The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-05-28
PLENTY OF PIuEIA
OVER CHINESE SUIT
ELEVEN PLAINTIFFS AND NINE.
TEEN DEFENDANTS IN CASE
FILED IN CIRCUIT COURT.
(FrOm saturday's Advortlsor.l

Eleven plaintiffs, nineteen defend.
ants and nine garnishecs, are involved
in small suit fled yesterday in the
circuit court, of which the nominal title
is Lam Kim Chin against Chin See Lin.
1t is for the sum of $l599.94 alleged to
be due the various plaintiffs, as mem.
bers of the firm of Wing On Tai s.
Co., from the first named defendant
and his eighteen associates as members
Of the Quong Lin Ching company, on
account of settlement of the business
relations of the two firms alleged to
have been entered into on May 10, this
year.
The list of garnishees is much more
imposing than the list of plaintiffs and
defendants. There are the Liverpool,
London and Globe Insurance Company,
the Sun Insurance Company of London,
the Firemen's Fund Insurance Com
pany, the North British Mercantile In
surance Company, the Oriental Insur-
ance Company, the Norwich Union In
surance Company, the London and Lam
caster Fire Insurance Company, the
Queen Insurance Company, and the
bank of Bishop & Co., Honolulu.
A. S. Humphreys is the attorney who
threw out this wide drag net of gar
nishees, in the effort to get the fifteen
hundred dollars which the eleven Wing
On Tai men claim is due them from the
nineteen Quong Lin Chong Company
men.
Insane or Taking.
Ropoz Freitas was either insane or
feigning insanity when he appeared
yesterday morning in Judge Robinson Is
court for arraignment on n charge of
brutally assaulting his wife. He in
terrupted the reading of the indictment
with laughter that was audible.
Freitas is Portuguese, who is
said to have taken his wife on
an excursion up Tantalus and there
assaulted her most viciously, tied
rope round her neck, and almost
hanged her. The indictment against
him was read before him yesterday in
court. Freitas laughted loudly as it
was read
Judge Robinson asked him what
there was that was funny about the
indictment. Freitas said he didn t
know, and then laughed some more.
The case went over for plea next
Monday 1t is the opinion of the prose-
cution that Freitas is feigning insan-
ity, in order to escape punishment for
peculiarly atrocious assault.
! The other cases set for arraignment
were all postponed until Monday.
Lawyers Compliments
Attorneys Cathcart and Rawlins ex-
changed compliments in Judge Robin
sons court yesterday morning, over a
motion to postpone the case of Chin
Fan. Rawlins wanted a postponement
on the ground that he had to go to
Kauai to try another matter. He re-
marked that, not being a wealthy man,
and not holding good salaried job like
the county attorney, he could not af-
ford to miss attending cases in which
he was employed, and therefore had to
go to Kauai.
| Cathcart remarked that if Rawlins
didn't hold good government job, it
wasn't on account of lack of effort on
his part to obtain one, and after this
exchange Of courtesies there were signs
that the Chin Fan trial will be very
lively one.
Mahuka Case.
After a lot more DISCRIMINATION
of R. R. Reidford, real estate expert
by District Attorney Breckons in tho
federal court yesterday, the case was
postponed until Monday morning. At
torney Olson, for the respondents, ha6
chance at the witness after Breckons
got through, and secured from him {
statement that he considered his esti
mates of values very conservative
Reidford said that his estimate OF
$3.50 a square foot, for the Cummin'
and Austins estate property was "ul
tra-conservative.
Court Notes.
Judge Whitney yesterday granted di
vorce in the case of Mary Silva, on tho
ground of extreme cruelty. Silva had
some prominence here several years
iago as a pugilist, being known as the
Punchbowl demon"
Judge Whitney yesterday fled a de
cision in the case of Lawrence H. Dec
versus Elizabeth Foster, the decision
being in favor of the defendant. Tho
suit was brought in 1900, Dee endeavor
ing to get possession of certain prop
erty which he claimed Foster had
fraudulently transferred to his wife
Judge Whitney holds, however, that
there is no evidence of intention to
defraud.