The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-15
MURDER, lsT. DEGREE
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DIR. ALVAREZ.

The witness stated that ABOUT IL p. m.
on Sunday George Rosa came to his
house and asked him to come and see
| his brother, who he said was sick He
| responded and found deceased In bed.
! He noticed blood spots on the mosquito
net, sheet and pillow case Joe Rosa was
I In a condition of stupor. with a temper
allure of 10i and pulse OF 40. His breath
ssneit strongly of liquor. He noticed a
slight scratch on the left temple, but
no flow of blood. Slight scratches were
noticeable on different parts of the body.
Witness administered an injection of
strychnine and then returned home
He noticed that George Rosa's face
was scratched and asked him how it had
come about. Ee was told that he had
received the scratch in a struggle with
his brother Joe. who had tried to kill
his wife. Early the next morning George
came to his house and said that his
brother was dead, and asked for a death
certificate. Witness said that he must
first report the case to the president of
the Board of Health He did So and
later On issued the certificate.
w. KEAwE
Witness. test; fled that last Sunday
morning he went to call at Rosa's house,
and while there asked George how he |
had scratched his head. George replied |
that he had had a fight with Joe He
said that Joe was lying on the bed ap-
pdTtLl&E tSieepr and lidI lner6 were
blood stains on the pillow case. He stay
I'd in the house until he had some words
With George about Mrs. Rosa and then
went away. He thought that Joe was
asleep and asked no questions about the
blood on the pillow case. On Monday |
morning a friend of his. Stephen Maha-
u. told him that Rosa was dead.
THE SON.
Louis Richard Rosa, aged IA. testified
h.. Je1a "a l.; 1
hat last Saturday night his father and
ieorge Rosa had trouble and that Joe |
truck George. His mother told him
hat his father had threatened to beat ,
err. He ran away when the blow was I
truck because he was scared. His faith
r was drunk and his uncle had been
rinking. He did not know what the
ause of the trou..e was. nor did he
ee George strike Joe. When he came
ack the next day his father was in bed |
e thought he was either drunk or sleep !
e. On Monday morning his mother told !
IN that his father was dead. Witness
lid that his father and uncle used to |
It drunk nearly every Saturday night
Id on these occasions generally had
,ht. Once he had heard his father say
George Rosa. TN fix you =
MRS. ROSA. IL
The witness, who was the wife of the =
ad man. stated that they had been =
arried 13 years and that George lived :
tn them On Saturday night the broth y
$ mad trouble and Joe struck George | 7
ter that. George knocked Joe down on :
e lanaRo of their house. The difficulty =
IS over herself Joe rushed to the street 4
d cried haul in" and George went y
20 the house and locked the door. Pres z
tly Joe asked George to let him in, Z
omising to make no trouble George +
him in, and Mrs. Rosa went into the \
har hrrsl or, =
drank together. and after a while =
2 tried to strike his wife, who ran out J.
the mouse and hid in a neiEhbor's r
use. Next mo, ming about o'clock she
urned to the house and found George
IN ms face scratched sitting on the !
ps. Joe was lying on a bed with his +
temple covered with blood. In one
the rooms she found, lying on the
'r, putty knife and compass which Z
re usually kept in canvas bag in an
Ter room Fearing that her husband y
Sht De seized with a fit of violence z
I do some hurt with the articles, she =
* them and secreted them in the yard
len she returned to the house she cali & i
to Joe and he asked for a little wine | y
ich he drank. After a while he want | ~
more, but his wife refused to give 1t -
him. Then he went to sleep. About y
p. m Sunday he frothed a little at =
mouth and DR.. Alvarez was sent for 2
Il
nday morning her husband died She +
that George had said nothing to her -
ut the matter. She had heard George =.
some Of the family on Sunday how =
mad got the scratch on his face =
rye was not jealous of Joe, but Joe ~
mad at him at times and when drunk =
y often quarreled. Witness said that u
husband drank and would not go to Z
* and that George helped the family u
=
GEORGE ROSA NOT CALLED.
90. Rosa was not called, on account of y
charge of murder which was impend- Y
against him. Had he been asked to :
lfy, his attorney, j. Kaulukou, who J.
present at the inquest would GER =
ly have prevented him from saying
thing which might incrimn nate him =
ON the evidence at the inquest it :
5 as If the murder was committed
ng a drunken brawI; part cipated in z
two men who loved one woman. and ;
on that account were insanely teaI- -
Of each other. ~