The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-08
NAKAMURA
WAS NOT HELD
Jury in the Tono Case Did
Not Believe the
Boy.

VINO struck the Japanese woman To-
no. on The head and caused her death .
The coroner's jury, which has been
hearing evidence in the case for two
DAYS, reached a verdict yesterday aft
ernoon, in which they express their
dorbts as to the exact cause of death
but lay cloud upon the husband of
the deceased woman. The evidence of
Tono's little boy given on Tuesday
which implicated Nakamura as being
the one who struck Tono was not be-
| lieved by the jury. There was no cor
reborative testimony. while the evil
dence of the husband, Matsuogi. was as
thin as smoke. Matsuogrs sole defense
was that he lost his senses that day."
and couldn't remember a single cir
Sheriff and the coroner's jury left his
house. After that his mind seemed to
| have become clear again. He stated
positively that he was sitting in back
room when Nakamura and family came
to the front door, and that he was still
! in the rear room when his wife fell to
the floor, dead. The coroner's jury ar
rived at the following verdict:
That the woman, Tono came to her
death at Honolulu on August l from
hemorrhage of the brain caused by a
blow at the hands of some person to
J the jury unknown" The jurors were
]. Shaw, G. Macy, A Buchanan, C. A.
Fox, j. J. Mcdonald and Albert Lucas.
| The jury purposely stated that it
was person and not persons whom
| they believed was guilty of Tono'S
death. Nakamura, who was supposed
| to have had hand in her death &C
cording to the testimony given by To-
nos little son, was on the stand yester
day. He told a straightforward story
of his connection with the affair. He
| had gone to the front door of the Mat
suogi rooms, together with his wife
and boy. He asked Matsuogi why the
latter had not told him of the difficulty
between the sons of the two men. Ma
kamura said he would have punished
| his own son himself rather than that
! he should have been thrashed by Mat
suogi He was talking with Matsuogi
when Tono came into the room from
| the rear one, and after inquiring what
| the quarrel was about suddenly wheel
| ed and fell to the floor lifeless. He was
not in reach of her at the time. His
testimony was corroborated by that of
| his wife and one or two other Japan
csc who were near by. Matsuogi stout
ly claimed he was not in the front
room, but in the rear one. Tono's boy
said he saw Nakamura strike his moth
err three times with his fist, which
| statement was ultimately taken by
the jury with grain of salt.
| Nakamura's wife stated that she had
spoken with Tono after the boys quar-
rel Tono was leaning out of an up
stairs window She said her husband
was drunk and was then quite quarrel
some and wanted to fight. The jury
looked upon this statement as prob
able solution of the mystery. In ar
! irving at the verdict this circumstance
| was considered as being of special sig
nificsnce. Whether Matsuogi struck
| his wife a blow on the head with his
/ fist after she told Nakamura's wife
i that he was drunk, is not known to
the jury 1t was their theory that art
| er this blow Tono was able to move
about until the excitement few min
utes later when Nakamura, his wire
and son, presented themselves at the
door, caused a rush of blood to her
head, causing hemorrhage due to the
/ blow she had received.
& Matsuogis story and that OF MS BOY
were believed to be falsehoods pure ana
: simple, and did more to clear Nakanu-
4 "a OF the implication cast upon MIN
than any other circumstance connected
5 with the case