The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-05-12
( ". Jordan lhsi Man Who
Made Up The Dozen.
4 NIGHT SESSION HElt
slvst Witness - u: VIII Be. a Long
and Tedious Triai.-.A Tales.
man Fined.
tFrom Thursdays DailyD

A jury for the trial Of the five Japa-
nese charged with the commission OF
murder in the first degree during the
progress of the KahukW plantation
riot of March 26th last, was secured at
4:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
f. w. Jordan, the Fort street mer-
chant. was the twelfth man. The other
eleven for the siege are: J. w. Treg-
toan. w. X. Sims, Theo Wolfe, John
Efinger, Henry Roth, r. +. Krouse, J.
]. Sullivan, A. w. Howe, Fred w. Nc
Chesney, C. b. Huston and Charles II.
Atherton.
Mr.. Jordan was about the one hun
dredth man who went into the box. He
told that he was slightly deaf. This
trouble did not seem TO be bad enough
10 interfere with the performance OF
his duty as a juror, and as he was 9TH
erwise qualified, he was sworn in with
the dozen. II was after Mr.. Jordan
had developed to be satisfactory that
Judge Robertson, counsel for the de-
tense, remarked that he did not care
~ use any more peremptory chal-
euges. Attorney General Cooper said
for the State for the fifteenth time,
about. that the jury was all that the
psopie desired.
Judge Perry administered the oath to
he elect twice, having the first time
omitted the names of four Of the de-
fendants, simply saying 80 and so and
others" The Jurors were carefully in
structed by His Honor, as were tn"
bailiffs. The time for this trial Will
ye quite close to three weeks. A host
of Chinese and japanese and few
baoles and natives will testify. with
che Interpreters and the involving ma
cure OF the transaction the work OF
bringing out the facts will be slow.
When everything was ready for the
opening OF the case, Attorney General
g,ooper said that the State was quite
prepared to PROCEED, but would prefer
to start "in the morning Most OF
the Jurors expressed willingness to
work day and night. w. D. smith
thought Il best to have proceedings
only when attorneys and jurors were
fresh. A couple OF the Jurors declared
hey were quite fresh, and Judge Perry
decided that the start should be MADE
at 100 in the evening
At night the lights were bad, but Al
was 10 business at once. The opening
statements were made briefly. and .n'
first witness, Pake, was called. TINS
man was on the stand till nearly II
o'clock, when adjournment was taken
20 this morning. The Chinaman est
fed that he had been stabbed by on'
~ The defendants. and he told Of thu
part he believed some OF the prisoner
mad taken In the Wholesale numbering
on that bloody Sunday afternoon a
Kahuku.
The gentlemen OF the jury have clos!
quarters in the Snow cottage, on TN
grounds of the Hawaiian Hotel, an
will be boarders at the hotel. They
we're cautioned not to talk TO any on
about the case or to let any one tall
TO them about Il. The bailiffs wer'
told 10 permit no conversation between
Jurors and outs ders concerning tn
Kahuku AFFAIR. 1t is presumed that tn
jur" will be given permission 10 atten'
church on Sundays, and II they 90 II
IN a body It will be a new experience
for some of them.
Robert Shingle was called for tn
Jury yesterday. He had not taken tn
oath to support the Republic and smil
ingly resisted the Establishments Of W
o. Smith when the eX-Attorney-
eral suggested that the present was
good time to declare fealty and poss
bly serve the nation for few wcecR
at SO a day.
William Savldge was ION the list
but was not rounded up, as the scare
az me ponce ulu hpl 'AN'hN W HShl'
sellers at Walalua. James Gordo
spencer was excused because he Is
member OF the Board OF immigration
Frank Barwick had formed an oplnio
on the merits OF the case and vas flXe
in his belief. s. Kubey was oppose
TO capital punishment. So was th'
Kind hearted young man, Q. l.. Glen
emit, who will take vacation FRO
lalklng people to death on advertiser
IA the street cars and serve as waite
front reporter on this paper In place
Iohn Emnger, who Is a Juror. J..
chaplin could not qualify, George Al
gus DOES not believe In capital punis'
mont Jack" Lucas, by the way, III
too strong a belief In capital punlsl
ment In such eases"
II IL expected that the gentlemen
viie Jury will BIO at large In time TO 81
tho races next month, All receiv,
alothlng from their homes last evenin