The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
THREE JURY
TRIALS At ONCE
Dole. De Bolt and Robinson Are
All Engaged With
IurieS.

Three jury trials were on concurrent
ly in the. Judiciary building yesterday,
in as many different court rooms. In
each case there was quite an imposing
arrav of counsel, and a hard fight was
being put up.
Before Judge Dole, Frank j. Dillon,
formerly assistant postmaster at ka-
hului was on trial for the alleged en-
bezzlement of s109 SO from the money
order department of the office January
%. 1907. Assistant United States At
tornev w. T. Rawlins is prosecuting
the case for the United States and
Frank Thompson and A. S. Humphreys
are defending. The case has been put
over from term to term. So far only
one witness has been called, Ferdinand
Hons, who has been testifying to the
accounts of the postoffice. The infer
ence from Thompson's questions to the
Jurors on their voir dire would be that
in the defense it will be attempted to
be shown that Dillon was being made
a scapegoat for the protection Of some
other persons.
Before Judge De Bolt, sitting in
Judge Lindsay's court room because
of it's greater commodiousness and bet
ter ventilation, the suit of w. w.
Bierce Company against Clinton j..
Hutchins and A B. Wood, and Albert
and William Waterhouse as executors
of the will of the late Henry Water
house was begun This is one link in
litigation that has been going on for
five years. It is a suit on replevin
bond for $780, 900 given by Hutchins as
principal and the other defendants as
sureties, conditioned on the return to
the plaintiffs of a railroad built and
equipped by the plaintiff for the Kona
Sugar Company and sold at receivers
SALE The value of the railroad as de-
termined by the Supreme Court in pre-
vious litigation was $4,000 With in
terest this now amounts to about S2S.-
600 which is the amount the plaintiff
is seeking to recover. The plaintiff is
represented by C. w. Prouty of Chi
cago and A. G. M. Robertson. The de-
PENDANTS are severafly represented by
J. w. Cathcart, D. L. Wilmington and
A bran Lewis Jr. A jury was secured
shortly before noon, and the remainder
of the day was spent in putting in
evidence of the records of previous 1iti-
CATION upon which the present litiga-
ton rests. James A. Thompson. clerk
of the Supreme Court was on the stand
all day reading the records as they
We're called for.
The third case was the trial of va
mashita charged with Illicit liquor SELL
ing January 6. The case is being heard
before Judge Robinson and jury. It
is being prosecuted by Deputy County
Attorney Milverton, and defended by
former Attorney General Peters. The
testimony in this case has all been
heard and a part of the argument of
counsel. The case viii probably go to
the jury before noon today.
JURORS GET A PAYDAY.
An order was entered in the United
States District Court Wednesday by
Judge Dole authorizing United states
Marshal Hendry to pay jurors per diem
and mileage up to date. It is not usual
to pay these things until the end of the
quarter. June 80. But as matter of
was made.
CLAIM THE LAND.
Father Valentine and the Hawaiian |
Trust Company as trustees of the es-
tate of John Ena have filed an answer
to the petition of James B. Castle for |
a registered title to certain lands. They |
claim that a portion of the land OF |
Naniuapo in Manoa valley which is
included in the lands petitioned for is |
owned by the Bishop of Zeugma and /
was leased in 1876 to John Ena.
The Bishop of Zeugma also files an
answer claiming title to these lands as
successor to Bishop Maigrer, Bishop of /
Arathie.
THE DILLON JURY.
The following is the jury selected to
try Frank J. Dillon in Judge DoIe's
court: Rudolph NJ. Duncan, Harry A. |
Giles, John Coffee Charles Barton, H.
R. Macfarlane, Arthur Coyne, A. c..
silva, Joseph Aka, Samuel P. Woods,
William c. Wilder, A. Henry Along,
A. J. Gonsalves.