The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-17
INQUEST To De
CONTINUED TODAY
Conflicting Testimony Marked
Last Nisht's Session
OF Jury.

Conflicting testimony and state
were the features of the inquest which
was held last night to determine, if
possible, the cause of the death of
Henry Wetherill, the sailor from the
American Hawaiian steamer Pleiades
who was found with his skull crushed
in on the waterfront last Tuesday
morning. On account of the tedious
manner in which it was necessary to
take the testimony of several of the
witnesses, interpreters having to be
used, the examination of all the wit
nesses was not concluded last even
ing, though the inquest was contin-
ued until after ten o'clock
Mary said her full brother was GO
ing to be hanged" This is one of
the sensational developments, a state
ment made by Mrs. Jorgenson, a Ha-
waiian woman. She referred to what
Mary McCandless had said to her
yesterday regarding Jim McCandless,
her brother who is now under arrest.
Deputy City Attorney Milverton had
a great deal of trouble in getting di-
rect statements from some Of the wit
nesses, and he encountered consider
able of it when he attempted to Sc
cure information from Mrs. Jorgenson.
She contradicted herself several
times. giving the excuse afterwards
that she had spoken too quickly in
the first place and that she had not
meant what she said. All of the evil
dence. however. seems to show that
Wetherill was last alive in the COM
pany of Jim McCandless and Thomas
Cummings, the two who were on the
Pleiades with him.
Early Monday evening, according
to the testimony of several of the
witnesses, McCandless, Cummings and
Wetherill called at the place on Liliha
and King streets where Mary Nc
Candless has her abode. Here, for
a while, general good time was
had. There was music and there was
gin, and everybody was happy. But
two of the men had a row about some
thing on board the ship, at least, ac-
cording to one of the Hawaiian women
who was on the stand they were talk
ing about ships when they quarreled,
and the pleasant little party was
broken up.
In the meantime. however, Mary
McCandless had enquired of her
brother whether or not he intended
giving her any money. To this he re-
piled that he had none at all. Down
stairs from the room the party then
went and a spirited discussion of
some kind was held.
w. Speiser, Waterman for the o. r.
&, L. Company, was called early in the
evening as a witness, he testifying
that about midnight Monday he and
Jack Doyle, train dispatcher, started
to walk towards the latters cottage.
They passed a couple of men on the
way. The men were arguing about
something, the exact meaning of
which Speiser and Doyle did not
catch. One of the men said "You are
a - - fool to go back on the ship"
Jack Doyle's testimony was prac-
tically the same as that of Speiser.
He said that it was too dark for him
to identify the men. Joseph Whaley,
Waterman on the dredger Pearl" ly-
ing between the Hackfeld wharf and
the Railroad No. L wharf, testified
that he saw three men walking to-
wards the Pleiades, or on the road
that led in the ships direction. short
Nv after ten-thirty Monday night. He |
said that they were apparently under
the influence of liquor, one of them
more than the others, for he was iii
the middle and the two with him
were trying to drag him along the
road. Whaley heard them say some
thing in Hawaiian about going back
to town. and finally they turned maui
ka. Just then. according to Whaley,
mounted policemen came along on
their horses, and his attention was
distracted from the men.
Jennie Kekauua, who was present
at the good time," was called as
witness, and she named those who
were present in the room. She stated
that she went to bed early. but could
not sleep because of the noise made
bv Mary MeCandless and her brother
Jim. The latter was not called on the
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