The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-13
PERJURY CHARGE
MAY be RESULT
Wife of Prisoner Makes Many
DeniaIs in Federal
Courtroom.

The So-called Mormon case, which
has attracted so much attention in the
Federal court, is still dragging out and
brought forth a new. sensation yester-
day afternoon when the prosecuting
witness Mrs. Emeola Kekauoha, whose
husband, George, is being charged with
adultery, was placed on the witness
stand. Her lapse of memory and total
denials of facts which it is believed
can be easily proved by the govern
ment. are very liable to be the cause
Of her Indictment on a charge of
perjury
She acknowledged that a reeoncilia-
ton had been effected between her
husband and herself and then proceed
ed to make fiat denials of every fact
that the prosecution had stated it
would bring out. She said that she
had never thought of the case before
February IA, when she had been hand
ed a letter by a man named Kaiona;
that she had never visited District
Attorney Breckons in his office before
that date with her sister; that she had
not written to her friends asking that
they watch her husband and keep her
informed in regard to his doings and
that she had ever thought Of making
a complaint till the letter mentioned
had been given her.
Deputy District Attorney Dunno,
who is handling the case, tried to
break down her denials by bringing
in witnesses to the court and asking
her point blank whether she had not
been at certain place with them on
certain date, but she stuck to her
word. Time and again this was done
but in face of what seemed sure to
bring her into trouble she would not
change her story. She denied being in
Breckons' office with u, S. Marshal
Hendry, Interpreter Manuel and her
sister, and many other things of the
same sort. 1t was a case of mo, no,
no. to almost every question that was
asked.
1t is expected that in the rebuttal
testimony her denials will be torn to
shreds by witnesses who will swear
that she was in the places mentioned
and that they were also there. If
this should be so, it will mean that
she has really harmed the one whom
she is trying to protect.
In her testimony in the morning she
laid the blame of her separation from
her husband on a pig that he dids not
bring home for luau and not because
of undue relations with another wo-
he ho h yofca
elsewhere and had become angry and
decided to leave him to his own ways
in the future.
LOWRIE-CASTLE CASE.
There seems to be no end to the
arguments in the Lowde v. Castle
suit which is being heard before Judge
Robinson. If it is completed this week
it will surprise those around the court
house. Yesterday the motion of the
plaintiff for leave to file an amended
was the matter before the
court and it was incomplete when the
court adjourned at 4 o'clock.
TAX APPEAL CASES.
There have been in the neighborhood |
of thirty records of appeal to the Su-
preme Court from tax decisions made |
in the past three days. Those which |
We're entered yesterday We're as fol- |
lows: Honolulu Iron Works, Oahu |
Sugar Company, Eva Plantation, Olo- |
walu' Sugar Co, Paauhau Sugar Co.. |
Pacific Sugar Co, Pepeekeo Sugar Co., |
Pioneer Mill Co., Union Mill Co., Wal |
Iuku Sugar Co., Waiakea Mill Co. and |
Lihue Plantation Co.
ASK FOR DIVORCES.
The usual number of divorce cases |
were filed yesterday in the Territorial |
courts, two Japanese and one Hawai- |
ian being the record of the day. The I
titles of the suits were Julia Kekaula |
V. John Kekaula, Aki V. Aki and Ikeda |
V. Ikeda.