Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-09
TURNS ON HIS Friend
CABIN BOY ACCUSES
COOK OF The MURDER
SENSATIONAL STATEMENT IN
COURT BY ALLEGED SLAYER
OF CAPTAIN JACOBSEN OF
THE FRED. J. WOOD.


name of the Fred. j. Woods cabin
boy is, yesterday afternoon made the
statement in court he had been so anx.
ious to make from the start OF his pre-.
liminary examination. He showed this
desire when he declined TO cross.ques.
ton witnesses, saying he wanted to
tell his own story. Otto, who tried TO
screen him, was himself charged bv
the boy with the murder.
Commissioner T.. S. Gill, after the
evidence of Otto Kitagawa, cook OF the
vessel, had been completed asked Tan.
bara IL he wanted to make statement.
Il want to know If | am to have
fair trial? Will have a jury trial?'
the prisoner asked.
Mr.. Gill told him he would explain
the position to him. which he forth.
with did in the following remarks to
Tanbara:
You have been arrested under a
complaint signed by II. Meyer, the
first mate of the schooner Fred. }.
Wood. charged with the murder OF the
captain, Jorgen J. Jacobsen, on the
Both day of July, A. d. 1902. Your
present examination has been held be.
fore me as United States Commission.
er. for the purpose of determining whr.
ther you shall be held to answer to an
investigation to be made by a grand
jury concerning the murder of the cap.
tain, and for this purpose only. You
are not on trial for the offense, nor
can any finding made by me determine
In any manner your guilt or innocence.
On this examination the United States
has now finished and con.
cluded its case. There is no law un.
der which you are required now 10
either introduce witnesses or to make
any statement yourself. Further, 1t Ia
not probable that any testimony of
witnesses to be introduced by you, or
any statement made by you, either un.
der oath or not, would change the re.
suit of my finding. further desire to
state to ydN that any statement freely
and voluntarily made by you at this
time may, should the government so
elect, be used against you ON the trial
of your case, should you be indicted
Tor the murder of the captain. On the
other hand, it is my duty to state to
you that you have the right on th's
hearing to have witnesses called TO
testify in your defense, and II is your
right to testify yourself. or to make
nt
these conditions. do you desire to call
any witnesses, or take the stand or
make statement yourself?"
The Prisoners Statement.
Tanbara Gusaburo then made tir
following statement through the inter.
prefer, which he Informed District At.
torney Breckons was free and volrn.
tary. He also insisted on having Otto
in the courtroom while he made
his statement, in which he accuses the
cook of killing Captain Jacobsen:
Il wish to commence telling the
story of the killing OF the captain; be.
on the morning OF the day of
the killing. The killing OF the captain
on Wednesday morning, have seen It.
The row started from a tin of corn
beef and the rice | prepared for the
captain. The captain first told man
by the name Of Kitagawa to prepare a
sweet soup on Wednesday morning.
The cook asked the captain whether
he had any cooking book or not. The
captain said that he had no cooking
book. The captain told the cook that
he would show him how to make the
sweet soup, to get dried apple with
some other thing and then mix them,
put some sage in with the dried apple,
boil them, and then It would become
sweet soup.
THE captain asked the cook, Kita.
gawa, whether he had any dried apple
or not. Kitagawa, the cook, answered
that he had dried apples. The captain
asked the cook to show him where
the dried apples were kept; the cook
showed the captain the place where
the dried apples were kept under the
tabl in the galley. There was can OF
corn beef and tin of rice in that
place.
Where did you get this corn beef
and this tin of rice FROM" asked the
captain.
Il need these things" said the cock.
The captain said to the cook. You
are a thief for taking these things
without permission
you are a thief, too" said the cook
TO the captain. The cook said to the
captain, You promised that you would
pay me forty-five dollars a MONTH"
Since you signed a receipt for for
ty-two dollars, that is the only amount
you are entitled to-" said the captain
to the cook.
The cook said to me captain. 'You
promised to give me forty-five dollars
and now you only want to give forty.
Two dollars. so | cannot but call YOU
horse and deer (baka-this translated
by interpreter literally into horse
and deer" as being the worst form OF
curses and oaths in Japanese Ian.
guage).
Captain said that he would pay the
cook and the boy together the sum of
sixty dollars per month"; cook said to
the captain. You are keeping those
three dollars for your children aren't
yOu?"
At this point the cook was removed
from tha pOlIrt rnOm In order that tho