The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-07-29
PRISONER SWEARS
HENRY VIDA GAVE
HIM WATER CURE
Story Of Most Atrocious Torture by the Police
Told in an Affidavit Filed in the
Circuit Court

In the early evening of March II, a
Korean of the name of Chan San Duk
employed by a well-known resident OF
Judd street as yard boy, was shot
from ambush while he was passing
along the street near the place of his
employment. The case had many ele-
fnents of mystery, because the boy was
not known to have any enemies but
these began to clear away when ii
was ascertained that two other Kore-
ans formerly employed in the same
vicinity had quarreled about a woman
and that there was ill-feeling between
them in consequence.
The police began rounding UP Kore-
ans, and finally got the two who were
known to be enemies. Then it was
claimed that it developed that one OF
these had shot Chan San Duk in mis-
take for his foe, and the man was
charged with the crime, taken before
the grand jury and indicted and sent to
Oahu Prison under bond fixed at $1,000
to await trial. He has been in Oahu
Prison ever since. This man, vi Marn
Young. pleaded not guilty on the advice
of his attorneys, Magoon & Lightfc OF,
when he was arraigned.
Now come his attorneys into court
with motion to have his bail reduced,
oasing the motion upon an affidavit
made by the man himself that is simply
blood-curdling. Think of administer
ing the so-called water cure, the
thing for which General Smith was
broken III the Philippines. here in Ho-
nolulu, under the shadow and with the
sanction of authority. That is the
charge made in the affidavit filed in the
Circuit Court yesterday afternoon.
The story. with all legal form and
.solemnity. is told in the following mo-
tion notice and affidavit:
In the Circuit Court of the First Judi
cial Circuit, Territory of Hawaii.
Territory of Hawaii VS.. vi Marn
Young.-Indictment for Assault and
Battery with weapon obviously
and imminently dangerous to life.
MIcIlON.
Now comes vi Marn Young, defend
ant above named, by his Attorneys
Magoon & Lightfoot, and moves this
Honorable Court that the bail of One
Thousand Dollars fixed in his case, be
reduced, on the ground that said bail
under the circumstances of this case is
excessive and unwarranted.
This motion is based upon the affida-
lo RI oft
and made a part hereof and to which
reference is hereby made.
MAGOON & LIGHTFOOT.
Dated Honolulu. July 2Sth, 1906.
NOTICE TO ATTORNEY GENERAL.
To the Attorney General of the Terri |
tory of Hawaii.
Please take notice that the foregoing !
motion W ill be presented to the Honor
able w. J. Robinson. Third Judge of
the Circuit Court of the First Judicial
Circuit Territory of Hawaii. at his
chamber in the Judiciary Building, Ho-
nolulu. on Monday. the S0th day OF
July. 1906. at the hour of $3.50 in the,
forenoon of said day or as soon there
after as counsel can be heard.
MAGOON & LIGHTFOOT,
Attorneys for defendant.
Dated Honolulu, July Goth- LOW
OF VI MARN YOUNG.
In the Circuit Court of the First judi
cisl Circuit Territory of Hawaii
Territory of Hawaii VS.. VI Marn
Young.-Indictment for Assault ana
Battery with weapon obviously
and imminently dangerous to life
City of Honolulu, County of Oahu,
Territory of Hawaii.-ss
Now comes vi Marn Young ana oeihs
first duly sworn on oath deposes ana
saws that he is the defendant above
named and is at present detained in the
Oahu prison awaiting trial on an IN
lietment found against him on the
,th day of May 1906. charging him with
assault and battery with weapon oo-
yiously and imminently dangerous 10
ife.
And affiant says that on the 18th day