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


and the same time, and that there is
NO NECESSARY INCONSISTENCY
| Between the claim that the shooting NAV
6e oegaLy 1usinaoie by reason OF the con.
through an uncomfortable impulse in the
! individual who nred.
Now l bring your attention directly to
the Bottoms of the defendant, and more
especially at this moment to the accounts
which have been given here Of the effects
OF the accident itself. The first witness in
the 0roer OF events IS Frederick Carsten,
the blind man, who had known the de.
PENDANT and his brother, c. a. Spreckels.
when they attended the High School at
the northwest corner Of Dupont and Bush
streets, as far back as 1871 and 1872 and
who then when the accident occurred. oc-
cupled store at the northwest corner OF
Mission and Seventeenth streets, about
gu aees rom rom the residence es6 of Claus
Adams. where the defendant was found
by the witness after he accident.
Mr.. Carsten observed the defendant, at
an early hour in the morning, as was his
custom, driving past his store with a fine
horse, and, as young men will sometimes
do, holding the reins loosely in one hand
and cracking very pretty whip with the
other. Immediately afterward he heard
AN awful rumpus" and, running TO Hoff
Adams house. und that the horse and
buggy had disappeared and that the de-
PENDANT was up against the fence, resting on
his hands and knees. and with his cl thing
bedraggled and dirty. but not insensible
He placed him N his feet, when the de-
PENDANT balanced himself with his hands
upon the fence proving how badly he was
shaken, but, with the usual pride of youth
denied that he was hurt, and he expressed
sJlicitude about his horse. Then Mr.
Cdrsten assisted him, that is took hold OF
him and they went To the store, where he
was placed In chair. Afterward, how
long after ward does not appear he washed
hlmseli and went home, having walked 2U0
feet with the help of Mr.. Car,ten and 900
feet by himself-a total distance of 100
feet, or three hundred yards and two
thirds. Now 1t Is claimed here that first,
because he was not absolutely and imme-
diately ms bic, and, second, because he
walked home he did not su.er
SEVERE CONCLUSION OF THE BRAIN.
And IN truth was not seriously in ured in
the face OF the cOnse4 uenCe5 of the acct
dent, especially i'll view Of the testimony
of DR.. X. Ii. Plummerand DR.. Levi &. Lane
both pr fessiGnally eminent, and one re-
nowned. This sugg stiOn was preposter-
Gus and these gentlemen were con. .rmed
by the medical witness 8 for the prosecu-
ton with the single exception of DR.. j.
ID. StaIldrd, who on the few facts he
learned in the cOurtr ON, while cOnceding
the seriousness of the injury, questioned
the diagnosis of the attending physician.
But. independently of these cOnsidera-
tlons. little plain sense will lea d you to an
accurate conclusion on this branch of the
case. Can you not suppose an instance Of
mans receiving an injury on the head
and walking d mile before he fell and died!
the statement that a person shot through
the head, or even through the heart, had
run block or two bef.re his energy was
exhausted What, however was the con-
dItiOn of the defendant when he reached
his fathers hOme-thc home where like
every good unmarried n he had con-
stantly resided when in San Francisco, the
home where Mir. Center had visited him
for sixteen years, the home to which even
beyond his brother and up to the age of 23
years he has constantly adhered with I'M
usual god sense The defendant. realiz-
ing that he could not be an impartial
Judge OF his own mental condition, and
that his own statements on that subject
would necessarily be received with some
hesitation, and. perhaps, loath to admit
that his naturally clear intellect has ever
been Tor the moment clouded or morbid,
has RETAINED from teslifying on this part
of the case. and the only two witnesses we
have to his appearance when he Lrst
reached the house of his parents after the
injury are his father and his brother, G. A.
Spreckels.
HIS ACTIONS AT HOME.
Mr.. Claus SpreckelS says that. when he
first saw him. he was leaning at the foot of
the stairs; that he asked him whether he
was hurt, and he replied: No, l don't
think So not much; but feel kind of dizzy
like" and that he was pale and did not
feel right In his head but otherwise was
not hurt. You see here a proud young
man, enduring pain without display, il, in
fact the reaction from the fall had then
fairly b. gun, and an unselfish and devoted
son, seeking to relieve his father and
mother from anxiety and apprehension.
c. A. SpreCkel5, the youngest brother,
gives this account of what he observed:
1T was in the morning. l was coming
down from my room, and had got at the
and he inf, rmed me that he had had an
accident. | asked him whether hsewas
hurt. and he said No, don't think l am,
but he said : The only trouble is that I
cannot see very we'll. He appeared TO be |
supplied and stunned"
Odd he walk well-how was that? |
A.-Well not very well; he seemed to be |
Q.-What took place them Al in. |
formed my father that he was hurt, and |
told him that thought he was more seri- |
Ously hurt than he agined.
l read from record. pages 1872 1853: |
Here Is the impression made at once /
upon the brother of the defendant |
= he was indeed more seriously hurt than |
he imagined" or than he was willing to |
acknowledge. Let me as briefly is con-
sistent with a clear exposition of my views |
summarize the results of this accident, as
illustrated-nrst, by the members of his
family and by his friends; second. by our
medical witnesses, Drs. Lane and PIummer;
third. by the medical witnesses introduced
in rebuttal by the lrosecution, who
statements of preoisposing cause. First.
hen. what do the members Of the de-
Cndant's family and his friends Tell us
about the consequence OF this action
The first witness upon this point is Claus
SpreCkels. He informs US that the defend
mt was in bed eight or ten day.. and at
he end OF about six or eight weeks he at
empted to resume work at the office of
he Hawaiian Commercial Company,
where his brother had been employed o |
assist him ard become his virtual su0sti
ute. lie had to got his father and admit
hat he could not do at that time simple |
umS in addition. becau@e the CURES. to ]
lse MIR, Spreckels' expression. ran into
,ach other" showing that from the very
OF this di 'hcuty the point |
where it was absolutely located was |
he brain of this defendant. He was sent !
o Aptos and remained there two or three |
las never since. using the very expr ssion
tSeif, IT sumed regular work. AS Mr.. |
Spreckels adds He cas- been m re or less
roubled with he daches." This is at page
g. of the record. There were two mani
estatlons by counsel Of the ether side in
eference to this and similar evidence }
which strikes me as convincing |
,ro Of the petty me hods. not OF
counsel themselves. but of the powers
" the prosecution. | allude to he unSuc
,essful g ortS to belittie the in ury TO the
lefendants head and to separate the con-
,ussion OF the brain which he exp rienced |
rom the subset uent trouble in his ear, and
heir parenthetical attempt to extract
lrop of Or OF OF the truth of the charges
If mismanagemen md nepOtlSm In the
conduct of the affairs of the Hawaiian
L mpany and it's successor,
~ showing that the defendant had drawn
salary while not fully discharging the
luties of Secretary. 1 shall not stop 10
comment upon the selfevident absurdity
If his Intellectual struggles, but Will sim.
lly bserve that the direct continuity be-
ween the abscess in tho ear and the con-
.ussion of the brain is as plain as the in
innate relations between the mastoid pro-
,ess of the temporal bone and the brain it
elf.
Still continuing with the testimony of
Claus Spreckels, he informs US that about
tx months after the accident the defend
int became AFFLICTED in the ear, which. next |