The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-26
HENRY HALL
TALKS COW
He Makes important
Admissions Under
Examination.

Henry Hall was subjected to vigor-
Gus cross-examination in the Parker
ranch case yesterday, particularly upon
his statement that three fourths of the
animals furnished to his butcher shop,
during Carter s time, had been cows.
Kinney produced account books OF
the Parker ranch out of the big boxes
in the corner and began quoting figures
to the witness, who thereupon said that
his statement had been from memory.
Kinney asked for his own books, but
they had been left at Honokaa, which
gave Kinney an opportunity for an
other dig at Magoon s conduct of the
case He said that the plaintiff s at
torney preferred to pass over the books
of the witness on Hawaii and the books
of the Parker ranch actually in court
and to rely instead upon the unaided
recollection of witnesses whose testi-
monv would support his views.
With reference to bruised meat of
which the witness had complained,
Jul bt1e'S ~
had always been deducted from his bill
by the Parker ranch. Kinney produced
statistics upon this point as well.
Kinney pressed the witness as to why
he had come down to testify without a
subpoena. He brought ont that at one
time Hall had run behind $1,000 in his
account with the ranch and that AL
fred Carter had stopped his credit,
whereupon Sam Parker interviewed and
paid the bill.
On redirect Magoon asked if this
debt had been settled and the witness
testified that there was $500 still due
to Sam Parker. Magoon inquired about
the rate of interest, but it appeared
that no interest had been charged.
The next witness rejoiced in the
name of Kanakawiwoole He testified
as to the spread of ivy on Paauhau.
He had been one of the gang who wofK-
ed on it during Carter s time and he
had rooted up and pu.nt it, but it grew
again over the same space. He had
also pulled up the Hitchcock berry,
but in pulling it up they left the roots
and it grew up again. One paddock
had been almost overrun with jois.
These grew so tall as to hide the cattle
and the cowboys took their lives in
their hands in chasing cattle IN this
kind of country. AS the witness pie
turesquely put it, If you have regard
for your life you would not catch a
wild bullock all day long"
The witness went again into the Yues-
ton of combining of cattle in kekua-
hanai pen without food or water, testi- |
flying that they had sometimes been
kept from Monday until Friday.
The cross examination on this point |
followed the same lines as that of the |
other witnesses. Kinney brought out |
that the witness was away from the |
pen driving cattle during the day time |
When asked how he knew that the cat
tie were not taken out and watered |
during his absence, the witness replied |
that they had not been accustomed to
do that in John Parker's time The |
prevalence of rain at the pen and the
question of whether the cattle ate the
grass or trampled it was also gona
over exhaustively.
Kinney closed his cross-examination
by bringing out conversation between
the witness and Ikua Purdy prior to
the witness coming down to testify.
The examination closed at three
0 clock; but as Magoon s witnesses had
again broken from the paddock, the
ease went over for the daC