The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-16
ROOKIE WILL.
WAS MISSING
Almost a Sensation in
HaIaWa Fi< hery
Case.

tense excitement in Judge Robinson s
court yesterday afternoon when it was
discovered that the will and all the
papers connected with the probate of
the estate of Grace Kaimakui Rookie
We're not to be found. That estate
was settled many years ago, and was
supposed to have been well-settled.
and next to the Bishop estate it was
one of the largest ever adjudicated in
these islands-but, if the will was gone,
and the probate documents had va
nished, why there was a chance TO do
a lot of things, none of them pleas
ant, to titles of realty in and about
Honolulu.
The loss was discovered in the hear
ing of the fisheries case brought by
the Bishop Estate to get decision
as to ownership of a half interest in
the fisheries at Halawa, Eva, and the
case was continued for half an hour
document was thought to be necessary
by Attorney Marx, for the Bishop Es-
tate. to establish title. Deputy Attor-
ney Milverton, who with the Attorney
General is forcing the fisheries cases
to trial under the new system that
compelS the proving of every case,
with a view to sweeping them off the
calendar and so doing away with the
present congestion of court business,
would not admit the existence of the
will on the register which showed that
it had been in the public records ONCE.
Judge Robinson said that the will
must be produced, and there We're all
kinds of conjectures as to how it
might have been carried into some
court in the trial of some case, and no
receipt given for e. and had never
been carried back again. Then, just
as the court had agreed to go into
some other aspects of the case, leav-
ing the will to be produced later, the
missing probate documents, will and
all, were found snugly slowed away
in the wrong pigeon hole in the clerks
office. And after it was found and
offered in evidence, it did not produce
altogether the effect it had been in
the Bishop Estate must show how the
disputed fishery came to Grace Kai-
makui Rookie by direct descent. The
case was still on trial at the hour of
the adjournment of court.
COURT NOTES.
Judge De Bolt yesterday dismissed
the appeal of Niemoto, convicted of
assault with a weapon in the District
court. After his appeal
was filed, the man went away to Ka-
uai and a bench warrant was issued
for him. Yesterday he came back in
to court and took his sentence
Judge Lindsay yesterday decided the
case of Mama Obed VS.. NJ. Andrade
a suit in ejectment, in favor of the
plaintiff.
The case of Petero Halemoa. mali
cious injury, Ku kamahiai, malicious
injury, and Lee In Wa. larceny in the
second degree, We're nol-prossed in
Judge De Bolts court yesterday.
7. H. LindeIl was convicted of an
abOminable assault by jury in Judge
De Bolts court yesterday. He will be |
sentenced today. The man claims to |
have been drunk at the time of the |
Of the crime. He has a |
WIG ana cIilId IN brooklyn, New \ Ork. |
The Attorney Generals department |
s getting the Kaliko Kaawaloa muir |
Ter case ready for trial on Thursday |
The man killed a woman in Kakaako ,
to be his wife.
\ motion to dismiss the libel against |
ne ship Hawaiian Isles was filed in |
he United States district court yes |
erday by Holmes K Stanley. counsel |
or the vessel. There are rumors of |
he fling of more suits by sailors hay
ne claims against the ship.
NLeIe kahaleOle was arraigned in the
Tnited States district court yesterday
N a charge of bigamv.
j. q. RothWell was naturalized by
Judge Doe yesterday. His sponsors
we're United States Marshal Hendry
M r 7 2. Waterhouse
Edgar HenriuUes. al the next friend |
+ the husband and children of Mar
aret Y. Carter, deceased. has filed
i'll against John c. Lane Junius Ka-
e. and Jessie /. Kaae, for the purpose
f having them set aside as trustees
{ the estate and to have them render
n accounting.
The ejcctment suit OF Elizabeth K.
Wilder ". H r. Narfaglane ct al was
n trial bcfo,e Judge Lindsay and jury
eSteTdaN The case was not conclud-
4 when court adjourned.