The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-11

story of crime from the witness stand
and under oath as ever Robert Louis
Stevenson put in a novel.
1t was the story of his abduction and
his fifty-two hours Imprisonment in
handouts and chains in the cottage,
41O9 California street. 1t was told
without effort at dramatic effect and
under the limitations which the rules
of evidence impose, but with simple
earnestness and intensity that gave 1t
a convincing force. At times he was
carried away with the flood of his
memories of his tragic experiences, and
rising, from his chair, accompanied his
recital with gestures, Impractical but
forceful, that gave it wonderful effect
on those who heard it. His descrip-
ton of his struggle to escape when he
was first made aware of the purpose
for which he had been enticed to the
isolated cottage was graphic in the
extreme.
Again, when he told of the threats
of torture made to him unless he signed
the papers presented for that purpose,
by which ransom of $40, 900 was to be
extorted, his voice faltered and his eyes
suffused with the remem berance of it
as he repeated his reply, I'll sign no.
thing; I'm an old man; | haven't long
to live; what money I've got | worked
hard for and I'll never give it up to
scoundrel like you, and rob my
children"
Campbell was on the witness stand
nearly the entire day, and his cross
examination is yet far from completed.
His narrative was detailed and circum-
stantiaI without any confusion of in
lai6 Re
during that entire fifty-two hours of
suspense had been burned into his me-
mory In only one particular did his
testimony contradict the fact. That
was in relation to the way in which the
front door of the cottage is hung on
its hinges.
District Attorney Barnes himself con-
Quoted the examination of Campbell
In reply to the usual preliminary ques-
tions the witness said he was a resi-
dent of Honolulu, and had been a resi-
dent of the Sandwich islands for forty
six years come November" At that
time, also. he would be sc years OLD
He first saw Winthrop, the defendant
Friday afternoon, July 31st, about 3
O'Clock, at the Hotel NendOme, San
Jose Winthrop introduced himself
said he had just sold a ranch for
SIU,UUU, WdnI6u 10 invest II III COIIeC
lands in the Sandwich islands, and
wanted the witness advice as we'll as
his assurance to his wife that it would
be a good climate for her health, she
being an invalid.
Il told him l was going to sail Tues
day, and | would be very busy and
wouldn't have time to call on his wife
But he urged me so much that | said
finally that if had time l would call.
Campbell then told of his return 70
San Francisco Monday, August Sd. Soon
after for the AnglO-California Bank
Winthrop came up and began talking
to him, urging him to see Mrs. Win
thrOp. Campbell refused for want OF
time, and the two walked together
down Montgomery to Pine, where they
separated Campbell going TO the bank.
where he drew $3.50 in twelve double
eagles and one SO piece on a letter of
credit issued by Bishop & Co. of Homo
lulu for. $4,000. Campbell had this
$3.50 in gold he had just drawn and
which was in a leather purse, two $50
bills and one SO bill. which, with his
letter of credit, were in a long pocket
book in the inside pocket of his coat.
and a So bill. two silver half dollars
and a few silver dimes in his vest
pocket.
Later in the day Winthrop again met
him, and he yielded TO his persuasions
and started with him on a Sacramento
street car for Winthrop's supposed