Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-11-25
Whitley NOW
OFFENDS MAS0NS
Shanghai Judge Is Given
Another Liberal
&c.,. Roast 49,. %.

hNNNlhtN W. DlOohp ptht
from Shanghai a Ale of China Ga.
zettes in which his particular friend
Judge Wiley, is being roasted to
crisp. The first Of these is of partic-
ular local interest, as Willie Heen. a
Honolulu boy, appeared for the defen.
Giants in the case. It reads as follows:
In the british Supreme Court TO.
day, J. NJ. Ryan was arraigned for
uttering Il worthless United States
Confederate 500 note and thereby oh.
tanning money by false pretences,
was tried before Sir Haviland de
Sausmarez, Judge, and q jury.
Mr.. II. p. wilkinson, Crown Advo.
cate. prosecuted The prisoner was
| undefended q,
On the liht Of jurors summoned be.
Ing called, Mr.. A. Brady not answer.
lag, he was Gned 60.
The following jury was empanelled
20 try the case Messrs. J. Gilmore, II.
| W. Woltenden. s. A. Hardoon, Il. Xii.
ner and c. Budd
Defending himself without the as.
sIstancc Of legal adviser the charge
against the prisoner was thoroughly
Investigated and the jury unanimous
| ~ returned verdict OF Not guilty"
| The evidence was practically the
same as thEt given before Judge vii.
aey, sitting In the American District
! Court, in the case of the two men
Gould and Bishop, who We're convict.
ed after Il short hearing and ssptenc-
ed to two years penal servitude. This
\ acQuittal By the British Judge and
jury is in striking contrast to the
| Judgment OF the United States Court
MIR. Heen defended Bishop and
Gould, one of whom, Gould, is n Ma.
ron of high degree. This is another
instance of the folly of putting the
| liberty and good name of a citizen of
the United States into the hands OF
any one man without IA jury.
II Is said that the Masonic friends
OF Gould feel aggricved at Judge vii.
! 1ey's judgment and are now arrang
| ing TO appeal his case to the United
States Court in California.
The second article Is as follows:
Another OF the criminal cases de.
cided by Judge Wiley, of the new
u. s. District Court for China has
,,ar oo,,,, e., ,ha S,atos ,olosra,n
r',, ranaivrd a, ,ha Amarioon Con,
,rio,a today addraaosd I'm r. p,ddIo
,,,a ,,,,nad 81 a,,,,a " i,forn,ina ,ho
nrisoner thot no wos ,cnui,ted IN nm.
Zeal. Bidde, II will be remembered
r,oe conyirteI last January on n
c,,org. nr fraud ur.rorrnI hv tho
Iudpe and Disfrict Attorn.y arising
nut of n civil suit in connection with
tho leasinp of Tho Chinese Grand
stand m Chinese for pambIinp MIR.
,,osae ue was refused n rebeoring
Nv the Judge and held n prisoner by
tho Conrt nendinp his anneaI which
h. has now won but nj the cost of
facing tho world anew os n comn,ate
~ mined MN Ais nronertv destroyed
r. all zone no himself n bankrnnt
while bis wife died from the SHOCK
T.. his wronnfuI conviction os n feIon
The extraordinary mowers conferred
nv Congress- unon HE Court TO dis.
rense with iurors or assessors and IA
antrust tho most vital ouestions In.
yoIvInp Iico and nronerty to tho ten.
der mercies preiudices and fallible
Judgment q. ona man are in this case
largely IN L,ome for the terrible in.
Justice done tn the unhapny ex.man.
aper of tho Matropole Hotel Even
thmpb the mills of the law have
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