The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-02-11
JAMES AND HIS
BIG FEET

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worked up and he began looking for
big negro with big feet.
He discovered James who seemed to
fit the case so far as size and feet were
concerned. Doyle discovered mat he
had come here several months ago;
that he had worked for time for the
Hawaiian Tramways Company and
had been discharged for holding out
money belonging to the company; that
prior to the robberies he had been
without money to speak of and had
borrowed small sums here ami there;
but that Immediately after the robbery
of the Chinese store he had displayed
considerable sums of money, more tnan
a hundred dollars at a time, and other
wise shown an affluence that mis- in
dustry did not seem to merit Doyle
found where he had spent and lost at
craps nearly $4,000 in the aggregate.
When all these circumstances had
been discovered, Doyle arrested the
man. Before going to the police sta
ton, James asked the privilege of
changing his clothes. Doyle acceded 20
the request, but when he had taken off
his shoes, Doyle did not let the chang
ing of raiment go any further, but took
him at once to the station. The shoes
that he took off were presented
before the jury for comparison with
the footprint on the pillow made at
the pavilion on Pacific Heights. The
two fitted each other perfectly. The
Chinese storekeeper on Beretania street
identified James as the man who rob-
bed and assaulted him. and pistol
which Doyle found in James room was
picked out by this Chinaman from
among about twenty, as the one with
which he was assaulted The Japanese
and his wife who were robbed on Paci-
fic Heights identified him as the man
who had assaulted and robbed them.
This morning James took the witness
stand in his own behalf. He said that
on the night of January 49, he was at
the house of Mr.. and Mrs. Lancaster
from shortly after o'clock in the ev.
ening until after 10 o'clock, and that
from then on till midnight he was
down town most of the time near g.
lunch cart which was operating on the
street.
On cross examination he claimed that
when he came here he had about $3.50;
that he went to work three or four
days after he arrived here; that he had
had no money but that which he
brought here and which he had earned
since his arrival; that the money he
brought here was spent before Christ
mas. He admitted borrowing small
sums several times from bartenders
and others, and that these borrowings
were after he had spent the money
with which he arrived. He denied that
he had held out change from the Tram
ways company, but that he had been
short once ten dollars because he had
lost a ten dollar gold piece out of his
pocket, but that he had afterwards
made it good to the company.
In confederation of his alabi, Mr..
Lancaster, an elderly colored man,
took the stand and testified that some
time about the middle of the month of
January, he couldn't give the dav of
/ the monthsnor the day of the week eX-
cept that it was either Monday, Tues
1 day, or Wednesday, James who had
called on previous occasions, called al
his house and remained from soon al
/ ter I o'clock in the evening until ten
minutes or a quarter after 10 o'clock.
He said that on this occasion James
was gotten up very fine as regarded
apparel, had on patent leather shoes,
low cut. When it came to describe the
other garments of mis- attire, Mr.. Lam
caster was not so specific. He was ask
ed if they were the same ones that the
defendant wore in the court. He re-
piled that he did not think they were
and created some merriment in which
the judge and jury joined by saying
that the trousers We're more like those
Chester Doyle had on.
This constituted the defendants tes-
timony.
In rebuttal Attorney General An
drews, who is conducting the case
called Manager Pain of the TramWays
who testified that James went to worf
for the Tramways company about Sep
TENDER ~. That on October he wa.
short in his change ten dollars claiming
that some one had stolen it from his
pockets. Pain said he didn't take any
stock in the story at the same time
he couldn't disprove it, and so kept the
man on at work and gradually got re-
stitution from him, the final paymen
being sometime in November. Very
soon after that, November IA, James
was given so change and started GU
to relieve another driver Instead OF
relieving the other driver he went away
and played craps, and finally wher
Pain rounded him up he had only S3.2;
of the $40 left. Thereupon Pain dis
charged him and at the same time or
dered him off the company's premises
though as his rent for his little cottage
on the company's premises was moi
quite up he did not leave for a day OF
two and during that time some money
Pain suspected him of stealing.
Further in rebuttal the Territory
called young Lancaster who testified
that very soon after the robbery of the
Chinese store, on Beretania street
James had displayed a large sum of
? money, mostly in gold and amounting
to nearly 500 in his sisters room, say
ing at the time that it had been sent
TO him by his mother.
/ A large number of other witnesses
We're called in rebuttal to show the
times when and the places where
James had displayed money subsequent
to the robberies while according to his
own testimony the money he brought
| with him had long before been spent,
and he had had none but what he had
earned, very small amount, and the
/ triiiing sums he had borrowed.
The case was given to the jury and
after a short deliberation James was
found guilty.
The court sentenced the defendant to
serve II years at hard labor.