Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 50, 1 March 1894 Edition 02 — The Great I Am. [ARTICLE]

The Great I Am.

Tlie leamed gontlemnn who hohlsthe office as P. G. Attoruey General is so raad, that he eveu forgot his usual coat of thin polish, aud lms insulted a jury and a judge. His excellency seems •to h«ve » special grudgo against a man frora Maui named W. | .Mossman who has been charged with crabezzlement of govern- ( mont fonds to wit, Post Office money. Mr. Mossman was eutitled to a trial ou Maui, but the officials who seem so anxious to convict the accused secur ed a cbange of venue and Mr. Mossman was hehl for a trial iu Huuolulu. Tiio g>vernment evideutly feeling that its cause was rather slim bronght iu three sepjir»te charges agaiust Mossaian who was promptly acquitted by two different juries of the first two charges. The third case was called by Judge Cooper who eonsidered that Mossraan was eutitled to get throngh his trials, and be relievod of the burden restiug on him. The Attorney Geueral refused to try the third case or to nolle piw it, and ordered his wita*-sses to go home. Thev were sumaiuned by the dofeuse |to appear as witnesses on : his l>eh df, but the Attorn>y General assured them t:iat the c.ise wou!d uot be ca!led aud that they eoukl go home. Fhe reason why tho AttorneyGeueral refused to go on was ex

i O “ " V A pressed by bis saying tbat the | government eou’.U not obtain »i \jusi triol befort ihis Jury. Sucb ' a deliberato insult against any jary is au outrage wbicb shonld not be tdlerated at any time but when tbe Attorney-General indulges ia sacb towards a foreign j<wy mostly composed of bis political and Sv.»cial affiiiations, tbere is good cause to believe that the natural spiteful and indnitely small cbaracter of tbo Attorney General bas run awav witb the small grain of eommon sense witb wbicb be olaims to be provided.