The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-29
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M. +. Prosser Named in Guesses
as Probable investigator, While
Unnamed Hilo Attorney Is
Also Mentioned--McBrid Said
to Face Disbarment Action.
(Flom Thar.day AdvertIasr.

(From Thursday Advertiser.
No action was taken yesterday by
the territorial grand jury On the sub.
jeet Of the MeCarn- Mcbride row which
resulted some weeks ago in charge
Of assault with deadly weapon being
entered against United states Distfiet
Attorney JEFF McCarn. Il was stated
yesterday that the grand jury win take
mp the investigation Of this ease at its
next sitting. on Wednesday Of next
week, provided nothing else happens
meanwhile
Following the story Published In The
Advertiser yesterday morning. based on
topographic information eent from
Washington, that should a special pros.
eeutor or investigator be ordered 10
take up the MeCarn case from All ia
angles, an Island attorney would be
selected ior the purpose, there were
several nmors ON the street in this
connection.
One story had Il that Attorney NJ.
+. Prosser, OF the Law firm OF Frear.
Prosser, Anderson 4 Marx. would be
appointed us prosecutor or investigator
and that, in fact, Mr. prosser had been
already told thnt he would be the man
selected. Another story was to the
effect that an attorney from one Of the
other islands, Hilo being the place men.
toned, would be delegated from Wash.
ington to attend TO an investigation OF
District Attorney McCarn aud the sew
eral actions Of this official and Others
ON subjects which have for some weeks
been fruitful sources of lively discus.
sion, gossip and surmise.
Much Cabling.
That the local end OF the McCarn.
Mcbride episode has been taken up
seriously in Washington Is certainty.
u Is known that various cables have
been dispatched TO the National Capt.
tol on the subject and that answers
have been received here. Mr.. Mccain
and A. 5. Humphreys, the latter one OF
the attorneys who have represented the
district attorney, are known 40 have
received important messages, from
Washington, the contents Of which
they have consistently refused TO d,
vuige &
Former Associate Justice Arthur A.
Wilder, who Is snow Ia Washineion has
fled serious charges against Mr.. Nc
earn, as has been made public in The
ADVERTISER from time to time in its
Washington dispatches II Is believed
that Judge Wilder has been proddine
the department Of Justice up consider.
ably. Wilder left Honolulu some weeks
ago with the nvowed and announced
purpose Of getting Mr. Mccnrn's Of.
fetal goat, TO use his own expires.
sion. 1he story Is an old one. TO
put II concisely, Mr. Wilder is said to
have resented warmly Mr.. Mccarn's
alleged activities ON questions Of fed.
eral appointments for Hawaii, Il being
charged that the district attorney op.
posed Mr.. Wilder's candidacy for tho
supreme bench here, Wilder and Asso
eiate Justice e. M. Watson being Gov
ernor Pinkham's selections for the su.
preme bench vacancies
After Mcbride.
According to story told yesterday.
disbarment proceedings are said TO Be
ON the eve OF being filed in the supreme
court against Attorney Claddius II. Nc
Bride. II was stated yesterday that
the papers had In fact been fled al.
ready; that the petition for disbarmont
had been handed to one Of the members
Of the supreme court. Inquiry at the
Office Of the chief clerk OF the court
yesterday developed the fact that no
papers in such an action had been fled
with him,
Mcbride Is now on Hawaii, although
he had been SUMMONED BY subpoena to
appear yesterday before the local terri
torial grand jury to testify on the ques.
ton OF the proposed investigation Of
the Mccafn case, which investigation
failed 70 materlalize. II was not stated
yesterday, however, what formed the
charges against Mcbride on the ques.
ton of the alleged proceedings FOR dis
barment, although II was intimaied
that one Of the charges might have
bearing on an affidavit which was lnnde
the subject Of considerable eaustie ref
erence In the recent Sylvester criminal
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