The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-13

Several other extracts of the same
general character were shown Sega, and
In each instance he said that the Ian
guage used was fgurative and not in
tended TO be taken literally. The Jap
anese papers, he said, abound in such
fgurative Language. He insisted that
at no time had he ever counseled phys
zeal violence.
The second cross-examination of the
witness failed to bring out anything of
Importance. Sega was then excused and
Miauchi called to the stand by the de-
Tense
Tells Of the Riot.
Miauchi was treasurer of the Wal
pabu Higher Wage Association and was
one Of the men arrested at Waipahu on
the night Of June II for alleged com
pl1clty N the not that occurred there
he Is large man, for Japanese, and
has deep bass voice, so he afforded a
decided contrast TO Sega, his prede-
eessor on the stand, who is a little,
slender man with a high, weak voice
Mlauehi was working on the plantation
as cane cutter before the strike took
place.
Llghtfoot examined him as to the al
legged riot. According 10 the testimony
of the witness, there was no riot. He
said ne was just going downstairs In
the hotel TO get a cup of coffee when
he heard shot fred and ran to see
/ what was the matter. He found Mr..
Seoviile and officer Wills in the midst
Of crowd. each with grasp on the
collar or arm Of a japanese whom thew
had arrested. Miauchi is the man who
IS accused of having broken through
the crowd, rushed up in front of Mr..
seovllle and throwing open his coat,
told him. "Shoat. shoot, suppose we
makei Plenty more japanese.
But Mlauehi denied doing ANYTHING
Of the kind. He even claimed that he
mad 40 coat On, having left that article
Of apparel at the hotel He admitted
having said 10 Mr.. SeoyiIIe, Japanese
pistol no makau all right but that
was all at the time. Later. when. as
he said, Mr.. Seoville expressed the de-
sire 10 talk to him. he led the wav TO
the office Of the Higher Wage Assoeia-
ton, saying EOfiee come. taI1ea talk
all right. And Seovi1le and Wills.
with their prisoner, followed him into
the room. They were not forced In or
pushed IN BY the crowd, but went free
~, the crowd opening up a passage for
them as they went Thirty or forty
Japanese did follow them as far as
the door, but Afiauchi said be went
back and told them to 60 home or 90
TO the theater and listen to the
speeches that were to be made. and
they went
The witness denied ernphatieaIly that
he or anyone else ordered the officers
to SIT down, or engaged in converse
ton With them at all, except that once
Hata did come IN and advise officer
wills to 60 back 10 Honolulu.
Got His Coffee.
Miauehi said that he got hungry and
went back to the hotel TO get that
cup Of coffee that he had forgotten to
drink, and that when ne returned. ev-
erybody except two or three japanese
had gone. Later he was arrested al
the hotel. and with SIX other Japa-
nese brought TO Honolulu and lodged
in jail
On cross examination the witness
was asked whether or not he presided
al the Waipahu meeting at which
sveophants were selected. He said he
did not. He was present at the meet
ing but vas called away before the
voting for syeophants began. From
hearsy, however. he knew how II was
done. Each japanese wrote On a slip
If paper the names of those whom
he thought should be branded as
syeophants. together with the reasons
for SO believing. and these slips were
examined by the officers of the asso-
citation. who were the final arbiters n
the matter
Miauchi was still on the stand when
the court took its adjournment for the
day, but his cross examination appear
ed 70 be nearly its close Lightfoot