Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-18
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This strain nervous strain on the law
yer--who Is worth his salt.--in the
trial OF a large case, as on the Judge
and on the jury, is very great. And
he is apt to put just little bit oi
sulphuric acid In what he says some.
, times when perhaps he doesn't mean
to do IL. doesn't mean to be quite as
sulphurous as II Is. Those things al.
ways happen. they have happened in
this case and they have happened per.
taps beyond what is usually INDUCED
in, by the attorneys in this case. Gen
tlemcn of the jury, | ask you not to
let these personalities enter into the
case.
at may be the fact that | am an
Englishman, by birth. am an Amer
can by adoption. II may be the fact
| hat | was trained for the church, a
| little "sky.pilot." Don't let that in
iucnce you one way or the other. II
may be the fact that have said this
| n ] have said that. ! have said moth
.ng that I wouldn't say again. Don't
| let these things be dragged in so as to
to use an expression borrowed from
Nr. Kinney-"draw a herring across
| he track"
| Gentlemen Of the jury find out what
| you are going to try and then try IT,
Don't start out:--if you are car
| penter, you don't start out to make
table and end up with a chair do you?
You start In to make table. You
measure your lumber. you saw II, and
You plane it. And you do what? Make
a table And you have your mind or
that table, you have your mind or
that. Now then. II person were tC
go to you and say to you.
Say, that Is a beautiful chair you
are making. IL will be a lovely chair
. very nice thing to sit down in"
at isn't chair. this Is a table |
am making" You say.
"Oh, no. Well my dear fellow. that
isn't table at ALL that is chair
And he goes off.
And you say THAT damn fellow
doesn't know what he is talking
about. That isn't chair
That wouldn't affect you. You
wouldn't. You wouldn't because some
one was to say you are making u
chair" stop making your table. Why
Of course not. You keep your hand
and your mind. and your muscles con
stantly at work for the same purpose
to make that table. And you complete
Il. Go on to completion.
! Now we aren't making a table. Mr.
Kinney has come here and said.
you fellows aren't making a table
I At all. You are making a chair"
Don't let that influence you a little
bit. Don't be scared to death abou;
that. You know what you are doing
You know that you are trying these
four men for conspiracy to do certain
I-conspiring to do certain things. Keer
your mind on that, and try these de
hendants and find them guilty or in
nocent of the charge laid against them
But don't go of and ascertain whether
or not you are trying them on charge
Of assault and battery. Find out what
YOU are doing and then do It. Don't
let counsel draw the herring across
your track. Find out what the charge
IL and then go simply to that charg
and nothing else.
Reads the Charge.
Now what Is the charge. In order
that you may remember what this
charge Is will read II to you. gentle
men of the jury. You have heard Il
before. But II is "A long time since.
will read II to you and ask you yer,
carefully to observe II so that yoi
may know what the real charge is tina
we are trying. First of all, II Is
: complaint, 1t isn't AN indictment |
DOESN'T make any difference. II IL
complaint, and It serves the purpos,
of an indictment. The Territory o
Hawaii hadn't time. perhaps, To &c
IN indictment In this case. The
: wished to hurry the case on. Or pei
' haps they didn't want to trust Gran,
Jury of the Territory of Hawaii. The
z wanted to get these men to trial, an
: get them to trial during the summe