The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-30
WHAT WYNNE
SAYS Of HIS DEED
continued frou, Page one.l

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been drinking all day and the iiquo
naust have gone TO nay head. Yol
may not believe me and perhaps no
body viii believe me, but just as tru,
as l came in at that door, SO bel,
me God, I have no recollection of 90
ing aboard ship the last time I wen
aboard that night and do not know
what happened after that. I did no
realize the enormity of what had don.
until the next morning when I awok,
and found myself in a cell at the DO
lice station. Then / looked about m,
and thought to myself how it eoulC
have been that got there. I did not
know at that time that MeKinnon wa,
dead | asked the people at the police
station how he was and they kept tell,
ing me that he was getting better
Always it was that he was getting bet
ter. I did not know that he was dead
until the night after the trouble =
AT the inquest you seemed to re-
member that you had secured a ham
mer from below. .
Il don + remember where + got the
hammer I don L remember anything
about a hammer. =
You spoke Of getting hammer
when you testified at the inquest. =
4Oh, yes, know that hammer
had something to do with it, but /
can t remember where / got the ham
mer. The hammer may have been in
MeKinnon's room. He may have left
it There. I don't know"
Do you remember that MeKinnon
was aslep when You struck himg''
~ couldn t say whether he was
asleep or not, perhaps he was .
Wynne wanted to know how long
MeKinnon had lived after the trou-
bic. He was told that MeKinnon was
practically dead when he was taken
from his cabin; that the last sign of
any movement of the heart vanished
while he was beng removed to the
hospital 81 dIln t know he was
dead until the next night, y said
Wynne. That was when U. s. District
Attorney Breckons told him.
.tTf it hadn't been for Bright but
ting in it would never have happened, -
continued Wynne, in answer to ques-
tions. Bright is the Rosecrans first
assistant engineer.
81 had row with Bright ashore
in the evening IN saloon. He called
me some hard names and / answered
him back. But it was MeKinnon vino
put him up to it. McKinnon WASH t
in my watch, but he was hard man
30 get along with and he tried to get
Bright against me and also the second
assistant engineer. I was in MeKin-
mons watch on the trip before and it
was at that time that / heard he was
trying to get ME fred. But that was
nothing why / should 60 to commit
any crime like what I did. When I
went to his cabin / most probably was
going to have an argument with him,
TO talk with him. didn't so toI
do anything like what they say / did.
| can not understand it. 1t would be
only natural for q man to have it out
with another man who had been using
hard words to him, in the way of argu-
ment. but man who would take and
kill fellow for anything like that
would be loon. Yes, he would be a
loon. Why it isn't natural that I
should have had any idea Of killing |
him or doing him up the way they say
/ did. If I had made up any mind /
to anything like that, wouldn't have
got things readyf Wouldn't i have
had everything laid outq A man would
be loon to go in and do what they |
say / did. 1 don't remember going |
aboard and that's the Gods truth. |
Yes, / have some remembrance of be-
ing taken of the Roseerans and being |
.aken to the police station, but / did
not begin to realize what I had done
lntil the next morning in the cell. IL
Bright hadn It bntted in with what
MeKinnon had told him about me,
lothing would have happened"
When first INTERCEPTED Wynne did
Tot wish to have anything to say. He
aid he didn't want to see anything
n the newspapers. When he finally
to talk he dwelt long and
n detail on how he had been on the
2-to-4 watch in the morning and how
le supposed that since he had taken
hat watch he would not have to work
gain until the afternoon watch. HeI
old Of going ashore and drinking and
ow he was enjoying himself ashore.
Il went to q clothing store and bought
ONE shirts and socks" he said, t'and
his is one of the shirts / bought, -
howing his undershirt.
Wynne repeated what he had said
+ the iuauesf in regard To drinking