The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-16

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then and told him all right and tolc
him to 60 off to his work
Il called him back After hat
kicked the fellow l thought maybe h,
didn't understand why I had cufeC
and kicked him. He was not more
than five or six feet away from he
when I called him back.
FIRING THE GASOLINE.
I told him to hold up the tin. or
hold out the tin. He did SO and 1 pull
| ed out a box OF matches and lit the
tin. He held the tin by the handle
1 held the match a few inches above
the tin and it fgnited and blazed up six
| or eight inches. I said. There you
| see and 1 hardly got the words out
| Of my mouth when the flames seized
| the front of his jumper. The jumper I
| think was made of gingham
When my eyes struck it, it was
! just the front of the jumper There
was a burst of flame in the air be-
tween US and then il caught on his
clothes. The first thing I did was To
try 10 put it out. Put my arms around
him, embraced him. held him close to
me to smother the fame out. The next
time / saw the tin was when someone
was looking at it some time after
wards.
DOUSE WAS SINGED.
II didn't succeed in doing what l
wanted. the flames seemed to have got
around to the other side of him. The
hair on both my arms was slnged off.
one of my fingers was slightly burned,
enough to raise a blister, and my mus
tache and eyebrows We're singed
Looking about / saw a man with a
hose fastened to a faucet in one of the
columns. The man was about 80 feet
away [ got the hose into my hand and
turned around to put water on the man
Yamagatal whose clothes were on fire.
He was lying on the dirt pile with four
or five men throwing dirt on him.
Il turned the water on him for about
five minutes until all the fire was out
Took good care that the fire was all
out. Some man sung out pau several
times before I stopped [ stood the
man up to see how badly he was burned
and took him to the lavatory
IAC1i NClIi " MI w lIilSiiiiS IlOuSe.
He told me to go to the roundhouse
and get the locomotive out to send the
man to the hospital. Went back to the
magata's wounds. Talked with him. |
He said he was sore. 1 examined the
part where he said he was suffering
VISIT AT HOSPITAL.
Il visited him in the hospital on sun |
day. Can not remember all he said, as |
he didn't speak English very We'll |
told him l was sorry
Mr.. Humphreys objected to the evil
dence unless the entire conversation |
were repeated, and Judge De Bolt sus-
tanned the objection but asked the
to tell what was said as near
as he could remember.
He told me he was too much sore"
Douse proceeded but could not re-
member his own words. Pressed to try
he said:
wei, I went in there and asked him
was too much sore. I tod him l was
very sorry for him. can not say what
answer he made to that, I tried to
have a conversation with him, but it
was hard to make him understand.
Go the court)-He didn't say anything
4 bout the occurrence of the day be-
fore. L stayed probably about twenty
minutes. Can not remember any more
hat was said"
There wass some questioning about
he firing of the mans clothes which
brought out nothing new excepting that
Oouse said he had seen no sign of gas
,line on the mans jumper before it
.ook fire.
NEGLIGENCE EXCLUDED.
What was your condition or frame of
mind al the time you cuffed Yamagata?'
This question by Mr.. Kinney was OBJ
ected to by Messrs. Humphreys and
Fleming and the argument that en-
ued brought out the fact that the in
Iictment charged manslaughter by as ,
ault and did not mention negligence as
N element of the offense. Mr. Hum
,hreys was willing that the jury be
instructed that they could not convict
his man of manslaughter on the t
round of negligence. The objection {
vas sustained to the question and
theirs of like purport
NO ASSAULT INTENDED.
Mr.. Kinney said he was glad to re-
Give such a valuable concession from c
he prosecution, and one handed out i
n silver plate" He then asked:
Had You any purpose of assaulting .
amagata in any way when you called
i'm back?"
Certainly not" Douse said emphat- d
ally. 1T was to show him the nature i
the stuff he had brought in. My
bject in telling him to hold out the
n was so it would not hurt him. v
Defendant testified he had known D
1nething about the properties of gas =
line for years. Asked if such knowl-
lge was part of an engineers equip
ent he answered:
"A man can be an engineer and not t
now nothing about gasoline" .
He knew gasoline was inaammable =,
I'D would ignite from contact of
anne or a bright spark II would be G.
angerous to bring light into S