The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-24
KANE Gull Y
OF ROBBERY.
Tale Told of TantaIus
Outrage.
CHINESE HACKMAN'S STORY
Recital of the Robbery and Bruta.
Assault On the Road to
Mount Tantalus.

on the stand in the Circuit Court |
room yesterday sat a queuelesS Chi |
nese, thin of cheek and bowed of |
shoulder. Beside him in the witness
box stood the clutches by the aid of
which he had crawled to the court
room. He talked in a scarcely audible
voice and so weak was he that he could
only with difficulty raise his hands for
the emphatic gestures which an ORR
entail needs to express himself properly.
He was Tong Sing, the Chinese hack
driver who was victim of the brutal
assault and robbery on the Tantalus
road on July LIST last. He had fingered
between life and death for weeks after
the robbery, with broken leg and a
fractured skull and had finally recov-
cred to confront his assailant in court
and tell the damning story that will
mean long term in the penitentiary
for the man Kane.
After hearing the tale told by the
Chinese and that of witnesses who saw
Tong Sing driving Kane up the Tanta-
lus road that Sunday morning, the
prosecution submitted the case and as
the defense had no testimony to offer,
| it was given to the jury and in less
than two minutes that body had found
Kane guilty of the crime with which
he was charged.
Nearly all day was occupied in TAX
ing the testimony of Tong Sing. De-
I spite his weakness the man bore up
wonderfully under the ordeal. He was
all the morning telling his story of the
affair, for the process of taking his tes
timony was laborious one. He spoke
/ no English, nor did the defendant, and
neither one understood word, or more
than a phrase or two OF the others
language. So Deputy Attorney Cen
eral CathcartS questions had first to
be turned into Chinese and the answer
rendered into English, and then both
question and answer had to be inter
preted to the defendant in Hawaiian.
Kane, the accused, sat close to his
attorney, George d. Gear. He took it
all phlegmatically enough, sitting back
in his chair, his huge shoulders squar-
ed chewing tobacco calmly while his
victim told the story of the crime. He
offered no suggestions as TO his defense,
had not a word to say through it all
and scarcely winked when the details
of the brutal assault were gradually
drawn from the prosecuting witness.
Sl1S lold the SAINT
story he had gasped out to the officers
the day of the robbery when he was
brought down from Tantalus with a
broken leg and a seemingly fractured
skull, and was thought to be close to
death He recited how he had driven
Kane up the Tantalus road that morn
ing, the man telling him that he had
some friends whom he wished to see
When they were near the summit OF
the mountain he had been told by Kane
to stop for a moment. The native then
left the carriage and went into a near
by gulch for a moment. Returning the
Chinese noticed that Kane had some
thing large and bulky in his pocket
He drove on ways and presently the
man in the seat behind him drew q
stone from his pocket and struck him
heavily on the head twice. The second
blow knocked him senseless and the
next thing he knew he was lying be-
side the road tied by his queue to E
small sapling. His pockets had beer
rified and his money was gone. Wher
he attempted to rise he felt terrible
pain in one leg and could scarcely
move. The leg proved afterwards t
be badly broken. With infinite diff
Guilty he managed to cut his queue off
thus releasing himself. Then painful!
and by slow degrees he dragged himself
down the road until he met SOM
friendly Hawaiians to whom he told il
broken accents his story. They noti
fled the police and he was taken to tn,
station as rapidly as possible. Thi
was the tale of the Chinese, and al
though for a couple of hours Attorne,
hi h..
not whit, reiterating emphatically tn
details, identifying his assailant s.
positively that there was no chance o
n mistake.
There was little more testimon
needed for the prosecution. Deput
Sheriff Chillingworth told of going t
the scene of the robbery and Their
finding the blood covered stone whic
- Kane had used on his victim ThI
weapon he produced in court. He toll
- also of the capture of the man as h
was driving a second time TantaIus
wards with another Chinese jehl
seemingly bent on a repetition of hi
of1ense. -Four witnesses, all of whol
knew Kane very well, told of seem
him in Tong Sings hack halfway u
the mountain a short time before tt
IoppSry look place. mus the web
a evidence was woven about him, ar
satisfied, the prosecution rested A
~ torney Gear had little chance for h
%. client 1t would have been worse tina
useless to put him on the stand and
he had no witnesses who could hay
proven that Kane was anywhere ell
but in Tong Sings hack he put in /
testimony.
The result was therefore a foregoi
conclusion when the case was given
the jury, and that body was out on
! long enough to fill in a blank verdi
( and admit of it's being signed by Il
foreman. In two minutes the jury r
turned with a verdict of guilty. Sc
tence VIII be pronounced by Judge s
- Imam this morning at 10 o'clock.
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