The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-04-03
LEPER HABEAs CORPUS.

Before Judge Lindsay yesterday
there appeared men of medicine, doc
tors of law and defendants, or petit
TONERS, Anamalia Maunakea and Mary
Keliihopoole Kaumakahia, two Hawai-
ian women declared to be lepers by
the health authorities and detained at
the Kalihi receiving station prepara-
tory to being sent to the settlement
on Molokai.
The private physician of these pa
tents, DR.. Atcherley, refused to ac-
cept the diagnoses of the Board of
Health bacteriologist. DR.. ]. T. Nc
Donald. Habeas corpus proceedings
were instituted and yesterday the
several continuances.
Attorney Clarence W. Ashford, rep
resenting petitioners, had DR.. McDon-
aid on the stand and bombarded him
with a fire of technical questions of
a very carefully studied nature, with
a view, evidently, to showing that the
physician may have been mistaken in
one or both of the diagnoses.
Doctors Sinclair. Pratt and Wood
were among the doctors attending as
witnesses.
DR.. Atcherley's contention is that the
women are incapable of transmitting
the disease.
Ashford, for one of his interroga-
tions, wished to know the length of
the bacillus of leprosy and was in
formed by Bacteriologist Mcdonald,
who gave the measurement in micro
as near as he could re-
member Ashford was anxious to
know what that figured out in inches. |
Deputy Attorney General Whitney,
after scribbing, announced that a mi |
was about a thirty-nine-
miliionth part of an inch.
Attorney General Hemenway and !
Deputy Whitney represented the Ter
ritory Since there is considerable |
difference in the evidence to be /
brought out, the two cases are being
heard separately. Mary Kaumakahias
ease comes first and it has been agreed
that questions of law be argued after
all testimony has been taken.
Dr. Mcdonald testified to having ex-
lmined the woman and found her to
De a leper. Ashford looked to every
possible opening for a mistake on the
part of the doctor in his diagnosis and
would not think of allowing the physi-
ian to state, for example, that water
lad been boiled, during the test, unless
he doctor had himself seen the water
,oiled. Mcdonald remarked that the
,acillus of tuberculosis was sometimes
AIKEN for that of leprosy, but the GER
ainty of leprosy was usually arrived
It through cOnfrmatory investigations.
IL things together being carefully
considered and no certainty being at
ached to any one indication.
STRAWBERRY MILK SHAKE. !
All Toy comes into court and accuses
'ylvano Nobrega Of being accessory
y ownership of the animal perpetra-
ing the crime, to the spelling of
patch, through the action /
f COW, and he wants damages 1t
-as tried once before, during last term.
nd the plaintiff awarded $50 damages
n default, through a misunderstanding.
| new trial was granted and, though '
OF getting as much as when defendant t
efaulted, All Toy was yesterday after
DON awarded s115.25 and costs. E.
[. Watson for plaintiff and T. NJ. Har
sOn for defendant
COURT NOTES. n
Marion Myhre was yesterday granted a
divorce by Judge De Bolt, from 7
gorge c. Why're, for non-support. She :
ecures the custody of three children Il
'r whose support the father is ordered t
, pay s25 per month. s
Criminal cases in Judge Robinson g V
'urt have gone over until Monday. a