The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-09
THE MURDER ON
SCHOONER WOOD
TANBARA sWEARs HIMSELF INTO
GRAVE PERIL OF THE
GALLOWS.
CONTRADICTS HIMSELF AND ALL
OTHER WITNESSES.
He is Held to Answer for Murder and
Kept Under Constant watch In the

In three-quarters of an hours cross
examination this morning Tanbara Gil
saburo made a number Of statements
that are not unlikely to send him to
the galloWs. He will go to trial facing
a record full of his own glaring con-
tradictiuns under oath. Commissioned
Gill ordered him held without bail, to
answer for murder, and said that in his
opinion there was evidence enough to
warrant a charge against Otto as an ac-
cessOry.
81 grabbed the captain and withdrew
the knife from the wound"
Il took the knife from the cooks
hand"
"The captain came and held me and
struggled with me after the cook stab
bed him."
"The captain said, Boy, take. the
knife and picked it up"
"The cook told me he had thrown the
knife overheard"
"The second mate took the knife
away from me, aud cut my hand in do
ing so. l let go as soon as he took hold
and did not resist"
These are some of the results of
District Attorney BreckOns' CrOss-eX-
animation of Tanbara on his yester-
days statement of what took place on
the schooner Fred j. Wood when the
captain of the vessel lost his life. The
cook sat and watched Tanbara intently
while the latter told how he had seen
the cook stab the captain, first on the
face and then in the body. At one time
Tanbara said that the cook withdrew
the knife, at another time that he left
it in the wound. Throughout all, it was
admitted that when the captain fell
down with a death wound he was en-
gagged in a death struggle with Tanba-
ra, and that Tanbara had the knife in
his hand. He will try to convince
jury that he got into that position by
running to help the captain after the
mate had done the murder
Tanbara said that the captain stood
by the oven when the cook attacked
him. He, Tanbara, went to separate
them. my object was to grab the cook
and separate them, but the captain was
larger and the cook slipped away. The
captain and 1 tussled and one of the
crew came and threw me down. 1 still
mad the knife when he threw me down
The captain was holding me, because he
had been cut"
"Why did you grab the knife?"
Because 1 thought it was danger
ous," said Tanbara. At another time
he testified that the captain said, Boy
take the knife"
ue CdUlll DOy uGCldlG Gu IlltbI lhC cap
tain had always treated him we'll.
There had never been any trouble at all
on the schooner, with him, said the al
legged murderer denying all OtO's stor-
les about ill-treatment of the boy. He
never struck me or kicked me at all"
Tanbara said that he had never told
anyone that the cook had done the
murder. He knew that he was held a
prisoner charged with the murder, but
he had said nothing about the cooks
guilt. He had thought that when the
proper time came he could speak and
all would be well.
The only time Tanbara had ever de-
MED the crime, according to his testi-
mony, was when the captains wife
struck him and threatened to kill him.
When Breckons made a test, however,
the Jap failed to show he could say in
English what he declared he had said
to Mrs. Jacobson.
II said to her in English, I did not
assail your husband, and you going to
kill me-" said Tanbara.
Say ii again, in English now," said
Breckons.
Tanbara didn't seem able to do it. He
said, "You killa me-" several times and
then talked Japanese. He finally got
as much as You shoot pistol you killa