The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-05-23
TIE HILO COURT.
May Term Of Third Circuit.
SIXTH DAY.
MONDAY, May 18th.

The prosecution called John
Richmond.
Mr.. Davidson--I object TO the
swearing of this witness, on the
ground of his being unworthy of be-
lief. Sec. 40, page $50, Compiled
Laws.
Mr.. Neumann---I desire to ask
Mr.. Davidson whether he makes
this motion on the ground that this
man has been guilty of perjury OF
subornation Of perjury.
Mr.. Davidson do.
The court overrules objection and
counsel for defense notes exceptions.
THE CHIEF WITNESS.
JOHN RICHMOND, sworn-Live at
Honokaa, am stable man for Mr..
Overend; was there in October, know
these defendants my house is right
to the west of the stables; stables
are 800 or 400 feet from Overend's
house on the night of Oct. % Steele
came to me some time after was in
bed, and woke me up, and asked
me to go to the japanese quarters
and watch for japanese on white
horse, and let him know where he
went; l was to carry the information
to the schoolhouse. (Witness points
out houses, roads, etc., on the map.
Points out location of a woodpile
where he watched at japanese quar-
tiers for the japanese (Goto) to
come out y do not know what time
of the evening it was; l had been
asleep, Steele woke me up, nobody
was with him; was not watching
very long for the Japanese, prob
ably in the neighborhood of half an
hour; did not personally know the
man for whom l was watching; /
saw the japanese come out and get
on his horse, and he started east on
the lower road to 60 up towards the
big Japanese quarters, and then l
went to the Government road and 10
the schoolhouse met Steele there;
l went on foot, walked rs fast as j
could 60 up the hill, took me prob
ably ten minutes; i told him that
the Jap had started and had gone
towards the big japanese quarters;
l supposed the Jap was coming and
/ told Steele believed l would 90
home, and he said, "No, YOU will
stay here, Il may need you;'' as soon
as saw the Jap mount his horse
went to the place; l stayed with
Steele when he told me lie might
wnnf IN fhn
fence and he left me standing there !;
told me to stay there till lie called for
me; sat down and kind of lay there,
the grass is six or eight inches high
there; sat down very few minutes,
saw the Japanese coming upon horse
back; the horse was walking up the
hill, not fast, about as fast as horse
can pull up hill; l was at the
west side Of the road, he was near
the west side, the side that the
s;hoOlhouse is on, towards Kukuiha-
ele; saw q man named Lala, and
Blabon and Steele rush out TO the
horse; Lala grabbed the horse by
the bride, and Steele and Blabon
pulled the man off the horse. Steele
grabbed the man by the head and
the mouth, and Blabon by the body,
and they jerked him off right to the
ground the japanese did not come
down standing, he came down kind
of on his knees; he was then taken
into that open lot right inside of the
cemetery fence and laid on his face
there; could not tell how long he
would be lying there, it was but q
few minutes; afterward he was
hung; it was all done, from the pull
ing off to the hanging, inside Of
an hour; Steele, Blabon, Watson,
and Mills carried the man up to the
Government road running east and
west; after they carried him in the
first place, they laid him on his face,
and Steele tied his hands behind his
back, then Steele and Blabon tied
his feet, he was lying on his face
vet, when they first pulled the Jap
Of his horse heard him say, "Pau,
pau" that is all / ever heard the
man speak did not hear any more
noise out Of him, was close enough
TO hear him; did not hear q groan.
After they tied his hands and feet he
was carried up to the Government
road, the mauka road running
through Honokaa; he was carried
TO the makai side of the road and
left right alongside of that trail, in
the grass, not more than couple OF
hundred feet from the telephone pole
where he was hung; Mr.. Mills re-
quested me TO 60 to the telephone
pole and get the rope for him; i did
so and brought it back to where the
body was lying; it was a new rope,
probably three-quarters of an inch
thick; found it at the foot of the
telephone pole; it was coiled up;
it had q moose made at the end of it,
said to be a regular hangman's
knot; the other end was unwove,
and one of the strands was cut off
(wltness identifies the rope shown;
gave the rope to Watson. The
body was taken up; somebody said
there, "My God, l believe the man
is dead" or "The Jap is dead"
and stopped down and put my
hand on his breast and l could not
feel movement, or pulse, or any.
thiDu Of that kind and then we