Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-21
QUEENS SANITY
QUESTIONED in
HIS TESTIMONY
Deposition Of Sam Parker Tells
of Conversation With Queen
Seven Years AGO =.

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Testimony Of Samuel Parker, taken
at his residence at Waikiki last Fri
day afternoon in the examination by
Attorney ID. L. Wilmington, and cross
examination by Attorney Clarence H
Olson, was fled IN circuit court today
by Judge T. B. Stuart. = ~. .
The testimony was taken to peFpet
nate evidence in the suit brought by
j. X. Kaianianaoie to break the trust
in which the property of Queen Lii.
uokalani is held 1t was taken at the
home of Mr.. Parker as the witness
was too feeble to appear in court.
Though consisting of several pages
the typewriter manuscript is made
up considerably more of arguments by
the attorneys than by the evidence it.
self. ~ -
So feeble was the aged witness
found in the course of testimony that
the court ruled that leading questions
might be asked. stating that the wit
ness is very feeble and it is impos-
sible to make him understand, as the
court plainly sees" FL. =. -.
Questions hinged around a visit
which Mr.. Parker had paid to the
queen while she was stopping at the
Hotel Stewart in San Francisco in
1909, and concerning which he is al.
legged to have filed statement on No
vember "a, last. The statement,
signed in his name, follows: =.
Il left Honolulu on the steamship
Korea on Thursday, December 81,
7ono IN o0u,nonu xvifb WV ob;Idray,s
and on board the same vessel at the
time was Prince Kuhio and his wife.
upon arrival in San Fran
cisco on the 9th of the said month,
went to. the Stewart Hotel and en-
gagged quarters there
Il learned upon arriving there that
Queen Liliuokalapi was also staying
there and SO on the next day called
On her to pay my respects. / met the
queen in her apartments and spent
considerable time over different top
les. All of q sudden she asked me If
I knew she had signed a deed Of trust
parting with all her property and the
of it as she saw fit, and /
said to her heard such was the case
and it had been printed in the papers.
She Immediately said to me she did not
sign trust deed but had made a will
and, Mr.. Damon and Mr.. Cecil Brown
were the witnesses to 1t.
81 then reiterated what / had said
and further said ito her. you are
crazy
"She then said to. me to go and tele-
phone to Mr.. Cleghorn to come right
away, want to see him. whereupon
1 said to her, don't you know you are
In San Francisco and Mr.. Cleghorn is
in Honolulu How can 1 telephone
TO him2 = 49,
sShe then remarked she had forgot
ten they were in San Francisco She
then asked for the prince and | re-.
piled that he was downstairs, where
upon she asked me to tell him that
she wanted to see him. I met the
prince a short while afterwards and
delivered the queens message to him,
and later on a few days after New
Years day. my party, the prince and
his wife, and the queen with her at.
PENDANTS all left for Washington, d. c..
40 rsZs SAMUEL PARKER"
Following is an excerpt from the
testimony given by the aged witness
when under direct eSss.aination re-
yarding the San Francisco incident,
Nr. Wilmington asking the questions: 4
did you see anything Of the queen
.here?"
"Yes.''
"WhenT'
CAS- soon as / met-after got there
n the-to the,