The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-31
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Promptly at o'clock the court was
called to order. After reading of min
utes by Recorder Jones, Colonel
Whiting stated that Captain John
Good, of Company E, and Lieutenant
Oscar White, of Company B, had been
selected to sit as members of the Conn
mission.
Attorney Neumann announced that
the personnel of the court was satis-
factory to defendant Ashford, and the
proceedings commenced.
Samuel Nowlein was the first wit
ness called. His testimony was as
follows: Planned to have an army
at Kakaako and one at the fish
market; affair was to come OFF as
soon as arms landed; afraid Of being
discovered If we waited; @. w. Ash.
ford said ". v. Ashford had gone for
arms; G. w. Ashford said Captain
Davies told v. ". Ashford he was go-
inc out for arms; C. w. Ashford went
on Likelike Saturday; saw 9. w. who
wanted me to name place TO meet V.
". for conferences; said Waikiki road
was nice place to meet; left him then;
was going out to Waikiki in buggy;
met y. w.; no special point OF meet.
| ing was agreed upon; both carriages
stopped; V. v. got out and came to
my carriage; he said to me, II do not
think this good place to have q
| talk''; told him did not think so either;
said I would call at his house and have
| talk with him left him and went out
to long bridge; turned around and
| came to town; went to v. VS. house
| that afternoon; saw V. v. and father
at house sitting on veranda; never
been there before; went into small
room; no one present but us twoi laid
open whole plan to V. Vi told him
| arms going to be landed at kakaakO
and at fish market; told him Kakaako
plans been laid out by me; asked him
| to help lay out plans for fish marketi
| ". ". asked about best time to land
| arms; told him night time; V. V. said
| if had arms landed during night then
we must have day attack; hard to
| keep natives from talking and giving
| everything away; agreed day time
best; V. v. said would help make out
plan of fish market; went to his ofhce
three times after call at house, to see
about fish market plan; went there
following Monday morning, the 31st;
saw him in back room of cffice; no one
there but US two; asked him If anything
| done to plan; said no; too busy with
| court matters and for me to call again;
| Wednesday morning, day after New
| Years, learned arms coming; heard
| Waimanalo succeeded in getting arms
| and would be in that night; thought
better hurry matters and be ready by
] O'Clock next morning; found could
| not get ready; at meeting of Gulick,
| Rickard and myself, agreed to have
i Rickard go out to Waimanalo and
bear orders Thursday, went to see
] Ashford again things must surely
come off that night he said sorry he
could not help, but was suffering from
/ rheumatism in the knee and would be
unable tfief that night, but thing
would not GO: arms landed at kaka-
ako, around by new breakwater on
Waikiki side; time OF assembly agreed
| on was 12 O'Clock that night; natives
began gathering from to Z 80 pm. :;
8 O'clock received word of police inter.
| ference Chinaman drove Ashford to
| Waikiki; have seen man since my
| confinement after / made statement
about him; Ashford had Chinese clerk
I'm office; was there when witness
called at Office.
! At this point of the examination,
the Chinese driver was brought in.
Nowlein continued: - Know this
man to be driver spoken of learned
| Waimanalo off Diamond Head from
Bertelmann; were to be $50 men at
Kakaako, and same number at Fish
Market: men going to get arms at
these places told Ashford all plans |;
Kakaako plans given to Bertelmann
| witness told Ashford, Walker was to
take Police Station with his squad
| everybody to move at o'clock in the
morning arms landed at Diamond
Head used in the fight on 9Th and 7tb.
On cross examination, Counsel Neu-
| mann asked Novloin If ha hal boaO
offered any price for the betrayal of
his colleagues.
Captain Kinney objected to the
word betrayal and the objection
was sustained by the court.
Mr.. Neumann changed his language
and asked Nowlein what promises had
been made him.