The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-24
THE RETORT
COURTEOUS
Prosser and Breck0ns Exchange
PIeasantries in Gambling
Case Trial.

Thirty of the fifty jurymen summon
ed for Judge Robinson's court on tbs
| special venire for the trial of the sixty
| eight Chinese gamblers appeared &c
answer to their names yesterday
| morning, but none of them were need
ed Attorney r. w. Breckons, who had
threatened the day before to exhaust
] the jury supply of the city, had sud-
denly had a change of heart and an
nounced that he was willing to waive
| Jury and proceed with the trial. This
was agreeable to the court and the
| case was Immediately started.
The evidence of the two members OF
| the grand jury who had made the raid
on what the court termed, for the sake
of brevity. 1.-The gambling HE'LL was
| first taken They told how they had
gained access to the room through a
trapdoor in the ceiling, surprising some
seventy Cinnamon gathered there. At
| the time the jurymen appeared the in
mates were not gambling, but the Ia
bles were covered with cards and DOM
| inoes
Two Chinese informers were then
examined, the cross-examination of the
first one leading to a warm passage of
| arms between Deputy Attorney General
Prosser and Attorney Breckons. The
witness had told of his visit to the
joint and of the gambling going on
there, both fan tan and PAL kau.
Breckons then took him in hand and
desired some information as to his
occupation. 1t developed that the wit
ness made living by rustling sewing
Jobs for his wife, his last successful
venture in this line having been made
two weeks ago, when he had taken
home cloth from which a shirt was to
be fashioned. Breckons wanted a de-
tailed description of the shirt, when
Prosser objected.
1.-The next question of counsel will be,
/ suppose, as to who made the cloth
and the size of the thread?" said the
Deputy Attorney Generar.
mo, it WON'T said Breckons, get
ting up out of his chair for the first
time since the examination of the wit
ness had begun; 1.-The next question Is
going to be about the reason why his
wahine was arrested and the charge
held over by the Attorney General
You had better ask him, too, about
r, w. Breckons, United States District
Attorney, calling the witness into his
office and asking him, in view of the
fact that his wife had been arrested
as a prostitute, what kind of evidence
he was going to give in this trial." re-
torted Prosser, rhereupon Breckons sat
down, lost all interest IN the shirt and
withdrew the question.
The second informer was under ex-
animation when the court adjourned,
the case to be resumed this morning.
For the sake of those who had to stay
in the courtroom yesterday, the pres
ence of the sixty-eight defendants in
the room itself was not insisted upon,
these hanging about the corridors and
diffusing the smell of stale opium
about the Judiciary building generally.
The Lanai injunction matter still
pursues it's erratic way through Judge
De Bolts court. Yesterday argument
was heard on the petition of F. w.
Milverton, of the Attorney Generals
department, for ten days more time in
which to file his answer to the original
bill in equity. The motion was OPP
posed by Attorney Gear, who twitted
Milverton with inconsistency in ap-
pearing before tribunal to which he
denied any jurisdiction further in the
matter. Milverton's contention to this
is that he was taking the precaution-
airy step of fixing his fences in case
the Supreme Court should decide
against him in the matter of the recent
6ar- nf a
former order of appeal from that court.
Judge De Bolt decided that if the
Supreme Court took jurisdiction Of the
appeal, he would have until Saturday
in which to appeal and move
for more time in which to answer, but
if the Supreme Court sustained the
courts recent order and granted the
motion filed today by Judge Gear for
a dismissal Of the appeal, Milverton
would have until Saturday afternoon
at 4 p. m. in which to file his answer
In the meanwhile Mr.. Gear has filed
a notice to dismiss the appeal of re-
spondent, reciting the facts stated on |
by Judge De Bolt to the eff
feet that the order issued by him al
lowing an appeal from the introductory |
decree overruling the demurrer had |
been signed inadvertently and without |
full knowledge of the fact and had |
therefore been rescinded and set aside. |
GRAND JURY TO PROBE GRAFT
CHARGES.
1t is understood that the grand jury |
will hear some evidence today regard
ing some alleged grating on the part |
of police officials during the old re-
gime. Detective Joe Leal, who is cred
tied with having been appointed as
chief assistant to Detective Taylor, had |
been summoned to appear today and
tell what he knows of the inside work
ngs of the old ring. Among the other
witnesses will be some of the Porto
Rican denizens of the Iwilei district.
The murder charge against Muromu-
"a Kuichi is also to be gone into by the
grand jurymen this Afternoon.
TWO DIVORCES GRANTED.
Judge Lindsay issued orders yester-
day dissolving the marriage ties be-
tween Clara and Marion Rapose and
between Olivia Keliinohoa and Keliino-
hola. In neither case was there any
appearance of the libelee
Clara Rapose had been espoused by
in August. 1905. the marriage