The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-05-05
'ATT0RNEYsRAVE SPIRITED
.TLTs IN CRIMINAL TRIAL

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The trial sessions Of the federal
court for the present term began yes.
terday morning before Judge Charles
IT. Clemens with the criminal conspir.
aey cases Of the United States against
Freeman Sylvester and Rosa sylvester
of Hiio, the following jury being Sc
lected to try the case:
George r. Humphrey, Seeley 1. shaw,
r. w. Atkinson, Charles r. Osborne,
Alonzo Gaftley, James Kennedy, Geo.
T. Kluegel, II. Akona, William M.
Graham, Jacob Lando, b. TarpIey and
Harold X. Castle. %
.'sWiAinm Silva vas the 6rst witness. o 4
the stand yesterday for the pr6yeeu-
tion. Attorney Claudias II. Mcbride,
who represents the defendants, entered
a formal objection TO the prosecution on
the ground that Sylvester had once be-
fore been in jeopardy In connection
with the facts arising out Of the case.
During the morning and afternoon
sessions there were several spirited
tilts between the defendants attorney
and the district attorney, Judge Gle
mons finding il necessary to caution
Mcbride on several occasions when the
district attorney objected to opposing
counsel's remarks The case will 20
o1 gun ~ zen 9 eloek tnis morning;
all time in one last supreme effort made
by the Hellenic troops. Geracimos re-
manned at Chnmaja until peace was de-
,clared, August 25, 1918.
Lycurgus Died Brayely.
/ was five miles away from Paris
Eyeurgus when he was killed in the bat
tie Of StrOmhitsa in Macedonia The
news was sent to me by friend, a ser
geant, who saw poor Paris drop dead
ON the field of, battle. Thotigh Paris
died IN the defense of his cUantry ana
the LIKELIHOOD he shed was no more pre-
cious than that of thousands of others
of my countrymen, his death was par
ticularly shocking TO me, for we were
Ike brothers and had gone, in answer
to our country s call, together from Ha.
waii. ~ w. 1000
or the Hawaiian Greeks who went
to their country's defense, Demitrius
Sopulos is stiIl serving in the army;
capilos and Panos Porphyres, the lat.
te- Of Hilo, have been discharged and
expect to get back to Honolulu In two
months time with George Lyeurgus.
- left Greece for Hawaii ON March
10 and could have arrived here last
week by the Matsonia,' = said Sergeant
Geraciinos yesterday, but the Greeks
IN San Francisco held On 70. me for a
FEW days. They certainly treated me
as II / had been the whole Greek a-my
which with Bulgaria ana other allies
had whipped the Turks and then sub,
jugared the Bnlgars themselves.
Many Killed by Heat.
In the war with Bulgaria, in June
of last year, the heat was terrific and
our armies Aiffered greatly from sun,
stroke Men fell right and LEFT dead
with the heat. As we invaded the
Bulgarian territory cholera broke out
and the loss from this source was as
great as the deaths from the Are Of
the enemy. -
Geracimos confirms the stories OF
Bulgarian atrocities, The BulVafs
were savagcs on the field Of battle, he
says Their worst atrocities were
committed, however, during their fire.;
Guent retreats. The Honolulan claims
be was an eye witness 10 the discovery
Of the murdered bodies OF women and
ehildrenj their ears had been slashed
in order TO remove the ear rings; their
fingers cut or ut the joints SO that
their rings might be with more ease
removed
The two bloody wars are over and
Greece has now more than doubled its
former area and is today the, leading
and most powerful nation OF that part
of Europe east Of Austria aud south
Of Russia and the vexed Balkan ques
tion seems, for time, at least, to be
In more settled condition than il has
been for almost half century.