The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-16
EVIDENCE POINTS
To MURDER
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forthcoming pointing TIC the conclusion
that Wetheri1 was struck down by one
of a crowd of rioterers with whom he
had been drinking during the evening.
These were all members of the crew
of the American Hawaiian steamer Plei
AIDES. As a result of prior information
gained by the police and further in
formation forthcoming at the first SEES
sion of the inquest, Tom Cummings, Jim
MeCandless, George Harbottle and Dan
Kaai have been put under arrest for
| investigation. Among them the police
expect to find the one who dealt the
blows from which Wetherill died. Jacob
| Richter, Waterman, is also being held
as a witness.
| Wetherill, who is down on the ships
papers as Henry Wal, is a negro, reput-
| ed to be a brother of Joe Cans, the
negro pugilist. While among the Ha-
waiian members of the Pleiades crew,
he claimed to be a Hawaiian. He was
| thirty three years old and had shipped
as a common sailor.
The discovery of the body was made
at daylight yesterday morning, Police
man Parish stumbling over the body
| on his regular rounds. Wetherili was
| lying face down among some loose lum-
her, Near him was the bloodstained
| club. He took steps to have the body
| left undisturbed until his superiors
could be notified and then sent in
report to Deputy Sheriff Rose, who had
the body taken TO the morgue, started
police officers out after evidence and
summoned a coroner S jury.
| The result of the autopsy showed that
| Wetherin had been struck three crush
| ing blows on the skull, one on top OF
| the head. one on the left temple, which
/ fractured the skull, and another across
| the base of the skull, on the back. This
! blow must have been struck after the
| victim of the murderous assault had
fallen face down from the blow upon
the temple, the force of the blow, as
shown by the autopsy, having been
! from the base towards the top OF the
skull
The suspicious actions of Tom Cum
| mings and Jim McCandless, with whom
the dead man was known to have passed
the evening before, led TO their arrest
/ early in the investigation. In the first
place, the stories the men told as to
when thew had last seen the deceased
i were CoUu1CLAuSY inc AAAOSb oe%AA-tA
of evidence against them being that
they had gone aboard the Plelades at
one o clock yesterday morning ana en-
auired for Wetheril, stating ana re-
peating the statement several times
! that they had left him at ten eIoeh
the night before and now wanted 20
find him. while as a matter of fact they
had been with him for some time aIJeI
: eleven o'clock. Their insistence Win
the Waterman of the vessel that they
had not seen him for some time appears
n now to have been an effort to estaoLlsA
an aIibi.
At the inquest. the testimony SHOWS
that the dead man and the ones no"
under arrest had passed the greater par
Of the evening at a house at the corner
Of Liliha and King street, where they
drank gin and ended up in a quarreI
when thew were put out OF the place
When leaving the house there was
threat made on the part OF one o. 'n'
men TO 'sd0 up another. VINO mad'
the threat and who was meant was no
definitely brought out. one OF the VII
nessqs. Mary McCandless, SISTER o.
Him NeCandless. contradieting a stare
ment she made prior to the inquest .
Chief of Detectives Leal that NetherlL
had been the one threatened and tum
: mings the threatener. At the lhque9
she swore that two others OF the crow
exchanged the hard words.
The police officers who have "oTA &
: on the case. Captain Armstrong, or IN
Pleiades, Mary McCandless, Mrs Lou
ika Kaui, Richter, Cummings ana jim