The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-12-21

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Ire putstiun ever to take such risk. He
ne yer uisUbeyed a rue aud was strict
as TO discipline.
There is one more thing gentlemen,
that I would like to voluntarily say,
win the permission OF MIR. Chilling
worth. Mr.. Bennett. as long az | knew
him and during all my association with
him, never In my hearing, spike an un-
hlnd word Of any human being"
TESTIMONY OF SOLDIERS.
\ number of officers ana private sol
diers, being paced on the witness stand
itysuned to the strict temperance and
the universal popularity ut Bennett.
Ralph Ii. Jones, steward OF the dis
pensary stated that Bennett had never,
40 las KnowIeuge been inside the door
Cf the dispensdry and had never applied
for drugs there. Also that 1t Wouid
nave been impossible for the small
Quantity of morphine in stock TO have
been appropriated by any one without
Ibis knowledge.
Corporal G. H. Scott knew Bennett
and had frequently seen him with Mrs.
'lOttmann and other ladies' but usually
with Mrs. Ottmann. They often sat on
the stone wall in front of Ottmann's
lplace In the evenings. He had seen
Renrett down town walking with dif-
ferent ladies that he did not know.
|
n blonde lady OF % or 26, who had with
her a little girl of OF 4. Mrs. Ottmann,
n Miss Fricke and some other ladies'
lhad occasionally driven into the camp
to see Bennett.
Sergeant NJ. o. Cramer knew Ben
nett quite well. Often went with him,
at BENEFITS invitation, to the Grpheum
theater. Never saw him drink. One
time in passing Ottmann'S place he re-
marked to Bennett that Ottmann must
be doing well to make 80 many i'm
provements. Bennett said 1t was his
money that the improvements were
made with. Cramer said 1t must have
cost a good deal. and Bennett said he
had loaned Ottmann $500.
| once he and another soldier had met
Bennett in Ottmann's late at night
They played cards but Bennett would
not join them. They had a drink of
beer and Bennett refused to drink with
item. The second time they drank he
took glass but only touched 1t to his
lips. The last time he saw Bennett was
! he night before they said he killed him
self-Thursday night
! He came along in the afternoon, and
asked Cramer II he could get off that
night. and he told him no; he was on
guard. Bennett went away and he did
not see him again.
Corporal Bruce Hartman had been
Intimately acquainted with Bennett
since last March. Bennett was not
drinking man and was always in his
quarters early, as rule. One morning
about o'clock he had met him in OFT
mans He was talking to Mrs. Ott-
mann and there We're two Shasta water
bottles on the table. Mrs. Ottmann had
made lemonade and they had all drank
them. He knew Mrs. Ottmann was
very friendly with Mr.. Bennett. He did
not think Mr.. Bennett was in love with
Mrs. Ottmann but had reason to know
that Mrs. Ottmann was in love with
Bennett Had often seen her coming
to see him. and on one occasion when
he was in the park he had seen Mr..
Bennett leave the Ottmann place. walk
ing slowly up the road through the
park. A few moments later Mrs. ott-
mann drove hurriedly out Of the gate
and followed him. When she overlook
him they both were very much excited
and he made gestures for her to go
back. Hartman could not hear, but he
saw Bennett pointing back and he
seemed excited, which was an unusual
thing for one of his quiet manner.
Bennett had never told him about be-
ing in love with any woman. He was
rot that kind OF man. If he had been
he would not have told It, and Bennett
was not the kind of man one would ask
about his private affairs. Bennett told
as much as he chose, and then quit.
That was his way.
He had often heard Bennett tele-
phoning, ard knew that Clara Schnei-
der called him up nearly every day for
a long time before her death. He rec
ognized her voice because he had seen
her at Waikiki He frequently took
messages over the telephone from her
to Bennett, for the most part asking
him to come TO see her. She did not
say where. After getting the messages
Bennett would go out through the Off
cers' gate, and he didn't see where he
went. !
Privates Shupp and Snyder We're call +
ed but told nothing of interest. Suyder
had hunted for coral in front of the
with two others had been there on
Thursday for the same purpose.
OTTMANN ON THE STAND.
w. j. C. OttmNnn swore he had never
borrowed money from Frank Bennett. |
Fe had once asked him when he was
compelled to live bond for $1,000 when |
arrested. to go his bail, but Bennett |
said he had not that much money. He |
had built the addition to his pace on
his own hook and had never gotten a
cent from Bennett. AS to Bennett put
ting up money for Ottmann's wife's
expenses in the Queens Rosnital, it
was not so. He had seen Bennett but
rce since his wife was sent to the hos
pital
Ottmann repeated his statements that
Bennett had drunk liquor with him at
beNeral Sa oOnS ana named tne SdluoHS
and the bartenders who served them
with drinks. Ottmann said Bennett
had treated him coolly since the day
before election, November 5, when he
had reproved Bennett for trying to
commit suicide In his resort at Waikiki.
Ottmann denied using morphine when
asked by Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth
II he had not done so to deaden the
pain OF headaches He had given
Stearns' tablets to Bennett several
times. Bennett kept a box OF them at
Ottmann's resort
Ottmann had told on Tuesday OF Ben
nett attempting to take poison at his
place on November and when Chill
iingworth asked him II he had given
Bennett headache powders that night
he denied II. He said that far from
borrowing money from Bennett 10 build
his addition, he stlll owed for part OF