Evening Bulletin

AMIDST FAMILIAR SCENES
Judge Hitchcock Started the Plantation on
Which He Died.
The Court Reporter Is Given Forewarning of
the Judge's Death by a Dream Some
Days in Advance.
P. Maurice McMahon, the
court reporter who went from
Hilo to Kohala with the late
Judge Hitchcock to attend the
October term of the Fourth Circuit
Court there, in a private letter
in which he wrote feelingly of
Judge Hitchcock's death, said:
"Judge Hitchcock laid down
his burden of earth at 10:45 a. m.
Oct. 9. Several days ago he took
ill at the Kohala Sugar Company's
place, where he was staying with Geo. Renton the manager,
and strange to say he (the
Judge) was the man who started
that plantation long years ago, in
the early good missionary days—and
there he returned to die.
Several days ago I said, 'The
Judge will die, I fear,' for I had
strange dreams, and the Judge
and the court were mixed up in
them. I was in deep sorrow. The
Judge was on the bench in a
strange courtroom, anxious to try
the cases. I was seated at the
table, with half the leaves of my
note book torn across, trying to
find a blank space whereon to
write, but the leaves were all full.
Lawyer Wise was asking questions
of a witness, and I was insisting
for him to stop till I could find a
book wherein to write. Oh, we
were all terribly excited, with the
Judge in great anxiety and impatience.
Then the Judge sent me
off somewhere, and I wandered
around Hilo, looking for I knew
not what, suddenly finding myself
by the Foreign Church.
amidst crowds of men and women
thronging into the building, when
my mission seemed ended, and I
turned away—and awoke.
"My head and neck ached
throbbingly, my nerves were all
unstrung. Yes, that was the end
—the church, the Judge's cast-off
body inside; the last act in the
tragedy of life—for the present, at
least."