The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-14
JONES HELD
FOR MURDER
San Mateo Judge Bears
Hardly Upon the
Prisoner.

George Jones, the kanaka, has been
committed to the custody of the Sheriff
| of san Mateo County and held, with
| out bail, to face a charge of numbering
Mrs. Elizabeth Brandrup in his room
| in the Linden Hotel at Baden on June
%.
The preliminary hearing before JUS
tice Harmon, which has lasted several
DAYS. came TO an end yesterday, says
the Call of July Z, and resulted in the
holding of the accused man for trial
in the Superior Court of the State. The
three days hearing brought out pre-
ponderance of testimony against the
suspect, even the witnesses for the de-
the prisoners cause.
The summary of the hearing is clear
ly and succinctly set forth in the words
of Justice Harmon:
II have had time during the hear
ing to give this case ample considera-
tion,'' he said, land do not believe,
making allowance for slight discrep-
ancies, that the witness for the prose-
I would be the last person to do the
defendant a wrong, but I cannot be-
lieve his testimony is true. I cannot
believe that the defendants testimony
is even probable
From the time the carpenter, L. T.
Hansen, testified to hearing the death
screams of the victim in Jones room
the demeanor of the prisoner has I'M
dergone a change. He showed nothing
of the bravado yesterday that has
characterized his early action during
by the defense failed to corroborate
his statements as to his whereabouts
on the day of the murder Jones' black
hair became damp with perspiration.
Throughout the hearing he has said
that he would be set free at it's con-
clusion. Although the courts opinion
was anticipated by almost every one
in the courtroom, the decision came as
a shock to the prisoner.
There was a hurried conversation
between the accused man, his brother
Charles Jones, and his attorney, Harry
Styles, but no word was given out by
any of them concerning the line of de-.
Tense they will adopt at the murder
trial.
The testimony during the day did not
develop startling features. Harry Coff-
land, on whom the defense at one time
tried to cast suspicion, was present
under a subpoena served by the de-
Tense. He swore that he saw Mrs.
Brandrup enter the hotel a few min
utes before she was killed and had |
seen Jones talking to her on street j
corner just before.
William Green, the carpenter on |
whom Jones was depending to furnish |
him an alibi, denied that he had seen
Jones on the day of the murder. He
also said that Jones did not work DUR
ing the morning, as the defendant |
claimed. The witness, called by the /
defense, made a case for the prosecu-
ton.
E. S. McPike, butcher, was called
TO the stand by the defense. He bel
came so tangled in his testimony by II
he questions of District Attorney Bull
ock that his evidence was not con-
'idered. The other witnesses for the II
lefense, Nellie Cohen, a barber; o. II
iita, the japanese cook at the Linden
Hotel and Joseph David, the dish
washer, proved immaterial witnesses.
Jones was recalled to the stand as
he last witness and questioned as to
lis family history and life in Hawaii.
The case was submitted by both sides
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