The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-01-14

the objections being sustained.
Lightfoot. however. protested vigor- |
ousy against the ruling. cit is a new |
practise. he said significantly, that |
when a witness is put on the stand,
her evidence shall be excluded because |
it seems that some of IL has already |
been given by Others
| After Mrs. Kennedy had left the !
stand. Lightfoot offered to prove that |
Mrs. Rawlins. when she arrived at the
house where Mr.. and Mrs. Conger were
on January l, abused her daughter and
her daughter IS husband and threatened
Mr.. Conger with personal violence;
| that she and Miss Rawlins forcibly
took the girl away; that the girl was
taken to the home of her father where
she has since remained. The attorneys
| for the respondent objected to this
testimony being given, and their OBJ
| lection was sustained.
Wife Takes the Stand.
Mrs. Conger was present in the court
room in obedience to a subpoena issued
on behalf of the petitioner. She was
led in by her two sisters and seated
between them, where one of them fire.
quently whispered in her ear. When
Mrs. Conger, who plainly was not well,
was called to the witness stand, one
of the sisters aided her to walk to
the chair, then resumed her own seat
and kept her eyes steadfastly fixed on
those of the young wife, who seemed
unable to tear away her own gaze.
In response to questions .propounded
by Lightfoot, the girl stated that she
was the wife of Omar David Conger
!; and that she had known him for about
year. Lightfoot asked how long they
had been engaged before they were
married, but Breckons' objection to the
question as immaterial and irrelevant
/, was sustained by the judge. Lightfoot
, objected vigorously to being interrupt
ed by counsel for the other side. sit
seems,' he said, "that counsel on the
other side have the right to do as they
/, please in this court
Lightfoot asked number of ques-
tions to show the state of the girl s
, feelings toward her husband, but coun-
sci for the respondent objected to all
, of them and the objections were all
sustained and it was impossible to
bring out whether or not the girl still
loves her husband.
Lightfoot then asked the girl to tell
5 what happened at her husbands house
when her mother, sister and brother
4 arrived, but this, too, was objected to,
: and the objections were sustained.
r The witness was allowed to state
4 that she had been at the home of her
r parents ever since she was taken away
o from her husband and that she had
t refused to see visitors who called, be-
y cause she was i'll.
S Rejected His Letters.
Then Lightfoot asked her about the
letters sent her by her husband. The
. girl S answers were hesitating and muir
INJURED, and she looked at her sister
when she was not looking down at the
floor She claimed that she herself sent
back unopened the registered letter,
that she refused to receive the special
delivery letter-for the reason that she
did not wish to see it. No, she had
had no quarrel with her husband. She
loved him when she married him. The
y court refused to allow her to state
1t whether or not she still loves her hus
band. She said that she had changed
her mind about living with him
though few minutes later she made
the startling statement that she die
not intend when she married him, t.
live with him. The special delivery
letter she said she refused to receive
because she was too i'll to read it, but
she stated that she herself answered
the postman 5 knock and refused thu
10 letter.
ID Wrote to Conger.
The witness admitted having receiv
ed the secret letter sent her by Congo
by the agency of Japanese house ser
want, and she admitted writing thu
two very affectionate letters quoted
above in which she implored him t.
sign no papers and not to give her uI
She admitted that there is guar,
maintained at the house, but knew o
only one guard instead of two.
Refuses to See Him.
On cross examination the questio
was put to the girl, "Do you wish t
see your husbandY"
"No," she murmured, her eyes stil
on her sisters.
AT four clock the hearing was cor
tinued until two clock this Afternoon
IT At the close of the session Mis-
ed Mile Rawlins sprang to the witnes
to chair before the slower husband coul
% have chance to reach his wife, an
r. the girl was marched off down stair
er and into Breckons' office, a sister o
nd each side holding tightly to the arm
ed of the wife of Omar David Congo
to Later she left the Office, her sister
still holding to her arms.
The case is exciting more interes
=. than any other case that has bee
a. heard in the local courts for month
az r.. and many of the spectators are Law
~ ors, including representatives of tn
,a attorney general S Office and the count
10. attorneys office, who are watching tn
mr. case very closely.