The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-10


Of Wu1ame, Dimond 8 Co.. agen . for the
PACIFIC Mail Steamship Company?
or Henry 3. Williams, one Of the mercan
tile pillars OF San Francisco, and the head
Of the house just mentioned. whole souled
manly. scrupnlous, who not only answers
the main question but voluntarily states
that the defendant il O warm. hearted
young man, and that everything that he
had ever heard OF him was favUrable2
OF Captain w. II. Taylor. almost the
only survivor Of the old California Steam
Navigation company, and now the Presi-
dent Of the Risdon Iron Works!
OF A. P. Hotaling, the head of an i'm
portant establishment, whose name viii
perhaps receive the Endorsement of the
learned counsel who is to close this argu.
OF William F. Whittier. OF Whittier.
Fuller & Co.. whose appearance here
might have reminded the chief prosecut-
ing witness of the ancient adaRe that
those who live in glass houses should
never throw stOnesP
OF Edward Cruise, of Cruise s. Euler,
whose nephew went to Europe with the
defendant after his mastoid process had
been laceratsdl
OF G. w. Kellogg. of Wilmerding s;
Co. who. Notwithstanding the disparity of
their ages, was attracted to the defendant
through their mutual liking for good
horses and the open air!
OF Joseph ID. Grant, son of Adam Grant,
OF Murphy, Grant & Co.. who gave the
best possible evidence that the defendant
is not \ bloodthirsty or o dangerous per-
son. by detailing tho only Quarrel in which
he had ever known him TO be engaged
which was a slight misunderstanding at
Marchand's restaurant, having no conse
quences and made up on the spot!
OTHER CHARACTER WITNESSES.
Speaking of this little misunderstanding
gentlemen, l am reminded that on page
81 of the transcript our very efficient re
porters have made serious mistake. which
ought not To 60 down 10 posterity uncor-
rec ed. either in an embryonic or a
crystallized form. They represent Mr..
Lloyd as having inquired where Mar
chand's rests urant is. The inquiry was, in
fact. made by Judge Campbell, and its
scandalous duplicity is illustrated to be the
fact that while MIR. Lloyd lives here he
probably does not know where the restau-
rant is. but although Judge Campbell re-
sides in Tucson. am strongly of the opin-
ion that he could find his way there blind
folded and alone. But leaving MarChand'S
restaurant for the present and hoping that
my learned friend has repented of his at
tempt 10 mislead you on 80 important q
branch OF the case, and that the next time
he visits the restaurant it may bring forth
works meat for his re enhance" recur
to the question of reputation.
What do you say, then, of Grover Ayers,
connected with the house of Holbrook,
Merrill & StetSon
Of Frederick w. Gibbs, formerly OF Gibbs
& Holmes of Sacramento, and now of G.
w. Gibbs & Co. of this city. who. although
he has been Supervisor, has a character
as solid az his business!
OF Cornelius OConnor real estate dealer
and mariner, who has known the defend
ant since he was an infant!
OF }. b. +. Davis an insurance agent,
who has always been well acquainted with
the defendant during nearly his whole
life?
OF Charles Watson. the chief engineer of
the California Sugar Kennery for fifteen
years, who has seen the defendant very
frequently, when he was keeping books,
must havo met him almost daily among
the employees in the very situation in
n al
would have made himself most disagree
able!
Of Peter Smith, the Superintendent of
the refinery. who has witnessed its growth
from its small beginnings to its present
massive proportions. and who until the
past year was thrown into daily contact
with the defendant!
OF John A. Hogan, the cooper on Jones
street. who has had the best p ,ssible op-
portunities to estimate the male portion OF
Claus Spreckels family for the last six
teen years!
am no. sure that have named all the
witnesses to the defendants reputation,
put nave mentioned nineteen. and that
- enough. They represent about everJ
situation in Which a boy or q young mar
can be placed in Heterogeneous commu.
hlty. Just emerging from a provincial to q
familiar with the defendant in business
and In society, in his own house and on
the street, on water and on land: they have
met him in the countinp-h house in the
factory, in clubs and in yachts. on the road,
IN every place where respectable human
beings congregate: and in every place of
social and domestic seclusion: Lheyareofau
ages and classes and they all speak but one
Voice, aud That vOICr L o44vu44 44...4 p4GL -
the word excelsior"
do not know whether the impression
should be passed as a hallucinAtion. = de.
fusion or an illusion, but prior to this time
to this trial. always supposed that
silence was
THE BEST EVIDENCE OF REPUTATION,
" a Z IN hi wa
desired mans &C, uaintanCes and friends
who not only know him, but had been in
tho situation to hoar him discussed. were
the be t and most competent witnesses. 1
never heard any conversation about the
reputation of Henry b. Williams for in
stance. although L have been in places
where it would have been talked about if
it had ever been questioned. And for
these reasons should not hesitate to tes-
tify that 1t was beyond reprOach. But the
crosS-examinations of our witnesses were
either pointless and totally ineffective or
for these many years have abored under
great mistakes. Those cross-examinations
were directed to two points: First, that
the witnesses never heard the defendants
reputation discussed, although they knew
not only him but his relatives, fri nds and
acquaintance and, second, that their
relations with him in business or society
were intimate and of long standing. If
these facts weaken their testimony the
rule would be that witnesses to reputation
should be selected from strangers who had
not known the defendant or those who did
not know him, who were in every respect
furthest removed from him, whoswere. in
fact, in the same condition of mind in
which you gentlemen call yourselves when
you were sworn to try this case. Such ig-
norance might be blissful to the witnesses
themselves. but it seems to me it would
destroy their usefulness alike to the de-
PENDANT and to the State. l prefer still to
retain my original impression that in the
matter of reputation silence is golden and
speech is silver. and that when you seek
Inflammation
apply t those VIII pssess it.
But have said enough about the early
life and haracter Of Adolph B. Spreckels
and, with this Introduction. / now proceed
to consider the next branch of the case.
THE ACCIDENT.
You know something of his prospects
when he had reached the age of %, when
ha started out on the road on that April or
May morning in 1880. driving his hand
some b rise with little of the carelessness
of youth, and gayly mapping his whip as
he passed Carsten's store, the possessor of
an unstAined name and of host of
devoted relatives and friends practically
equipped for the duties of life and already
trusted as few men of his age have been
trusted with innumerablo opportunities
for usefulness and success directly in his
path: handsome bright cheerful. amiable.
with that peculiar temperament which
renders a man cxquisinvely sensitive to
wholesome enjOyments and, alas. to the
disappolntments and the sutferings to
which sooner or later all men are sub
)eCted. Under all these circumstances
must not life have been for him earnest,
real and beautiful He may have been
sunk In happy reverio or reveling in those
rose colored dreams which I'll manhood in
its earlier stages with intense delight.
But wherever his thoughts may have been
ne was not anticipating an Introduction
into scenes ( violence, still less forecast
ing the probability that some day he might
be accused of crime Who could then have |
comic, tured that within four years and a |
half he would be impelled to shoot the
traduceT of his father. of his brothers and /