The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-18
INQUEST TO Be
CONTINUED TODAY
lrrom Thursday,s AdvertIser.l

Conflicting testimony and state
ments bordering on the sensational
We're the features of the inquest which
was held last night to determine, IL
possible, the cause of the death of
Henry wetherill, the sailor from the
who was found with his skull crushed
in on the waterfront last Tuesday
morning. on account of the tedious
manner in which 1t was necessary to
take the testimony of several of the
witnesses, interpreters having to be
used, the examination of all the wit
ing though the inquest was contin-
ued until after ten O'clock
Mary said her full brother was go
| ing to be hanged" This is one of
the sensational developments. a state
ment made by Mrs. Jorgenson, a Ha-
waiian woman. She referred to what
| Mary McCandless had said to her
yesterday regarding Jim McCandless,
her brother who is now under arrest.
Deputy City Attorney Milverton had
a great deal of trouble in getting di-
rect statements from some of the wit
nesses. and he encountered consider
able of it when he attempted to Sc
cure information from Mrs. Jorgenson.
She contradicted herself several
! times, giving the excuse afterwards
that she had spoken too quickly in
the first place and that she had not
gt,n anfI nf tl1n atFt-
dence, however, seems to show that
Wetherill was last alive in the COM
pany of Jim McCandless and Thomas
Cummings, the two who were on the
Pleiades with him.
Early Monday evening, according
to the testimony of several of the
witnesses, McCandless Cummings and
wetherill called at the place on Liliha
and King streets where Mary Nc
Candless has her abode. Here, for
while, a general good time" was
had. There was music and there was
gin, and everybody was happy. But
two of the men had row about some
thing on board the ship, at least ac-
cording to one Of the Hawaiian women
who was on the stand they were talk
ing about ships when they quarreled,
and the pleasant little party was
broken up.
In the meantime, however, Mary
McCandless had enquired of her
brother whether or not he intended
giving her any money. To this he re-
: piled that he had none at all. Down.
stairs from the room the party then
went and a spirited discussion of
some kind was held.
/ w. Speiser, Waterman for the o. r.
& L. Company, was called early in the
evening as witness, he testifying
: that about midnight Monday he and
. Jack Doyle, train dispatcher, started
. to walk towards the latter's cottage
: They passed couple of men on the
? way. The men were arguing about
something, the exact meaning OF
which Speiser and Doyle did not
catch. One of the men said You are
, fool to go back on the ship
3 Jack Doyles testimony was prac
> tically the same as that of Speiser
He said that 1t was too dark for him
t to identify the men. Joseph Whaley
Waterman on the dredger Pearl" ly'
4 ing between the Hackfeld wharf and
t the Railroad No. l wharf. testified
1 that he saw three men walking to-
!. wards the Pleiades, or on the road
9 that led in the ships direction, short
: " after ten-thirty Monday night He
t said that they were apparently under
: the influence of liquor, one of then
: more than the others, for he was II
n the middle and the two with hin
I were trying to drag him along thu
q road. Whaley heard them say some
u thing in Hawaiian about going bacl
/ to town, and finally they turned mau
e. ka. Just then, according to Whaley
y mounted policemen came along oil
their horses, and his attention wa
y distracted from the men.
Jennie Kekauua, who was presen
at the good time" was called as ;
!. witness, and she snamed those VIII
= were present in the room. She state
% that she went to bed early, but coul,
not sleep because of the noise mad
= by Mary McCandless and her brothe
Jim. The latter was not called on TN
stand last night on account of IN
lateness of the hour.
II Herman Meek, mounted police Off
y Ger, testified that he saw Thoma
n Cummings and Jim McCandless, &C
l. companied by a third man, abou
eleven o'clock Monday evening. Nee
e had been acquainted with Cumming
B. and McCandless, and he expresse
5, surprise at the time to the officer VIII
ID was with him that they should b
g there, as he had not seen them for
long time.
Z. The inquest will be continued tod1!
50 McCandless and several others bein
y yet to give their testimony.