Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-04
MANY WRANGLE
. At HEARINGIN
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POLICE COURT

Two rent service chauffeurs, Stheir
passengers and several police officers,
in addition to the prosecuting attor.
ney, Charles F. Chillingworth and At
torney w. j. Sheldon, were the fig
ures in long-drawn-out case lasting
i an hour and three quarters this morn
ing, in which the police magistrate
is finding it extremely difficult to dis
| pense justice. -...
Nearl va half hour was consumed
by both sides trying to agree as to
the exact location of the accident
when the two seven-passenger cars
driven by George Markham and Joohn
Gaspar respectively, occurred, when
Police Officer Chiffon. who made the
arrest, took the stand and testified
that each wheel of each car was so
| many feet and so many inches from
| the maukas and the makai curbs and
also the inner and outer street car
| tracks. ~.--... -. .
Another explosion occurred when
the defendent, Gaspar, and all his wit
uesses, testified that they didn't see
Officer Chiffon at the scene of the
accident at all. Police Officer Wright
testified that he stood near Chiffon
while Chiffon questioned Gaspar for
nearly 80 minutes at King street and
Banyan lane, where the collision took
place. 49, -" =... .....
The testimony then swerVed to the
state of intoxication in which Gaspar
was supposed to have been or not to
have been during which there was a
| triangular discussion by the police
| Judge, the prosecutor and the counsel
| for the defense as to just what constr
tutes intoxication. ." .....:...,.
In few minutes the spectators were
treated to a heated discussion in
which both attorneys, the witness and
the judge we're all talking at once.
With their patience worn out both
sides were willing to quit at 1880,
and have the case postponed until to-
morrow when new complication
arose in the testimony of Bike Cop
| Huihui, who testified that neither Chill
| ton nor Wright appeared on. the scene
until after Gaspar had been removed
to the police station in the patrol
| wagon.
| in the Catholic cathedral tomorrow,
Rev. Father Stephen J. Afencastre Of
| floating. ........
The American Hawaiian steamer
Texan will sail from Port Allen for
San Francisco direct, April II, taking
sugar to the coast. t..
U. S. Postal Agent Darrach of
Shanghai is through passenger on
the U. S. army transport Thomas, sail
ing at this afternoon from Pier 10
for San Francisco.
Three big "A caliber Colt auto
matte revolvers have been received
from the department of justice by the
local marshars Office for use, when
necessary, by Marshal j. J. Smiddy
and his deputies, Albert Harris and
Otto Heine.
Since the filing of Federal Judge
Charles F. Clemens decision holding
that Filipinos are entitled to American
citizenship, no declarations of inten-
ton to become citizens or petitions for
citizenship have been entered by ma
tives of the Philippines.
Governor Pinkham is going to- visit
Maui. He expects to return from
Kauai and his investigation of the
homesteaders' troubles there on Thurs
day the thirteenth. The week follow
ing he will leave for Waimea, Maui.
He would not say yesterday exactly
why, he is going.
DenutY Internal ReYenue Collector