The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-02
f.. r. BIVEN,
EDMUND NORRIE,
HENRY N. ALMY,
r. c. SCOTT,
D. II. KAHAUAMOKU,
HENRY w. KINNEY.

X. &. SCOTT,
d. H. KAHAUAMOKU,
HENRY w. KINNEY.
| DIR. Wood testified that he had ex-
amined the body of the native, and
death was due to hemorrhage of the
brain caused by concussion. a num-
Der of the small meningeal arteries
were ruptured His arteries were de-
generated and therefore weak. He
stated that the opinion of a number
of physicians was to the effect that
if the deceased had been a younger
man, the blow might not have killed
| him.
The motorman, Dalton, testified that
his car was not going more than four
miles an hour-a smart walk. When
| he brought the car to a stop it was
resting near Richards street, and had
gone about thirty feet after it struck
the native. He had tnken three or
four turns of the brake when the ma
tive was struck. He had not judged
that when the native had fallen upon
the fender, it was necessary to slug"
the car to bring it to an immediate
| stop He had turned the current off
when opposite the Hotel stables. The
motorman said he thought the man
was going to get on the car. The ma
| tive was about four feet from the
track. He hesitated and then did not
seem to wish to board the car. The
motorman did not think the man want
ed to get aboard, and he therefore let
| the car go ahead, and suddenly the
man took step forward. He applied
the brakes with both hands. When the
car came to a stop, the man was lying
alongside it in the street.
I.,I IL. I,,f,- tl,sa
Hotel street stand, testified to having
seen Dalton on an electric car in the
forenoon at the time of the accident.
He was in his hack; he heard car
going toward Waikiki He heard some
one say on the car, Hey. Hey" He
| looked out and saw an old man just
| crossing the street. He did not no.
tice what the motorman was doing.
The gong was being sounded. Then he
heard something strike. Then he saw
a man roll off the fender, and he
thought his coat was caught in the fen
der and he was dragged under the
fender. The old man seemed to come
along in a natural way. He got so
nervous that he ran away from his
hack to the inside of the stable. The
car was going at the usual speed cars
so on Hotel street. He knew the man
was deaf.
Mr.. Ballentyne quizzed the witness.
He was asked whether, while reading
the morning paper as he had stated, he
had seen the car start. Aylett replied
in the affirmative. He said he dropped
his paper when he heard the gong.
He did not see the motorman slow
| down. 1t was only his opinion that
the motorman may not have slowed
down, but he did not know of his own
knowledge.
Mr.. Ballentyne then asked Aylett
questions on a conversation held by
them yesterday morning while cars
We're passing by, comparing the speed
l.of cars. Some of these cars Mr.. Ay-
lett had said We're running at the same
speed as the one which had struck the
native.
John Bright the conductor, testified
at the time of the accident he was five
feet away from the rear end of the car
When he saw the native first, the latter
was near the front of the car which
y was going at its usual slow speed"
The man was struck a short distance
beyond the Waikiki gate of the Hawai-
ian hotel, and when the car stopped the
rear end was resting on the east side
of Richards street. He testified that
the man w,.s lifted to the sidewalk and
left in charge of the Portuguese track
man.
Kahaliwai, n native. testified that he
was on the car. The old man came out
of the hotel premises and went toward
the car. He looked up but did not
stop. The motorman was ringing the
bell, but the native kept on and then
came the collision. The motorman
was putting on his brakes then, The
old man was twelve feet away from
the track when he looked UP.
Manager Ballentyne was called. He
said If the car was running five miles
an hour il was running about five feet
a second. AT that rate car should
be stopped in car length and half,
VIM. Knott was motorman on a car
waiting on the drill shed switch for
Dalton's ear. He heard Dalton's gong,
and looking down saw man come out
of the hotel gate and walk in the di-
rection of the track. He saw the ma
tive stop and he expected to see the
car stop. Dalton was working on the
brakes and it was his impression the
, man wanted to board it. Suddenly he
started to cross the track and almost
Instantly he was on the fender. The
car was brought to stop, as he
thought, about across Richards street.