The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-06-20
ADDRESS or MIR. NEuMANN.


lection accorded to every man in his
life and property. The killing Of
this japanese was blow OF the
right of every man to protection.
In affording protection to every
member of the community the law
provided for asccrtaining and pun
ishing different degrees of guilt.
He would not be sincere if he
asked for verdict of murder
against these men, for he could not
believe that they intended to kill
the man. His theory of the crime
was that the men wanted TO extort
information from the japanese, and
that in doing so they killed him.
1t matlered not whether he was
dead before he was hung up or
came to his death by the hanging.
The fact was established that he
was alive and well when he fell into
the hands of these men and dead
when they left him. He did not
care to deal with degrees of their
guilt. Every man who helped in
lying in wait, or carrying and hang
ing the body, was guilty of his
death. He might believe that
Steele, or Watson, or Blabon might
have acted through overhead for his
employer. But what were they to
think of Mr.. Mills, man of affairs,
sworn officer of the law, for the
protection of our lives? That he
should not merely be partner but
ringlcader in this cruel and cow
ardly act, was one of the most dam
nabIe things that ever occurred in
this country.
The evidence of accompliccs was
not in the status outlined to them
by counsel. One accomplicc was
sufficient to convict il his s'atc-
ments were corroborated. Now
Lala was not an accomplice in this
affair. Whenever Lala found out
what was going on lie ran away.
Richmond was not an angel or pro.
badly even Il fit person TO be
church deacon. Still it often lap
pened that a man ordinarily rech-
less of his word might, under cir
cumstances of life or properly being
at stake, give true and correct eve
dcnce. MI. Ncumann adve.ted
sarcastically 10 the witnesses brought
forward TO prove that Richmond
was unworthy to be believed on
oath. If Ricnmond was rs bad is
they would MIKE him cut, it went
TO prove that he was telling the
truth when he said he participated
in this crime. Mills conuec. ion
with the affair, counsel believed, was
discovered through the payment of
this four dollars by Mills which the
opposite counsel had ridiculed, also
by Mrs. Mills seeking soolhsaver.
He discussed the evidence of Rich
mond and Lala to show that they
were not inconsistent with each
other, but only spoke Of what they
saw from different positions: it was
not surprising if La'a did not see
Richmond. They had been accused
of cooked evidence from Richmond
and Lala. Perhaps they would also
say that Richmond and Rdfus Ly-
man cooked their evidence, when,
without knowing what each other
was doing, they pointed to the iden-
tical spot where Richmond sat
down. The theory of counsel til; t
the japanese killed Goto was one to
be told TO the marines. IL was
equally absurd when they were told
that Richmond, having seen Mills
in the cap and cloak once, made up
the story that he had them on tina
night, when Hart testified that Mills
did not wear the cap and cloak for
year previous. As TO the shreds,
everybody ought TO know that when
telephone wires are 10 be fixed, the
lineman climbs ap by means of leg
gings, and slides down the pole
when done. Regarding the allego d
contradiction in the two exam ma
tons Of Richmond as to the order
of the placing of the rope on The
neck and on tue pole, he pointed
out the apparently reasonable cX-
PLANTATION the witness had given in
his second cross-examination, viz.
that he had answered the questions
exactly as they had been put 20
him, out Of the order of time in re.
lation to the facts.
The jury now had the evidence
before them. No case had even
been made clearer. The evidcn6 c
of Richmond and Lala stood uncon-
tradictcd. No al;bi had been shown
in the case of any of defendants.
The Emergencies in the testimony
of the japanese as to time were
only natural. If, however, they
had a reasonable doubt of the guilt
of the defendants, in Gods name
give them 4 verdict.
CHARGE OF TIE COURT.
( Chief Justice Judd began his
charge to the jury at 3:45. lie had
been a judge since 1874, and thi;
was the most important case tina,
had ever come before him. The
, position Of jurors was as importan,
rs any in our system of jurispru.
, dence. They had shown no dispose
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