The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-16
NJ BRIDE WANTS
To SEE 4 KNIT {
And the Rising Young Lawyer
Wins His Point, With
Points to Spare.

"Button, button, who's got the but
ton. - isn't quite the question that was
before Judge De Bolt yesterday after
noon, but it is good deal like the real
interrogatory that was put in the court.
The interlocutor was Claudius H. Me-
Bride, generally private secretary to
the Governor, but while His Exeellency
is away, practieing attorney Mr..
Bones was represented by Fred Milver-
| ton. deputy county attorney. What Ne
Bride wanted to know was, "where is
that knife9"
Mcbride is the attorney for Kato, d
Japanese who is accused of having
| stabbed fellow countryman named
Fukui, alias Fukishima, up Kalihi Val
lev some two months ago. It appears
that a part of the evidence which the
| prosecuting attorney considers as i'm
portant is a knife-the knife with
which the stabbing is supposed to have
been done. But it also appears that
| the knife was found only few days
ago by man named Egami. Mcbride
doubts if it is the right knife.
Mcbride heard that the knife was
| to be introduced in evidence, and he
| wanted to see it. He made the re-
| quest and was refused. Then he went
| to the office of the county attorney and
spent two hours trying to see that knife.
Nothing doing Each member of the
staff to whom he applied professed a
| sublime ignorance of the whereabouts
of the weapon. Even Mr.. Milverton
said he didn't know where the knife
was.
Mcbride was very much from Mis-.
souri, And he went before Judge De
Bolt and presented motion that good
share of the police force and most Of
the employees of the county attorney IS
office be commanded to appear in court
this morning and tell what they might
| happen to know of that knife.
| The motion was argued before Judge
| De Bolt yesterday afternoon with much
eloquence and considerable logic, but
the noise all ended in a compromise in
| the end. Milverton promised that if
| the motion were not pressed, he would
| produce the knife and save the county
| the expenses of producing Sheriff Jar
rett, Deputy Sheriff Rose, detective
| Lake, stenographer Miss All Chuck,
| Pat Silva, Chief of Detectives Arthur
MeDufie, Clerk Joseph K kanepuu and
| Egami, all of whom Mcbride had in
| sisted should be brought into court to
| tell what they knew of the whereabouts
| of the knife Mcbride accepted the
compromise, and the knife will be turn
| ed over to him for examination today.
| Microscopic examination of the rust on
the handle may disclose important EVIL
| dence.
Court Notes.
United States Commissioner George
| A. Davis yesterday morning bound
over to the April term of the federal
! court Leong La and Leong He Yeu, the
| two Chinese members of the Asia s
| crew who are accused of having snug
gled opium into the Territory The ac-
cused men waived examination after a
small amount of evidence had been
| taken, and their bonds were fixed at
| $1,000 each. The two men asked for
| trial as soon as possible, and it is
| stated by the United States authorities
! that they will plead guilty.
Kawabata, japanese, was yester-
day held by Commissioner Davis under
$500 bonds on the charge of harboring
women.
| Nahookula. the Hawaiian boy who is
accused of having robbed the Kealake-
kua postoffice, waived examination be-
fore Commissioner George Davis yes
terday and was bound over for trial.
His bonds were fixed at $1,000. The
accused boy says that he will plead
| guilty and take his medicine.
The hearing of Sakai, who was ar
rested on the other side of the island
last Saturday by the federal authori-
ties, and accused of having sold liquor
without a federal license, was begun
before Commissioner Davis yesterday
afternoon, but was not concluded. The
commissioner stated after the commits.
sioner's court had adjourned that un-
less stronger evidence was brought by
the arresting authorities, he would not
hold the accused for trial. There is
however, one important witness still to
| be examined.
The case of Mary n. Simerson VS.
William K. Simerson, a minor, by his
guardian, will be submitted to the SUI
preme court this morning en- an agreed
statement of facts. This afternoon
the case of the Territory VS.. Choy Dan
will come up on a question reserved
from the circuit court.
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