The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-09
SPRECKELS' TRIAL
The Prosecution Afraid
to Place De Young
on the Stand.
Contradictory Evidence Of
Their Witnesses.
\ Medical Maze.
A Complete Report of the Argument
for the Defense.

| The proceedings in the trial of Adolph
| b. SpreckeIs, for shooting NJ. II. Dc
| Young in the arm on November / 9, 1884.
commenced in Judge Toohey's Court, San
Francisco, Oh Wednesday, May 2lst. The
people were represented by District At
| torney Wilson, Assistant District Attorney
Truett. r. II. Lloyd and Alexander Camp
bell of Arizona. The defendant was
represented by Hall McAllister. r. C.
| Harrison +. X. Taylor and H. l.. High
| ton.
THE sELECTIoH or THE JURY
Extended over three days, during which
time sixty-two jurors were summoned and
! subjected to cross-examination as to their
bias for or against the sides of De Young
and Spreckels respectively. The follow
ing twelve were finally sworn as trial
jurors: George It. Silvey, foreman in the
Fire Department; Thomas A. Cox seeds
man; William Dasmann, groceryman; H.
W. Gray, real estate agent Daniel J.
Kelley, carpenter and undertaken; Henry
Vorrath, grocer; Daniel Mcleod, Jr.,
merchant; Henry Rathjen, grocer; D. j.
Mahoney, teamster; George Fides, fore
man United Carriage Company; r. r.
Rollins, auctioneer Sydney NJ. Smith,
manufacturer of canned goods.
THE ACTUAL TRIAL
Commenced on Monday, May 26th, when
the court room was well filled during the
day. Spreckels has been attended
throughout the hearing of the case by his
father, Colonel Claus Spreckels, his elder
brother John d. Spreckels, and very many
personal and intimate friends. The open
ing statement for the prosecution was
made briefly by Il. II Lloyd. The first
witness called was w. II. Cameron,
Chronicle clerk, who, not being much
of draughtsman, drew a very rough
sketch Of the Office, much to the amuse-
ment of all present, He heard shot, fell
off his stool over boy, and the affair was
over. The stool, boy and witness were u
mass of tangled confusion. and he didn't
know what became of the boy, as he ran
away to the back of the Office, but there
was a strange woman in the Office, who
disappeared Immediately. The witness
was cross-examined and contradicted him
| self on many important points
DOCTORS DISAGREE.
The next witnesses called by the prose-
cution were Drs. Black and Murphy, who
were severely. cross-examined by DR..
Taylor, now leading practitioner in San
Francisco. The result can be shown by
the following brief summary, which proves
that De Young's medical advisers made
the most they possibly could out of the
case. that De Young posed for sympathy
and that Lis doctors knew but little about
their profession. The bullet taken from
the arm was produced and said to have
been resting on the sub-clavian artery.
Lloyd Immediately wanted to know if the
cutting of the artery by the bullet would
have proven fatal. The defense objected.
Mr.. Highton stating that the question
might as well be asked if bullet through
the heart would prove fatal. Attorney
DR.. Taylor then commenced his cross-ex-
animation and tangled the witness in
MEDICAL MAZE.
The City Physician said that the ac-
companying vein and a small muscle were
directly in front of the sub-clavian ar
terry. He had not taken the vein into
consideration, as severing it would do
but little damage compared with the re-
suit from ruptured artery. The artery
was at least three-quarters of an inch be-
low the surface, the bullet was directly
under the skin, consequently there must
have been considerable space between
the bullet and the artery, and the former
could not have rested upon the latter as
he had testified.
DR.. James Murphy was the next witness
for the prosecution, and he proved that
Mr.. De Young's b-clavian artery did not
pursue the usual course of well-regulated
sub-clavians and was further outside than
any similar artery he had ever seen. He
did not see the sub-clavian artery, but To-
Gated it by the pulsation. He appre-
hended more danger from secondary hem
orrhage liable to be caused by sloughing,
than from pyemia. The bullet must have
had a rotary motion that carried it to the
surface, for DIR. Blach had cut the bullet
from Immediately under the skin.
CHRONICLE" CLERKS.
Peter Pagan, "Chronicle'' Office boy.
was the first witness called on Tuesday.
May Goth. He heard voice, saw an arm
and hand, but could not testify to whom
they belonged; heard a shot and scooted
behind the safe door. George Emerson
heard shot, jumped off his stool and
ran for pistol, knowing from De Yoang's
expression that he was being assaulted,
and he fired at Spreckels. He thought
there was a woman in the Office The
next witness, w. c. Meagher, was waiting
on the woman, writing out an advertise.