The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-01-21

said, IS that man OF hers gong to work. tell
you he will never earn q dollar. 30 help me God
he shall never earn a dollar in this town. rea-
soned with him, but he said, will kill Bridges.
said, you should not talk like that they are CON-
Portable, when he replied, do not like TO that
Nov. Bird. he came again and made another threat
against Lois. These threats were talked about at
the family table, when Bridges was present. The
threats had effect on Bridges he was not Jolly over
them, quite the contrary. saw Bridges after the
shooting, he looked scared, his hair was standing
up. thought at first here was Il fire, until saw
the police, who told me, Bridges had shot man.
J said was very sorry. heard Lois say, Oh, my
God! at the same time putting her hands together.
There were certain remarks made, such as @hanQ
him, get n rope.n Mr.. Gibson and a policemah
went in and found Bridges
CrUes ErdB,iHed: was in the store at the time
Bridges ran in, and Mr.. Horn was in the workshop.
did not hear him say anything. Mr.. Horn did
not like Lois marrying Mr.. Bridges. Patten was
Loiss promised husband for years.
Mrs. Sexton! Sworn: know them both. have
heard threats made by Patteu. Heard him make
threats Nov. 2nd. The following day he telephoned
to me, and went over 10 the store to see him.
He said, hear they are going away. / will not
let them go away alive. He sent again for me
Nov. 4th, and said, I'll give you 500, and pay
your expenses to California and back, If you viii
take away Bridges and his brats. refused to do
so. he then asked me if / knew onyone who
would. He again threatened TO kill them both.
These threats made Bridges uneasy but he did not
say much.
Nfpce 1-ANWfNtn. nave llNeu WIKI hOTuS
over fourteen years. Have known Patten coming
to tho house four or five years. He often came
into the store and chatted with Mrs and Miss
Horn.
Charles Hiram, f. Leslie, L. ]. Leyey and W. G.
Wood 1.-THE latter in writingl testified to various
matters connected with case but having no par
tienlar bearing on the contamination of the dead
~ act.
F. Horn recalled, the last business transaction
| had with Patten was on Sept. 10th. Through
my neglect did not get the proper note from him
IN settling. never thought of the matter again
until Nov 10th. he refused to give me my note
unless gave him in exchange a will which he had
made in favor of my daughter. The will was
given to me by Mrs. Bridges (Will produced and
identified by the witness.)
b. A. Bridges recalled, saw this will about Nov.
hh. Called Mr.. Horn attention to it on account
of something being in it relating to note of his
At P NJ partial adjournment was had that is
to say, the large audience present were given to
understand that their presence could be dis
pensed with until z p. N. Sheeplike they followed
three or four leaders that had been provided by
the acute Attorney General and the precincts Of
the courtroom were soon left to the Judge, Jury,
counsel and prisoner. The doors were then closed
and the contents of the will and Dearest letter.
1.-THE Is page letter mentioned in the "Woman in
the Case in the GAZETTE of Nov. 18th, 1884 were
read TO the jury. This Dearest" letter contained
nothing that would be of benefit to the public 10
know and was only used as evidence of the init
macy that existed between the dead man and the
living woman.
At 6 the jury were given a recess until 100 P. NJ
TIE EVENING OF THE SECOND DAY.
AT 1870 p. m. judge, jury, counsel and prisoner
were in their places, and largely augmented
crowd hlled the auditorium of the court room,
eager to listen to the closing arguments of counsel
the charge by the Judge, and the verdict of tine
the jury.
W.. X. Castle, Esq, of counsel for defense stated
that he had been searching for the unknown party
whom Bridges testified had informed him Of the
stories relative 10 his wife's unchastity, and had
succeeded in finding him. Although it was not
regular SO to do he desired permission from the
prosecution to place the person on the stand.
Attorney. General Neumann said he would throw
nothing in the way of anything that might legiti-
mately assist the unfortunate prisoner, he would
not object
f. E. Mann called and sworn states: know
bridges, met him at tho Y NJ. G. hall several
times, had long conversation with him about
his marriage, spoke to him of scandal relative to
relations said TO exist between his wife and Pat
ten, this vas IN the early part of September,
Bridges seemed to be in ignorance of the stories
he said that he was satisfied that his wife was
faithful to him and good mother to his children.
Bridges said that Miss Horn had been recon-
mended to him as a worthy woman
Cross Examined: Had known Bridges about two
months told him this about two weeks after his
marriage, he did not seem to be much acquainted
in this city, did not hear about his marriage un-
til after 1t was consummated.
TIE ARSUMENr FOR THE Defence.
