The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-27
ATCHERLEY AGAIN
SEEKS FREEDOM
Continued from Page One.1

statements Of DR.. Wayson than in his
CDR. Ateherley 's) remarks. DR.. Collins
responded that the subsequent actions
of DIR. Atcherley had shown him to be
irrational. Atcherley was inclined to
argue the matter, but Judge Lindsay
cut the discussion short by informing
DR.. Atcherley that he could not argue
with the witness.
Then Atcherley introduced the reso-
luton. passed by the Board of Health,
allowing any duly licensed physician to
treat patients at Kalihi Receiving Sta
ton, providing the treatment and medi-
zines to be used were told to the board
in detail. Atcherley insisted that the
resolution was passed as an insult to
him and introduced it as evidence of
Dr. Wayson IS enmity to him. He pro-
eeeded to give a full history of the
case but was called to order by Judge
Lindsay, who told him that he must
confne himself to proper cross exami-
nation and not try and make a speech
to the commission at that time.
His Leprosy Cure.
But Ateherley was determined to
prove that the resolution was passed
with the direct intention of hitting him,
and that it originated from a desire to
know what his method Of treatment for
leprosy might be. DR.. Collins did not
believe such to be the case and DR..
Atcherley did not manage to get any
thing from him.
The next witness was DR.. Sinclair.
His testimony covered much the same
ground as that given by DIR. Collins.
He said that he had examined DR.. At
cherley in January and again in July,
and that on both occasions he had
reached the conclusion that the patient
was suffering from paranoia. The doc,
tor said that he considered Atcherley
dangerous to the community.
He said that at any time he might
take it into his head to associate any
person with DR.. Wayson and his fancied
persecution.
There was lot of sparring over
paranoia, symptoms, decisions and
other technical subjects, which resulted
in shedding little or no light on the
subject under discussion. Atcherley
hied back to the old Board of Health
resolution time and again, and tried
in vain to ring in the name of J. Lor
Wallaeh. Mrs. Atcherley kept prompt
started to ask questions which she had
with the words ooh, no, that has moth
ing to do with it..
Those Leper Pictures Again.
Atcherley asked Sinclair if he be-
lieved him to be laboring under delu-
sion in regard to his claimed leprosy
cure. Sinclair said that he did. That
was Mrs. Atcherley's opportunity, and
the leper pictures, which she religiously
carries about with her wherever she
goes, were called into evidence. They
were showed to DR.. Sinclair and he was
asked if he did not consider them good
evidence that DIR. Atcherley had
grounds for claiming that he has a
leproSy cure. Sinclair said no, that
some of his patients had shown as much
Improvements as the photographs indi-
Gated.
Then Atcherley tried another tack
and HE'D him back to the sewer pipe.
elf I say that I have seen people
in the sewer pipe would that neces-
sarily be an insane delusion?o
"No,' came the answer, 81 have
seen men coming up out of sewer
pipes
Fits in the Sewer.
Then the doctor asked several questions
in regard to the sewer pipe business,
ending up by asking why it should be
considered a delusion if he said that he
had heard Chester Doyle having a fit
in the sewer Sinclair admitted that
Doyle might possibly have a fit in the
sewer if he wanted to, but expressed
the belief that such state of affairs
is hardly likely to come about.
Atcherley harped on the question as
to whether or not Doyle could have a
fit in an S-foot sewer, should he feel
so inclined, and he spent fully half an
hour trying to get Sinclair to admit
that Doyle might get into a storm drain
and have a fit should be feel so in
clined.
Then Atcherley wanted to know if
it were not well within the bounds of
reason that telephone wires might be
stretched through the storm drains.
Sinclair admitted that he could see no
reason why such thing could not be
done, but he looked mighty skeptical
over the probability of such an ar
rangement. Atcherley was preparing to
try more of the same when Judge Lind
say shut him off.
Walter G. Smith, editor of the ADJ
vertiser, was the next witness called.
In response to the questions of the
County Attorney, Mr.. Smith went over
the ground, telling of Ateherley IS visit
and the communication which he left,
and which was afterward published in
the Advertiser. He stated that the
communication was run as written, and
that the Introductory article is true
account Of the interview which he had
with DR.. Ateherley, though not YER
batim one.
Asked how Dr. Atcherley appeared
on the night that he brought the COM
munieation to the Advertiser office, Mr..
Smith said that the man seemed very
nervous.
Those Punchbow Ghosts.
When Atcherley started his crosse
animation. he trotted out the Punchbowi
ghost story, as evidence that others
than himself had seen the marvellous
doings of bodiless spirits Atcherley
read the story through and then said
that he considered that story as ex-
traordinarv as the one that he told
Mr.. Smith agreed with him on that