The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-10-05
THE DAMON CASE


ed airauuuusly Davis protested that \
Che prisoner was not charged with KILL .
ing au officer and 30 had not been
shown that the prisoner knew that pa
mon was nu officer
This is what may De called antici-
patory rebuttlL" said the Attorney |
General we mean To prove that pa
mon Was doing what he had "a legal L
right to do that in leaving his carriage L
and attempting To make the prisoner
restore the lantern he had stolen, that
he was not rushing heedlessy into
danger"
Attorney Davis twisted that If that /
line Of prosecution was TO have been
such, the prisoner should have been in
dicted for the killing of an officer.
We cannot put Mr. Damon on the
stand to tell us why he left the car
riage that night" said the Attorney
General but we can show that he was |
an officer and was i'm his rights in what |
he did"
Attorney Thompson insisted that the |
Attorney General was trying to pre-
sumo "a malice on the part of the pris-
oner.
As numerous authorities on the point !
withdrew the witness i'm the meantime !
ana Eugene Sullivan was called
On the evening of September 27th
about $3.50 he and r. Ozawa took a
walk towards Moanalua, the witness
said, two Cinnamon passed them near
red danger light which had been
placed on pile of earth on the road.
Then they passed Damons buggy
which the witness knew by sight go
ing towards Honolulu. The witness
went on and then turned round going
towards Honolulu. He went into a
Chinese store and got a match for his
cigar then continuing towards Homo
lulu. When he reached the crest Of
the hill he saw some parties take the
red lantern from the earth pile and con-
tinue on with it, the witness walking
behind.
Here Judge Gear interrupted as he
noticed that the official interpreter was
not telling the prisoner what was be
ing said. The interpreter was instruct
ed to translate.
/ Continuing the witness saw DamOn's
buggy returning from Honolulu. The
occupant of the buggy stopped and
spoke to the persons. who had taken
the lantern, i'm Hawaiian. The buggy
proceeded and the people with the Ian
tern continued en- towards Honolulu.
/ The three consisted of man with a
/ white coat, another man and large wo-
man. The man with the white coat
was talking loudly with the others and
ne suddenly threw the lantern away.
Then the buggy with Mr. Damon and Il
/ Chinese boy in it came driving rapidly
back. The buggy passed Sullivan and
/ Ozawa and then caught up with the
three. The buggy stopped and Damon
1 alghted coming round behind from the
| right hand side. The night was dark,
the witness explained, but he could see
both parties as he was only a short
! distance awav, some thirty or forty
| feet, and was getting nearer all the
time. At first there was some CONVEX
sation between Damon and the other
parties which the witness could no
catch, then he heard the man with the
white coat who had taken the lantern
say What do you waut?'
Damon said That's my lantern, damn
you, l want you to put it back, said
| the witness, showing obvious excite
! ment as he came to the crucial point
of his story.
THE man with the white coat sprang
/ forward into the middle of the road. He
advanced very rapidly towards Damon
and Damon was also going towards him
Damon had his hand extended towards
the man and the man struck him a Dl.w
in the stomach. 1t was too dark for me
| to see that he had anything in his hand
Damon staggered back towards his
buggy and just then l came up. / said
| What's the matter here? Is that you
Mr.. Damon? He groaned and said Yes
He's cut me. He has cut me very
/ badly
Il ran over towards the man and he
called out to me in English to go away
or he would do the same to me.
went back to the buggy and saw that
! Damon was in a serious way so | turn
ed the horse out into the road and got
in beside the wounded man. He said
something about being very bad and
about a doctor but he was fast losing
! consciousness. / put my arm round him
and drove i'm towards the city very
rapidly. l stopped in front of the Ka
lihi saloon and called out TO the crowd
in front that Eddie Damon had been
stabbed and to telephone to the police
station to have doctor there. l drove
in to the police station and left him
there. He was then unconscious"
The selection Of a jury for the trial
Of Jose Miranda on TIE C arg of avi e
murdered S. e. Damon was, as expected
completed in Judge Gears court yes
terday afternoon from the special We
nire. After several challenges had been
exercised by the defence and others
passed in the place of the rejected jurors
the list remaining was as follows:
Jonathan Shaw, Sam r. Pierce, Charles
Hummel w. c. Wilder, W. Matlock
Campbell c. j. Ludwigsen, w. p. Kaohi
+. j. Dutra, Frank e. Blake, c., f.
Merriheld, f. e. Nichols, b. f. Vickers
The jurymen We're cautioned by Judge
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