The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-05-20

/ DallA tAiCIS anu EItt>>s - rev
feet from that trail and road, BY juror
How lar from telephone pOle?) Ii is
about 500 feet to telephone pole. l was
! looking around TO see If | could find
/ missing slipper; several DAYS after went
| there with the Sheriff and IAla, and
when Lala said they laid his body in
side cemetery lot, found this Irvine IeN
hibitedl; this is Just as l found it tied
up; il would be about here referring 10
map; the spot where | found the
twine was, almost bare Of grass; know
! this book small pass-book exhibited it
Is an order~book; it has Goto's writing
in it; it was handed TO me by Mr. Mills,
the morning after the murder; first ar
rived ST Goto's body about A. NJ; it
laid az the foot of the telephone post.
| The hands were tied behind the back;
the feet also below the knees and rope
around his neck; there are the ropes
| that We found; this piece marked az
was living in the ground, not fastened to
ANYTHING; tel rope around GOto's neck
with the knot undisturbed and was lett
about his neck until the doctor arrived
and took II of; 81 this rope was taken
off his hands; (gj this rope was taken off
his legs; this is blood from the body,
a little blood around the neck where it
was chafed, and some on the lips; (e) is
| in Just the condition il was found on the
body; put the twine on to keep it from
unravelling; thl pants, taken off the body,
| shirt also, blood on these from post
mortem; portions Of shirt and coat, one
| slipper l found at the foot OF telephone
| post: the stockings were on his feet; |
| found knife and little money in his
| pocket this pocket-book was found in
the pocket on his body, also the knife;
| found silver (S2 20 exhibited in his poe
| textbook; l do not know If the other
| slipper WAS ever found; the knot was
/ tight around his neck, when arrived
| the BODY remained several hours by the
| telephone post until it was removed TO
| the Court House coroner's inquest
came little after MIR Mills gave me
| the order-bOok in the morning; said he
| did not remember who gave il to him;
| he said that it was Goto's book and that
GotO told him he had picked it up on
the trail few yards from the Govern
ment road. The Judge Edwin Thomas)
held the inquest, and Mr.. Mills took
down the testimony; | was out and in,
| trying 10 find out who the Japs were who
had seen him last; saw that Mr.. Mills
did not take down the testimony as asked
by Mr.. Moore, and when spoke to Mills
! about it be got very angry and walked
out of the room. We had recess to see
whether We should put on more evidence.
Mr.. Mills declined to act any further, but
ne came in and said he was complying
with the law in putting down the evil
deuce; l think Steele was present only
on the second day; | cited the witnesses
to appear; asked Mr.. 0verend to let
Mr.. Steele come down and he said he
would; dom. remember al the witnesses
at the inquest; Portuguese boy, Geo.
Eetsen and Japs; know the Portuguese
boy by sight; know 0yeanoka and he
was witness first day of inquest when the
inquest opened | asked Overend where
Steele was and he said he had sent Iiet-
sen down, as he would do instead; the
second day Steele appeared at the in
quest; he gave evidence as to seeing the
body the morning before hanging to the
telephone pole.
The Court here took recess of one
hour.
On resuming, the direct examination
Of r. A. Lyman was continued as fol-
lows: 4 warrant and q search warrant
was sent me by the sheriff for the arrest
of Mr.. Mills. The cloak was handed me
by Mrs. Mills and she got it from behind
door, and also the cap; Mills said his
wife had worn the cloak and muddied it.
In the morning when l went over to the
store Of Mills, he showed me sample
OF white rope and said ne had no rope
like that with which Goto was hung;
the sample he showed me was from
Portuguese store and he had been there
to ask if the Portuguese had any; he said
he had not had any for some little time;
don't remember how long: this was the
morning OF the 29th; Mills was police |
man; can't say whether he volunteered |
that statement about his not having the |
rope or not: may have asked him the
question
Cross-examined-I did not ike the
manner OF Goto's Interpretation; l sent |
for Nakiyama the matchmaker; don't
remember whom l sent for him; the in |
depreciation he gave was in variance, asI
heard from the others | knew there was
hard feelings between Overend and Goto, |
thought it best to get another inter |
prefer; this meeting was, when it first
commenced to find out who set fire to |
the cane; one of Overend's Japs was
arrested, afterwards tried and dis |
charged; that place where the grass was
laid down was like that made by man |
crouching; a body laying on the grass |
would have left an impression in the |
grass; the grass was trodden down well |
near the trail and telephone pole; did |
not see any marks Of body in cemetery |
lot; did not see anything that could /
identity as a place where body had been
laid; met Mr. Cute, OF Maui, coming /
that way; We had been having rainy |
weather but not that evening; it was
cloudy night, and not particularly dark; |
the string was near the cemetery lot |
horses are hitched in the neighbOrhood /
Of the place where string was found; |
have looked for the other slip; think l /
have mentioned all the little articles
found there by me; the pole is l think
fifteen feet high; think there are six
wires on one side and two on the other;
one horse track was near the Lyceum;
when reached this did think they were
there; l have pieces Of thread found at