The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-09-11
Campbell on Witness Stand Tes-
titles Against Winthrop.
WAS IN IRONS OVER TWO DAYS.
District Attorney Barnes Conducts Examina-
tion-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 suggestion OF his
native Scotch brogue and mode of ex-
preston that forty-six years residence
among the soft-speaking Kanakas OF
the Sandwich islands has not oblite-
rated, told as weird and startling a
story of crime from the witness stand
and under oath as ever Robert Louis
Stevenson put in novel.
1t was the story of his abduction and
his fifty-two hours Imprisonment in
handouts and chains in the cottage,
4109 California street. II 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
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 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 ransom Of $4,000 was to be
extorted, his voice faltered and his eyes
suffused with the remembrance of it
n- 4 Il Nv ssTs11 cie
thing; I'm an old man; l haven't long
to live; what money I've got l 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.
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
o'clock, at the Hotel Vendome, San
Jose Winthrop introduced himself,
said he had just sold a ranch for
$4,000 wanted to invest it in coffee
lands in the Sandwich islands, and
wanted the witness advice as well as
his assurance to his wife that it would
being an invalid.
Il told him / was going to sail Tues
day, and l 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 | would call. -
Campbell then told of his return TO
San Francisco Monday, August Sd. Soon
after for the Anglo-Californi 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 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 leather purse, two $40
bills and one $40 bill, which, with his
letter of credit, were in long pocket
book in the inside pocket of his coat
and IS bill, two silver half dollars
and a few silver dimes in his vest
pocket.
Later in the day Winthrop again me-
him, and he yielded to his persuasion:
and started with him on a Sacramento
street car for Winthrop's supposed
home on California street. Near tht
Mills building they met Urquhart il
company with lady.
Arriving at the cottage, 4109 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
bell grew impatient. Winthrop assure,
him his wife would soon come in.
The next thing l saw there was
man standing in the doorway. He hal
a pistol in his hand pointing it at me
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, u
hands, or I'll shoot Winthrop stoo
up and held up his hands. l sat there
1 didn't know what to do. Then tn
man came little nearer and said agai
to throw up hands. Winthrop said t
me, You'd better throw up your hand
or he'll shoot
Il said, III be7--if / throw up m
hands'-that's the words l used-the
/ threw myself forward and to one sid
and struck him. He went down. Jus
as he was going down the pistol wen
of. The bullet grazed the right sid
of my head / could feel it sting an
it bled little. The bullet went righ
through the rim of my hat. When tn
pistol went off l grabbed it by tn