The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-03-26
SHIP BURNING
TRIAL IS WARM
Crrom saturday.a AavertIaerJ

! Robinson ycsterdny morning W Wy
Jacques Gnerre for malicious burning
and the trial proper began at p. M
Mr.. Prosser waived the Territory s
fourth challenge and for the last two
excused G. Delanux and Arthur X.
Miranda
Mr.. Straus exercised all of his re-
naming challenges for the defense, ex-
cusing Edwin X. Fernandez, Eddie
McCorriston, John $. Fleming, Robert
Z. Mist, j. C. Axtell and Bruce Cart
wright Jr.
The jury sworn to try the case con
sists of Marshall s. Hannah, Henry
A. Giles, Alfred II. Jungclaus, Antoine
L. Perry, VIM. WAGNER, Henry Asch,
VIM. G. Lane Jr, Geo. Cavanaugh,
Frank Rodrigues Manuel A. Silva, John
il. Thompson and Andrew T. Bannister.
Pierre Jones was sworn as special
French interpreter.
DOYLE SHUT OUT.
Mr.. Straus started the first Of a
series of lively combats when, at the
outset, he requested that Chester Doyle
be excluded with the other witnesses
until called.
Judge Robinson ordered that Doyle
be excluded.
Deputy Attorney General Prosser,
having failed to satisfy the court that
Doyle had any right to remain, asked
Stenographer Jones to take down a
statement by him, which was to the
effect that Doyle, can assistant in the
Attorney General IS department, hav-
ing been placed under the rule for the
exclusion of witnesses, the Territory
was compelled to abandon its purpose
of calling Doyle as a witness.
Being no longer witness in the
case, Doyle retained his seat beside
the prosecuting attorney.
THE EVIDENCE BEGINS.
Captain David Thompson, master of
the Claverdon, was the first witness.
There was fight over nearly every
question and answer in his direct ex-
animation. Witness did not see defend
ant aboard the time of the fire.
"My eccentric and noisy friend,
was one of Mr.. Prosser's compliments
to the attorney for defendant.
81 may be eccentric, but you will
find there is something in my eccen
tricity before / am done with you,'
was the rejoinder of Mr.. Straus.
The bedding that was fred and
thrown into the lower hold Of the
nitrates-laden ship was an exhibit OF
the floor of the courtroom. 1t emitted
a strong odor of kerosene oil.
J. A. V. Rodriguez, mate of the
Claverdon, was the second witness.
NOT A CONFESSION.
w. p. Jarrett, deputy sheriff of Ho
nolulu, was next called and the last
witness of the day. There YVES a
struggle of half an hour over sup
posed confession the defendant made
to him, Mr.. Straus striving to elicit an
admission of the use of coercion. When
| the purported confession came out how
ever, it amounted to nothing in the
case, being simply that the defendant
| nj nrI A
had with Il third member of the crew
visited several saloons on the night of
the fire and that the two accused men
had assisted in carrying the third
mariner to the ship.
This is probably not the confession
that Mr.. Prosser referred to in his
opening of the case to the jury, when
he spoke of n statement made by
Guerre to ga person speaking his own
language"
CALENDAR CLEARANCE.
There was considerable clearance
of petty criminal appeals from the Ho-
nolulu District Court in Judge Robin
sons court yesterday.
Chang Gin and eight others withdrew
their appeals from conviction for be-
ing present at n gambling game. Lau
San, who had been fined 800, now
had his fine reduced to $25, the same
as the others.
Kuana, assault and battery, with
drew his appeal and paid his fine.
Iwaki, gross cheat, paid his fine.
Muraoka and A. G. Davis, separate
ly charged with assault and battery,
from last term We're mol pressed.
Tam Pong's case was on the calendar
by mistake, having been disposed of
last term. 1t was now stricken off.
Judge Robinson gave Sam Apoliona
ten days from March 81 to file his
exceptions from conviction for gam.
bling.
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