The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-29
BIG DAMAGE
SUIT Tits
Both --Knust
COnviCted.- Other'
Matters.

When the plaintiff rested in the SIS,
| 900 damage suit of Bunhichi agains
| the Rapid Transit Co. yesterday fore
| noon. Messrs Cathcart and Wilmington
| for the defendant moved for a nonsuit
! Judge Robinson denied the motion.
The next combat came on the de
| PENDANT s tender Of the testimony of
Henry Schultz, motorman, from the
| record of the former trial. This wit
ness had since that event left the
Territory.
Mr.. Peters strenuously combated the
proposition. He quoted authorities to
show that where a party in a civil
case had not used due diligence to
produce material witness, at new
trial, to secure a deposition from
him with opportunity for the opposite
side to PROFOUND cross Undergraduates,
it was incompetent on their part to
use the testimony of such witness from
the record of the former trial
Just before the court adjourned over
Thanksgiving Day, Judge Robinson
overruled the objection. Schultz s
testimony will therefore be read to the
jury tomorrow morning.
KNUST CONVICTED.
After an absence of about fifteen
minutes, the jury in the Federal court
yesterday afternoon returned a verdict
dicted for unlawful use of the mails.
He was selling a bogus whisky recipe
through the postoffice. Judge Dole will
pronounce sentence upon him tomorrow.
and Charles Creighton, by assignment
of court, defended.
HABEAS CORPUS.
Judge De Bolt further continued the
habeas corpus case of Blanche Martin
till tomorrow.
CRIMINAL ASSAULT.
Akea, Chinese, was tried before
Judge Lindsay yesterday for criminally
assaultlng female under fourteen
years of age. Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Fleming prosecuted, and w. W.
Thayer defended.
The jury consisted of A. c. Dowsett,
c. j. Ludwigsen, w. O. Barnhardt. W.
Starbird J. H. Drew, Chas. Spencer,
S. W. Spencer, Geo. Lishman, David
Fuller, H. NJ. Rodgers, E. NJ Campbell
and B. F. Beardmore.
The jury was not long in finding
verdict of guilty. Sentence will be
passed tomorrow.
A STATESMAN'S WASH BILL.
Judge De Bolt granted a nonsuit and
dismissed the case of J. H. S. Kaleo
VS.. Wo Kee, in which District Magis-
trate Whitney had given judgment for
plaintiff for restitution of property
claimed and damages for detention in
the sum of $50 with $3.50 costs, and in
default judgment for sS045, the value
of the goods, and $50 damages with
$3.50 costs. The goods consisted of
PLAINTIFF family wash in defendants
laundry and the claim was accom- |
panied by a tender of $3.50 to pay the |
laundry bill.
When it came to trial of the case !
On appeal, plaintiff had lost his wash /
list. The motion for a nonsuit came
from him. II is said that a COM /
promise has been made. Wo Kee held |
Up the wash in the first instance for
of his bill Defendant was
one of the successful candidates for
he House of Representatives at the
ate election.
MRS. ROSA'S DOVER.
Judge Robinson confirmed the report
If E. A. c. Long, commissioner to ad-
minister dover in the estate of Antoine
,
100 The report allows Mrs Helen
Rosa, widow. s5364.s1 as her dover.
)ut of this, it was stated in court. she
las to pay debts of about $4,000 as
umed in settlement of the estate
fairs.
POBATE MATTERS.
The estate of the late Samuel T.
Alexander, so far as left in this Ter
itory, is valued at $1,000 by C. w. Ash
ord, Nj. T. Simonton and Glenn K
Quinn, appraisers. 1t consists of two
'ieces of land in Honolulu.
Judge De Bolt confirmed the adop-
ion by Mrs. Rose Chang Van of Chang
<wai, a boy about IA months of age.
Judge De Bolt appointed Lum She
8 guardian of her five minor children
nder a bond of $685..
ADMITS THE LUAUs.
Maria Jose Faria by her attorney,
antonio Perry, has filed a reply to her
usband's cross libel for divorce She
enies each and every allegation ex-
ept the allegation that she attended
luau about three years ago on the
ccasion of the third birthday of her
hid, another about two years ago :
jy,pr, NV Doy E,,1I
mother two years ago at Manoa. and
hat on Nov. IA, 1906, libelee left libel
mt and the home occupied by them
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