The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-11-28

wordy contest between the district at
torhey and the defense, this argument
taking quarters OF an hour and
the objection Of tho defense being
overruled by the court.
/ witness testified that Major Dewitt
was in charge of tho hospital, being
the senior medical officer at the post,
| and that no had the surgical work to
| do. Between ten.thirty and eleven
o clock that evening he treated Nc
Mahon for scratch on his hand.
Asked for Cederlof.
Mcmahon asked Captain Cullen If
they got him up just to attend to him,
| and wanted to know If Cederlof was
badly hurt, to which he replied that
Cederlof was pretty bad. Mcmahon was
lying face down on a bunk with his
hands tied behind his back.
When Captain Cullen finished dress
ing the scratch he asked Mcmahon if
he was comfortable to which he re-
piled in the affirmative. "They have
got you trnssed up pretty tight said
the doctor, to which the prisoner re-
Piled: eyes, this is another case of
a good man gone wrong" !.
Mcmahon was cool, he testified, when
J asking about Cederlof.
At this point, court adjourned until
two in the afternoon.
! ohlcer Of the Day Tells Of Gun.
Lieutenant Joseph H. Barnard, Fifth
Cavalry, on the stand in the afternoon,
made the statement of the condition
of the Mcmahon gun after the shoot
: ing, which had been turned over to
him.
On the night of September 2s, he
was at tho artillery cantonment at
Schofeld, and saw Mcmahon at the
guardhouse. Before this he saw Giant
and received from him 38-caliber ser
vice revolver which he had taken from
} McMahon, the revolver now being at
: Schofield, having been delivered to the
D commanding officer.
At the hospital, in the presence of
three surgeons, he had examined the
revolver and found that five chambers
were full and one empty. The first
Y two cartridges had been exploded, the
Z third and fourth had missed fire and
i the hammer was resting on the fourth.
9 rIrhe next cartridge was intact, and the
i, next chamber was empty.
5 b, Asked how guns missed fire, Lieu
:. tenant Barnard explained the working
9 Of double-action revolver and how it
Q Knight miss FIRE if the trigger was not
released when the hammer fell.
In regard to the boundaries of the
lpost, he knew them as he had run lines
i at various times in doing survey work
j. lpnee in laying out the rifle range. He
# knew. the Cederlof house well and il
l. was within the boundaries of the reser.
r Walton.
IS Attorney Murphy crosse examined this
e witness in regard to misfring of
y guns, and brought out that witness had
It tried the action of the gun after he
+ had unloaded it. In regard to his quail
J fcations as a surveyor, Lieutenant
Barnard told of his work at the ser
lYice school at Fort Leavenworth and
Fort Riley, but, said he was not q
p West Pointer. He had never practised
: civil engineering in civil life, but had
q nine months of it at Leavenworth and
4 had used it from time to time since
j. Mixed With Oederlofs.
r. aeCharles Hoag was recalled during the
y afternoon and was still on the stand
n when court adjourned, although he wal
o not allowed to say what Mrs. Cederloi
= told him when he met her as he was
going to the Cederlof home, after hear
d ing the shots.
. On direct examination he told OF
7' hearmg the screams after the shot.
but knew from the voice that they
V WeFe not made by Mrs. Cederlof, al
n he knew her voice. He was in Lin
A ton 8 house when he heard the shots
4 but outside on the ground when ht
.. heard the screams, which were immedi
;. ately after the shots.
. He saw Mrs. Cederlof a few mo
= ments later, he said on cross-examina
!. ton about seventy-fve yards from tn,
y Linton house. No conversation was car
n ried on. He was twenty-five feet from
/ the door when he heard the screams
v and stood there abont SIXTY seconds.
! "Did you not know that there ha,
n been trouble between Cederlof and hi
!. wifef" was asked by Andrews, t.
e which the reply was in the affirmative
m He was then asked why he did no
m run to the Cederlof home, but this ques
ton was objected to by Breekons. Fur
10 Their he was asked if he did not know
10 that CederlOf had threatened to XII
h his wife, to which a negative reply wa
.. made. He knew there had been tror
n. BILE between them and the most ser
"a GUS was on June 4, he remembered tn
Of date well.
Denied Trouble.
ee Hoag denied that he knew the trol
ly Bile between the Cederlofs WAS owe
n him, and that the reason he did nC
ch hurry was not due 20 the fact this
Nv he feared personal danger to himse
rs. IL there was another family row Of
he "Do you know that Cederlof assault
ed his wifef' was the last questio
asked by the defense, for there was
long argument on tho admissibility (
~ such question, and the argument ha
i' not been concluded when court adjour
~ ed for the day.
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