The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-01-14

There are thirty-six criminal cases. lib
civil jury, cases and twenty-six jury
waived cases on the printed calendar
for the January term of the First Cir
cult Court. which opens at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Judge W. J. Robinson will preside
at criminal cases. Judge ]. 7. De Bolt
at jury civil cases and Judge Alexan-
der Lindsay, Jr., at chambers.
In the course of the term the indict-
ments found by the grand jury will
increase the number of criminal cases,
how much it is impossible to esti-
mate. Civil cases may be moved on
the calendar Some jury civil cases
the jury-waived list.
Two japanese jointly charged with
murder are first on the list for trial
by Judge Robinson
Next comes the long-standing case
of bribing an executive officer against
Lee Let, the officer in question being
Detective Taylor, to whom 1T is al
legged the defendant offered a subsidy,
paying one instalment, for the de-
sired privilege of gambling with i'm
munity from arrest.
There is one case of murder in the
second degree. against a Japanese.
There are few of assault with weap-
on, three cases of burglary and sew
eral of crimes of immortality, includ-
ing two in which young children are
the victims.
Jacob Rosenberg, with one commit
tai and three indictments hanging over
him-one case now on trial-in the
Federal court for receiving property
stolen from the United States, is on
this calendar for receiving stolen
goods.
One of the cases of greatest public
interest is that of the Territory
against L. L. McCandless and James
county ordinance requiring cutters on
the awnings of buildings within the
fire limits.
Some of the criminal cases will be
stricken on account of appeals from
the police court therein having al
ready been withdrawn. No doubt sew
eral old cases will be dropped.
John Marks, who is trying to upset
his sentence for horse stealing at last
term through a Federal court writ CT
habeas corpus, is down for trial both
for larceny in the first degree-the
stealing of cattle-and for perjury, the
latter for swearing before the grand
jury that someone else stole cattle.
Second and third of the jury civil
cases are partly foreign, the former
being the famous Bierce V. Hutchins,
or Kona railway case, which was the
motive cause of snap amendment to
the Organic Act being passed by Con-
gress allowing appeals to the United
States Supreme Court in suits involy-
ing more than $4,000, and the latter
a debt suit of the Good Hope RNilding
Association against F. ]. Amweg and
Blanche E. Amweg.
The old title-quieting case of Alex
ander Young V. F. W. Macfarlane is
on, also the still older suit for $4,000
damages of Goo Shee against the Tel
ephone and Rapid Transit companies.
for the killing of her husband by a
live wire near the railway station
some years ago.
w. c. Weedon's damage sui, against
Mrs. c. w. Chaplin of New York. for
injuries from plaintiffs horse being
scared by defendants automobile, is
up for retrial, the end of many days
taken by it at last term having been
a mistrial.
Henry Gumpher's suit against F. B.
Within, another automobile mixup, is
on the listl
Lowrie V. Baldwin, 100000 damages
on contract, should come to jury pro-
eided the demurrer gauntlet be sue
cessfully run by the sutton.
One more case of great public in
terest which may be mentioned is the
ejectment suit of the Department of
Public Instruction against Kailihiwa
Davis and others, which brings up the
Renaissance of 1.-THE Kona riot"
wherein a formidable posse of high
police officers marched up the hill and
marched down again after capturing
an educational citadel without blood
shed.
LOwRIE'S BIG SUIT.
Demurrers to the amended COM
plant of william ]. Lowrie, claiming
100000 from II. p Baldwin and others,
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