Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 268, 26 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Tuk n*8ignation nf Judge C. [.. Cirt“r is eignificant. It will be j rememlH*red th.it thia young pxx.imtr.i9sioner and negro-speculator was appointed as District Judge for Honoiulu about a n»outh ago, although thcre was no vacancv in i the office. Tiie reg ilarly app iinted Judge, Mr. Koster, wa» ia t »wn and atlending t > his business, and Mr. Lnther WiIcox also held a ennmission as District Judge and acted during the illuess of Mr. Foster. ) We hinted at the tiiue that there must be eoiue oeeull and l ‘fishy” reasons for appomting Mr. Carter to the office, and our auapieion* j were confinned when Messrs. Crick, \Valter and Sincluir shortly after were arrested for conspiracy and tried by Mr. Carter, who, of course. prompt'y coounitled two of them, altnough anv scho >1 boy wilhoul the siightest legal , idea wou d h.*ve seen that there i was abeolute no evidence agiinst j the men. We cailed at the tmie attention to the aelion of Judge i Carter in regird to Crick and wiil | re-sUte the facts as ttiey furaish a t g*»od idaa of the reasons why Mr. j C»rter was app >iuted and also of j his caiiber and general fitness for j the Judg*ship. The c>>unsel f.»r } the def»*nse, Mr. Creightou. when ihe prosecution rested, moved for the disctiarge of ihe prisoaexs as no evidence had beon produced ag iinat them, except, perhaps siraething whieh Att»*rney-G«iieral Suiith — learned m tne law—called an '*indivtdual conspiracy ’ something whieh Mr. Creighton evidently did not know anytbing about. Mr. Carter toos the matter intoconsideration with the result that he overruled Mr. Cre'ghtoii s moiion for the discharge of the pnsoners adding. though. ihat the evidence was very alim agiiast Cnck, bul th*t he thougbt it sufficient to bold him to answer before a jury. Mr. Creighton called a few witnessea for ihe defeose to illustrate the ajag:ntude and aadaeily of rome of tne moatv remarkable lies whieli Mr. Smittrs detectivea had furnishad whila oa the witoe»9-9Und, but

not ene word was 3*id or a ; ecintilla of eridfnce prodoced relating l'or or agam$t Mr. Crick. U’hea .Mr.Creighlon cl>sedf.>rthedefense. Mr.Crick's case .*tood ex»ctly ii» tlie aame pt>9ition as when Ju>lge Car- | ter overrui»-d Creighton’s ui<>tioo ( for a discharge. but 1 >1 ihe brilliant pupil and pers >ual fr:end of Judge Coo’ey now he:d lhat there wa» not aufficientevidence t‘>5>*nd Cr.c»t { to triai and discbarged hira while the two others (apparent y u ore danger >U3 men) were sent to j iil 1 aiid r“tused b»il. Mr Cirttrhas now res:gn-d. and we presume lhat 1 the reason is that Att>>rney Ge:ier- 1 I al i?ruith—oh. s » iearned in tbe iaw—h.ts c>:i-idered it b-tter not 1 lo carrv out th- tlir -ats whieh he tnide ui his c'>>s;ng a'dirtss bei re Carler "th;»t there w> re t.thers wn.> sbou!d he arr -st-d f>r conspiracy j bes d>*s U'.iiKer tfc Co., and wh>» I i eo'ilā ue arrested." The iam >ns g >at hunt r lias tboug »t be t- r >>f it. and tbere is no m re use t' r Judg- Carter, who eui sequent'y resigns, but we do ttiinK tb:»t it would nave ap;,.eared nn>re »l>-cent , aml more honest b >th f>r Mr.C »rter , ' and for tlie grv> rnment if he had retained liis oiliee a iitllelonger. at j least until the onspir icv case hul g»ae into obiivi«>n. As it is. il loolis from the lirst to the last as a j | dirty and conteuiptible job.