The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-28
SHOW RIOTERS
ATTACKED MAN
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What then happenedg

| the hlIi-0fficer Wills and | started
down to intercept him, but he was
closer TO the japanese CARVING the
bundles than. we were and arrived there
| nrst. Then we grabbed him and phil
ing MN had to pull him off the mar.
ana IN doing so he turned around and
tore my shirt and undershirt and ripped
! NE down tins way, and then the crowd
closed IN ON us, surrounded us.
T. How large crowd was it then p
A. Well, l should judge between
TWO and three hundred It is pretty
nard to estimate them; the road was
full of them there.
q. What did the crowd do while this
was happening-that is, when this man
started forward that you have identi
he'd among the defendants and Won and
wills started to intercept him: what
did the crowd doa
A. The crowd closed right in ON us.
| followed us right up, as soon as we pot
mold OF the prisoner they followed RICH.
up and surrounded us.
O. What then happened?
A. | then suggested to the officer
that we back down TO one side of the
road SO as to get our backs up against
something. We attempted to do it.
| but were surrounded and could not
force our way back through the crowd
the japanese were hollering and MAX
ing great deal of noise and attemnted
60 rush us, closed in ON US, and as thew
| dad so Mr.. Wills drew his revolver and
| hfed shot IN the air. As he fred in
the AR l pulled my revolver at the
| same time and swung it around and
| they Jumped back when we pulled our
guns. linen one of them jumped up to
me- He says: 81 no afraid; shoot.
snoot me, no care, suppose I make
| dead !; plenty more japanese stop.
| Mr.. Kinney:
/ z. Where is that man?
A. He is here. He is the second
| man from the end there.
q. Please state again just what this
man said who has been identified now.
| A. HIS rushed up to me and he
says: Shoot, shoot, / no care; no
afraid gun, suppose I make (dead)
plenty more. Japanese stop.
q. How close did he come up to
you at that times
A. About two feet from me.
| q. Where with reference to YOU?
| A. Directly in front of me. He
| came up to me like that and held his
| coat open and said "shoot. shoot T
/ was holding the prisoner here around
! the neck IN one hand and had the gun
IN the other pointing it swinging it
| around.
@. What was his appearance at
| that time?
A. Well he was very much excited
very much worked up.
Q. What then happened?
| A. Well the thing looked SO serious
that I called-I saw on the outskirts
| of the crowd a little above one of our
employees of the plantation, 9 white
man. ] called to him to go up and
notify Mr.. Bull that we were in trou-
| BILE.
Mr.. Kinney:
Q. Who was this white employee
that You sung out tog
| A. His name is Wholers, sugar
clerk.
| @. What happened thens
! A. Well he disappeared and then q
| few minutes after he left us the two
Spillners came down there on horse
/ back.
Q. They came down on horseback?
| A. They came down on horseback
and started in to work their horses
into the crowd and hollered to the men
| to stand back, stand back; and as they
did SO they were met with a shower
| of rocks and sticks were thrown at
them and the Japs yelled at them with
a roaring sound and chased them up
the street away from us.
Q. From whom did these showers of
| stones come?
A. Came from the crowd, I could
not say. who threw them.
The witness then related how he,
| Wills and the prisoner were forced into
the house of the Higher Wage Associa-
| ton and held there by superior num-
bers. He identified some of the defend
ants as among those in the house Out
side the crowd was yelling.
@. Now what happened inside the
room?
A. Why, one of the japanese said
to me, says he, TO me, "Let this
prisoner go, suppose you let him go you
| can go all right.
! Q. Who said that to you2
| A. This second man from the end
@. Mr. Miauehi2
A.. Yes.
@. What did yon say in response to
| that?
A. I referred him to my superior
officer Mr.. Wills / said, "You speak
to him..
Q. Do you know whether he spoke
| to him?
A. He did.
@. You know what the answer was?
A Mr.. Wills said, ''No. I will not
let him go, / cannot let him so, I
have got to take him to my boss"
Q. What else was said there?
A. Why there was another Japanese
| that spoke to Mr.. Wills, asked him,
says, .You Honolulu policeman" M.
| Wills said. eyes "More better you
go back, suppose you no go back you
| make
@. Do you recognize that Japanesea
| A.. He is not here.
| o . Q