The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-22


Hawaii, do hereby certify that in the
above entitled matter on the Goth day
Of July, 1909, after a full examination,
[ found the said John Atcherley to be
an insane person and unsafe to be al
lowed at large; and thereupon ordered
and adjudged that the said John Atcher
ley is insane, and that it would be I'M
safe to allow him to be at large, a copy
of which judgment marked Exhibit
ga" is hereto attached and made
a part of this certificate.
And I further certify that the facts
upon which said Judgment is based are
briefly as follows:
That the said John Atcheriey is in
sane and suffering from the form of
insanity known as paranoia. He has
systematized decisions of persecution
and believes that he is the object of
evil designs of other persons; that his
plans are thwarted and he is unjustly
dealt with That he is tormented by
unknown and unseen foes. his sns-
pieions have to an extent fastened up
on particular persons, viz: Doctors
Wayson and Brinckerhoff, Chester
Doyle and John w. Catheart. These
persons with others, he believes, are
tormenting him by making strange and
peculiar noises around his premises, by
using bad language and by threatening
him. The object of the persecution
is to compel him to disclose a secret
remedy which the said John Atcherley
believes that he has discovered for the
disease of leprosy, SO as to deprive him
of the credit and glory of such diseov-
cry, and to appropriate such credit and
glory to themselves; that the persecu-
ton is carried on by an organized
gang who concealed confederates
and agents in his, DIR. Atcherley s.,
house for the purpose Of overhearing
what the said John Atcheley says, and
Aoi tAC qua PooC VI IidAlHS otIduSS dnU
inexplieable noises; that such persecu-
ton has continued for the past months,
and that the said John Atcherley has
suffered indescribable torture. That
the said John Atcheriey believes other
physicians in this Territory have been
secretly made away with, and that he
fears that he will be made away with.
AS illustrative of such delusions. and
as indicating the way in which the
persecution is being carried on, said
John Atcheriey reduced to writing his
beliefs and ideas in signed letter
which he handed to Walter G. Smith,
Esq, Editor of the Advertiser a
copy of which letter, marked Exhibit
stB,'' is hereto attached and made
part of this statement of facts. That
such decisions of persecution are in
sane decisions, inherently impossible,
and without foundation, as the evil
dence shows, in fact.
That it is unsafe to allow said John
to be at large, as it appears
that in January of this year, believing
that Dr. Wayson was prosecuting him,
he fred several shots from a revolver
at and into the house of said DR.. Way
son at an, early hour in the morning
when DIR. Wayson, his wife and two
small children were sleeping therein.
That it appears that said John Atcher-
ley has shot gun with which he has
threatened to shoot and kill persecu-
tors, and more particularly Chester
Doyle.
The above facts appear from the evil
aenee adduced on the examination of
said John Atcherley, and my Judgment
is based thereon and upon the opinions
Of four physicians who, after exanlin-
ming the said John Atcherley and ac-
1uainting themselves with the facts,
declared the said John Atcherley to be,
in their opinion, an insane person suf
fering from paranoia and dangerous to
the community if allowed to go at
large.
(signed) FRANK ANDRADE.
District Magistrate of Honolulu, City
and County of Honolulu. Territory
of Hawaii.
Dated July 90, 1909.
To the Chairman Of the Commissioners
of Insanity.
District Court of Honolulu, City and
County of Honolulu, Territory OF
Hawaii.
In the Matter of the Examination Of
John Atcherley, an Alleged Insane
Person.
Judgment.
Whereas. on the 10Th day of July,
1909, W. P. jarrett, Sheriff of the City
and County of Honolulu, Territory Of
Hawaii made n written COMPLAINT yeri-