The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-06
TOLD To SWEAR
To A FALSEHOOD
Mormon Leaders, Advice to a
Member of His
Flock.

Testimony of a damaging character
against the defendant was presented
in the Federal Court yesterday in the
case against Melvin Harmon, leader of
the Mormon church in Hawaii, charged
with subornation of perjury. The wit
ness was Poi Kekauoha, a brother of
George Kekauoha, recently convicted
of violation of the Edmunds Act and
in connection with whose trial the at
tempted inducement to pervert evil
dence is charged against Harmon.
The accused is member of the
Presidency of the Stake, as the eccle-
siastical division is styled by the Nor
mons, and was at the time the acting
president in the absence of President
Woolley In his official clerical ca
pacity he was asked for advice by Poi
Kekauoha after the latter had been
notified to appear before the grand
jury as a witness against his brother.
His brother had confessed openly in
one of the church Priesthood meetings
that he had been living in adultery,
and it was in regard to this confession
that advice was sought. Judge Dole,
in the trial of George, had ruled that
this confession was not a privileged
communication of the same nature as
a confession to a priest of the Roman
Catholic church, but Harmon, accord
ing to the evidence yesterday, instruct
ed the witnesses to deny knowledge of
the confession.
On the stand Poi Kekauoha testified
that Harmon came to him and Kele-
hua, and in regard to the relations Of
Kelehua to George Kekauoha said:
THAT is a secret. You two must not
testify to that. You two are to deny
that"
when was that?'' asked the pros
ecuting attorney.
when he told us to deny the truth
of what he had done at KeIehua's. .
replied the witness.
FIRM SUED FOR 1852
Levers & Cooke have filed assumpsit
proceedings against the firm of Costa
| & Silva, for $1652.27, alleged to be due
as a balance on bill for $2572.47, pur-
| chased on various dates in 1905 and
| 1906. The goods are principally build
| ing materials used in the building OF
| the Waipahu culvert, \ for which Costa
& Silva had the contract from the Ter
ritory. H. G. Middleditch appears as
attorney for the plaintiffs.
PROMISSORY NOTES OVERDUE
| Thompson & Clemens, on behalf Of
| George L. Alexander, have filed sui
against Whitney & Marsh for 1925. 10
alleged to be due on nineteen promis
sorry notes extending back in dates t.
| 1902. Sixteen of these notes are fol
| S4S.17 each, with interest at per cent.
and two are for $3S5.12 each, carrying
| the same interest. All are in favor OF
F. D. Creamy and endorsed over to the
plaintiff.
| .DEFUNCT FIRM IS SUED. .
| The Pacific Hardware Company. the
! former lessons of the Cummins block
corner of Merchant and Fort streets
of which Secretary E. A. Mott-Smith
is treasurer, is made the defendant
| in an action brought by J. 0. Carter
| trustee of the property of John A
| Cummins, to recover $4,000, the value
| of the property damaged during the
occupancy of the stores by the com
pany.
| The bin of particulars states that
plaster has been knocked off the walls
| pillars have been battered, shelving
| has been torn down, walls taken out
and fixtures and counters removed.
| Kinney & Marx represent the plain
tiff in the action.
CHARITIES VERSUS SALVATION
ARMY.
Fifteen dollars month to care for
| an infant is the charge of the Asso-
ciated Charities, while the Salvation
Army will do it for ten dollars. The
| quotations are those obtained by Alex
ander Walker, who obtained the Gus,
tody of his children at the time of
his divorce last month on the condi-
tons that one should be placed in ST.
Andrews Priory and the infant with
the Associated Charities until she was
three years old. Now, the father wants
to board the infant with the Salvation
Army on the cheaper terms and asks
the courts permission to do so. The
motion will be heard before Judge De
Bolt tomorrow.
MRS, ATCHERLEY GETS DECISION
The Supreme Court yesterday hand
ed down a decision reversing the de-
cision of the Court of Land Registra-
ton registering the title of Levers &
Cooke to certain lands, which decision
had been appealed against by Mary H.
Atcherley Lyle NJ. Dickey, E. NJ.
Watson with him on the brief, for
Mary H. Atcherley; W. A. Greenwel1
Castle & Wilmington on the brief, for
Levers & Cooke.
COURT NOTES.
"A writ of error, addressed to the
Supreme Court of the Territory of Ha-
wall, in the matter of the Motley will
case, was filed yesterday. 1t COM
mands the forwarding of all papers in
the case to Washington for review by
the Supreme Court.
A decree of divorce on the grounds
OF desertion and nonsupport, was
granted yesterday by Judge Lindsay
to Keoholike Kaehuokalani against
Kaehuokalani.
All Magazine is unhappily mated to
Eisaku Magazine and wants her free
dom. In the divorce libel filed yester-