The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-15

| saw no one rushing on the old man.
so 1 didn't want to hurt anybody
:, Who fired the first two shots? ''
Captain Spencer
Did you see anybody falI?"
Yes: saw Japanese fall"
How many shots We're fred,
don't know. We all shot. and then
spencer said, Stop firing"
spinner then went into details about how
/ ing.
| CAPTAIN SPENCER'S FRIEND
! When the defence commenced to ex-
anime the witness there was little bus
ne OF excitement among the spectators
Many or the crew of the bark Ceylon
including the mate were present and thav
ctahed their neeks 70 allow their ears to
catch every word. 1t was indeed an in
ltelesuilS cross-examination and several
uh-es II was necessary for the court off,
] Ger 70 rap on his desk for order. so fire.
qCtht We're the audible smiles INDUCED in
/ as the clever defending lawyer handled
the witness for the prosecution.
fHst spinner was asked If he had any
lli-wiii, grudge, bad-feeling or anirnus
AGAINST Captain Spencer. Spilner declar-
/ ed. that he had not and swore that he had
Always Deen Spencer's firm friend and
was his friend now
Kinney produced letter written nv
Spinner from Laysan Island after CAPTAIN
/ Spencer had left. The letter was address
Cd 70 Dr. Ayerdanl, manager of the Pacific
Guano and Fertilizer Company. and was
written in German. An English trans
iaton was also in the possession of the
attorneg. He handed Spinner the original
and, reading from the type-written trans
llation, aloud, bade Spinner to follow him
and see If the translation was correct
Spilnsr did as he was told and swore that
the translation was correct
/ The letter which Spinner wrote TO Aver
dam, after describing the wreck of the
McNear, the condition of things on the
island at the time and various other mat
tiers, goes on to speak of Captain Spencer
as drunkard, a man incapable of dis
charging his duties as manager of Lay
san Island, man who was altogether too
easy with the Japanese, one who was
losing money daily for the company and a
man who treated the Japanese better than
he did the Germans on the island The
Germans are Spinner. the engineer and
the carpenter After telling DR.. Aver
dam, in a friendly spirit, all these
things against the captain Spinner, in his
letter, intimates that he, Spinner is thor
loughly capable of taking care of mat
tiers on the island himself and that, in the
event of Captain Spencer not returning,
he would like to have his wife go down
to the island. II Spencer was coming
back, however, he didn't want his wife
!
rs that the kind of a letter friend
would writer" asked Kinney.
why, yes. 1t is the truth. / an his
friend, too
AVERDAMS REPLY.
Have you the letter which Dr. Aver
dam sent you in reply TO this?"
"Yesl Here it is"
/ Kinney read it aloud. 1t advised Spilner
to try and gain the confidence of Captain
Spencer to remember that he was only
a luna on Laysan Island and that it was
not his business to criticise or interfere
with his superiors
For about thirty minutes after this
Kinney kept up a rapid fire of pertinent
Questions. The witness frequently con-
tradcted himself and showed by his tes-
itimony Notwithstanding his assertion con-
corning friendship" that he entertained
considerable animus against the prisoner
He repeated on cross-examination that
Tanaka had warned him of the threats OF
the Japanese, swore that he fired the shots
frcn his revolver in the air and, admit
ting that Captain Spencer was kind and
brave man, said that he, too, was brave
man. He objected strenuously to Spencer
having on several occasions given Tanaka
a drink of whiskey in the morning be-
fore work when he, Spinner, received none
He said he understood when he went dowr
10 Laysan Island that there was plenty
of liquor there. Incidentally, he had sai(
lin his letter TO Ayerdam that there wa
altogether too much drinking on the isl
r and He said that Spencer had like'
him trusted him and treated him we'll
with the exception of not treating hin
to whisky as he did Tanaka.
The case continues on Monday
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