The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-11
LFLEY'S
ITINCS
BROOKS SAYS HE WROTE 10
ROOSEVELT AND MANY AMERI-
CAN NEWSPAPERS.

BROONS SAYS HE WhOlE ~
ROOSEVELT AND MANY AMERI-
CAN NEWSPAPERS.
The following bill of particulars has
been filed in the Wilhey-Brooks case:
The following are the particulars re-
quired under said Order by the plaintif
in this action, Francis Nj. Brooks:
"The following are the particulars,
to-wit:
"That the defendants at the Oriental
Hotel in the city of Kobe, in the En-
pire of Japan to and in the presence
and hearing of the consular officials
in the Office of the U. S. Consul, resi-
dent at said Kobe, in the Empire OF
Japan, on or about September 10, 1907
and whose names the plaintiff does not
know. but who can be identified and
in the presence and hearing of and to
divers other persons whose names are
at present unknown, but VINO can be
identified, made the statement set out
in paragraph / of the defendants mo-
ton, to-wit that Brooks was and is
a fugitive from justice from Honolulu
and dare not return there, said state
ments being made by the defendants
at Shanghai and elsewhere during the
months of July, August and September
A. d. 1907, and the statement as afore-
said was made by the said defendants
to the following named persons and
in their presence and hearing, at Shan
ghai and elsewhere to-wit lin the year
A. D. 1900 Keegan and RosencrantZ,
George F. Curtis, Lorrin Andrews, G.
r. Holcomb, r. X. Jackson, Joseph H.
Rice.
"And in compliance with paragraph
of the defendants demand and the
order made thereon, the plaintiff sup
plies the following particulars, to-wit,
the letters were written to Theodore
Roosevelt, Fgesident of the United
States of America and the officials OF
the State Department at Washington
between the first and tenth days of
| the September A. d. 1907, and on
! divers other days and dates in the year
! A. ID. 1907, to officials of the United
! States government and others, which
said letters are in the possession OF
the President, officials and others, anc
which the plaintiff alleges the defend.
ants have copies Of and which they
and each of them will be required tc
produce on the trial of this action.
And the plaintiff Francis NJ. Brooks
in compliance with the demands OF
the defendants and of the order made
thereon by the First Judge of this
Court says that the malicious false
and defamatory articles, statements
set out in the complaint were in
! spirei and contributed by the defend
ants and each of them, were written
by one, Ellis, and certain other false
malicious and defamatory articles were
written, printed, published and cir
culated as alleged in the complaint in
furtherance' of conspiracy and COM
mon design to defame, libel and ruin
the plaintiff by the said defendants
Libbeus r. Whitley and Frank &c
cuiated or caused to be published anC
circulated at Shanghai aforesaid by
the said defendants in divers news,
papers, published and circulated "a
Shanghai and elsewhere, towit a news
paper called and known as the Out
look also the Shanghai Mercury,
and the Shanghai Times, and sucI
false and malicious and defamator!
articles and statements as set out il
the complaint and were reprinted anC
republished and circulated as alleged
in furtherance of a common desigl
and conspiracy directed against tn
, plaintiff TO ruin him and his standing
e as a lawyer and business man by ant
with the knowledge and aid and over
acts of the defendants and each o
them, >in the year A. d. 1907 in tn
following newspapers to-wit: st. Loui
Globe Democrat, Philadelphia and Ney
l York newspapers published in tn
= cities of New York and Philadelphi
2 and circulated around the world an
, said articles also appeared in an
= were published and circulated in tn
Boston Transcript, lively newspape
published and circulated in the cit
of Boston, in the State of Massachu
: sets, copies of which will be offere
p in support of the allegations Of tn
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