The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-02

| fer to Palenapa or to Townsend? Sure
| ~ it was a story to arouse suspicion in
| the minds of people who had not been
| here d year.
| Yong's evidence had been attacked
for the minuteness of detail with which
| it was given. If His Honor had been
| bound and gagged would not he re-
| member it?
Then Mr.. Cathcart had diseredited
the defendant for his GOODNESS on the
stand. 1t was witnesses telling lies
who were not cool, who showed ner-
vousness on the stand. Because Yong
was telling the truth he was cool as a
cucumber. On the stand he was re-
moved from the terrors of the police
station and in the presence of the
majesty of the law. Why then should
ne not have been cool?
When a thug is going to torture a
man." counsel proceeded. "he does not
call for help-he does not advertise his
intention. He goes into secret places.
So it is that we have only the evidence
of the thug and the victim
Vida on the stand never told the
same story twice alike. It was easy
for him to say, It's a lie"
Are you to go on the evidence of
Vida the thug, whom we who have
been here a year know, or on the word
of his victim whose evidence could not
be shaken one jot or little by severest
CroSS-eXaminatiOn
Turnkey Melanphy testified that he
did not know if the hose was turned
on drunken and disorderly prisoners at
the station. His Honor, when District
Magistrate, had seen from his office
window the hose played on prisoners.
1t might be taken that a turnkey of
many years at the station who did not
know such thing would know nothing
about orders given to him to refuse
food and water to Yong Melanphy
lied about the hose the speaker said,
and therefore his evidence could not
be trusted when he said he was not
ordered to refuse food and water to the
defendant.
Leal. one of the twin stars in the po-
lice armament, was called to contradict
the defendant, but all he was asked
was, Did you strike the hands of the
defendant as he put them through the
bars? There was not one question put
to him about the tortures. Yong's evil
dence remained uncontradicted about
the water cure and the other fortunes.
whether it is a POOR devil of Ko-
rean or a peer of the realm, Your
Honor will not stand for that sort of
thing
The prosecution could only meet them
on that one point of food and water.
Why didn't it produce Sheriff Brown
or the other Leal, or the spy Choy,
who had been maSquerading about the
court precincts for the past week?
two ho n
and water question there was no such
rule as that quoted by counsel, that
IF evidence is false in one particular
it is false in ALL But there was not (!
one particle of evidence before His
Honor that defendant lied in one par
ticular. |
There was evidence on the other hand |
that "our Henry did lie. He put the |
same thing into the conversations of |
March IS and IA and he did not twice |
tell one thing the same way. He was |
mixed up in every particular. His evil |
dence is false false can be-"
Counsel had said that the woman's |
evidence was not the evidence of one
in her right mind. Mr.. Lightfoot said |
he did not know the secrets in the
mind or life. Her confessed |
fondness for the defendant did not |
show that she told other than a straight |
story of the facts as she knew them.
Her evidence was not contradicted by |
that of Vida. There was nothing to |
show that she did not tell the exact |
truth except the evidence of Leal.
OF course Yong was interested as
counsel suggested. But was not the |
Grand Jury in session by which the |
could have him indicted for
perjury tomorrow?
No evidence of threats? eff yoc |
don't tell the truth in five minutes |
will kill you This threat was made |
by Vida according to evidence uncon- |
tradicted except by Henry Vida him |
self.
ut is a wonder to me- counsel de- |
clared. that they did not get the con-
fession out of him on the 18th, but it |
was because he was too much of a |
man that they did not"