The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-07
OTTO THE COOK
GETS MIXED
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him on the ships log as being given at
the inquest held by the mate on the
schooner after the murder
DR. Cofer's description of his autopsy
states that he made the same at 1890
D. m. on August 6. \ circular wound
three quarters of an inch to an inch
i'm width and two and three quarters
of an inch in depth at the lowest point
was found i'm the right groin. The te-
moral vessels were severed and the
wound was sufficient to have caused
death i'm a short dime.
S. OTTO was called to the stand and
sworn. He was examined in Japanese
and the same Interpreted OTTO admit
ted that he was cook on the schooner,
but was very guarded in his replies
HE did not, he said, remember the
killing, but remembered the fight be-
between the captain and the cabin boy
He was carefully dressed in American
clothes very spruCely. He stated that
he could not say positively whether
there had been any cruelty from the
captain to the boy, but that the boy
had charged the captain with cruelty.
He said that the captain had made tn"
boy start work at 4 o'clock in the
morning in his cabin, cleaning the floor
. 1
said Otto, the boy was always with the
/ captain. / did not see | have no COM
/ plant against the captain" The
/ point was finally brought out that
! the boy complained that the captain
! found fault with his work, sending
/ him for buckets of water ad libitum.
7 The defendant had told him that he
would not be bossed by the captain and
wanted the cook to quit the ship with
him on it's arrival in China; that he
/ had been shut in the cabin by the cap
! tain and his Wife, who had insulted the
! japanese Emperor and beaten him.
| This was all Information at second
/ hand, Oto FASTENED to add but the boy
/ had complained three or four times a
day. THE first three days Of the voy-
age the captain had been very kind, but
his harsh usage had gradually increas-
ed. The boy had actually been ill
treated" Otto said, when pinned down
! to actual occasions by the District At
| tOrney, during every meal time" \ re-
| cess was taken for ten minutes while
Interpreter Farb0ttle found out wheth-
err he could act further or not,
Resuming Oto thought that the de-
PENDANT had told him twenty-four Oh
five times that the captain had held
him by the hand and cruelty treated
him. Once the defendant had beer
cleaning the pinnacle lamp and haC
asked the captain for new waste which
had been declined. II saw the captain
said Otto. STRIKE him in the back" He
identified Fortune as a sailor who saw
this happen Fortune stood up and sa
down saving, ut was not So"
Commissioner Gill, tired Of the wit
ness's procrastination, ordered him t,
answer directly to the question wheth
err the captain had beaten him Tn,
; answer was YES, by the fist. The cap
tain ordered the boy always to do hi
work several times over once the cap
tain complained that the water in
bucket was dirty and that the buckle
5 was dirty finally striking the boy, ii
seems to me. on the shoulder" As tn
= witness added that the boy did not te
him where he was beaten and that h
e was not an eyewitness, Mr.. Brcckon
asked him how. he knew it was tn
/. shoulder. and OTTO could merely repl
that he thought ii must have been tn
6 shoulder
The witness had never, prior to tn
killing seen the CAPTAIN strike the DO,
This was one plain statement. but III
witness was bv this time periurin
himself under Breclons' cross-examI
alton as II seemed to an who heard II
- examination. and getting deeper in II
miro with every reply. His answer
=" were constantly evasive.
Oto eyDlained thar the captain Ia
= made the cabin bow do more than II
dutv in ordering him ia clean up Il
Is rooms of the MAZE. That M 10 the er
of the third dav everything was q
l. right but he had after that be,
made TO do more than he possib
rouId finish mn satisfactorily.
SneciaIIv the witness remember
une complaint about the bucket OF "
ter the third dav Out. told him by Il
cabin bow. and again on the nth d,
concerning the cleaning of the binnac
riebt "Tba cantain' said the wines
struck the boy in the back as he w
bringing him the lamp for the compa
at seven in tbe evening" He add,
that the caDtain sent TO the cabin f
waste. 81 saw this when | was stan
ing by the foremost"
In firgl telling this story OTTO had sa
=. that the bov had asked for waste an
been refused The story that he, stan
ing at the foremost at seven in Il