The Hawaiian star., 1906-03-29
PAINFUL SCENES
AT JOHNSON TRIAL
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was the question VIII Ch led to the mid
morning recess. Prosser had put ques-
tions which led Mrs. Whavton through
her story Of the fatal morning, from
the time when she saw liL- boy playing
in a swing under a manN tree to the
time when as she put it, she began, on
observing Johnson's Signs of fear, to
think he had done away with her child.
She had just told of having insistently
ordered Johnson to bring back her boy
and see rg him start to search again
and then re-Cntering her home.
When Prosser put the question IS to
what happened next, the mother sud-
denly clasped her hands and broke
forth with a vail. The answer She he
gan was to say that she was beg ming
to think that her poor boy was lost.
but instead of finishing the reply she
raised her clasped hands and utterly
broke down.
Prosser Immediately asked for a re-
cess and the court ordered it. and men
were using handkerchlefs as they left
the room. Mrs. Wharton kept her seat
on the witness stand and throughout
the ten-mniute recess she sat crying.
only a few feet from her sat Johnson.
a little, dr.ed-up, miserable e-loking spe-
cimen of humanity, never changing the
position i'm which he had sat through.
the morning, facing his jury.
/ Mrs. Wharton made very clear wit
ness except for the Interruptions She
was allowed to tell her story very free
ly. Attorney Harrison, for the defend
ant, showed no signs of making a tech
nical fight, not objecting more than
once or twice during the morning. to
leading questions or to testimony more
or less in the nature of hearsay. Hence
the mother told her story rapidly.
The witness told of several different
times during the day when she said TO
Johnson that he was last seen with
her boy, and he must go and find him.
Johnson told her he had left little Si-
neon playing with the other boys. At
the time when he told her this, it is
claimed. the boys hacked-up body lay
where he had buried it. Mrs. Whar-
ton said that Johnson's clothes were
dirty with red dirt,-blood the prose-
cution viii try to prove,-and that he
appeared scared. You go and find my
child the mother said to him, "and
send him directly to me-"
johnson insisted that he had left the
boy with the others and finally he be-
came angry. What is the use of
searching any more" he said Il am
tired, very tired, of searching"
Between these various conversat ions
johnson made searching trips, which
the witness showed on the map as far
as she knew them. Each time the
mother said she demanded that he re-
, her son to her, and each time johnson
turn her son to her and each time
Johnson seemed more and more fright.
, ened
After the recess Mrs. Wharton told
of doing some searching herself. unit
she was tired. Then the consultation OF
Il Chinese teller, as already
published, was described, and finally
the witness said, a searcher named Ma
make called out from the brush, where
he had gone at the direction of the
soothsayer, that he had found Sine
on's pants. At this point Detective
Chester Doyle produced the little pain
of pants, dark with blood stains and
dirt, as they We're found. Mrs. Whar-
ton in answer to the necessary ques-
tions sobbed that they had been heI
, boys. They were the ones he had
worn on the day of his death.
The unhappy woman had to &c
through the same ordeal with the shirt
and the blouse, and worse still, with
the finding of her boys body part
. of the leg was found first, then an
arm and finally the trunk. She was
asked how she was able to testify that
, the leg was that of Simeon Wharton.
1T was my own boys and of course
/ knew it," she replied, giving as a
further reason that the complexion and
marks showed IT.
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