The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-02-10
TALK
BEATS HIM

To bleat like goat. under oath at
that. is what a grave faced member Of
the Legislature was asked to do in
Judge Robinsons court yesterday.
Representative j. u. Lewis OF Hilo
was the witness asked to perform this
feat of vocal magic. He was unable
to comply. saying 1t was so long since
he did the stunt that he was out of
practice. IL he had compiled 1t would
rave been useless for counsel for the
defense to move that the evidence be
stricken out, for even such an expert
stenographer as Col. Jones hasn't got
word-form in his Photographic lex
icon to represent the bleat of a goat.
Hence the evidence could not have got
into the reporters notes to be stricken
out, any more than the bleat could be
labeled as exhibit TX" by Clerk Simon
ton to have its admisslbility ruled for
or against.
1t came about In this wise. Mr..
Lewis was put on the stand by the
| defense in the Jones murder trial. On
his direct examination he testified con-
corning the defendant. E. NJ. Jones,
when he was a schoolmate Of the wit
| ness at the Gulick boarding and day
school in 1871 and 1872. Jones, the evil
dence of Lewis ran, was dull and
backward as pupil, and disposed to
keep apart from his schoolmates. For
| his peculiarities Jones was the butt of
considerable guying while attending
| that school. Among other pupils in
| the institution were Charlie Clark,
| George w. Nawaakoa and e. B. Mi
kalemi. The witness regarded young
Jones as somewhat unbalanced men,
| tally.
Mr.. Peters subjected the Hilo leg!s-
lator to a rigorous cross-examination
lasting two or three hours. The wit
ness admitted under the stress of ques-
tions he himself at school forgot the
correct spelling of words and additions
of numbers, though he might have
| studied them never so hard. Yes, the
other boys, besides Jones and himself,
often found themselves at the foot of
the class in spelling matches and 9TH
err exercises. 1t came out, too. that
Jones was an outlander at the Gulick
| respecting tHc Biedl
of birth on the island of Oahu. His
father was a Hawaii ranchman, for
which the little chap from the big is
land was prosecuted.
THE GOATS CRY.
His fathers ranch was commonly
known as a goat ranch, wasn't it?''
Mr.. Peters blandly inquired.
Yes" the affirmative answer was
echoed, land you boys used to call
Jones 'Goathorns,' didn't your"
Again the answer was a yes.
And sometimes Crooked Horns?' -
well, 1 don't remember that"
you made noises at him the same
as a goat makes. too, didn't you"
Yes" and the witness gave
reminiscent smile.
NOW" Mr.. Peters went on relent
lessly, repeat to the jury the noise
like the goat makes, the way you usec
to do it to annoy Jones'"
1--WE put our hand to our throat like
this" illustrating in action land made
the noise"
"Well, give us an imitation of the
hleating of a goat such as you did t.
Jones, with your hand on your throa
in that way"
1t was here that the witness plead
, ed rustiness in the juvenile accom-
, plisbment which prevented the voca
, ILLUSTRATION desired. Thirty-three year
is liable to produce some change in
voice, especially an acquired voice o
one of Ernest Seton Thompson's pro
teges.
Al
the old Fort street church Sunda
, school. to which the Gull pupils yer
E marched in body. Here also Jone
= turned out, according to the witnes
0 under cross-examination, to have bee
not the Only student who OCCASIONAL
s fell down in his memory OF the studio
$ scriptures. Mr.. Peters himself. by tn
e way, when quoting scripture in one @
f his questions aroused a suspicion tina
o some of his own Sunday school train
ing he'd not abided with him.
i George Nawaskoa was the next wit
e ness. His examirat ton had but Jus
n started when the hour of adjournmer
v arrived.
u POSTHUMOUS TESTIMONY RE-
u JECTED.
II An important ruling against the dc
Is Tense was made yesterday at the out
r set of the presentation of its case A
p the trial of Jones for the murder
n Mrs. Parmenter deposition of the lat
e Mrs. Jane S. Reid of Hilo was admitte
d by Judge Gear. Deponent was old ar
e feeble and a commission was issued
lie take her testimony, which went To sho
l. that Jones had suffered from typho
l. fever at an early age, which had lie
= him permanently feeble-minded.
e Before the strenuous contest ensuir
,r over the Deputy Attorney Generals Of
y lection to the admission of Mrs. Reed
? testimony was decided, the court sci
t, for the Attorney General to ascerta
re II 1t was true. as Messrs. Rotertsc
W and Dunno claimed, that he had stipl
ir lated with the defense that the depos
IF ton might be used in both trials
Is Jones'
g Mr.. Andrews stated that, on the col
is trary, he had opposed the issuing