The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-01
JONES CASE
DRAGGING On
Battle of Wits and OF
Sharp Wits at
That.

The Jones case was resumed yester-
day morning with Mrs. Parmenter on
the witness stand, and it was the same
old fight all day long over the admissi-
biIity of evidence and the thousand
and one technical points lawyers know
| how to raise in difficult case. At
that. the prosecution has established
| by this witness the fact of the killing,
and the further fact that the defend
ant did it. These are merely prelimin-
airy matters, important as they may
seem to the lay mind, and what has
so far been proven has been estab-
ilished at the expense of one OF the
hardest struggles ever made in 4 Ha-
waiian court 1t is a battle of wits
all the time, and sharp wits, with
Deputy Attorney General Peters pitted
against Alex. Robertson and Mr. Dunn.
| Mrs. Parmenter testified yesterday
that she had been standing in her
house looking out through a window,
when she saw Jones facing his wife.
His face was towards the witness.
He was smooth-faced then. She
| could only see as far as his Shout
ders. She heard the words: Pau Ed
die, pau" five minutes after Mrs. Jones
had gone out of the house. The wit
ness heard five shots altogether that
evening. She heard the fifth shot
when she was at the window. She
could not see Jones at the time. This
shot came hardly a minute after the
two shots which he fired at Mrs. Jones.
Jones was about thirty-one feet from
/ the witness when she saw him.
The witness went on to tell of how
Jones saw his wife, exclaimed: Nov
I have got you.'' and shot her. Mrs.
Jones exclaimed, ooh, Eddie!' and fell
to the ground. All this happened at
about las a. m.
| Mrs. Parmenter stated that she had
beard Jones threaten his wife in July,
1902. This statement was the cause
OF another objection from the defense,
who held that the threats which were
made such a long time before the
shooting, and after which a reconcilia-
tiCn had taken place, were not material
evidence.
Deputy Attorney General Peters con-
tended that while these threats would
have been immaterial if after recon-
citation good terms between the two
| parties were kept up, they became ma
/ te rial as soon as the friendly relations
were broken, as they had been in this
case.
| The forenoon was spent in arguing
/ this point, and Mrs. Parmenter took
the stand again after the noon recess
and continued her testimony. Matters
did not get on very swimmingly at any
stage, and in the afternoon, just be-
fore court was adjourned, there was
another tangle upon a question as to
whether the witness was competent to
, de scribe the effects of the wounds. Mr.
Peters was not ready to argue this
without reference to authorities, and
50 it went over until $50 this morning.
After the point has been argued, Mrs.
Parmenter will go on with her testi-
mony. with every prospect that she
will have another day of it before it
comes to the cross-eXamination.
COURT NOTES.
Yee Kee filed his petition in bank
ruptcy in the United States district
court yesterday. He has debts
amounting to $345, and his assets are
$3.50, mostly household furniture.
| A Hawaiian woman of the name of
Kailehu, indicted by the grand jury
on a charge of assault and battery,
pleaded guilty before Judge Robinson
yesterday and was fined ten dollars.
| In q case involving the rights of the
heirs in law of an infant to disaffirma-
ton of a lease, the Supreme Court yes
terday held that an action at law by
| the heirs, being the parents of the in