The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-30

| 4hsy can say that / was sober when
| went aboard unless they perjnrs thera-
selves. was told that they said i
Was sober. That is lie. was 50
drunk that 1 didn t know what wsa
doing
Wynne asked when his trial would
come up and wanted to knew when thu
Roseerans would come back here. lie
seemed particularly anxious that all
the members Of the crew should re-
turn to testify in his ease.
Twin have a lawyer to defend
metz asked the murderer. He was as
sured that no would, evea il he had M
money. the court always appointing .
lawyer to defend where defendant
could not afford 10 retain counsel.
! s.wilI he be good lawyerg'' asked
Wynne, t'if be isn't paidf'
He was told that lawyer had things
other than money TO consider; his
reputation and the record he might
make out Of the case. This seemed to
relieve Wynne's mild. Because /
lad no idea of doing anything like what
| did do, 2 said he, and it seems to
me that I was not responsible alto
getber for what / did. OF course, I'm
not denying that I did a terribIe thing
and nobody 5 half as sorry for it as
| am, and TINT S the truth; nobody can
be as sorry as am might have
gone to his cabin to talk it out vita
him, or, if I had been sober, might
even have gone so far as to hit him
one in the eye, but to go for him with
any kind Of weapon wasn't in my
mind at all. What viii be the chargers,
Wynne was told that there was prob
ably but one charge, that which had
already been made Murder.
.soh, / don't see how it could be
murder, = he said His mind has APP
parently been very active in the con-
sideration Of the fine points of muir
der; the degrees; generalization, mo-
tive, extenuating circumstances, if any.
While talking with the reporter and
going over incidents of the hours spent
ashore, speaking OF anything except the
actual brutal decd, wynne held hts
head up and talked deliberately and
calmly. But whenever the subject of
the crime was mentioned, whether ho
answered the questions put or avoid
ed them, he hung his head and look
ed away, He insisted that he did
not remember, that he was So drunk
that he did not knew what he was
doing, although, as above recorded, be
declared that he wasi no Innatic aud
had never been one. His repetition
of the detail Of the stay ashore was
peculiar, perhaps, to men thinking over
a crime. 1t seemed TO relieve him to
talk over the ineorisequential little
things preceding the crime, such as
buying shirt.
:" IL any idea of crime had entered
my head while I was ashore, he said,
II d have sooner gone and thrown my
self in the bay than to &c aboard ship
and do what they say / did. That
shows | had no intention Of doing any
thing of the kind. Yes, / knew had
grievance against MeKinnon, but moth
ing more than could have had out
with him in an argument. / do nos
know what to make of it. 1t Is all a
blank to me what did after I went
aboard ship for the last time that
night.
That 1t should wind up the way ik
did, said Wynne, s'I can't UNDER
stand / was ashore having a good
little time. That 1t should have come
to that is what can't make ont.
have been thinking 1t over and can't
make it clear. / wrote letter to
my mother that day and sent her
postoffice order. / mailed the letter.
Wynne Joined the Rosecrans about
the middle of July Iasit, in San Fran-
cisco. McKinnon had been with the
vessel about nine months. They had
never had any trouble, according to
Wynne, more than could be settled al
the time by an exchange of rough talk.
Wynne is well-built man Of about
I56 pounds and about feet, s IA
inches in height. His eyes are violet
brown and his head and features w0uld
strike a casual observer as normally
we'll formed. The chin is somewhat
weak and the lower forehead slightly
'rotuberant. He speaks well and dis
plays some education. He is not lack
ng in generous use of words not .
usually heard among men of his walk
# life. He certainly does not seem
o realize that he may hang for muir
Ter, but rather appears confident that
le will be found guilty in some lesser
legee.
81 don't suppose it viii count for
much, = said BE, referring to his being
defended by lawyer, but it was clear