The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-10-20


IN old man named Palea and his wife
Kaupe, the defendant being their !,
daughter Miliana Davis. The action
was to set aside q deed given by plain.
tiffs to the defendant, on the ground
that 1t was without consideration. The
settlement was consummated after the
death of the plaintiffs in pursuance of
an agreement made before, and the con.
summation was only made possible by
Mr.. Castle living up to his word, as the
action had fallen by reason of the death
of plaintiffs. The settlement was known
to and advised by Alloy, and not a cent
of money which was not lawfully due
me was retained by me.
"The very story as printed by the
Advertiser carries its own contradic.
ton. Goo Wan Hoy says that Lofrin
Andrews advised that the matter was
embezzlement and that it be taken be-
fore the grand jury. If that were so,
Mr.. Andrews, when Attorney General,
would not have employed me many
times to represent his department and
would not have commissioned me Dep,
uty Attorney General, as he did in a
number of instances. If l had EN-.
bezzled $500 belonging to Goo Wan
Hoy, Judge Humphreys would not have
settled the matter for $1s5, taking my
unsecured note.
"The Advertiser tries to make IL ap.
pear that Hoy's statements are corrob.
Grated by Mr.. Castle and by written
documents. This is not so. Mr.. Castle
can only speak as to the fact of the
settlement that was made, and of this
settlement there is no question. There
are no documents which sustain or cor
roborate any of Goo Wan Hoy 8 charges
of embezzlement. That stands on his
unsupported word.
81 want the public to remember that
this Goo Wan Hoy is the same person
whom the late Judge Gear charged with
having sent to Mrs. Gear a most vile
and indecent picture and writing, be.
cause of a difference between Judge
Gear and Hoy over money matters
Judge Gear had him arrested, he was
indicted by the Federal grand jury, but
as no handwriting expert could be pro
cured in the Territory, the United
States failed legally to prove its case
although it is evident that the writing
on the picture was that of Hoy.
5000 Wan Hoy was for several years
associated with Mr.. Humphreys blu. for
the past two years has been with Mr..
Lightfoot.
"Not very long ago Judge Andrade
from the bench severely scored him for
tampering with witnesses. In the Ko,
ma community, where he lived before
coming to Honolulu in 1900, Goo Wan
Hoy's reputation is that of man who
would not be believed on oath.
"l have never asked Taylor, the re,
porter, not to be hard on me. did
ask him in reporting political news to
be at least decent and fair.
~ did not ask Lightfoot to prevent
Hoy's making any statement. ! did tell
Lightfoot that if Hoy made any lying
statement he would do so at his peril.
L never said or intimated to Mr.. Thurs.
ton or the Advertiser that would with.
draw.
81 did ask Mr.. Thurston not to per.
NIT these unjust attacks on me by the
Advertiser.
"The committee never asked me to
withdraw, but, on the contrary, have
upheld me throughout in this matter.
"This is all can say in hurried
statement, but the public will be put in
possession of all the details as soon as
1 can get them together.
Cathcart IS Failing Memory.
The above is what Cathcart IS friends
of the afternoon papers were good
enough to call reply to the Advertiser.
The County Attorney confessed to n
failing memory in his first paragraph
to account probably for the msstete.
ments he makes later on in the inter.
view. In stating that the case els so
old that many of the details have es.
capped my memory" he neglected to
state that the details were so fresh in
his mind within the past TWO weeks
that he entreated j. Lightfoot to use
his influence with Goo Wan Hoy to say
nothing to the papers about the case.
From this it is evident that the few
details of the case that did not "es.
cape" his memory were not pleasant
ones for him to contemplate as ever
coming before the public.
So extremely old is the case that
Cathcart cannot remember paying the
second compromised claim on it to Har.
ry T., Mills in April last, eight months
ago. He probably forgets, too, that he
had the stenographer, paid by the coun.
ty to do county business, typewrite