The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-02-01

that evening of an hour. / never
left the barroom that night. | know
it was after nine, by the time Joe
came off the watch. | could not tell
how many drinks Walker took there.
| am quite certain, Mr.. Walker
stayed there till after ten. | was
not out of the saloon between 8 and
IL o'clock. He came back again
about half-past ten. He was there
till about quarter to eleven. lie
came in alone.
MIR. Il. $. SCRIMGEouR, sworn: |
remember the night of the Post
Office robbery. Between 1920 and
11:l5 l saw Mr.. Peterson on the
vacant lot where the Adcertisor
office used to be. He was convers-
ing with two men; they were about
six feet from the street; l did not
observe them more than half
minute; his condition was argu-
mentative; one of the men said
"good evening"" l merely said
good evening" and passed on.
Cross-examined by Attorney Gen
eral: fix the time by having
heard of the robbery next morning.
know / left the coffee saloon
1920, because l heard of the rob-
berry next day, and remembered of
having seen Peterson, and this ma
turally made me try to recall the
hour. had not been drinking that
evening.
IHE DEFENDANT, sworn: have
been acquainted with Mr.. Peterson
about year. My business is brick
layer. During the past eight months
/ have been engaged as manager of
the Royal Saloon. Mr.. Peterson
came in there frequently. He took
beer principally. He came in two
or three times day to my know
ledge. He would talk to me pass
the time of the day, and so on. He
would often talk about different
family troubles. About the CONVEX
satien six months ago referred to
by Mr.. Peterson, met him in the
morning near the Bethel Church.
l told him he did not look we'll.
What was the cause of it? lie said
he had good deal of bother on his
mind. / never mentioned anything
to him about the Post Office. |
often heard him talk about the con-
dition of his books. He said Mr..
Whitney might shove him out Of
there; that he didn't like Mr.. Whit
ney and Mr.. Whitney didn't like
him. He said his books were away
behind. On Saturday night, the
End January, Mr.. Peterson came
in about 8 O'Clock. | came from
behind the bar to play game {;
after a while Mr.. Sharratt came in {;
Mr.. Sharratt asked him to come in
and take drink, and asked me to
come too. Mr.. Sharratt said he
would like hack to go home. |
employed hack. Mr.. Peterson
got in with him. Mr.. Sharratt
ordered three bottles of beer, which
/ got and put in the hack. l had
no other conversation with Peterson,
at that time. Peterson was in later
on. Mr.. Peterson pulled my coat
and walked towards the little room {;
he began to tell me about his books
again. He appeared very much
excited; called for q drink; he
wished to God he was dead; he
would leave the door opened if some
body could come and take his books
away; Mr.. Whitney was coming
down in the morning; | said,
q bosh, don't talk like that.
This was after 10 O'Clock. Just
then a man came to the door, saw
us in, drew back again. That was
all the conversation at that time.
did not undertake TO destroy his
books. did not tell him l would
blow up the safe with dynamite,
that is a thing I know nothing about,
except what l have read. We got
up and went out. At the door, he
turned in the direction of the Post
Office, and went up to the Mer-
chants Exchange (Nowlein's). l do
not know who the person was who
had come to the door when we were
speaking. l went to Nowlein's to see
two fellows that had come on a
vessel from the place l came from
myself. l wanted to see the captain
of the Lizzie Iredale l did not 90 to
the Post Office between those times.
After leaving Nowlein's, went down
to the Royal Saloon by Nuuanu
street. When ] got back, one of
the back doors was closed, When l
got back Hastie was there. l had
been to his place the fore part of the
evening. He wanted to know if
would let him have the glass of his
lantern, that | held, also two bottles
of liquor, and he would pay me his
former bill, also for the two bottles
ON Monday. / let him have the
| liQuOr and the plaSS I tban nut