The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-11-21

the Judge leaned back in his chair
and the county attorney rose.
"As | stated to the honorable court
before, this is very simple case
he began to the jury. This woman,
Kaiulani, is charged with the murder
of her child, a male child two months
old. These cases, as we all know,
are too frequent in this territory.
The present instance is one without
redceming features. Kaiulani took
her first born and smothered it, af-
forwards taking the body and bury
ing it in the cemetery at Kawaiahao.
The evidence is conclusive, gentle
men, and we shall not be long in pre-
senting it,"
Within half an hour three wit
nesses had testified and it was fully
established that the prisoner at the
bar had given birth to male child
which had been perfectly healthy and
had thrived for two months until one
afternoon the said Kaiulani had
taken it to retired spot on Punch
bowl and had there smothered it, af-
ter feeding it for the last time at her
breast One witness had seen the
whole proceeding from the lanai of
his cottage not hundred feet away.
The young woman had then taken
the body into her arms and walked
down the hill to the palace grounds.
where she sat for some time on q
bench with the babe in her arms and
covered by large colored handker
chief The first witness had then
been Joined by the second, and to-
gether they had seen the prisoner
start down King street toward Walk
Xxi. The day being hot they had not
followed her far
The third witness, n conductor on
the street car railway, testified that
on getting off his car in Kapiolani
park he had been addressed by a wo-
man whom he now identified as the
prisoner, who asked him whether he
would take her to Kawaiahao. She
stated that she had no money. See
ing that she had n babe in her arms
and recognizing that she was not a
plantation woman, he had allowed
her to ride free to the cemetery,
where she got off He had noticed
nothing unusual in her actions. ex-
cept that she had not spoken all the
way, though he had several times
addressed her. There was some de-
lay in calling the fourth witness.
When he got on the stand he proved
to be the missionary in charge of
the Kawaiahao church.
After the formal questions, the
county attorney asked the missionary
to tell what had occurred on a Ger
tain day in August in the afternoon.
a was asleep in my house on that
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woman the woman now charged
with the murder-told my Japanese
servant that she wished to see me-
I went out and met her on the lanai.
I want to bury my baby she told me.
After some little talk with her
agreed. in view of her poverty, to
take charge of the body and see that
it was placed in grave elsewhere,
the law prohibiting further burials
in Kawaiahao. The sexton then took
charge of the body and the woman
left"
what happened them" the
county attorney demanded.
& found that the child had been
murdered" said the missionary.
How did you find this out?"
"By opening the handkerchief in
which the body was wrapped
There was a sudden silence and
the spectators looked over at the
prisoner She sat perfectly rigid,
her face turned imploringly upon the
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