The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-21
PERRY WOULD SAVE
ALL THE KOREANS
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/ instead OF their Korean names The
4 detailed conclusions ass Co the two de- !
PENDANTS whom the report found not !
. deserving execution, were as follows:
/ Conclusion No. There was no evil !
/ dencc produced before the trial court |
at Hjlo. ana there is no evidence in |
! any % the numerous other statements |
above referred to, warruntng the con-
4 victon OF defendant No. g. Choug Chee |
/ Iuel, Of any offcnse whatsoever. on |
/ the contrary the evidence is over !
/ whelmingly i'm favor of the proposition |
that he not only did not take part I'm |
either the fortune or the murder Of PAX |
Han No; but that he was the chief |
one of the entire nine who were present |
seeing his torture and murder. who |
took steps to deliver him from his |
fate. We believe that on the record |
he should be granted a full pardon on
the specific ground that he is not only
not shown to be guilty, but that he is
specifically shown not to be guilty.
"The examination Of the other state
ments, which are not part of the Of
fetal record of the trial, including the
private notes Of the assisting prescott
ing attorney, Mr.. Doyle, not only does
not modify the evidence Of the limo
cencc of No. 6, but, on the contrary
strengthens it.
Conclusion NO. 2-As to defendant
No. 3, Kim Yong Yee, the conclusion
Of your committee is that the evil
dence does not justify his conviction of
: murder i'm any degree. At best the
. fngtfH.g ion, of N
. assault only. and the evidence is not
strong even as to this offense.
I'VE believe that the Governor should
. commute his sentence from the death
penalty to such lower penalty as the
, circumstances appear to warrant and
he may deem just"
The discussion was all in favor of the
, report, with the exception Of the re-
= marks made by Deputy Attorney Gen
eral f. W. Milverton, who prosecuted
the case and those of Managers Bald
win and Goodale, and these two did not
actively or directly oppose it, Mil
verton objected to the statement that
No. 6 had been shown to have tried to
save the life of the vicim. He said
that evidence showed that it was after
the effort to save the man that No. 6
had taken part in the torture. Thurston
replied that there was only one wit
, ness in all the case giving this testi-
mOny about No. g. and that it was
denied by No. 6. Among those to take
part in the discussion, besides Thurs
ton, and to express themselves in favor
- of the report were United States Judge
} Dole, w. O. Smith ID. l.. Wilmington,
l.. Y. Peck, Professor Scott A. Lewis,
Jr., Judge Perry. s. NJ. Balou also
took part i'm the discussion.
q There were some severe criticisms of
II the manner i'm which Attorney Carl
# Smith had handled the defense. The
!. opinion Appeared to prevail that he had
= failed to make much of a fight, and
% surprise was expressed that the case
lie should have been finished in such short
n time. Milverton replied that as far as
It evidence was concerned there was not
is much needed, the cases being clear
J. ones
l. Three plantation managers present
+ were asked for their views Manager
Y Baldwin discussed the character OF
e Koreans generally. He said that they
d We're disposed to take matters into
e their own hands. He had had expert
ence with several cases. in which lot
l. of them had got together and beaten
o countrymen who had offended them. In
Ie one of these cases it had been their in
tention to kill the victim, but they had
not completed the job. Baldwin did
not express his opinion as to the case
under discussion.
Goodale said he thought Communication
of sentences would have a bad effect
i on Koreans, Japanese and Chinese. He
Y took the view that as a court had acted
- in the regular legal way and found tht
II men guilty, the law should take its
course. As to Koreans generally, he
agreed with Baldwin. He said That
l. Japs, Chinese and Koreans alike were
y disposed to take the law into theiI
. own hands, He referred to several
" cases i'm which men We're severely beat
:, en- ana by way Of making punishment
=. impossible the members of a whole
= camp would declare they all did it. In
i one case several hundred had come for
ward and declared themselves guilty,
2 all alike OF such an assault. Goodale
p said he had been misquoted in an in
= tervew which made him say the Ko-
t reans were the most lawless people here
e. He had said rather that they were In
danger of becoming the most lawless
Goodale had arrived late and had not
! heard the reading of the report In
answer to others present he said he
was not familiar with the cases under
consideration, and he did not urge any
D conclusion as to them.
McStocker said he had had no trouble
: with Koreans. He generally favored
e the conclusions contained i'm the report.
p Judge Perry moved to amend the con-
p illusions. He said that it appeared
, that the defendants had not had fair
p trial and therefore none Of them should
p be hanged, He moved TO amend by
asking the Communication of the senten-
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