The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-11

d1l0 Drug Co.,
and at all Wholesale Tiauo Dealers.
be fair to lock up the eleven other
jurors because of the fault or failing
of the twelfth, and that after having
consulted with his clients, he desired
to offer to proceed with the case with
eleven jurors.
Attorney Kinney stated that he con-
scented to this course being taken. Then
Judge De Bolt addressed the intoxicat-
ed juror.
Yarick Is Fired.
MIR. Yarick, you will be excused.
Get out of that box; get right down
out of that jury box and get out of
this court room. / don t want to see
you around here again. Now, go; get
out. -
Yarick clambered out of the box,
over the feet of the juror on the end,
and pulling his hat down over his ears,
started on his tortuous way toward the
door.
"Take your hat off in the court room
or l will find you guilty of contempt
of court Numbered the judge. The
terrified Yarick snatched his hat off
and fled out of the court room. His
connection with the case was at an end.
Sega on the Stand.
Sega, editor of the Nippu Jill, was
the principal witness yesterday. The
cross-examination of Negoro was con-
eluded without anything more of par
ticular interest being elected from him,
and Sega took his place in the chair
of inquisition.
Sega is a much better witness than
Negoro proved himself to be. He an
swers the questions that are asked him
and makes no attempts to harangue the
court or the jury or to wander off into
long-winded explanations that explain
nothing. He is wise enough to know
that the less he says, the better it viii
be for him and the less chance he gives
his opponents on cross examination. The
questions asked him he answers tersely
and in a low tone of voice that is hard
~ audible to anyone except the inter.
prefer.
For Sega uses an interpreter, al
though he understands and speaks Eng
hsh, if not fiuently, at least fairly well.
But when questions and answers have
to sift through an interpreter, it gives
the witness time to think of what he
is going to say and he is less liable
to be caught off his guard. The anus.
ing part of Sega s examination yester-
day was that, although he was unable
| to do without the services of an inter
prefer, he qualified as an expert and
was called upon, both by the defense
and the prosecution to go into the fine
distinctions of meaning of certain Japa-
nese words.
Sega was absolutely sure there was
nothing in the meaning of any of the
words used by him in his paper that
could be looked upon as violent. In
fact, the words "taiji'', "bokumet
| zu'', and the others which the prose
| cution has presented to the jury as
an evidence of the bloodthirsty
nature of the Jiji and the officers of
the Higher Wage Association, Sega
considered absolutely harmless and
peaeeable. Such expressions as "get
rid off,, exterminate" ssstamp out''
were not. intended to be taken in a
literal sense. They were purely fgur-
ative. AS for the expression, which
! appears in one of the letters placed in
evidence, :" to drive the planters pigs
to the pond of blood and to heH'', the
| editor of the Jill said he had exer-
eised his editorial prerogative and
tEue penciled it so that it did not
appear in the paper
| Sitting there behind his spectacles,
calm, quiet, unblinking, looking more
| like an absent-minded scientist than a
man who has stirred the japanese com
munity to its depths and been prac-
tically the brains of the strike. Sega
was the last man one would suspect
OF being engaged in a conspiracy. But
| he is evidently the wise man of the
gang. He knows enough not to talk
| too much, which is more than Negoro
| does. Sega makes much better i'm
| preston than did the secretary of the
Higher Wage Association, chiefly be-
cause of bis imperturbability and ex-
IRENE gravity. Once o. twice he did
show signs of nervousness, laughing in
an embarrassed way when there was
nothing for him to laugh at. But on
| the whole he had command of his emo
tons and presented face as expires
| slonsless as that of wooden Indian.
| His direct examination lasted only
| a little over an hour, and then he was
turned over TO Kinney for cross exam
| ination. But the latter got little out
| OF him, though, when Kinney adopts
a different line of questioning today
the result may not be the same Taken
| altogether, however, Sega s testimony
| so far has not been of especial interest
| or great Importance.