The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-21


shorthand notes of the reporter.
The Governor ordered the RECORD
made up at Hilo and forwarded to Hon
oIulu.
Meanwhile the Attorney General ;:
Department permitted the inspection
! by the club of copies OF certain state
ments, made by the defendants anC
others to the Sheriff of Hawaii in De
cemher last, Immediately after TIE
murder, and certain other statement:
made to Chester Doyle. of the Attor
ney General Department, in February
last, just before the trial. Also recoros
of the coroner S inquest and Of com
hitting magistrate who held defend
ants to the grand jury.
Mr.. Kinney made a preliminary
analysis of the papers SO furnished, and
submitted it to the special meeting of
this club held at the residence of W. O.
Smith on April 2Sth last.
This analysis not being based on the
evidence used in the trial of the defend
ants, and there appearing to be lncon-
sistencies between some of the state
ments. it was necessarily tentative and
inconclusive; but there We're such
strong indications that there were diff
ferences in the degree of the cGlpabil-
ity OF the defendants, that 1t was unan-
imously agreed by the meeting that a
committee of five be appointed by the
president to investigate and report
upon the facts incidental to the murder
in question, with view to ascertain
ing whether or not an appeal to the
Governor for clemency should be made
for the defendants or any of them.
The undersigned were accordingly
appointed such committee. The official
record was received from Hilo on Sat
urday the 18th inst. and delivered to
your committee on Monday the 14th.
Your committee have held several meet
ings in connection with the subject
matter, have studied and analysed the
said record and accompanying docu
ments, and herewith present to you the
results of their investigation and find
ings.
(The summary of the evidence relat-
ing to defendants Nos. L and is omit
ted for lack of space)
THE NAMES OF THE KOREANS.
For convenience the Koreans are re-
ferred to by number, as follows
No. l, Wo Miung Sock.
No. ,, Han San Won.
No. 3, Shin MIung Ok.
No. 4, Kang Yong Box.
No. 5, Kim Young zee.
No. 6, Chan Chez Yeul
SYNOPSIS OF THE MURDER
STORY
The murdered man and all of the de-
We're laborers on the Kukai-
III and Paauilo plantations in Hama
lua, Hawaii.
On December II, 1905, the deceased |
vas at Kukaiau and that night forty
i'd dollars was stolen from defendant
No. 1, $23 and a passport from No. 2.
md a, passport each from Nos. and 4.
Suspicion was directed to the de-
eased, who upon being accused ad-
nitted the theft and gave several diff
erent statements as to what had be-
ONE of the money and passports,
to restore the stolen prop
rty. Upon his failure to do so he
vas tied up in the Korean camp at
lukafau and whipped on the bare legs
With a small stick. He stated that the
honey was at Papaaloa and gave an
rider on a Korean there for its de-
very. 1t turned out that he had no
honey there, and he was again whip
ed at the Korean camp on December
3 by the four defendants, Nos. 1, 2,
and 4, in an endeavor to intimidate
i'm into restoring the stolen property.
Ie finally said he had buried it in the
apanese graveyard nearby, and ac
by the four aggrieved men
nd five other Koreans from the camp
ent to the graveyard to find it. Fail
lg to do so after an hours search he
an away and hid. He was finally found
Y Nos. l, 2, and 4, tied up in a near
Y gulch and again whipped.
He finally said that he had the mon .
Y at Laupahoehoe and would pay it
ack if they would let him go. At this
age defendant No. returned to the
amp, leaving 1, and still whipping
lie defendant.
Defendant No. 6, spectator, then
rged the aggrieved men to let the
eceased go, stating that he would
that they would get their
oney from Laupahoehoe. They there
pom allowed defendant No. 6, with the
'sistance of another Korean, to take
e victim down from the tree to which
: was triced up and put on his q
othes. a
Defendant No 1 agreed to let him go 4
Id urged the others to; but after con-
inning several bottles of wine, de-
ndants 3 and 4, who had already been q
linking in the morning, said they did n
IT believe that the deceased would 3
t the money, and becoming ugly said n
ey did not want their money now n
lyhow; that they wanted to kill the q
ceased. They thereupon again seized 4
m, stripped off his clothes, triced him 4
, to the tree and attacked him with a
avy clubs, defendant No. L joining
, the skull of deceased being crushed B
the clubs. III
The evidence of one witness is that B
ass was put upon the naked body of
e deceased by defendant No. for q
e purpose of setting fire to it, but B
at deceased brushed it off and, in
Ct no fire was set. lE
Two witnesses testified that defend