The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-08-03
TRIAL
IS HALF OVER
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ably rest about ten o'clock Monday
morning, and the defense will then
have its innings and a chance to of.
set, if it can, the damaging testimony
that has been given by the witnesses
for the prosecution. AT the conclusion
of the session yesterday Attorney Kin
ney, who is conducting the prosecution,
made the statement that he would need
only about an hour or an hour and
! half more to conclude. That means that
witnesses for the defense will be put
on the stand Monday morning, there be-
ing no session tomorrow. The real fight,
/ however, will probably come when the
attorneys for the opposing sides come
to make their arguments to the jury
and sum up the evidence as each wants
the jurors to look at it.
Much of the testimony given yester-
day was simply a repetition of that
given in the riot trial in Judge Robin
son s court that being the phase of the
alleged conspiracy into which the pros
ecution went yesterday morning. The
principal witness along this line was
L. f. Scoville, chief engineer of the
pumps at Eva and special police at the
same place by virtue of a commission
| issued by Sheriff Jarrett. Mr.. Scoville g
testimony was in nearly all points iden.
tical with that which he gave in the
riot trial, and all efforts on the part
of Attorney j. Lightfoot to shake him
met with scant success. Mr. Scoville
stuck to his story and rigid cross.ex.
animation failed to make an impres.
sion.
The ross,examination, the first thing
in the morning, of Yonegawa, the Japa-
nese witness put on the day before by
| the prosecution, elected results that
were, for the moment, very favorable
to the defense. But the prosecution,
by the introduction of documentary evi.
dence, proved conclusively that Yone.
gawa had-been telling anything but the
truth, and his testimony on cross.ex.
animation, therefore, proved to be
rather back fire and in the end dam
! aged the defense more than if he had
not made any false statements.
Cross questioned by Lightfoot, Yone-
gawa, who is secretary of an Eva strik-
ers association, called the o En- Kwai,
denied categorically and unequivocally
that this association has or ever had
any connection whatever with the
Higher Wage Association or that it
received orders, instruction or direction
from the Higher Wage Association.
Yonegawa Refuted.
When he was excused, Attorney Kin.
ney introduced into evidence three
photographs of posters that were found
inside and outside of the Eva strike
headquarters and on the side of the
house of one of the strikers. Transla.
tions of the posters were attached, and
these We're read to the jury by Mr..
Kinney. They proved to be the rules
and bylaws of the association, and in
these the statement was made that
''the association shall have connection
with the Honolulu Higher Wage Asso.
citation and shall receive its direction
from the same" The poster also stat
ed that president japanese of Eva
who do not join the association shah
be admonished again and again, but
if they shall still refuse to join. they
shall be placed under restraint" 1t
J was also stipulated in the rules that
all business of the association shall be
J transacted by the officers, and the mem
: bers shall not interfere in any way.
The translation of another poster was
in part. "having established connec.
! tion with the headquarters of the Ho-
nolulu Higher Wage Association, we
ask its direction.
DR.. Moore was placed on the stand
, by the prosecution to testify to the
extent of the injuries received by Gi.
ichi, the non-striking japanese who was
assaulted and nearly killed by three
members of the strikers association,
His testimony bore out that previously
given by others.
The hackman who, at the direction
of the men who assaulted Giichi, took
the latter to the headquarters of the
strikers, testified to that effect. the OBJ
iect of his being placed on the stand
being apparently to corroborate the
evidence previously given by Giichi.
Dramatic Story,
T.. F. Scoville told his dramatic story
of the Waipahu riot in a matter-of fact
way-how he and Officer Wills were
walking down the road when they saw
two or three hundred Japanese chas
ing fellow cOuutryman with bundle
on his back; how Jotaro. one of the
strikers, ran out of the ruck and pulled
the bundle off the man S back and com
menccd to beat him; how Scoville pull
ed the japanese Off, chased him intC
the crowd and collared him; how the
crowd seethed around them and forced
! them across the road into the strike
headquarters, where they were virtually
imprisoned until relief came in the shap,
of an automobile load of officers, head
ed by High Sheriff Henry, The story
has been told often enough before, bu
II loses none of its dramatic qualities
by re-tcling. Incidentally Mr., Scovill,
stated that when the two Spillners
police officers, on horseback, attempted
to force their way through the crow'
and come to their rescue aud the Japa
nese commenced to throw sticks nut
stones at them, they turned tail an,
ran their horses up the road as fas
as they could 90,
Mr. Scoyille was vigorously cross ey
amiued by Attorney Lightfoot, VIII
tried TO nullify OF weaken the eilec
Of the testimony 10y belittling the nc
count of the riot, MI Scoyille ha
testified that he suW only two stone