The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-04-10
LETTER THAT
DOYLE TOOK
tFrom saturdays Advertiser.)

| VI ruin SATURDAY AdvertiSer.)
Features Of the johnson ,,,nrder tria,
Yesterday were the droll raioinders n,
a negro witness named Frank Come
| land the lucid evidence ~ mr. Huber,
| Wood and the satisfactorv clearing-ur
by r. NJ. Harrison. attorney for de-
| fendant. of what the prosecution had
tacitly insinuated was an attempt on
his part to purchase evidence.
| Copeland is a stableman at waialua
piahtatioh' VINO mad various dealings
Win Johnson once last fall johnson
| was caught harnessing different pair
ol filuies from the pair witness had
pointed out to MIN when johnson was
sent to the stable for team. Then,
on ne" ear oay-two days before
| .he nuruer-Johnson was at his house
urihNihs WINE with MN, when Japa-
nese hachilah came there and accused
| Johnson Oh haVing taken his watch.
'oii'isoi aui'iitteu IT, saying he had
sNeh 'ne "a'ch 10 thlrd party. All
three vi theni went from CopeIand's to
the mousse OF the person indicated and
SURE enough recovered the watch.
Johnson was then cautioned about a
siiNerl Wa'cn upon mis- own person and
was auNised 10 leaVe IL with Cope
,anu "ile' ne uiu so' out next dav
iiau iorso'teh ABOUT II ana was met py
.opeiaiu' W "noHl ne sald ne hau lost
iis wa'ch III the stream he SAID ne
could see IT, out whenever he tried to
ie"Ih IL the Watci disappeared. Cope
,amo eii'i'iueu MN vi where ne hau
ms "a'''' anu iiaNlis gone anu
sot II 'oii'lsoii came pach anu 'haliheu
ii'H'
witness, answering question, said
he wouldn't say johnson was drunk on
| that occasion, but should say "he was
two sheets in the wind and the other
| one shaking. AS to his impression of
Johnson's state of mind, he said he re-
garded him as having a screw loose
somewhere when he was drinking, but
| as knowing pretty well what he was
| doing when not drinking.
| Under cross-eXamination by Attor-
ney General Peters he said that by a
screw loose he meant that johnson was
| 'absent-minded." Mr.. Harrison tried
| on redirect to get him to go further
! in his opinion, but the questions were
mostly overruled on objections. After
| a warm tussle between counsel a GER
tain question was allowed, but Cope
! land stayed mute until a hush had
come over the lately vibrant air. Then
he caused general laugh by asking
the court II childlike timidty, "Am /
allowed to speak?"
Witness told the ATTORNEY General
| he had rece, sed a letter from Mr. Har-
rison Offering him a reward for certain
| evidence for the defense. There was a
battle over this evidence of the letter.
| Mr.. Harrison being overruled In the
objection that the letter itself was the
best evidence Mr.. Harrison later ac-
, cused the Attorney General of getting
the letter away from the witness,
which Mr.. Peters Indignantly denied
Mr. Harrison. having asked Copeland
II he had the letter with him and been
answered in the negative, ELECTED from
the witness a statement that Chester
| Doyle of the Attorney Generals De-
partment had got the letter from him
and never returned it. Witness identi-
| fled copy of the letter as correct and
1t was admitted as an exhibit and read.
The text of the letter was as follows:
1t has appeared by some of the evil
dence that a Chinaman knew some
thing about where the boy Simeon's
body was before it was found; and, on
account OF that, l would like to find If
anyone saw johnson on the morning
the boy was killed between O'Clock,
when ne was seen swinging Simeon
! wharton behind Wharton's house, and
Il noon, when he came back to Whar-
toms place Consequently, If you can
hnd any person who can and will prove
that he was elsewhere than where the
boy was killed, and let me have his
name so that l can get his evidence in
at the trial, although 1 am getting no
pay for this case, | will give you five
dollars out of my own pocket"
! DR.. Wood told of Johnson.s calling at
his private office on the evening of
December "a, when after giving him
some treatment he told him to come
next morning to the plantation doctors
Office. Johnson's condition was low. he
was suffering from a cold and had a
wound in the ear. Witness cautioned
him lest he should be taken with pneu-
monia. Johnson kept the appointment
for the following morning. He was
and had been drinking" the witness
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