The record-union., 1892-04-30
THE ORIENT.
LATE3T ADVICES FROM YOKO-
HAMA AND JAPAN.
Further Details of the Trial and Ac-
quittal of Lieutenant Hethering-
ton for killing Robinson.
Special to the REcoHn-uN1oN.

Special to the RECORD-UNIoN.
San FRANCISCO, April 29.-The steamer
Belgic, which arrived to-day from Yoko-
hama, brought further details of the trial
and acquittal of Lieutenant Hetherington
on a charge of numbering Cover Robin
son. The taking of testimony for de-
fense occupied a week, and some thirty
witnesses were examined. Hetherington
himself was placed on the stand, and re-
lated the circumstances leading up to the
shooting. lie told how, when he Joined
his wife at GOkoha.-a, she treated him
cOldly and he soon discovered that Rob
lnSOn was the cause of this. Finally he
demonstrated with Mrs. Hetherington,
and wrote to Robinson telling him he must
cease his attentions to his wife. Robin
son replied, acknowledging that he was
IN love with Mrs. HGtheringtOn, but said
nothing wrong had occurred, and
promised he would cease his attentions 10
her.
soon after this Hetherington was
obliged to go out on the Marion for gun
practice, but before leaving he hired de-
tectives to watch his wife. On his return
the detectives reported that Mrs. Hether-
ington tried to avoid Robinson, who srilI
pursued her.
Late in December Hetherington found
an ardent loVe-letter from Robinson to
his wife, and he only refrained from send
ing his wife home on account Of their
child. lie atterWard found out that Rob
inSOu had planned an elOpement, and had
sent Mrs. Hetherington money with
which she could follow him to some other
country. On New Years Day Robinson
leered at his wife from the street, which
so angerod HetheringtOn that he started
out to horsewhip Robinson, but was pre-
vented by friends.
HntbpTinUtnn continued F-,,,, a..
lst to the 23d of January he got on well
with his wife. In the latter part of Janu-
ary Robinson went to Kobe and during
his absence Mrs. Hetherington made a
confession to her husband OF her rela-
tions with Robinson. Hethrington. in
describing 1t, said 1t was long and pain
ful story, and when he understood all he
freely fOrgave her and felt great pity for
her. He said his feelings against Robin
son were intensified, and while his wife
had done things that were inexpIicable
TO him, he looked upon her as an out
ragged woman.
Robinson returned from Kobe about
February 10th. Eetherington described
the state of feeling which Robinson's re-
turn produced on him, and said that on
February 18th, the day the shooting oc-
CURED, his ideas were confused. The in
Stant he saw Robinson driving on the
road he was maddcned. He fired the
SllOIS more 10 SJOp tDe carriage tlan with
the idea Of hitting Robinson.
Consul TillotsOn, in rendering his de-
Csion, gave an exhaustive review of the
testimony, and called attention especially
to the confession which Mrs. lettering
ton made to her husband shortly before
the shooting, in which she described her
wild midnight ride to RObinsons house
last October, and of the threats which
Robinson had held over her. In finding
Hetherington not guilty the Consul in
court declared that this confession. to-
gether with the other long train of dis
tressing circumstances of the case, had
produced great state of mental disturb
ance in the defendant, and he was not
responsible for his actions at the moment
the fatal shot was fired.
OTHER HAPPENINGS.
The Belgic also brought advices from
Japan and China rs follows:
Toxic has recently suffered from sew
eraI severe fires.
The Eok5ai says that the extraordinary
appreciation Of gold now taking place
has led the Specie Bank to utilize the op-
portunity for converting some Of its gold
into the Dascr metal.
The Government is sending cruisers to
hunt for foreign whaiers, said 10 be poach-
ing iii Japanese waters.
he OGtcidi GI5ttte reports that during
the night Of the ID inst. masses of floating
Ice were driven into the harbOr of ku-
shiro. They sunk the steamship Raiden
Maru, which was lying at anchor there,
and forty passengers embarked in her
were lost.
CHINA.
a lengthy dispatch from Peking has
been received by the authorities at Foo
chow instructing them to exhort the
people engaged in growing and prepar-
ing tea to improve the quality.
y Presbyterian Mission Hall at Chek
Hon, near Canton, was broken into at
the close OF service by a mob of rowdies,
who wrecked the place.
The iShcapao says the Tientsin Railway
Company is doing good business
1t is said that an English capitalist has
obtained sanction from the Chinese Gov
ernment to prospect and develop some of
the mines in Shingking and Shantung.
A debt Of cents, which has been owed
hy-o a lrIf a F~,