The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-14
ATCHERLEy HIS
OWN EXAMINER
Puts Witnesses Against Stiff
Observation-Disclosures
Poison as Bracer.

DR.. Atcherley S case held the atten-
ton of Police Magistrate Andrade YES
terday morning and afternoon and was
not concluded at 5 clock. The hear
ing will be resumed this morning with
! additional testimony for the prosecu.
| tion. The prosecution placed on the
stand yesterday Chief Kalakiela, for
mer Assistant Chief Luahiwa, DIR. Emer-
son and DR.. Collins. The frst-named
told of visit DR.. Atcherley made at
| his office some months ago when the
| doctor complained that some one was
threatening him through the sewers. y
The doctor paid second visit, renew
ing his queer complaint and asked for
police to investigate.
DR.. Atcherley took a hand in the
| cross examination of DR.. Emerson and
| also of DR.. Collins, and technical terms
and phrases literally flowed from his
lips.
DR.. Wayson told of the circumstances
of the shooting at his house on Sunday
morning by DR.. Atcherley. He consid-
| cred the relations existing between him
and DR.. Atcherley were friendly. Way,
son said he told Atcherley to get the
wheels out of his head. one day when
Ateherley made call.
| DIR. Emerson gave testimony as to the
trae ba np A +ah NJ H.
police station after his arrest.
i Dr. Collins proved valuable wit
ness for the prosecution. His answers
| were well made both in direct and cross.
examination, and he concluded with the
statement, in answer to a question by
! the Judge, that he considered Dr. At.
| cherley to be of diseased mind, and
| that the brain had become diseased
through the excessive use of drugs. He
| was of the opinion that DR.. Atcherley 3
use of drugs was excessive and stated,
as far as he had been able to learn,
| that he used about three grains of CO.
caine per day and about twenty-five of
| opium. He thought he had been using
| drugs for the past ten or twelve years.
! Judge Andrade asked what would
happen to man, not addicted to the
! use of drugs, who took that amount of
cocaine and opium.
| "You would bury him." answered
Dr. Collins.
| DIR. Collins said he had had a good
deal of experience with insane persons
and those using drugs to excess, par
tieularly in India.
| When the amount of cocaine and
opium was stated by DR.. Collins, Dr..
Atcherley became excited and said he
| was not taking that much and went
| on to explain that it was only that
whole amount in solution, which was,
| therefore, much less as to actual guam
tity.
i Mr.. Magoon, attorney for DIR. Ateher-
ley, attempted to stay his client s flood
| of questions directed toward DR.. Collins,
but Mrs. Atcherley motioned to the
attorney to let her husband continue
with his questions. The prosecution
was quite agreeable to allowing DR.. At
cherley ask all the questions he want
ed to.
| DR.. Collins contended that DIR. Atcher
| ley was laboring under delusion, that
| it was a fixed thing in his mind, and
| that his one idea was that his only
redress with regard to DR.. Wayson was
to shoot the latter. In other things DR..
Atcherley was as rational, as DIR. Col
Inns put it, as Mr.. Magoon himself.
| At the opening of the case yesterday
morning F. E. Thompson gave notice
| to the court that he had withdrawn as
attorney for the Atcherleys. The fee
which was to have been laid on his
| table before the case began, was not
| Forthcoming, and Mr.. Thompson said he
was agreeable to Mr.. Magoon s work
ing for nothing.
| The case will be heard again at 10
o clock this morning.