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off, but the bands about his hands pre-
vented this.
AMEN THE SIGNAL.
AS Rev. Motokawa said Amen"
| Warden Henry gave the signal to the
three guards in waiting and almost up
on the instant the trap was sprung.
Tanbara dropped a distance of four
feet There was no external sign of
life from that moment, though the
physicians did not pronounce life ex-
tinct until fourteen minutes later.
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth, who tim
ed the hanging, caught the minute the
trap was sprung as 12:31:46. Imme-
diately DR.. Moore, the prison physician.
and DR.. Holt and DIR. Wilson, of the
Marine Hospital Service, began the ex-
animation of the body for signs of life.
DR.. Burgess, DIR. Hoffman and Dr.
Hodgins also assisted, as did the Jap
anese doctors, Mort, Oyama, Haida
and Mitamura. The pulsation rose in
the body Immediately after the drop
and reached 100 a minute. Fourteen
minutes later the physicians pro-
nounced Tanbara dead, and Marshal
Hendry entered the time in the Off
cial record at 12:45. 1t was five min
utes later before the body was cut
down and given over to the care of the |
undertaken. |
THE FUNERAL.
The body was later given over to the |
possession of Rev. Mr.. Motakawa and
taken to the Japanese. Christian church
on Kukui street near st. Louis Col
lege The burial service was read by
Mr.. Motakawa and was quite brief.
There We're but few Japanese present
and no display of any kind. The body
was then taken to the Japanese plot in
the Makiki cemetery and buried.
FERRIS WAS SCARED.
George Ferris, who occupied the cell
next to that of Tanbara, did not relish
the proceedings at all. He heard the
reading OF the death warrant by Mar
shall Hendry and did not seem to like
t. He is under sentence of death but
t is said that the Governor will COM
mute this to life Imprisonment.
The gallows was tried on another
Japanese in the morning. but the farce
vas not carried through to compile :
ion. This was Just to give the guards s
chance to see how it worked. II
THE CRIME. {
The crime for which Tanbara suffer- {
d death was the murder of Captain {
'orgen J. Jacobsen of the schooner c
Fred ]. Wood. The captain had his @
wife and two children with him at the Z
lme The deed was committed with n @
nife Witnesses at the trial testified g
hat the captain went below to awaken !:
he cabin boy, and as he started to II
ave he was attacked by Tanbara with v
large bread knife taken from the k
itchen table. He was stabbed in the Il
roin and died almost instantly. Later
irst Mate Meyer held trial of the L
urderer and he was found guilty and CT
lie cook. Onto, was adjudged an ac- b.
,mplice The murder occurred early d
I the morning of July 31st and the
red J. Wood put in Honolulu on the X
'ternoon of August 9Th. She was on nj
,r way from Portland to China. al
md Onto had both been is
'nfined in the hold and their clothes a
ere still bloody. The trial and con- A
ction followed In short order and W
anhara was sentenced to be hanged dc
December goth, on Christmas Day We
,vernor Dole telegraphed a reprieve tlc
nm Hawaii. in order to allow an an tn
al. but the Japanese took no fur 70
err action. President Roosevelt lat tn
extended the reprieve to noon of
Ieust 14th and the execution took ,
ace as soon as possible after the re-
leve expired. rls
CROWD SAW THE HANGING. sd
A large crowd witnessed the execu-
IN. Those who couldn't get tickets ne
admission watched from the out II