robinson
and jury yesterday afternoon. Bel
lima sold Mr.. Cooper n COW some time
last February. The COW died later on,
allegedly from liver-fiuke. Mr.. Cooper
sought to get his money back from
Bellina, amounting to about $3.50, on
the ground that the COW had not lived
up to the representations of the seller
1t was these representations that At
torney Dunno worked on in his argu-
men. When Bellina had told Mr..
Cooper that "she is grand COW" 1t
was merely general term and not
specific and Dealers phrase
When Mr.. Derby, for Mr.. Cooper,
concluded his argument, the case went
to the jury which returned in seven
minutes with verdict for the defend
ant
BIG SUIT AGAINST ACHI.
Bathshcba NJ. Allen and assignees of
n note, Allen 4 Robinson, yesterday
filed suit against w. q, Achi to recover
$4,000 alleged to be due on n note
made and executed July /, 1908. The
security for the amount in named in
the papers MS comprising several thou
sand acres of lands on Hawaii aswell as
n large number of shares of the Ookala
Sugar Company, South Kona Sugar
Company and the Hawaii Land Com
pany.
REPORTER IS ROOM FLOODED.
The room in the judiciary building
which was fitted up by Secretary Atkin-
son for the use of the court reporters
for the daily papers has been dis
mantled The furniture has been re-
moved. This was occasioned principally
by the room being flooded during the
recent transforms, and because the re-
porters have not been making use of
it lately. In fact, through changes in
the personnel of the court reporting
corps, the new men have hardly known
that such Il room existed. 1t was used
at the start by the old-timc court men
for some time, but latterly the cob
webs have collected. However, Secre-
tary Atkinson thoughtfulness is yet