The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-01-14
IS REPUDIATED
BY HIS WIFE
Bride of Omar Conger Says She
Never Intended to Live
With Him.
AMAZING HEARING IN COURT
In Affectionate Letters Girl I'm.
plores Husband Not to Give
Her Up.
AMAZING HEARING IN COURT
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"When ] married my husband, did
not intend to live with him, was the
amazing statement made by Mrs. Ada
F. Conger, nee Rawlins, on the witness
stand yesterday afternoon in Judge
Robinson s court, during the progress
of the amazing hearing of one of the
most amazing cases that has ever come
before local court. ~ loved my
husband when 1 married him. said
Mrs. Conger in response to a question
propounded by her husband IS attorney.
81 do not wish to talk to him, ~ she
said in response to another question.
The entire case is so astonishing as
J to seem almost unreal to one who only
s hears of it. In fact, the statements
made and the things done in the court
s room seem almost incredible even to
those who sit there and Nsee and hear
them.
4 Is Refused Speech With Wife.
One of the most dramatic scenes that
was ever witnessed in a Honolulu court
room took place yesterday afternoon
just before Judge Robinson took his
seat on the bench. Omar David Conger,
the man who is making such desper.
a ate fight to regain possession of his
bride who was taken away from him
the day after they were married, act
on tho o1yian nf r
Lightfoot, attempted to speak to the
girl as she sat between two of her
sisters and near her father r. W..
Breckons, appearing as one of the at
torneys for Thomas w. Rawlins,
promptly objected, but Conger, still
acting on the advice of his attorney,
persisted. Then Thomas w. Rawlins,
the girls father, sprang to his feet
and interposing threatening body be-
tween the husband and wife, ordered
Conger not to attempt to speak to his
bride. 81 want to talk to my wife, ~
said Conger
81 am not so sure that she is your
wife," replied Rawlins. And yet, the
fact of the marriage has never been
questioned, and is in fact admitted by
the attorneys for the respondent in
the habeas corpus case, as well as by
the girl. Awed by the belligerent at
titude of the father and not knowing
just what his rights in the court room
We're, Conger resumed his seat, after
the girl, in obedience to the attitude
of her father and replying to him
rather than to her husband. had stated
that she did not wish to talk with hel
husband.
Peace Proposed and Rejected.
At the beginning of the hearing
Lightfoot made proposition which, i
it had been agreed to, would have
brought the entire proceedings to {
sudden and peaceable end. He propos
ed to Judge Robinson that if his Glen
were allowed to speak privately to thu
wife for a few minutes, out of thu
hearing and presence of her family
and the girl at the end of the con
versation stated that she had no desir
to return to her husband, he and hi
client would drop the case and maxi
no further effort to get back the girl
"Put on your evidence said Judg
Robinson, thus effectually putting
stop to any effort to arrive at peace
s able settlement of the difficulty.
Evidence Ruled Out.
The attorney for the petitioner at
tempted to put on his evidence, blu
succeeded only in small part, on &C
count of the fact that the rulings o
the court shut out the greater part o
that which he wanted to introduce an
that the objections of the attorneys 70
the respondent We're almost invariabl
sustained on all important points. On
witness, Mrs. Tom Kennedy, to who's
house Conger took his bride the da
after they were married and who wa
present when she was taken away an
who saw all that occurred on that occa
sion. was allowed to tell her name an
street address, but was not permitte
to give another word of testimony. Ey
E cry question asked her by Lightfoot a
to what took place when Mrs. Rawlini
Miss Mile Rawlins and w. 7. Rawlin
= came to the house and the pilikia star
ed was objected to by the attorney
for the respondent, and in every cas-
their objections were sustained an
Mrs. Kennedy was finally dismisse
without having been allowed to sa
$ anything.
large part of the evidence thi
was introduced was stricken out by ii
judge and much that the petitioner
attorney offered 10 produce was pr,
hibited by Robinson on the ground thf
II was cumulative, though Lightfoot II
sisted that il was all part of h
res gestae and tended TO show the 81
cumstances attending the entire troub
aud the fact that the girl Is Illegal
restrained Of her liberty.
Husband Testihes.
The first witness put on the star
- was Omar David conger the husbGn
who told practically the same story
- told "a tbs frat hearing, lie told DO
be aud Ada y, liawllns, now Ada
:. foagef, lad been keeping company
engaged slnee lasi April There b
never, be fali, been amy gpafrel b
tween them aud chs was Always l0yli
aad a1eeilauaie iaaaId hiH and 1
gays answered 81, lsiles pfelapll