AT ':40 p. M the closing argument for the de
fence was made by w. X. Castle, Esq, after com
plimenting the jury for the attention given by
them and the intelligence shown by various aues-
lions asked OF witnesses bg iurymen, lie proceeded
as follows: a
2 The taking of human life is a matter of the
greatest moment, the law regards nothing more
sacredly. When life is taken by violence it is the
duty of Courts of justice to enquire into the facts
ana to determine on the amount of punishment
due TO the offender. 1t seems an easy thing to sit
here and pass Judgment ON this affair. It seems
easy for us to say the man is guilty he shot Patten
but how guilty is heI | think to properly under
stand the nature of this case we must place our
selves IN the position of the defendant The
charge Is manslaughter in the first degree
Counsel then explained and described the points
of difference in the different. degrees.
No attempt has been made by the defence to
deny that Bridges shot Patten and killed him, but
was the act excusable the plea of the defendant is
self defence, was it sol Place yourselves, gentle
men, in the place of the unfortunate Bridges, as
you can easily from the details with which he has
FURNISHED YOU coming from Hilo on the 18th of
July he gets married quickly, his marriage is
largely marriage of convenience, he had two
young children, he needed assistance to give them
proper care. he came to this city to seek home
and employment You must be satisfied that
Bridges is poor man and it became necessary for
him to seek employment. Bridges as you have
seen Is a young man with soft heart and may be
soft head II he had been surrounded by friends
he would probably have remained to the end of
his days respectable member of society.
On his arrival in Honolulu he meets with adverse
circumstances he lacked decision, strength of
character he knew not what to do. His marriage
was hasty and rash one and think that even
in the early part of his marriage life his wife was
perfdious to him. She carried on a correspond
ence with Patten which no honorable woman
could, and can only conjecture that her marriage
with Bridges was to get into respectable life and
abandon the old. Up to September Bridges had
suspicion of the real character of his wife, then
he found that letter which has been read to you,
on the contents of which it is not necessary to
dlate but from the whole tenor it is easily under
stood that Patten had an ardent feeling for her.
But, gentlemen you know he had no right to such
feeling; he was married man.
One passage in that letter satisfies me thai Pat
ten never intended to make Lois Horn his wife,
for after speaking of projected trip to the Coast
the writer SAYS ION our return they will think Won
are my wife, Patterns intention was to carry on
the HdsoH to an indefinite time. | ask You to con-
lecture what you would have done had you found
such letter. Not for two weeks did Bridges
know who the writer was and then only when Lu-
ming pointed out the man saying, there is LEM
Patten, did he connect him with "Len2 of the let
ter. Bridges stated to you that it was his desire
to remove his wife from the Influences that were
breaking up the peace of their home. The letter
was written in August from Waialua, that letter
showed that some harm was intended to this hus-
band, the marriage was to be broken up and Pat
ten was to have again possession of Lois Horn.
The circumstances are in no way creditable to
Mrs. Bridges.
defendant, l think that you must have concluded
that Bridges is simple inoffensive quiet man. he
is possessed of certain weaknesses not at all clear
headed or you would not have been called to sit in
judgment on this case. You are not called here to
judge an upright strong, self-reliant man, but a
weak one. His first mistake was his marriage
with Lois Horn, from that, may be traced since
his miserable career. ] ask you to pass solely
upon the one question, had Mr.. Bridges, that fear
that justified him in defending himself when at
tackled.
Counsel then detailed the events Immediately
connected with the ARRAY as given by the testi-
mony of witnesses both by the prosecution and
defence relative to the suddenness of the attack
Mr.. Castle resuming his argument said: con-
denim the Horns if you will, but only judge of
this defendant by his acts. In carrying out his
plans to leave the country he met the desperate
belong to you to say which was the better life to
be spared, not whether it was better that Bridges
filled grave instead of Patten, the question is
solely, was Mr.. Bridges justified in taking the life
he did. Which shot killed Patten is important.
The evidence is clear beyond reasonable doubt
that the first one did. thrust you will not give
hurried decision, and that you will give the pris-
oner the benefit of the doubt. The oifense not
being bailable the defendant has already suffered
imprisonment for two months. yet do not ask
for sympathy but justice and let justice be done
though the heavens fall
Mr.. Castle ended his argument at $50 O'Clock,
having spoken forty-hve minutes.
THE ARGUMENT FOR THE CEowN.
Attorney General Paul Neumann now addressed
the jury, on behalf of the Crown, saying:
1t the custom Of attorneys TO thank Jurors for
the patience displayed in listening to long and