The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-06-15

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ultimately securing a postponement- of
the hearing until this morning.
Mr.. Kinney began by attempting to
show the connection between the ar
rests and the assaults upon japanese
who desired to return to work. Light
foot objected, and referred to Kinney's
statements as being "wild-eyed and
ranting."
Kinney stated that he was entitled
to show the connection between the ar
rest and the assaults, but Judge Rob-
lnson did not seem to think that there
was much relevancy in Mr.. Kinney's
remarks, and stated that Kinney should
confne himself to what occurred at the
Nippu Jiji Office Thursday evening, at
the time that Lightfoot appeared on
the scene and asked for enlightment
as to the reason for the arrest of the
japanese.
Repeated objections by Lightfoot
brought forth burning retorts from
Kinney, who stated that Lightfoot
began his career as parson and ends
up as lawyer"
Personalities should not be indulg-
ed in" cautioned Judge Robinson, and
Kinney returned to his statement of
the events that led up to the arrest of
the men. Judge Robinson interrupted
In response to protest from Lightfoot,
and Mr.. Kinney asked that he at least
be allowed to finish his SENTENCE
Lightfoot temporarily subsidized and
Kinney proceeded to show that all at
tempts to secure definite information
as to the participants in the assault had
been unavailing and that the officers
OF the law were confronted with an
organized conspiracy to prevent the ap-
prehension of the guilty men.
Charges of Conspiracy.
"Not thirty-six hours before these
men were arrested,'' said Mr.. Kinney,
'an inoffensive Japanese was attacked
and beaten in the presence of about
500 of his fellow countrymen upon a
public highway of this Territory. No
information could be elected from the
witnesses of the assault, and the Of
fieers were confronted with an insolent
disregard of the law and the refusal
of the witnesses to tell what they knew.
Investigation showed conclusively
that Maxine and Negoro were back of
this concerted action, and that they
and their immediate associates were
and are the prime movers in this con-
spiracy against the peace of the Ter
ritory.'
Lightfoot voiced another objection
to Mr.. Kinney's line of argument, and
protested that it was leaning away
from the merits of the point at issue
and not bearing on the writ Of habeas
corpus that was asked for.
81 don't intend to rest under the
imputaton that 1 am the agent of the
Planters Association, even from such
a source as the learned counsel,'' de-
clared Kinney, "and l claim the right
to make the proper statement that
comes before this court in its consid-
Grafton of this petition.
"lt was not until the officers
of the law discovered that they were
confronted by an organized conspir-
acy," continued Mr.. Kinney, "to
shield guilty parties, that they looked
for the leaders and found them un-
mistakably in the persons of the men
now under arrest.
81 have in my possession the notice
from the headquarters of the Higher
Wage Association authorizing as
saults,'' said Kinney. Immediately
Lightfoot protested and declared that
Kinney was attacking the Japanese of
the Territory.
To this Kinney entered an emphatic
denial, and declared that the great ma
jority of the japanese people in the
Territory were lawabiding and that he
was not going to be misrepresented by
Lightfoot as blaming all the Japanese
OF the country for the work of the agi-
tators.
With cluster of objections from
Lightfoot that included about every
thing that could be objected to, he con.
cluded by asking that the court hold
night session to dispose of the eases,
but Judge Robinson said that he saw
no necessity for night session and
continued the proceedings until nine
O'Clock this morning, at which time
another writ of habeas corpus will
come before Judge Whitney in behalf
of twenty-four other japanese who
were taken into custody and no formal
charge lodged against them.
The writ of habeas corpus that was
issued Thursday afternoon for Maxine
ct al. was quashed at the morning pro-
ceedings before Judge Robinson on the
ground that technical mistake had
been made in drawing it up, and the
new writ on which the subsequent pro-
ceedings' were based was then obtained.
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