The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-28

Progress Is Made in the Trial
of John Wynne Before
Dole.

The trial of John Wynne for tn,
t murder of Engineer McKinnon of the
Roseerans was in progress all day yes
terday. Second Officer James Reed
: who occupied the witness stand for tbs
most of the day before, concluded his
! testimony. He had left off just at the
! point where he said he met Wynne
on the companionway, and that Wynne
touched him and said
What Reed says Wynne said was
- Jimmie Reed, I've killed the -
and I'm glad of it," Reed did not
stop to apprehend Wynne, but went
right on to McKinnon S room to see
what had become of him and that ne
was occupied with McKinnon until he
had gone with him to the hospital,
where he died. On oss-examination,
Reed drew diagram of the ship s
deck, showing the location and rela-
tion Of the various places mentioned
in his testimony.
DR.. j. T. Mcdonald testified to the
result of the post mortem, that death
was due to the wounds inflicted on
McKinnon S head and neck, ard that
they were such as might have been in
| ficted with such a hammer as the one
| shown him, which is the one with
which it is claimed that the murder
was committed. McKinnon s skull
was shattered into small fragments.
First Assistant Engineer Glen Mil
| ton Bright followed DIR. Mcdonald on
the stand. Bright proved very frank
and candid witness and very ntelli-
gent. He testified that Wynne had
twice complained to him the day of the
murder of McKinnon, saying once that
McKinnon was making him do more
brasses than dago. Wynue made
one of these complaints to him on
shipboard and the other afterwards
ashore. Bright was ashore consider
able part of the afternoon and even
ing and was in company with McKin-
non part of the time. He saw
Wynne at Scotty 5. Wynne, he said
at that time had had ga few drinks. -
which he explained on cross eXamina-
ton to mean that he had dranR
enough so that its effects were visible
to others. He admitted having had
"a few drinks himself, meaning
thereby the same thing as to himself.
In answer to questions by Juror Jack
Lucas. he said that he was not so in
toxicated but that he could take care
of himself, and that he had gone to
McKinnon s room when he heard that
something had happened to him.
Bright candidly admitted that he
did not recollect much about his own
movements ashore that day. He knew
that he had been at Scotty's and that
he had been at the Criterion, and he
recalled about a half a dozen of those
whom he had seen ashore or been In
company with.
There was some delay in the appear
ance of the next witness, caused, as
it was learned, by the fact that the
witness did not recognize his own
name under the pronunciation given 1t
by the court bailiff who went out to
the witness-room to call him.
The witness proved to be Lamber-
thus Wiser, a quartermaster on the
Rosecrans at that time. He is said
to be one of the principal witnesses
by which the defense expect to prove
insanity, though neither in his eXami' |
nation nor in his cross examination
was there any hint of an opinion that
Wynne was insane. Wiser testified
that he was on watch from eight to |
twelve that night and seated by the |
winch he saw McKinnon come aboard |
and 90 to his room, and afterwards |
Wynne come aboard and go to his |
room, which was on the same deck and |
in the same alleyway and not far from
McKinnon s. Later Wiser went to his |
own room for a smoke and saw Nc
Kinnon in his room lying down on
the couch with his head to the door.
He was awake. Later he saw McKin-
non 90 down to the engine-room with
his working clothes on.
Later he heard someone saying,
GIVE killed him, I've killed him.
The witness ran to McKinnon s room.
Wynne was standing just outside Nc
Kinnon s door, and said to him as he
came up. We got him this time,
I've killed him. - Wiser went inside
the room and saw blood flowing, and
that something had happened TO Nc
Kinn0n. He went at once and called
the captain and came right back.
When he got back, the second officer,
Reed was there. Reed was washing
McKinuon's wounds with water and
he, Wiser, went and got some more
He helped carry McKinnon out of his
room and helped take off his shoes.
When he first went into the room, the
engineer hammer was lying on Nc
Kinnon s breast Wiser identified the
hammer which was shown him and
which was introduced in evidence.
Frank Croker, bartender at Scot
tvs, testified to having seen Wynne
in ScOtty's that evening. He was not
very drunk then.
Henry Espinda, a police officer, was
the next witness. Quite a passage at
arms took place between him and
Thompson as to whether he remember
ed the date independently of the rec =
ord of il in the police station book $
and in his own little memorandum
book He was still on the stand when
court adjourned.
Divorces Asked and Granted.
Judge Lindsay yesterday granted
divorce to Gosaburo Nizutani from his !
wife, Hatsu Mzutani, on the ground !
IF desertion.