The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-08
JAP ANESE
HAS PLEA
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I IouT NAiuSS d ddy- Inc HFSt three DAYS
latter We left Astoria the captain treat
| ed the boy all right. but after that the
/ bad treatment increased until it ended
bin the killing. Yes. there was a fixed
Etinae for these abuses. always at lunch
! time. dinner and breakfast / guess
the boy complained of being cruelty
| treated twenty-four of five times The
captain would hold him by the hand
and treat him cruelty. The defendant
| was cleaning lamp in the stern of
| the ship one day, when the captain
| approached, and the defendant showed
| him some waste, which was blackened
by the cleaning, and wanted some more.
The captain declined to give it and 1
saw him strike the defendant in the
| back. One of the sailors knows that
| too, IL was him (pointing out II. For
tune). He also told me that the cap
| tain hit him II the shoulder with his
! fist. didn't see that.
"On the third day after leaving port
| the boy complained to me about his
| work. He ought only to keep the cap
tafn's room properly arranged, but the
captain made him clean the rooms OF
| the first and second mates too. This
was not part of his duty, and he diu
not like the increased work. Then he
said the captain and his wife called
him away from work and started him
on something else. Then there was
trouble, too, about the lamp. The cabin
boy was sent for new wick for the
compass light. and when he brought it
to the captain, the captain struck him
in the back; the captain also caught
his suspender and showed him on some
boxes. Then he complained that the
captain and his wife would always find
spots for him to clean up, and would
get on the floor just to find the dirt
for him to clean away"
The witness said he had not talked
with the defendant since the time the
boy had been put in irons, and he had
been locked in the store room. He
said he had no chance to speak on the
way to the shore, and once he asked
the boy how he cut his thumb, and
the white man who talked JAPANESE
Doyle) told the boy not to talk.
This closed the morning session, and
the witnesses were placed under bonds
of $500 each. The Jap, Otto. was given
into the custody of Deputy Marshal
Handy without bail
AFTERNOON SESSION.
ION the day the captain was killed"
the Jap resumed, at the opening of
the afternoon session, ST got up att
four o'clock in the morning, and the
defendant got up at $3.50 and prepared
coffee, while started to get fish ready
for the men. The boy took coffee to
the watchman and the mate, and about
4:30 O'Clock to the captain. / don't
know what took place there, I was not
present. After that the boy went back |
to sleep in his room, after spending
some time in the galley. Pretty soon
the captain came down the stairs, and |
went through the donkey room, asking |
me for the boy. I did not see the boy
get from his bunk. He, the captain, /
came In and said, How are you this
and I answered Very well, |
thank you Then he talked with me
about the bin of fare, some sweet soup I
he wanted made. told him had lots of /
experience in cooking, but had never
heard of that, and asked for his cook
book. He didn't have any, he said,
but showed me how to make sweet
soup, with raisins and apples. I had
no complaint against the captain.
Then the captain went above, and
pretty soon called me, You know
where Tom is?' I say boy in bunk
asleep, and captain said Tell boy to
come in cabin right away 1 walked
boy, he went Immediately to captain
without saying word, and he started
up, and at the foot of the stairs was
net by the captain. 1 was in at the
able making bread, with my face tow
ards the forecastle and away from
hem. The captain showed and struck
defendant, grabbed the defendant byl
he left arm and showed him back.
Then he said Hurry up and 1 saw
him strike the boy seven or eight times.
rhe boy said nothing and after that
vent to the captains room. He never
said anything to me when he camel
pack, but sat on box OF oranges. In Il
hree or four minutes the captain ar Ii
lived: he came down the ladder and at {
he entrance between donkey room and c
galley, the captain saw the boy, and !
aid Come. He grabbed the defend !
int by the arm with his right hand. I
md stood him up and said come on
pulling him along. the boy followed the
aptain into the junction between gal
ey and donkey ROOM, and then 1 heard
he captain call Meyer Meyer, Meyer
hree times, I turned around them and
aw the captain and boy grabbing
old Of each others hands, and fight
ng, and 1 ran up stairs calling for the
nate, and said: Captain and boy trou- !
lie. you come quick then / went 20 ;
captains wife and say Captain and :
oy trouble, and she said: All and Z
ried out II
WAS the captains wife in tears 1
sked the United States attorney. c
Il didn't have time to see that was 8
he reply.
why aid she cry? Did you tell her !
bout the stabbing?"
II didn't tell any one about the stab
ing. tried to separate them by pull r
lg the defendant, 1 saw no sharp in u
trurnent, so 1 told second mate 4
WAS the captain in DANGER
No
WAS the boy in danger?"
No
why did you tell the second mate =
len2"
The captain ordered me and 1 went
, report when he called. 1 didn't stay
acause 1 was weaker than the boy and
aptain.' s.
WAS there danger them" p
mo, if there had been danger, 1 o
-ould have run away. 1 pulled the o