The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-29

When Lee Yong was arraigned be-
fore Judge Dole yesterday for passing
counterfeit money, he pleaded guilty.
Judge Dole, to assure himself that the
! man understood the nature Of his plea,
asked him if he knew that the money
he passed was counterfeit. Lee said
that he didn't sknow for sure that it
was counterfeit, but he had received
it from Chu Hong Yong and Kong
Chi Soon who had told him that they
were making counterfeit ten dollar
gold pieces in his Gee's) house. In
this way he saved his face" while
Judge Dole was assured that he did
know the nature of his plea.
Lee was acquitted on a similar
charge about a year ago, but evidence
was secured making it clear that the
makers of the bad money were opera
ting in his house in Nahiku. with his
knowledge, and confronted with this,
Lee decided to plead guilty. He will
be sentenced Saturday.
Another counterfeiter who pleaded
guilty when asked by Judge Dole if
he knew that the money was counter
that it was money the government did
not make. On this statement Judge
Dole directed that the plea of guilty
be entered.
When Kuapili and Kuini were ar
raigned for brewing swipes in Kakaa-
ko, their attorney stated that their
States Attorney Breckons asked that
the defendants themselves plead and
when the question was directed to
them they promptly said they were
guilty.
T. s. Choy and No Sang Bong were
arraigned charged with adultery. AL
though Choy was formerly Korean in
terpreter in the court he demanded an
interpreter.
One of the Koreans arraigned last
Saturday who said then that he
wanted an attorney, explained yester-
day morning that he thought that I'M
der American law everyone had to
have an attorney. But he had found
out that if he pleaded guilty he did
not have to have an attorney and he
had decided to plead guilty.
A. L. c. Atkinson was appointed to
defend Pa HUI No who is charged with
David Kuelo, one of the boys
charged with stealing metal from the
Lighthouse Service warehouse pleaded
guilty and will be sentenced Novem-
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A considerable number of the pleas |
to the fifty indictments that have so
far been returned will be pleas of |
guilty.
THE LOWRIE CASE.
Argument in the Lowrie 100000 case
before Judge Robinson yesterday went |
over to Thursday at o'clock.
Two affidavits were filed in the case
One was by w. A. Kinney |
n which he states that the stenograph-
er's notes from which w. r. Castles
affidavit as to the Massachusetts suit /
was made up, had been read to him
and that it contained the statement
hat an appeal had been taken from
he decision of the Massachusetts
court quashing the service in that jur-
sdiction on H. P. Baldwin, and that
lie had been assured that the affidavit
If Castle would cover that point. 1t
lad also been assumed in argument
hat such was the case until the as
sumption was challenged.
w. r. Castle also filed an additional
setting forth the status of the
case, and alleging that
Aowrie has taken an appeal from the
,rder quashing the service in that
tate on H. P. Baldwin.
WANTS A NEW TRIAL.
Motion for a new trial has been made
oy the plaintiff in the case of Ching
.um VS.. Lam Man Beu. This was
for damages for malicious
ending in a verdict for the
defendant.
NOT AN EQUITY MATTER.
A demurrer was filed yesterday in
he Circuit Court in the case OF Jo-
eph Augusta Ferreira Cardoza VS.. the
San Antonio Benefit Society. The pro-
eeding is a bill for an accounting. The
demurrer holds that the plaintiff s
emedy is at law and not in equity.
TRESPASS COST TEN DOLLARS.
Judge Dole yesterday sentenced Mo-
eshigo and 'Uida to pay fines of SIC
ach They were indicted for tres
ass;ng on United States quarantine
rounds. The prosecution was more
or a warning and example than for
ny real damage done or threatened.
SUES on TWO NOTES.
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Suit was brought yesterday in the
ircuit Court by w. r. Castle against
frederick H Thrum. with the Hawai-
an Mahogany Lumber Company as
arnishee on two promissory notes.
me of them is set out to have been
made July IS, 1904, for $500, due in
hree months with nine per cent in :
crest, and the other to have been
lade September /, 1898, for $4,000.
FINAL ACCOUNTS.