The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-04-13
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JUDGE STANLEY SURPRISES De
FENCE IN SPECIAL INQUIRY RE-
GARDING LOCH CARVE

A surprise was sprung this morning
in the hearing before the special
board Of inquiry sitting to investigate
the conduct of Captain Ritchie of tho
British ship Loeb Carve at the time
she stranded on Kamalo reef
The hearing continued at 10 o'clock
this morning and before any further
testimony was taken Judge Stanley
arose to announce that he represented
the first officer and those sailors who
were complainants against Captain
Ritchie, who is accused of having been
drunk when the vessel piled up on the
coral reef.
Attorney w. A. Kinney, representing
| Captain Ritchie, got to his feet quicker
than had Stanley found his own. Kin
ney was very much surprised; it was
strange time to put in such an appear
ance; what did it mean? Was this
court of inquiry to be made the weap-
on of an attorney who represented the
salvors in the cases against the Loeb
Carve for salvage? Besides Stanley
did not mention the names of his cli-
ents. Kinney did not believe that
Stanley knew the names of the sailors
and he, Kinney, objected to his man
ner Of coming into the case.
Stanley came back with the sugges-
tion that he had as much right to rep
resent a salvor and also to represent
the sailors, complaining, in independ-
ent cases, as Kinney or anybody else
ad a right to represent the captain
and also the ship
Chairman Forster, H. b. NJ. Acting
Consul. sitting with Captains Combe
and Pearson, very gently stated that
the complainants could be represented
by Judge Stanley The Captain was
represented by Mr.. Kinney and it was
very agreeable that the complainants
be represented by Mr.. Stanley. As far
as the gentleman calling off the names
of the complainants was concerned it
made no difference, the court knew
! the names and the names were sub
scribed to the complaint.
After that proceedings were a little
more technical, since there was one
lawyer to keep tab on the other and
the difference in the atmosphere was
at once apparent.
Christian Carl Conradt, district mag
istrate of Molokai was called bv Kim
ney.
Conradt had seen Captain Ritohie
ashore near Kamalo when the Loeb
Carve was on the reef and was sure
that he was very sober" at the time.
He emphasized very"
Conradt had gone aboard the Loeb
Carve with Captain Ritchie and had
helped him with his advice. He still
found Ritchie sober. Yes, the captain
did take a drink but ony drop or so
In a tiny glass In saying drop or
so" Conradt held his fingers about
one-and-one-half inches apart to indi-
cate the drop or So" The taste he
said, was taken every half hour, about,
or perhaps it might have been once
every hour. Conradt said that he new
er saw Ritchie under the influence OF
liquor.
The discussion over the amount OF
liquor the captain took every half
hour or so was entertaining. Various
desk ornaments and requisites were
used by way OF Illustration. At last
an ink-well was chosen as an nlustra-
tion of the size Of the bottom Of the
glass from which he skipper had res
hlled himself, Imagination spilled the
Ink and replaced q with good whisky
and the eyes Of many IN tho court room
looked apprecatIye, II woule have
been more interesting n there had been
a bottle ~ the real dope DO ho passed
around for experts present were In
tho vast minority
ronradt said tho captain had been
eEoeedlngly Worried over the strand