The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-07-14

eacn other for violating the pledge they had made.
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story, and the jailor was standing near to hear It
Such fools and selftraitors does guilt make men.
The next day the Court resumed its session, but
under far different auspices Heaven had given its
verdict, and Judge and jury had only to announce it.
Still the crowd did not know it, and most of them
entered the court room in the apprehension of the
prisoners a~cquittal. What. then, was the amaze
ment Of the prisoners, when the jailor appeared on
the stand, and repeated all the confessions and mu-
tual recriminations he had listened to the last still
dark night, in those gloomy cells, where the prison.
ers thought that only Omniscience was present, and
hardly that Not q shadow of doubt was left. The
technicalities of the Law were fully satisfied, and the
terrible finale was certain to come. The counsel Cor
the prisoners, himself n Catholic, as l infer from his
name and spirit, was driven into a paroxysm OF pas
sion, and ravingly denounced Protestant missiona-
ries, and the American, accusing them of having ex-
ercised an undue influence over the prisoners, and
extorted from them their confessions by the terrors
Of religion. Not one word. however, as | well know,
was said to induce a confession. The Judge sumrned
up the case the jury retired, and in less than five
minutes returned with a~erdict of gully, 1t was a
solemn moment the court room was crowded. Most
Of the American masters of vessels in port; almost
forty in number, were present, and I was obliged to
stand on a bench to get a view Of the coart, the bar.
and the prisoners. Reaching out his hand, the
Judge took that solemn appendage Of English law,
the Black Cap, and placing it deliberately on his
head, announced thus the conclusion of the tragedy
to those in the crowd who had not been able TO hear
the verdict of the jury. His words were few and
solemn, and concluded with pronouncing the SEN
tence of DEATH upon all, without encouraging the
hope of reprieve or pardon.
The prisoners, as they retired through the crowd
and met their old ~shipmates at the door and in the
street. attempted to keep up the farce of courage and
Indifference, laughing and joking. Jones saying he
had saved his neck in a similar scrape once before,
but now they had him Another said that the two
others would doubtless swing, and he would act Jack
Ketch for them Thus sporting, jibing, and trifing,
but doubtless consumed with inward horrors. they
made their, way under escort back to their gloomy
cells, awaiting with the cravings of conscience and
terrible anticipations, the fearful scene which must
be exhibited here a few days hence.
Few cases are on record of deeper crime, of more
carefully concerted plans, or more striking indica-
tions of a special providence. But for the apparent
ly accidental procuring of the Chinese boat by the
captain of the .MasfF but for the accidental col
lision of the boat against the side of the ship. the
dead body would not have come up as a witness, and
no clue could have been got to the mystery. Even
then, but for the accidental oyerhearing Of the con-
versation, the confession, and mutual ordinations
in the cells at midnight, the evidence, probably,
would not have been sufficient to convict. But the dead
came up from the deep where il had laid for a week,
almost a tremendously as in the resurrection and
when it was taken on board, the prisoners we're OBJ
served to turn pale, and sneak away from its re-
preaching presence. The massive walls of the in
terror prison seemed to be endowed with hearing, and
the words which were uttered in solitude at
midnight, and in secresy and confidence, and their
came back, as from the bosom of eternity (!
So ~strikingly certified is the old proverb that sc MUIR
der will out."-Cor. Boston Journal.