The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-10
NECORO SAYS
He HAD No
POWER
Shirks Responsibility for
All Unlawful
Deeds.

not tell them what to do or what not to
do with any notion that the instructions
would be obeyed unless the strikers
| happened to want to obey. They didn t
| even know much of what was going on.
| They had no official connection with
any of the outside organizations and
are not responsible for anything that
was done by the strikers or by any Of
the lesser societies. 1t was apparently
a case of every man for himself and the
police officers take the hindermost. At
least, such is the gist of the testimony
| given by Negoro, secretary of the
Higher Wage Association, unler cross
examination at the hands of Attorney
| Kinney yesterday morning.
Negoro appears to be troubled with
very defective memory. He is not
sure about much of anything-exeept
! that he is not responsible for any overt
acts which took place during the strike.
He was all for law and order. he is
sure of that, and his advice was always
against violence or unlawful acts. But
| really, he does not reeollect; he has
| forgotten; he may have read or heard
| of the things that were said, written
| and done, but they made no impression
upon his mind. And anyway, it ism t his
| fault. He didn t counsel or countenance
any violations of the law. He WASH t
| even aware that any were being com
mitted. Although he was secretary of
| the Higher Wage Society, he didn t
/ know much of what was being done by
| that organization If the Jill published
libelous or ineendiary articles, that is
| up to Mr.. Sega. Mr.. Sega is editor of
the Jiji and is solely responsible for
| what appears in its columns The
! Higher Wage Association has nothing to
saw in the matter.
Negoro is kept busy explaining. No
question that is asked meets with a
ready or definite response. Everything
is qualified. 81 must give you long
answer; I must EXPLAIN says Negoro,
and then he goes off into some long
| MINDED, round about explanation that
fails to explain anything and often has
| nothing to do with the question asked.
1 Attorneys SQuaDUlS.
Much bitterness was displayed in the
trial yesterday, the opposing attorneys
engaging in several rather spectacular
squabbles in which personalities were
INDUCED in, to the evident displeasure
of the court At the end of one of these
rows, Judge De Bolt remarked, ''Now
that the counsel have respectively
| abused one another, we will proceed
with the examination of the witness. -
Lightfoot is apparently getting more
| out of these arguments than Kinney
| The attorney for the defense appears
to keep his temper and frequently stirs
| the leading counsel for the prosecution
| to wrath by his silent smile or his more
| irritating laugh. One of these laughs
of Lightfoot's awoke Kinney to vigor-
! Gus denunciation of counsel for the de-
| Tense, in the course of which he made
a fierce attack upon the personal char
acter of Mr.. Lightfoot, branding his
conduct in court as indecent and merit
ing severe punishment by the judge.
| Kinney had asked Negoro series Of
| questions in regard to Hata, one of the
| strike leaders and delegates to the
| Higher Wage convention, the object of
which was to show that Negoro knew
| for weeks that warrant was out for
| the arrest of Hata, and that he and the
| other officers of the association were in
| almost daily communication with Hata
and vet failed to inform the police
where the man was to be found so that
| the officers could arrest their comrade.
Negoro had virtually admitted all these
things Kinney then asked if when
two men came up from Waipahu to re-
cruit labor in Honolulu and were seized
| by the strikers and locked up in the
headquarters of the Waipahu Higher
Wage Association for "trial," Hata
was not also in the room. The witness
/ was not sure whether he was there when
the officers broke in or whether he had
left before. Kinney was sure he was
there.
| Lightfoot smiled. "Why did the off
GERS not arrest him then if they wanted
him2" he asked.
"There, Your Honor" Kinney said,
pointing an accusing finger at Light
foot. t'that just shows the character of
counsel for the defense He finds it
amusing that. a man for whom there
was warrant of arrest escaped the off
GERS of the law. That S the kind OF
man he is.
81 do find it highly amusing re-
piled Lightfoot, and he laughed the
laugh that always seems to goad Kinney
to an outburst
Wanted Lightfoot Punished.
SIT is an outrage vociferated Kin.
ney, "that an officer of this court
should have the indecency to express
t his amusement at the failure of the off
r GERS of the law to enforce the law, to
arrest man wanted for criminal of
tense. It is un-American; it is an insult
TO the court and ! contend that il
should not 60 UNPUBLISHED. An Officer
OF this court who would do such thing
| should be severely dealt with. -
What I am amused at. said Light
y foot, still with the tantalizing smile
is that the officers went to this plac,
D xqifh a warrant of arrest for Hata
:s5 found him there, and let him escap,