The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-27

staekabIe Talks Back.
Collector of Customs e. r. Stack
able testified to what he heard de-
PENDANT testify at former investiga
ton.
Prosser asked him to confine himself
to answers to questions.
q will not" the witness retorted. 81
am here to tell the truth, and if the
district attorney does not ask ques.
lions that will bring out the truth I am
going to tell the whole truth all the
same"
/ Cross-examined by Prosser, he did
not recollect that the defendant was
questioned in Hawaiian. He seemed
to understand the questions asked him
in English. At least he gave intelli.
gent answers. Witness understood
him to testify he was not in the ware
house with Peterson and the others
that night.
] District Attorney Breckons said Keo-
maka was sworn as a witness and gave
evidence in English at an investiga-
ton held by Commissioner Davis in
the office of witness. Defendant un-
derstood the questions and answered
them. He said he was not present in
the warehouse on the occasion in
question. His evidence at that inves-
tipation wac material
Keomaka Committed.
Prosser called George X. Lowe for
the defendant, but dismissed him on
surmising, from question by the COM
missioner as to whether counsel was
going to put up bond in the event of
committal, that defendant would be
committed anyway.
Commissioner Davis said that if this
was a final court he would instantly
discharge the defendant, but consider
ing there was evidence enough to put
him on his trial, he ordered his COM
initial.
Prosser, answering a question, said
he intended to furnish bond Mr..
Breckons had told him he would ac-
cept the same surety as on Kaina's
FOND.
"How do you know l will accept it?"
the commissioner demanded. 81 want
you to understand Mr.. Breckons does
not run this department of the court.
However It is all right"
Lowe Faces Music.
Fred Lowe was then put on examina-
ton for perjury in the same matter as
the previous case. The charge was
based on evidence given in the inves-
tigation before mentioned.
Captain Peterson saw kama talking
to Lowe on the bridge the night in
question. Keomaka was present. He
did not see Lowe and Keomaka to-
gether afterward.
Cross-examined, he had no reason to
suppose that defendant saw the suit
case that night. He only saw kama
and defendant conversing together one
time; that was on the bridge, and he
could not catch word they said.
Kaimi Iokia, another Hilo police
man, testified he saw defendant talk
ing with Charlie kama twice the
night of May IS, once on the bridge |
and again on the Hilo side of the Wal |
akea bridge. If witness had been
standing where Lowe was he could |
have seen Keomaka.
Cross-eXamined, he could not say
that Lowe did see Keomaka.
Keomaka was called and said he
knew defendant. He did not remem-
Der seeing Lowe on the bridge. He
saw kama on the bridge on the Waia-
kea side
Commissioner Davis called it "a
very unusual proceeding" to have a
man committed for perjury and then
call him as witness against CO.
defendant.
Kama having been called, the COM
missioner gave Mr.. Rawlins to under
stand that he would have to put on
more competent evidence than he was
doing or something might happen that
would make his head swim. Witness
said he saw defendant on the bridge
with Kiana that night.
Discharge of Defendant
Rawlins rested the case for the
and Prosser moved that
the defendant be discharged.
Commissioner Davis demanded that
Rawlins offer argument for committal.
A war of words between court and
government counsel ensued, Prosser
intervening to say that the prosecution
had not offered a particle of evidence,
even as a foundation for a case of per-