The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-21
HOMICIDE LAST
NIGHT IN
HARBOR
Engineer McKinnon of
RoSecrans Killed by
an OiIer.


gineer of the steamer Rosecrans,
was killed on board that vessel last
might by John Wynne, one of the oil
-ers. The deed was committed in the
cabin of the dead man about nine
O'Clock last night, death following a
blow on the temple from a hammer,
the blow being given in the course of
a quarrel between the two men. No
one was present when the fatal blow
was struck except the slayer and
his antagonist and no cause for the
quarrel has SO far been told by the
Rnan now under arrest and held in GUS
tody at the police station.
McKinnon, whose body lies at the
Queens Hospital, was a brother of
Joe McKinnon, who for some years
was a clerk at the receiving desk at
the police station. He has made sew
seraI cruises TO this port in the Rose
Grams and has many friends in Homo
lulu. His home is in San Jose. Cali
fornia, where his parents now reside.
The first intimations the police had
of any trouble on the oil steamer,
which had docked at the railroad
wharf yesterday morning, was about
mine o'clock, when the. chief engineer
arrived at the police station in search
of a doctor, informing the officer in
charge of the station that there had
been a fight aboard the vessel in the
course of which the assistant engineer
had been hurt. The patrol wagon was
sent at once to the vessel and the
injured man taken to the hospital. Be-
fore the police wagon had arrived
there, however, the man had died. An
examination at the hospital showed
that his right temple had been crush
ed in by blow from some blunt in
;strument.
In the meantime the police had ar
rested the homicide, John Wynne, one
of the oilers, who acknowledged hav-
ing struck the fatal blow. The weapon
used by him was one of the heavy
hammers used by the mechanics
aboard steamers. This is in the pos
session of the police as evidence.
No statement could be obtained from
the arrested man last night, the only
details of the crime obtainab1e being
supplied by the chief engineer, who
states that he was awakened by the
cries of the members of the crew, who
stated that murder was being COM
mittee aboard. The engineer hast |
ened to the cabin of McKinnon, from |
whence the noise of struggle came |
but before he arrived the noise ceas-
ed and he was just in time to meet |
the oiler coming out, brandishing a
hammer and announcing that he had |
done it. He added, it is said, the hope /
that the blow he had given MeKinnon /
had killed him, which hope was too
we'll realized.
Deputy Sheriff Jarrett will enlpanel
Jury this morning for an inquest.
McKinnon,. who is a young man,
came ashore last night early and WIS.,
ted at the home of Robert Bemrose,
IN Hotel street at the corner of A1akea
street, leaving there about seven
,'clock Before joining the ship he
,alled in at scottys, staying there un-
il a few minutes before nine o'clock.
lie was perfectly sober at the time
lie left for the ship, all the time he
vas at Seottys refusing to drink. At
10 time during the visit did he refer
o any trouble he had had aboard the
aosecrans. nor is it known, so far, ,
f any trouble had during the voyage
With the oi1er Wynne.
This is the first case which may +,
rove a murder the present police de-
artment has had to deal with, Homo
llu having been singularly free of this :,