The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-09-11
Campbell on Witness Stand les
titles Against Winthrop.
WAS IN IRONS OVER TWO DAYS.
District Attorney Barnes Conducts Examina-
fion-First Saw Defendant In San Jose.
Complainant Tells of Pete's Part in the
Game-Was PIueky to the End Of Drama.

through whit ran a suggestion OF hi
native Scotch brogue and mode of ex
preston that forty-six years residence
among the soft-speaking Kanakas o.
the Sandwich islands has not oblite
rated, told as weird and startling {
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 anC
his fifty-two hours imprisonment il
handouts and chains in the cottage
4109 California street. 1t was told
without effort at dramatic effect and
under the limitations which the rules
of evidence impose, but with a simple
earnestness and intensity that gave il
q 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 a 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 a ransom of $4,000 was to be
eXtorted, his voice faltered and his eyes
suffused with the remembrance of it
as he repeated his reply, ''Pll sign no
thing; I'm an old man; l haven't long
to live; what money I've got worked
hard for and I'll never give it up to
a 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-
stantial without any confusion of in
cidents, as though each separate fact
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.
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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 resi-
dent of the Sandwich islands for forty.
six years come November" At thai
time, also, he would be sc years old
He first saw Winthrop, the defendant
Friday afternoon, July 31st, about
o'clock, at the Hotel Vendome, SaI
Jose. Winthrop introduced himself
said he had just sold a ranch foI
$4,000, wanted to invest it in coffee
lands in the Sandwich islands, anC
wanted the witness advice as well as
his assurance TO his wife that it would
be a good climate for her health, she
being an invalid.
Il told him / was going to sail Tues
day, and l would be very busy anC
wouldn't have time to call on his wife
But he urged me so much that | said
finally that if had time / would call.
Campbell then told of his return Il
San Francisco Monday, August Sd. Soo1
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 o
time, and the two walked together
down Montgomery to Pine, where the!
separated, Campbell going to the bank
where he drew $3.50 in twelve doubl,
eagles and one SO piece on a letter o
credit issued by Bishop & Co. of Homo
lulu for 10000 Campbell had thi
$3.50 in gold he had just drawn anC
-,
bills and one $40 BILL which, with hi
letter of credit, were in long pocket
book in the inside pocket of his coat
and So bill, two silver half dollar
and a few silver dimes in his YES
pocket
Later in the day Winthrop again me
him, and he yielded to his persuasion
and started with him on a Sacramento
street ear for Winthrop's suppose
home on California street. Near tn
Mills building they met UrQuhart il
company with lady.
Arriving at the cottage, 400 Califor
MIA street, Campbell was ushered int
the parlor to the chairs facing tn
door into the hall. The supposed Mrs
Winthrop did not appear and Camp
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him his wife would soon come in.
The next thing l saw there was
man standing in the doorway. He ha
a pistol in his hand pointing it at m'
His face was covered with black sill
or cotton handkerchief stuffed in hi
vest and under his hat, with hole
bored in it for his eyes. He said, e
hands, or I'll shoot Winthrop stoo
up and held up his hands. sat Their
l didn't know what TO do. Then Ii
man came little nearer and said agai
TO throw up hands Winthrop said I
me, You'd better throw up your hanC
or he'll shoot
Il said, IN be--if throw up n
hands'-that's the words l used-the
/ threw myself forward and to one sic
and struck him. He went down. Ju
as he was going down the pistol wei
of. The bullet grazed the right sic
of my head ! could feel it sting ar
it bled a little The bullet went rigl
through the rim of my hat. When Il
pistol went off l grabbed it by Il