The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-12

why, no; we would be very foolish
to go armed when all We wanted was
some food. We did not want to fight.
The above are only few of the ques-
tions and answers up to this point in
the direct examination. The little Jap
anese was never guilty of answering
question directly, but required several
questions on the same point before he
would give an answer. He spoke care
fully and, judging from his gestures,
with great precision.
A SAMPLE ANSWER
What. time was it when the shooting
took pIace?" continued the High Sher-
iff.
"It was at night"
What time of the night?'
About Clark"
WAS it dark when the shooting took
placer"
Not so very dark"
How far could you-see?"
| only just in 'front.'
Then it was just beginning to get
dark when the shooting took placer"
1T was not long after the sun had
| set
What occurred after the shooting,
after the japanese had run away to
their quarters?"
"Tanaka came and told the japanese
/ to stay in their quarters or the white
men might kill them ALL
! Afterwards Goto was carried to the
I bark Ceylon and put aboard, where he
died two days after being shot. He
was buried on the Island. High Sheriff
/ Brown here turned the witness over to
, the attorneys for the defense.
CROSS EXAMINATION.
Attorney Kinney started on a very
thorough and lengthy cross examina-
ton of Higuchi Shire shortly after IL
! n n 10
How long had you been in these
Islands before you went to Laysan Is
| land?" asked Kinney.
| About four years"
| What were you doing?
| Working on plantations"
"Where?"
"At Waimanalo."
What was your number at Wanna
nalo?"
Two hundred and one"
Did you hear anything about a
change in the government of Hawaii af-
fecting the Japanese laborers on Lay
san Island?'
No; nothing of the kind"
| rs it not so that the Japanese who
went to Laysan Island this last time
took the news of Hawaii becoming a
Territory of the United States, and that
the japanese who went from here told
the laborers on Laysan Island that they
any more on the Island?"
Il didn't hear any talk ABOUT that at
all"
Then you heard no talk about labor
contracts being made void by the ap-
plication of American laws here?'
L heard no talk like that
Il .Didn't any of the twelve Japanese
who arrived at Laysan on the Ceylon
say anything about the change of laws
and the effect on the contract SYSTEM
Il heard no one say anything about
the change"
FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD.
"On the day of the shooting did the
Japanese have flag raised on top OF
their house,"
Yes"
What was the significance of that
!: fiag?"
1T was a Japanese holiday"
What was the holiday for?''
"A festival for the dead
Were the Japanese banging on pots
and kettles, and makingla great noise?'
Il heard noise"
Were the japanese wrestling among
| themselves"
Yes"
WAS this all in celebration of the
; dead?"
Yes"
"Were any of the japanese picking ur
things and hurting them to the ground
again?"
Il don't know about that"
: Then the flag and the banging or
the kettles, and the wrestling, and Other
/ things were all in celebration Of the
dead, or of somebody you thought wa:
Y going to die-which?"
tt THE Japanese wrestle and do these
other things on their holidays"
Then your actions had no signif-
canoe to the boss or any of the white
men, or had nothing to do with your
intentions toward them?"
1T was all in the celebration OF the
festival of the dead
when is this japanese holiday"
"On the 18th of August in the Japan
csc calendar. In the English calendar
it is the 18th of August"
Spinner WOULD BE BOSS.
In the cross-examination of Higuch
Shire it was shown that Captain
Spinner, formerly of the Honolulu
: mounted police patrol, had Informed
the witness just after Captain Spencer
lhad left for Honolulu that the Captain
Twas not going to return to Laysan Is
land, and that he, Spinner, was to bt
s the manager for four or five years aftel
r Spencer left. According to the witness
after Spencer had come back, Spilnel