The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-21
MURDERER TALKS
OF HAWAIIANS
Continued from Page one).

the japanese bank before Superior
Judge Carroll Cook yesterday. Both
the accused were given until next Fri
day morning at 10 o'clock to plead.
Siemsen appeared in court in a natty
brown suit and a light vest of fancy
pattern and looked a bit frightened.
Dabner was much the more self-pos-
sessed of the two.
"He won't come out In that white
vest when I have control of him." said
the sheriff, indicating Siemsen.
Siemsen still wore the white vest
in his cell at the Bush street station
after his arraignment, and was in
clined to be apologize Tor his cell
mates when informed that a imam
from the islands addressed him.
II have never had anybody from the
islands come to see me-" he said. "They
had me in here by myself at first. Then
it was not so bad. Now they have
put in these other fellows. 1t will be
better at the county jail. Then I will
have a nice place to myself"
He looked about him with some dis
gust as he said it. And, mingled with
the disgust was the fear that he seems
to have always with him. That fear
was visible, constantly, like a specter
behind his bold front 1t lurked in the
confident manner of his speaking. 1t
showed in every turn of his little,
twinkling eyes, eyes that betray the
presence of Chinese blood in his veins
For Siemsen, as they say in Honolulu,
| &c Dol iS
father, as he says, was probably Ger
man. But they mix races strangely in
Hawaii and his mother, while the
mans features show that she was of
the higher type of the islanders, clear
ly had Chinese blood. In Honolulu
| where it is no reproach to bear mixed
blood, Siemsen would be called a
"three-quarter f-white"-that is to
| say, he is one-quarter Kanaka and
| three-quarters-well, other things. It
is the other things that have made him
a thug. Your. Kanaka is a merry,
harmless, generous felloS, giving free
ly of all that he has and wronging no
man. He is child, with a child's
simplicity with the superstition of
Nero. He fears nothing but the Kahu-
mas, but his fear of them will make
him lie down and die when told that
his enemy is praying him to death.
And Siemsen has some of this SUI
perstition. He is decidedly uncom-
Portable when it, was suggested to him
yesterday that somebody had put a
Kahuna spell upon him-that bottle
of gin had been burst and white
rooster sacrificed in his despite,
He smiled at it, but not pleasantly.
| They haven't got anything on me,
really" he repeated. 1t is a police
made case. have not talked much.
! They do not even believe I am from
the islands But of course am a Ha-
waian. You know that My brother
is clerk in the Hilo postofice, and is
married to a daughter Of Desha.
II was with Prince David up here,
too, for a time, and I know the Camp
bells and Colonel Sam Parker and
Palmer Woods of Kohala."
There was something of a pluming
of himself here at the mention of the
scions of old Hawaiian royalty. Stem
ser has the pride of a Kanaka in the
old order in his country.
TN glad to talk of tha Islands and
the island people with n man who
knows them" he went on. but I am
saying nothing to these guys up here.
ct am too smart for them. And they
Will not get me. There will be no pill
kia."