The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-31

mas Sdjd dUoub JO"u THAI nc hight dS
well be hanged as serve the sentence,
and that he is going to make another
attempt to kill Sheba and succeed.
Next week this statement will prob
ably be brought to the official atten-
ton Of the court and his bond fixed at
figure that will discourage anyone
from attempting to go on it.
Recommendation Spurned.
The recommendation for the mercy of
the court served for nothing except to
discredit, if not the jury that made it,
| at least the one man on the jury who
forced it to be placed there. Judge
De Bolt made no bones at signifying
the man whose action induced him to
denote the conduct of the jury as dis
graceful. William Tirrell, who, it is
alleged, did his best to force the Jury
to remain out over night, is the man
who has earned the right to the title
of the professional juror, if the state
ments made against him are true and
it was he who caused the court to say
that his remarks about the action of
the jury, which were hot, applied, of
course, to those on the jury who were re-
sponsible. Tirrell is an old man, a driver
by occupation but seldom with it, thin
faced with scraggly white mustache,
watery apologetlc eyes, slouched shout
ders and hint of slyness about him,
evidently born Of necessity.
Of the recommendation of mercy, the
court stated that it was not to be con-
sidered, that it was totally and abso-
lutely without excuse. To the reports
of Tirrell's action on the jury, Judge
De Bolt stated that he could pay no
official attention.
About the jury he said, 81 can only
account for that long absence of the
jury as being a total failure on their
part to grasp the Importance of their
duties as jurors and as citizens of this
community. The remarks of the court
apply only to those who were the cause
of such unnecessary and disgraceful de-
lay"
The jury should have returned a YER
diet in less than fifteen minutes time,
according to the opinion of the judge
Morris Bloody Act.
In regard to the attempt of the de-
tense to mitigate the seriousness of
the crime by showing the reputation
OF the uelelddHG on Maui, the court
said that reputation was not character
and that mis- character was best shown
by the bloody act of August third.
With the passing of sentence Mort s
hopes end, except to the extent that
he still dreams of fulfilling his express
ed determination to rid the world of
one man in Hawaii that kept the local
japanese laborers from covering them
selves with disgrace and a stigma that
would surely be the cause of other ma.
tlonalities supplanting them. With the
sentence also ends the last echo of the
Higher Wage Association and its hid
den and lawless attempt to control the
labor situation of the islands. It has
turned up its toes in the most polite
manner and croaked.
During his trial, Mori : face has been
a field wherein oriental geniaGtv has
romped and young innocence sat en-
throned At not one stage of the trial
did he lose control of himself or hetrav
the slightest emotion, his testimony on
the stand being given much as if he
was discussing the probability of Hal
ley s comet hitting the earth. All of
which calls forth the reflection that
when said comet appears in view.
Mort 5 abode won t exactly be an OBJ
seryatory.