The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-07
BOY TELLS
OF. TACK
Son of Tono Says
Maximum is
Guilty.
WOMAN WAS HIT
THREE TIMES
Evidences Of an Assault Found by
Autopsy physicisn-Verdict
is Withheld.

is Withheld.
On the evidence of a n-year-old
boy the fate of Nakamura, a japanese
| connected with the sudden death or
Tono on Monday, is held in the bal
ance. Under dramatic circumstances
the little fellow the son of the Japan
csc woman who was at first supposed
to have died from heart disease, told a
story yesterday afternoon at the coro-
ner's inquest in which he charges Ma
kamura with being the cause of his
! mothers death Thus far he is the
only one who has appeared before the
| jury to state that he saw the blows
| given that ended his mothers life. Be
fore coming to the police station yes
| terday the little fellow had kept his
knowledge to himself, being too scar
ed to tell anybody except Chester
| Doyle, the Japanese interpreter. The
| boy did not tell his father, so he stat
ed under oath, of what he had seen
| the instant before Tono died, because
he had no chance to do So
The woman, Tono, was the wife OF. a
Japanese named Matsuogi. Their little
son, who testified yesterday, and the
son of japanese named Nakamura,
had a quarrel Monday afternoon. Ma
| kamura's son struck Tono's boy on the
head. Matsuogi was informed of the
fight and thrashed Nakamura's son.
Later, Nakamura, his wife and the
boy, went to Matsuogi's rooms on King
street, near Liliha, and it was then
| that Tono, after hearing of the fight
was supposed to have fallen to the
| floor dead.
Matsuogi, the husband of Tono, was
evidently playing part while before
the jury His one plant when asked
a question which he desired to eVade,
was Il don't know; / lose my senses.
He denied absolutely having seen
! Deputy Sheriff Chillingwortn at his
house at $50 o'clock Monday after
noon, with the coroner's jury. de dld
not remember having assisted the dep
uty in measuring off distances in the
room. or of telling him what he knew
of the case at that time. he SAID ne
could not identify him. When the
deputy put him to the test for ldentl-
flcation, Matsuogi proved himsen
worthy second to Ananias. 1t is eVl-
dent that he desires to place hinseH
in the background as far as giving
direct testimony is concerned, Willch
would lead to the implication OF Naka-
n,1ra in the death of Tono, although II
was apparent that he desires TO place
the blame on him if the testimony 10
that effect can come from others
or o.
ahsoIutaIv that he saw Nakamura HIT
his mother on the head three times
with his fist, and that she theh re-,
\ to the floor. He said he was so star 'let
'. that he could only cry out, put MAJ ~,
no call for assistance. When ms
mother was falling Haidlo says ND
s1ogi came into the room from rear
government lust in time to see her
stretched out upon the floor. Wheii
asked nv Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth
yyhv ne had not told hi1n OF THIS I'M
portant circumstance when thal o,,iI =,
was on the premises making an oiliel o
investigation, Haidio said he dlu no'
know that the deputy was poiiceIii a. -
He said he had not told his latheI oS
&c +be latter had gone away, ana
in the night time he had not slept anu
vac away from his father. AS ms
father did not ask him what ne n'iu
seen when Nakamura came iilo ~.
r,o+bar's room Haidio said ne hdu NO.
: thonob+ RI fell him of it He salc he
baa talked with no one about the case
| ar-ceDt TO Chester Doyle. Whom ne
tnew 70 be a police officer. Io MN lie
FIRST made known the fact thal Mana
mura had struck Tono. .rore
THE inquest was conducted oeLole
Denntv Sheriff Cnillingworth, as cor
} 80 and 7 Shaw, G.. Macy, A. BucLaii-
an q n Fox. ]. ]. Mcdonald ana "a
Imeas roroner's jury. The first witness
ca1Ied was DR.. ]. T. McDonaiu' WI" WIN
rels+ad the results of the post-nnoi t IN
axamination held Monday night Tx
hodv was in a perfectly heaithy -
dition No external marks OF Vloienrt
IVere observed. and he MADE 'iiol t,'its.,
a,1a,,,tnotion of the skull. He say thel'
Uas no fracture and apparently ~
,onnd on the outside of the scalp. ~
nar+ed The hair all over the heau II
aTdar to satisfy himself that no "oul5>
wis+ad His first discovery was ilIeu
- Tho scaln was laid open CNe
the right parietal bone on the lnsAuG =
~ scaIn was found a circular sP-t
On irreoYl1ar bruise about an liicl a. =
. bolf in diameter. 1t was ulscol 80 ~
j, 80 stnyvad II was the result OF pioN
hut from what cause he Ola hot ~ -,
= ~ NAV have been the result oL -
- or have been caused by d SUI SUI
80 intact in falling.( The doctor az
po,Ind a bemorrhage in the oraIii' ~
I1.o,,,oa vos fresh one, and was pioo
obIv made by a heavy. but nol SIC !ara
biao. He had handed over the So 10,
- - a,d liver to DR.. Shorey, tiie
a,nroent chemist, for examlna.loi,.