The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-22

street. Suddenly he seized my left arm
with his left hand and swung me
around, crying, 'You traitor! You trail
tori II fix you up.
The Struggle.
"He struck me on the back of the
head and | though he was hitting me
with a stone. / did not see the knife
then / commenced struggling to turn
around and | believe it was then that
he struck me in the neck. I turned
suddenly do not know how it hap
pened-but we came to the ground.
Mort was looking up at me and l was
on top. My knee was on the pavement
and [ was astride of him holding his
hands.
81 looked up and saw Mr. Erling E.
Nahum, manager of c. B. Hofgaard
& Co. IS store, Waimea, whom | knew
on Kauai.
Refused Help.
ST called to him, Come and help me!
Come and help mel | think l called
three or four times.
" How can / help you?' he said and
, did not come. He stood there.
'Then a white man came running
and seized Mort S hand, the one with
the knife in it. s. Ogata also came up
running and saying, who is itf'
Sheba, | cried.
| "He is the manager of the Honamo
store. After assistance came | put my
hand to my head and felt the blood
| pouring all over me. I felt faint and
| got up and ran to the corner, hold
| ing my hand over the wound. I saw
Mr.. Breckons brother driving Waikiki
on King street, and L called to him.
''Wait a moment exclaimed Dou-
thitt; 81 object to that. [ object to
anything said or done when the de,
PENDANT was not present in person"
The objection was overruled.
/ 81 called" went on Sheba, "and
said, 'Take me to doctor-any doe
tor; I'm losing too much blood. /
thought I was going to die from loss
of blood
| "Mr. Breckons took me to the po-
lice station and then to the hospital. -
''YOu say the manager of the Ho-
mano store is Ogata2" asked Cath
cart.
eyes. -
''Who was the white man who came
to your assistancea''
81 didn't know at the time, but ]
|, learned afterwards that it was J. s
McCandless, foreman of Tom Sharp
Sign store, l think if is
Cathcart offered Sheba s clothes
worn at the time of the assault, and
) they were accepted in evidence Al
were a mass of blood, and were shown
| to the jury. Then Sheba took off his
coat and shirt and exhibited to the
jury the wounds about his head. neck
and arms. The splendid physique ana
ripping muscles that saved his life il
the hand-to- hand struggle stood out be
meath his thin shirt.
Defense Yet Vague.
/ That completed the direct examina
ton. SO far the case has not con
: tfnued far enough to see lust what de
: Tense the attorneys for Mort intend t,
put up, but from Douthitt's question
ing it might seem as if they were 90
], ing to prove that Sheba s attitude to
t wards the young defendant was pro
voking. Whether they intend to at
t tempt to prove that the attack wa
L..
would be the only point upon whiel
| acquittal could be secured. although i
would seem hard to establish it as ;
+ fact.
n Douthtt s attention was confined +
d minute examination of satirica
smile that was supposed to have bee
q on Sheba 5 face when the two met n
the corner of Alakea and King streets
?. Sheba admitting that it was there an
also that he spoke sarcasticallv to tn
e defendant.
Mori was prominent in the bovcot
d against Sheba' 5 paper, and the dc
Y Tense tried 70 establish the fact tina
n Sheha was very bitter towards hir
L because of this. Sheba maintained
however, that he never considered thi.
It as there were So many in the bovcot
e against him that he paid no attentio
Il to Mori, whom he looked upon as
n boy. The ease viii continue this morn
n ing at eight-thirty.