The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-01-05
TELLTALG EVIDENCE.

of Johnson's guilt becomes more S
TELLTALE EVIDENCE.
The police have the following evil
dence against Johnson: Blood-stain-
ed garments: an l. Y. l.. knife coated
with dried blood, and the statement
of a little eight-year-old japanese
girl who claims she saw Johnson lead
little Simeon away from the Whar-
ton home toward the cane-field where
the mutilated body was found later
in the day. The most startling state
ment from this same witness is that
johnson told her that he had killed
Simeon"
A DEGENERATE
A little, understood, underdeveloped,
wizened specimen of humanity is this
Frank johnson who now occupies
compartment in the wooden Jail at
Waialua. Each compartment has a
heavy door in which is a small grated
opening, designed more for ventilation
than for light. In the daytime it is
hot, stuffy place. At night 1t Is
comfortless. and. owing to the nature
of the crime with which the prisoner
may be charged, the room Is barren
of furniture. Only a Japanese mat
adorns the door and this is Johnson's
couch. The fear is that he may at
| tempt suicide, and policeman
| watches him constantly through the
| grating.
| After a nights incarceration john
son looked badly. He was unshaven,
unwashed, unkempt and nervous. He
was attired in a wooden shirt and
dark trousers. He was barefooted.
JOHNSON is CRAFTY.
| Sheriff Brown. Deputy Sheriff Cox,
| Deputy Sheriff Holt and Criminolo-
gist Chester Doyle entered the room
| and the prisoner rose to his feet.
When the former began questioning
Johnson, the latter looked from one
| to another in a dazed sort OF way.
But his answers were crafty, and, OF
| course, he declared he did not know
how Simeon Wharton came to his
| death. Occasionally he snickered
| when a question was put to him. Once
in a while he trembled, especially
when the Sheriff and Doyle took hold
of his hands and examined his finger
nails He was perfectly willing to
show the Sheriff his undershirt. No,
there was no dirt on that shirt. no
blood; nothing.
SLEPT OUTDOORS TUESDAY.
Johnson said that on Tuesday night
he was drunk and he slept out OF
doors, and in that way he got his
shirt and white trousers dirty-"lepo,'
as he expressed it. He returned to
Wharton's house early in the morn
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room went to sleep. He awoke about
o'clock and Mamma" as he called
Mrs. Wharton, told him his breakfast
was ready. At the meal Johnson ask
ed where Henry Ont. Wharton) was
She told him he had gone to Homo
lulu to attend a lawsuit. After that
he watched the children playing about
the swing, and then he went to the
warehouse at the depot to- see man
HAD TROUSERS WASHED.
johnson said that he first went t
the house of the Jap woman who die
his washing. He carried to her a pail
of white trousers which he said HI
had got dirty the night before b!
sleeping on the red EARTH The JaI
woman refused to wash his clothes
as he owed her bill. Johnson salt
he had paid the money, fifty cents. t.
Mrs. Wharton and she (the Jal
woman) could get 1t from her. Tn
trousers were left with the wash
woman.
, UNIMPORTANT EVIDENCE.
| This was thought to be additiona
evidence OF guilt, but when the wash
woman was questioned later on sh
said johnson had brought the trouser
to her about o'clock. This was al
hour or more before Simeon disap
peared. Certain stains on the trous
ers were there before, said the Japa
nese woman.
CAKED BLOOD IN NAILS.
All this time the officers were look
ing at Johnson's hands. They wer
the hands of a laborer. The nail
were hard and the skin about ther
callous and very dirty. Examinatio
convinced the officers that the dar
stains on the edges of the flesh over
hanging the nails was blood.
WILL BE ANALYSED.
Securing an envelope and a per
knife, Sheriff Brown and Doyle turn
ed manicurists. While one held
hand, the other scraped the darl
caked-stufr from the nails and place
it in the envelope. A fair quantit
was secured and the envelope wa
then sealed. labeled and Identified b
the signatures OF the two officers. an
witnessed by an Advertiser reporte
HAD BEEN DRUNK.
johnson said further that on Chris
, mas he had been drunk and aga
practically so on New Years day. T
showed his right ear which was CT
and caked with blood. He said he he
fallen down during his spree and Il
cut was the result. He opened h
shirt to show the officers that he ha
no wounds on his body.
When asked how the shirt that ha
been taken OF the night before hi
blood on ~ JohnRon reDlted: IN