The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-05-20


hung himself, and he said that is so,
think the Japs down at Overend's hung
him.
Cross-examined-I got there and low
cred the Jap right down. was afraid.
| suppose forty or fifty Japs were there.
Steele was there, he assisted me by
holding the rope. uniastened the rope
and let Steele have the rope and got
hold OF the body After that Mills and
0verend got there He and Mills got
there afterwards. l did not have time 10
look around and see ii he WAS there
before. Mills was not long in coming
over. do not recollect whether l was
at telephone post when he came.
think that Oyereni went right away. l
had no conversation with Mills and
Steele that know Of. Mills wanted the
body out OF the way. Body was quite
cold snd rigid, 1 LETT no policemen in
charge OF the body but left some one
else. Body was removed TO the court
house after ten, Jury was commenced
after eleven. | think we had twelve
Jurors. The Jurors names were given to
au officer under my direction and they
were subpSened. We commenced work
s little after eleven. Jury were all there
when We commenced. The inquest was
carried on peacefully. Question put
by Moore was objected to being put
down by Mills. Mills went away and
sung out to him TO come back. Question
was asked over again and | could not
tell whether it was put down or not
There was nothing else in regard TO the
clerk. Record is now asked to be intro
duced by the defense and objected to by
the prosecution as being too premature
in the case. Judge is not pressed for a
decision and one is not given and Record
is not produced. Davidson says that the
Record Of an inquest is the first thing
brought into any court TO prove the
murder. and he does not see why it has
not been brought in this instance. His
knowledge of other courts is that the
records are always brought in first, etc.
l sent for Mills for he is a special police
man or was. told him afterwards that
/ wanted him as secretary. He did his
work satisfactorily. He was questioned
the same as the rest.
By the Court called twelve men. l
looked ar the law. do not remember
whether | called twelve or six men
Dr.. r. B. Williams sworn, stated i
am physician and graduated in Nov
ember. 1887, in California. have been
practising here on these Islands since
Decent Der 10, 1855. | first practised on
Maui in the district OF Hama as Govern
ment physician, came 10 Hilo about 10Th
October, 1889. Last October was sent
for 10 go to Honokaa. left here at half
altar : " on1 crrrroH fbara OF = ID N
OF the same day. was sent for by the
Sheriff OF Hawaii TO hold an autopsy on
the dead body OF japanese. l held the
autopsy. l got there in the evening and
found the body in the court house OF
Honokas. found the body lying on q
wide board and everything ready for me
to 90 10 work All the clothes were on
the body, rope was around the neck and
body appeared as when taken down
from pole. Hands were tied behind the
back. | examined the body at the time,
and commenced work about 10 minutes
after got there. Everything was ready
for me to 90 right on with my work. In
the first place viewed the face OF the
man and then l next felt Of the scalp to
look for fracture of the skull, then /
looSened rope so thai l could see the
neck. Then rope was taken of, the
body then turned over and the next
thing the clothes were taken off. no
ticed the way the ropes were tied j;
the clothes were all taken off
the body, and body left perfectly
nude The face was swollen and slightly
about the face. The face had every APP
pearsnce OF suffocation and had liyid
appearance. There was no fracture of
the skull. There were marks on the
neck. Two spots where the skin was
broken, and there were more or less
marks all around the neck. These were
marks on either side Of larynx that l
thought rope made at first. Bruises
were to the opposite side of abrasions.
The tongue was not protrudlng but
blood was oozing from the nostrils. Eyes
had q staring appearance but not bulg-
ing. / examined other parts OF the body
and found no other marks except where
the ropes had made marks around the
wrists and legs. After this then made
an examination Of the brain, lungs,
heart. liver and stomach. | took out
the brain and examined il Examined
the heart, the right yentricle was filed
with dark venous blood, the left ventri-
Gle partly filed with lighter blood, arte-
rial blood. The lungs were congested
and were partly filed with dark venous
blood. The heart could not force the
blood IN the lungs, consequently the
right yentricle was filed with yenous
blood Heart and lungs were not dis
eased as far as | could make out. The
brain WAS conges.ed and in places clots
Of blood could be seen.
By the CoGrt-AbOut neck. | did not
dissect the neck moved it around in
every way and found more mobility than
there ought TO be and found that neck
was broken.
Examination eontinued-The stomach
was examined, the contents taken out
and stomach itself was examined. 1t
was slightly extended owing probably TO
the gases. There was nothing abnormal
about the stomach. The contents were
brought TO Hilo for chemical analysis.
When saw the body the man had been
dead some time. / could not say how
long. After death rigor morris sets in, /
should say in Hamakua, from all the
way from four to SIX hours Under the
circumstances rfe,nr unorfic rrnar have