The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-25
James CampbelI's Abductor
Awaits His Sentence.
JURY OUT ONLY FIVE MINUTES
Scenes in the Court-Trying 70 Break Down the
Evidence-Prisoner Heard the Verdict Like
StOic-Ris Wife and Family Affeeted-Wit-
nesses Threatened-To be Sentenced.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.-Oliver
Winfield Winthrop stands convicted |
of robbery of James Campbell, the rich I
Hawaiian planter.
The jury was out a scant five min
utes before returning a verdict of
guilty as charged" At the request
of the defendants attorney the jury
was polled and each man responded
that that was his verdict. Notice of
a motion for new trial was made.
Monday morning next was set for pro-
nouncing sentence.
The jury received the thanks of the
Court for it's attentive service. 1t was
discharged and the trial involving a
most remarkable criminal undertaking |
was at an end.
There was no scene, no demonstra,
ton The defendant betrayed the effect
on him only by tense drawing of the
muscles of the face and an increased
pallor of the countenance. He had
| feared the verdict and was prepared
| for it. Not word or sound escaped
him. He sat stolidly in his chair.
| Mrs. Winthrop, who had sat beside
him all morning, was led by Attorney
! Outflow into the Judges chamber be-
| fore the jury returned with its YER
| dict. She must have felt, however,
| from the brief time the jurors were
out and from their serious faces as
they filed past her from the juryroom
that their was no hope of an acquittal.
1t was her husband who first told
| her the crushing truth. He was taken
| into the Judges chamber by the Sher-
iff and a most affecting scene ensued.
Mrs. Winthrop threw herself in her
| husbands arms and wept. She was
not hysterical, but she seemed incon-
solable.
Her mother, Mrs. Brooks, who has
been steadily in attendance at the trial
for the last few days, came into the
room with the two Winthrop boys,
who are too young to realize what has
| befallen them. But they knew by
| their mothers tears and their grand
mothers distress and by their fathers
/ evident deep feeling, though he shed
no tears, that something appalling had
happened and they chung to their par
ents, weeping bitterly.
1t was some time before the Sheriff
in the performance of his duty could
bring himself to separate the convicted
|
take him back to the County Jail. 1t
was longer still before Mrs. Winthrop
was composed enough to be led by her
mother to her home.
Immediately after the jury was dis
| charged Mrs. Brooks advanced to the
jury-bOx and asked which was Mr..
| Mccullough. She engaged him in ear
nest conversation for two or three min
utes quietly, not loud or demonstra
| hot En c.oid ord Nv
| him alone. He said afterward that
what she said was what a heart broken
woman who believed in the innocence
| OF her daughters husband might be
| expected to say in eXpostulation and
regret, but more than that he felt that
delicacy forbade him to speak of.
After court was adjourned Mrs.
| Winthrop followed Mrs. Dunton, the
woman from whom Winthrop rented
the California-street cottage, from the
| courtroom and threatened to do her
| bodily harm Mrs. Dunton became
alarmed and went to the office of the
Chief of Police for protection. Police
man SamuelS was detailed to escort
her to her home.
The proceedings of the court, aside
from the verdict and the incidents
clustering around it were not different
in character from those of the other
days of the trial. The courtroom
was filled as it has been every day, a
large proportion of those present
being persons who have been in at
tendance every day. Near the prose-
cutting witness was seated Captain
Curtis, to whom Campbelrs friends
turned when his disappearance was
first known. Near him was w. H.
Campbell, James Campbell's boyhood
friend, with whom he was talking of
the old boyhood days in. Scotland when
Winthrop called him aside and started
with him to the fateful cottage James
Streeton, another old friend who had
! called at the Occidental Hotel on that
significant Monday to bid James Camp
bell good-by, was there, also Cecil
Brown, Campbell's agent and attorney.
With Winthrop were his wife and
children, his wifes mother and E. t.
Hicks, who has been constantly help
ing to secure evidence for the defense
since Winthrop's arrest.
Besides these and the lawyers and
the court and police officials there in
the discharge of their duty, those in at
tendance were the motley courtroom
crowd drawn through motives Of curl
osity and interest in some of those
chiefly concerned in the case.
Assistant District Attorney Black oc-
cupied a little more than an hour in
his closing argument. 1t was clear,
earnest discussion Of the arguments
made the day before by Attorney Bell
and the evidence upon which that ar
gument was based. There was no dis
crepancy, he claimed, between Camp
bells testimony as to the amount and
kind of money he had and the testi
mony of the exchange teller of the
Io-Californian Bank and of the
: he