The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-04-13
CHONG WAS SHOT BY
OFFICER ON HORSEBACK
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let llltu at very tlOSt range. ne
mounted officers present were those Of
Deputy Sheriff Fernandez. The story
of "a riot or of attacks on the officers
with sticks was denied by the Chinese.
The jury hearing the case consists of
five natives and one white man. their
names being: Kekipi, j. s. Mallory, Il.
b. Mikalemi J. *. kaanaana, David
Amani. James Manoanoa.
The inquest was conducted by Deputy
High Sheriff R1wlins, i'm the little
court house at Pearl City Manager
Bull of Waipahu plantation was pre-
sent with Judge w. l. Stanley, who
appears for the plantation i'm the mat
ter an accusation having been made
that the plantation luna started the
trouble by melting the Chinese to re-
sist arrest. on the grass plot outside
the court house over thirty witnesses
gathered awaiting their turns to be
called. They were Chinese, Japanese
and Hawaiian, including all the police
who were present. Three interpreters,
Aheung for Chinese, Sea for Hawaiians
and Mkt for Japanese were present.
Sea sat with the jury and interpreted
understand English, so that most of
the testimony passed through two in
terpreters before it got to these jurors.
The Chinese witnesses, gamblers
whose arrest caused the trouble, agreed
that the occasion for the outbreak was
the refusal of the police to wait till
they could get bail money, which they
had sent for. The Chinese did not re-
sist arrest, but resisted being taken
when bail was coming. Accounts diff
ferred as to how long the police did
wait, some saying as long as half an
hour When the police finally decided
to take the eleven men to Honolulu
there were protests from the prisoners.
one lot of them went quietly and took
seats i'm the patrol wagon. Others
| continued their protests. According
to the testimony of a companion who
was close by him, Chong ChOy Fat the
man who was killed, was pushed and
kicked along the road by an officer,
Chong told the officer he had no right
to kick him, and continued to protest
against not waiting for bail Then a
mounted officer close by fired shot
and another mounted officer, seven
feet away, fired and Chong Choy Fat
was fatally wounded.
The hearing for the most part ran
smoothly along, the jurors asking
many questions. Judge Stanley once
protested against Rawlins' line OF
! questioning, intimating that the coro-
/ ner was proceedings as if he had a
! ease" to which Rawlins demurred
emphaticaly. Il understand youl
! honor is here in a judicial capacity,
| said Stanley, but the line of question
! ing would not indicate it. 1t sounds
more like a prosecuting officer"
Rawlins was attacking a witness
! statement that he saw the kicking and
pushing of Chong but could not, in the
| darkness, see the face of the officer
| who was guilty of such conduct.
Ho Nam testified that he was one
| of those arrested. one of the others
taken into custody had a sore hand
and the witness heard him complain
| because the officer seized him by the
sore hand. 1.-The officer was on foot
/ and close to me but l could not identi-
fy linn.
The head luna was coming, so we
asked permission to wait. We eX-
/ pected someone to bail us out, so we
refused to get in the wagon. Chong
Choy Fat (the man killed. refused tc
! get in the wagon till the boss came tC
bail us out. Chong Choy had a sore
hand"
Rawlins; What did Chong Choy Fat
! do?"
A. "The officer pushed and kicked
| him."
| Rawlins: What officer"
A. q could not identity him. II
was too dark"
! Rawlins: How could you see that the
| officer was pushing and kicking him il
! it was so dark"
"Chong Choy Fat called out the of.
hcer was kicking him. He had a dis.
pute with the officer. He said yor
have no right to kick me. The officer
asked him to go and he wouldn't ant
then he fired a shot"
Rawlins: "Why could you not SCI
the officers face"
1T was so dark and there were 81
mbany people"
Rawlns: WAS the officer that push
ed and kicked ChOng Choy Fat tn
same one that brought him out of TIL
| house,"
yes"
Rawins: Did this officer whip GU
the gum"
mo, a different oficer-he was Of
horseback and fired a shot. The MAJ
on horseback was near the wagon an
fired a shot
Rawlins: "Who was he?"
q don't know him was very fright
ened. There were two on horsebac
when the officer pushed and kicke
Chong Choy Fat. The man close b
fired a shot and the other man fire
another The first shot he didn't sa
anything, the second shot hit him.
called out that Chong Choy Fat wa
shot"
Rawlins How did you know he wa
, shot?"
"He yelled out I was shot by tn
officer / ran when / heard the guns.