The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-12
MARRIED. IN HASTE
PARTED IN A HURRY
Such Is Common Experience OF
Many Couples in His Court
Says Judge.
fFrom Wednesday Is Advertiser.)

occupying the time OF OIculI JuuBe
w. l.. Whitney. And though he grants
the divorces, as under the law and the
evidence before him he must, the Judge
is of the opinion that in very large
number of the cases the party applying
is not entitled to divorce.
The divorce statistics for the year
are very significant, in the opinion of
the Judge. There have been seventy
three cases in his court SO far, and in
only three of them were there contests
made. One of the three contests was
solely over question of alimony, so
that among the seventy-three divorces
only two were really contested.
az think it is probably true that in
most of the uncontested divorce cases
there is COLLISION" said Judge Whit
new. Yesterday, after he had heard sew
eral more of the routine cases. Ac-
cording to the law, collision is not al
lowable in such cases. Divorce cases
are not allowed to 60 by default-each
case must be proved, and proof that
the two parties concerned had agreed
to be divorced would throw any case
out of court.
Marriage Laws Deied.
ct JuuRS w ullnSN niiiociI bSliS v S
that in case after case he is granting
divorces where the whole proceeding is
an understood arrangement between the
parties concerned. &c cannot avoid the
conclusion that most of the persons to
whom these divorces are granted are
not entitled to them,p said the Judge.
"But it is a difficult problem. L am
not one of those who feel that couples
unsuited to one another should be COM
PEELED to live together. But l think
that lot of these divorce cases ought
to be Investigated. Possibly the cir
cumstances under which the marriages
take place have lot to do with the
frequency of divorces. A lot of these
couples are married at the immigration
station, practically by compulsion, in
order to get ashore. 1t is quite natural
that couples welded in this way should
in many cases fail to agree"
Investigate Divorces.
Judge Whitney suggests as one pos
sible solution of the problem an indie
pendent investigation by the author
tiles of all the divorce cases. " know
of no place where such a scheme has
been tried,n he said, "but it occurred
to me as possibly necessary here, where
we are having so many cases where The
law is evidently not being respected
and the court is helpless to enforce thu
law. -
In most of the cases one of the par
ties comes into court with proof of de
sertion or failure to provide. In on
tried yesterday, desertion thirty day
after the wedding was proved. No de
tense is made in any of these cases ant
as long as the necessary evidence
given to show cause for divorce, tn
court can only grant decree.
White Slave Trade.
The case of Joe Podesta, which cam
up in the federal court yesterday an
in which plea of guilty was entered
marks the entry of the local fedora
officials into the campaign against tn
hackmen white slave traffic business
and may be the forerunner of nun
Der of other prosecutions. 1t is sal
that there are lot of hackmen an
auto men here who are practically
the "white slave'' business, and til
Podesta case indicates that there ma
be trouble in sight for them.
Podesta was charged with soliciting
and was allowed to plead guilty yestel
day to another statutory offense. II
will appear before Judge G. L. Clemon
Saturday for sentence. The prosecl
ton of Podesta in the federal couI
has created alarm among hack and aut
men who have been doing other tina
ordinary business with their hack
along Bethel and other streets.
Gases Mol Pressed.
All of the cases against Moses Kok
the Maui postmaster who was indicte
for embezzlement of Uncle Sam Is fund
were nol-prossed yesterday in the fec
eral court. Koki had seven indictment
against him, and was the subject of
lengthy trial at former term, whe
he secured an acquittal on one of IL
iudictments against him: The cases a
over two years old.
Nolle presses were also entered f,
Otoku Owe, Chang Yoke Lin and Max
motto, each charged with statutory 0
Tense; for IL. Webb, indicted sever
years ago for sending non.mailab
matter through the postoffice, but new
arrested, and for Louis CoadOu al
Emil Scott, charged with assault on Il
high seas.
Joao Pacheco pleaded guilty to
charge of bigamy, and will appear f
sentence on Saturday. Hull, charg
with stealing coal from the naval ST
ton, pleaded not guilty. He had
counsel and the court appointed A.
Humphreys to defend him,
Jury Is Shy.
Phe jury panel again gave out
the case of Salvador Lopez, charg
with a criminal assault. The crime
alleged to have taken place on fede,
reservation and is capital offense, a
jurors appeared to be unwilling to
clare themselves ready to bring in
verdict of guilty. special venire
twenty citizens was ordered, and IL
will be in court this morning.
Mrs. Margaret t. Morgan, widow
the late James F. Morgan, has petit
ed for an allowance of 5000 per mo-
pending the settlement of the est
The accounts of the administrator
the estate of Mary Kittlei were
proved by Judge Whitney and the