The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-07-26

The prisoner KeliihsnAiwi Davis being brought up for
for Judgment. Chief Justice Harris addressed her as
follows:
KeliihanAiwt Davis. you have been accused Of the crime
OF marder, and have been convicted, after a fair trial. by
4 jury OF your countrymen- The circumstances which
made on the 18th day Of March last. leave no possible
doubt that yoI have committed the deed; At the nFs. e1;
March last, you denied all knowledged touching the mat
cautioned by the Magistrate. you made q full. free and
circumstsntial confession. This confession. it Is true,
again $ statement identical with that made on the first OF
March. But all the circumstances detailed in your con-
fession correspond SO AccurAtely with the testimony
g etgtx t 6y O, bH Toa sn o5 mo mo G 19tb can ar M Says any az. eG ~ see snas tis
true. and that you are guilty as charged: ~ Jour comics
dertook TO assist IN the murder OF q man who had peen
your paramour Tor many yesrs-with whom II does not
had separate yourself at your own will. and with whom
the night previous to his death in company with your
husband under his roof.
AS you have said, you left his hospitslities on Friday
morning, and in a few hours Afterward. began to concoct
q scheme for his destruction; you repaired TO his house
there engaging his attention in serving You with various
him with a view Of stunning him, and then You hold him
pitilessly until your companion had strangled nun TO
cious crime was the expectation OF sharing q small sum
saw Yourself after the murder You demanded Of your SC
compiice ten dollars. Thus for this paltry sum you took
whom You acknowledged 70 have been kindly disposed to
had voluntarily dissolved; and for all this the law Of
your country demands your life as a penalty;
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merciful, and win pardon the repentant sinner even to
the last moment. Therefore, during the time that VIII
Of the law. seek all means possible to reconcile yourself
who may endeavor to direct your thoughts in the right
way. -
The sentence OF the Court is: That you Keliihanaiwt
and that You be kept there in close confinement until the
last Friday in October next ensuing; and on the said last
the morning and y sls att at n0 D1q:d y1 n DC bang TSu 1 sr es ds ssGk
/ And may God have mercy upon your soul.
The prisoner, John Brown. came up for sentence. and
Chief Justice Harris addressed him as follows:
John Brown, you have been accused of the murder OF
your shipmate, John Frederick, and q jury. drawned from
dict of guilty against you. There cannot be a shadow
of doubt that Frederick came to his death by wound
inflicted by You on the night OF the 31st day OF May last,
and that you inflicted that wound without any Proyoca-
the night in question that you did not know what took
place. But the evidence showed that though you had
eyen f in that scondition. which indicated to those who
were witnesses to the stabbing, that you were drunk in
The evidence and the circumstances would tend to
show that liquor had not taken away your senses in
nny way whatsoever, but only excited your evil passions:
your mind, so that you did the act under the influence of
1t. but there can be but little doubt that you were entire
sault and eoncious Of its effects on yourself after 1t was
were proved and the jury were instructed to take all the
circumstances OF your case into consideration, and
of guilty, with which 1 sm bound to say, the whole Court
SSp Tis Mai r I } ts k naSe s snd We nSsfi mot not fail to trans am
init their recommendation, though what effect 1T may
I earnestly commend You now to occupy your time in
rejecting upon your past errors, and urge upon you the
John Brown, listen to the sentence of the law. The
taken hence to to the eI prison ON the Island Of Oahu, and that
you be kept there in close confinement until the second
cond Friday in November. between the hours of s1
De neck Within witthhfi the walls c of Of the said prison until you are
dead. And may God have mercy upon your soul"