The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-22
.OhE YEAR FOR
SLIPPERY TOM
Nine Months for PhiIips-Both
Men Pleaded Guilty to
Misdemeanor.
MURDER VERDICT RETURNED
Jury Finds That KanagaWa Fe-
loniously Killed Judge Lind
says Servant.
MURDER VERDICT RETURNED

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months for his companion in wron
doing was the package handed out b
Judge De Bolt yesterday afternoon t
the youthful pair of amateur highway
men when they appeared before hin
and acknowledged their guilt. Slipper.
Tom win be placed where his eel-lk
twistings and turnings will not be iabl
to avail him much.
Tom Richards and Antoine Phillip
were attended in court by their appoint
ed attorney, Leon Straus, and it wa
by his advice that they both decide,
to plead guilty. Deputy County Attor
ney Milverton consented to let th'
charge be made a misdemeanor instead
of felony, which permitted Judge d.
Bolt to let the offenders against the Law
down easy. But the judge improved
! the occasion to read them lecture OF
the evil of their ways and the necessity
of their reforming if they were to keel
out of trouble in the future. Boil
promised to be good when they come
out of Jail, and to go to work and earn
an honest living instead of holding III
lone pedestrians.
Kanagawa a Murderer.
It took the jury in the Kanagawa
case just fifteen minutes yesterday to
decide that the japanese was guilty
of murder in the first degree, as
charged. The verdict was returned
| at 1890 clock.
The case was argued yesterday morn
ing by Deputy County Attorney Mil,
| verton for the prosecution and Attor-
| new A. D. Larnach for the defense
| Milverton taking about an hour each
for his opening and closing addresses
| and Larnach consuming ittle less
than an hour. The arguments were
mainly along the line of the insanity
plea put up by the defense.
Kanagawa cut the throat of pretty
little japanese woman who worked for
the family of Judge Lindsay in Manoa
Valley, and then tried to commit sui
eide. He nearly succeeded, but not
quite. The reason for his murder of
the woman has never been discovered,
the prisoner remaining mute on that
subject and depending on the desperate
plea of insanity put up by his counsel.
Mr. Larnach was appointed by the
court to defend the impecunious pris-
oner and did all he could for the man.
Sentence will be passed on Kama
gawa tomorrow afternoon at two
clock, unless some motion inter
venes.
The Divorce Court.
Kamada Kanehama was yesterday
granted a divorce by Judge Robinson
from her husband, Koe Kanehama, on
the ground of extreme cruelty.
Josephine J.. Perry has filed suit for
divorce from Frank J. Perry, alleging
as her grounds for action extreme
cruelty on the part of the hbelee. She
claims that he has long been IN the
habit of beating. kicking and other
wise mistreating her. There are three
female children, for the custody Of
whom the libeiant asks.
Judge Robinson yesterday granted
a divorce to Mary E. Murphy from
her husband, Robert ]. Murphy, on the
ground of non-support.
Bierce Case Again Appealed.
The old case of William W. Bierce,
and Albert Waterhouse, executors I'M
der the will and of the estate of Henry
Waterhouse, deceased, is once more to
90 up to the Supreme Court OF the
United States, which ought by this
time to be fairly familiar with the
case, as it has been before that tribu-
nal several times already. Chief JUS
tice Hartwell Yesterday allowed a writ
of error asked for by the attorneys
for Bierce to carry the case up to the
Federal Supreme Court once more.
This case is one which, in various
phases, has long been in the courts.
1t was on July 20. 1908, that Bierce
filed a replevin suit in the circuit court
of the third circuit against Clinton J.
Hutchins eft al, to recover certain rail-
road property The case was trans
ferred to this circuit and. in March,
1904. decided, jury waived, for the
plaintiff
The defendant went to the supreme
court on a bill of exceptions. The
supreme court sustained the circuit
Judge and the case was carried to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
That court sent it back TO the local
supreme court Win Il iiOulhftbtApI u
the judgment. The defendants asked
for a rehearing. but this was denied, |
and they again carried the case to the
Supreme Court of the United States |
where it was dismissed for want Of |
jurisdiction.
Then Bierce brought suit against the |
Waterhouse executors for about $50, |
900. and it is this assumpsit which Is
still in the courts. Bierce got judg |
ment IN the lower court. The defend |
ants interposed a motion TO set aside |
the judgment.the verdict notwithstand- !
ing. This motion was denied by the |
circuit Judge and the defendants ap-
pealed to the supreme court on bill /
Of exceptions. The supreme court sus- |
tanned the circuit Judge and the case |
went back to the clrcuir court once /
more. Judge De Bolt, on May %. /
1909, made an order entering Judgment |
vaeating the former judgment for the !
plaintiff and taxing costs against him |
to the tune Of S1G97.22
From this judgment the plaintiff aa-
peaIed on writ Of error, but the su- /
preme court affirmed the Judgment Of +
the lower court. It 5 from this last /
decision Of the supreme court that the .
plaintiff Bierce now proposes to appeal
once more to the supreme Court Of the !,
United States.