The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-30
HAMILTON PLEADS
GUILTY At LAST
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NCOnJlnueQ tlOm page One).
United States Coast Artillery will
avoid it. Hamilton is a soldier, as
has been said but he is something
other than that. In the first place he
is at present undergoing trial on a
charge of counterfeiting and he is also
a practicing attorney at the Hawaiian
bar. 1t is true that there is only one
client for whom he can appear, and
that is himself, but he is nevertheless
practicing hard just at present.
The case, from the human interest
standpoint, presents many interesting
features. Here is man, a corporal
in the army, accused of being a party
to making bogus five and ten dollar
gold pieces. OF quiet, gentlemanly
demeanor, grammatical speech and
plainly of the keenest perception that
he is occupying a very precarious posi-
ton, he acts as his own lawyer in a
case which, should it go adversely to
him will unquestionably withdraw him
from the public gaze for more years
than one cares to consider. This morn
ing he, in Judge Dole's court was as
unconcerned seemingly as the janitor.
He was opposed by J. J. Dunno one
of the keenest attorneys of the local
bar but it was seldom indeed that At
torney Dunno managed to get in an
objection to Hamilton's cross-examina-
ton which his honor the judge would
sustain, The case was not finished
when the court took recess.
But little time was taken in the
finding of a jury for neither Assistant
| United States Attorney Dunno nor the
Attorney defendant Hamilton had, or
could have had, any objection to those
who were drawn.
The twelve good men and true"
were: E. M. Boyd, foreman, c. B. Will
| son, G. P. Castle, c. E. Frasher, E. N.
Holmes, c. S. Crane, Allen Walker, ].
Coffey, julius Dudoit, j. H. Cough, A,
j. Smithies and w. B. Harrub.
The actual uttering of the false
money having been proved by E. 1,
Spalding, the prosecution called Pri-
vate j. T. Cooper, of the Artillery.
Cooper is the young man who used
! to be popular in church circles, and
by his own admission, was the posses
sor of the plant with which the bad
money was gold plated.
Cooper detailed the story which has
already been told by him, he with tn,
defendant Hamilton and another sol
der named Hillson had planned to
make the counterfeit coin in a house
back of Camp Mckinley. He assert
ed that the whole business had been
merely done for an experiment"
!
the accused arose to cross-eXamine. He
was in plain clothes and a casual at
tendant at the court might have easily
have taken him for one of the prac-
ticing attorneys.
He put his former comrade through
a close gruelling and elected a good
deal of evidence which was decidedly
in his favor.
But
He missed the psychologist moment
when he ought to have stopped. He
went too far ahead
Cooper told how 10 years ago he haC
been told that it was possible to make
coins from plaster casts. He on one
occasion had told the defendant Hamil'
ton of this and Hamilton said that il
could not be done that coins could
only be stamped from steel dies.
Apparently in the pursuit of scienti-
! fic research the two soldiers, with an
other named HillsOn, went to a vacan
cottage back of the United States army
camp, and there made moulds of plas'
~ er-of-Paris from which the false coins
were made.
i II said that 1 thought the thing could
be DONE" said Cooper land Hamilton
said that it could not. He said thai
under no consideration would be en-.
ter into anything of the kind here"
Here" asked the United States At
torney
yes, here" said Cooper.
"Was there any idea whatever Of
our doing anything more than making
an experiment to see whether coir
could be made in a mould?" asked
| Hamilton.
Certainly not" replied the witness
1t appeared that Hamilton had beer
present on three occasions at the little
mint back of Camp Mckinley. lie haC
helped build the furnace and had Of
ficiated at the blow pipe. He hat
not made the moulds but he had beer
present when they were made, for the
purpose of this interesting experiment
All of this information he ELECTED
himself
The cross-eXamnation was in a tan
gle Of dates when the court rose fol
luncheon.