The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-29

my power OF course, if you have
made up your mind that YOU like
somebody better, that is something be-
tween you and your conscience.
Should you try and seek a divorce.
shall fight it until hell freezes over.
You have no grounds upon which you
can secure one. Had | been the az.
gressor, it would have been different,
but as it is, have witnesses to prove
that you struck the first blow.
An estrangement between us now
after living together so long and with
the circle of friends that we have. will
make it unpleasant for both of us.
Let us turn over a new leaf Avoid
the mistakes of the past. Give each
other the condolences that should ex-
list between husband and wife Avoid
anything that will lead to unpleasant
ness. There is no reason on earth
why we should not be happy together
Would make a trip to town, but
am broke, and will have to borrow
money to pay my post exchange bill.
II am writing this, Emma, because
love you still and will never love an
other woman. | am not asking you
to come back as that lies with you.
/ If you feel that recent events can be
/ forgiven and forgotten, well and good,
but before you make a decision not to
come wait a week, allow your temper
to cool, reflect and swallow your pride
/ as I am doing That has been the
/ trouble between us, stubborn pride,
neither wanting to give in.
with aloha nui loa to you,
NATE"
Witness stated that on the evening
of September 2S her husband had not
been drinking. There was nothing to
drink in the house After she re-
turned to Cederlof there was never
any trouble between the two
Juror J. Morton Riggs asked Mrs.
/ Cederlof what Mcmahon did after
shooting Cederlof.
He ran into the yard upon the
veranda and into the house. And
heard him and Mrs. Mcmahon running
through the house and she was
screaming"
That concluded Mrs. Ccderlors OK
animation
Chaplain Pruden of Schofeld Bar
racks was the next witness. He said
that on the night Of the shooting he
was about 1000 yards distant from the
Cederlof house. He heard two shots.
Il heard a sentry calling corporal Of
the guard. few minutes later We
heard bugle call of fire" The dav
following the shooting he was at the
McMahon house. He was shown and
identified a note found IN the house.
1t was, he said, written on a tablet
and not torn out
Breckons made the statement that
the court certainly ought to admit a
note in which McMahon wrote: For
give me for what | have done. / hate
to take my life for niger. My wife
likes Mrs. Cederlof better than she
does me" He stated that there nu-
doubtedly was a quarrel between Mrs.
Cederof and Mcmahon, and that she
objected to what he had said to her
derogating to the Hawaiian race.
The Judge could see no need OF
ruling on the point az cnce, and the
matter went Owe,
The sensation of the trial thus far
has been the testimony, given yester-
day afternoon, of Mrs. Cederlof
widow of the man whose death is laid
at McMahon's door.
The scene in the courtroom was dra-
matte when Mrs. Cederlof assembled
the witness stand and took the oath.
She was clothed in deepest black and
was heavily yelled but raised the veil
when she began to talk. Under the
questioning of United States District
Attorney Breckons she told her story.
On the afternoon of the shooting she,
in company with Mcmahon, his wife
and Mrs Hoffman, went to the militia
camp, On the way back Mcmahon
told of a fight he said he had had with
a Hawaiian who had bloodied his nose.
He said he would have licked the Ha-
walian had the latter not been black,
but being black he was not the equal
of the white man. Outside of Hawaii,
he said, ringers were shot and hung,
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