Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-11-21
CEDERLOF
MURDER CASE


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drawn with the enormous strain That
he must be under, knowing that this
is a matter not u few years in prison
but of his very existence on this
earth, he is wonderfully calm and col
lected.
His wife Near Him.
Sitting at the back Of him on one
Of the chairs just inside the railing
Is his wife. She is a little thing who
during the whole of the morning sat
with her hands In her lap nervously
and who as anxiously as her husband
listened to the questions as they came
from the attorneys and the answers
from the prospective jurymen. Be-
You'd an occasional twitching of her
fingers. however, she does not show
anything of the awful strain that she
is undergoing.
The seriousness Of the whole case
can be felt in the courtroom where
everything Is subdued and quiet.
There Is none of that usual tendency
to joke on the part of the attorneys
and each little point that comes mp is
argued right out to finish. "ln n
case like this" said Attorney An
drews during an argument this morn
ing, when man is fighting for his
very life he should have every chance
given him and should be allowed to
surround himself with all the defense
that he wants. This is no trivial mat
ter, II is one of life or death"
Fighting with every inch of him.
Andrews, as he seeks to give the man
he is defending every possible chance
that can be found for him. is very
different from United States Deputy
Attorney c. C. Biting for the prose-
cution. Biting Is cool and even. al
most cynical, and although he has
not said so. he seems to be demand
ing that justice shall be handed ont
to the defendant. A man has been
killed and the United States demands
fetribution and nothing should come
in the way to stop or hinder this be-
ing carried out. There stands the
man." he seems to say, "who killed
Cederlof ana we demand that he shall
pay the full penalty"
The whole of the deliberations dur.
ing the morning were taken up by
the selection of jury. The prose-
cution passed twelve men for cause
and then Attorney Andrews started
his examination of them. Up to the
adjournment at noon he had only
passed one and that was George An
gus. He may be thrown out later,
however, when II comes for the time
to challenge.
Newspaper Talk Brought In.
The greatest stress during the ex-
animation of Angus was laid on the
information that had appeared from
time to time In the newspapers about
the case. Andrews was very partic-
ular in this matter and searched the
prospective juryman through and
through. ''If you were asked at the
present time," he said, who commit
ted this murder. what would your
answer be.
"The man sitting there" replied
Angus. Il don't see how 1t could be
otherwise. | read Of the case in the
papers and knew that there had been
a murder committed at Leilehua. Then
] read that a man had been arrested
and after that we were brought in
here and told that the man sitting at
the table there" pointing to Nc
Mahon, was charged with commit
ting the crime"
Later Angus stated that although
he knew about the case he could put
all knowledge aside for the purposes
of trial and that the newspaper talk
would not influence him in the slight