Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-28

TIC Gnu tue tlioi I'llN va
per that in the interest Of justice ard
! fair dealing ask space for letter
| written by Mr. F. " Gesell. an ry,-
witness.
Hoping that you can comply with
my request,
Respectfully yours,
HENRY 3. Rt,STARICk.
! AN WITNESS 5 STORY or THE
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT,
| Editor Honolulu Star .Rulletin.
! Sir:-SevPral letters have been wri,-
! ten about the recent motorcycle acct
dent on King street. The So are so
| full of inaccuracies that l. as an eye
witness, desire to remove the injustice
which has been done the Rev. r. \.
Saylor by the absolutely false stale
ments which have been made.
In the first place. it has repeatedly
been said that W. Lynn McCrackin
was riding in the basket of the motor
cycle Mr.. Rice in yesterday morn
ings Advertiser infers that MIR. Nc
Crackin was IN the basket As Il
matter of fact. the one riding in the
basket was the undersigned, +. W.
GeselI. This error alone is Of char
actcr with the other statements made,
and just as correct.
The facts are briefly these: Mr..
Saylor and myself were riding in an
Eva direction on King street at a
moderate pace The boy started to
cross the street to the mail-Carrier,
Frazier, who was driving along with
his back to us. The carrier did not
stop his cart at once, which compelled
the boy to cross the street diagOnally
The mother afterward stated to me
that when she saw the boy crossing
the road, she called to him to be care
full. The boy, on hearing his mothers
voice, stopped for a second. If he had
not stopped, if he had taken another
step, the front wheel of the mot0rcy-
Gle would not have touched him and
he would have made another step and
been clear of the wheel. Mr.. SaylOrs
motorcycle was running between the
car tracks When the boy stopped for
a second, if Mr.. Saylor had turned to
the left he would have overturned his
machine and would have hit the boy
anyway, and have jeOpardiZed our
lives If he had turned to the right,
he would have run into the mail-car-
rier's cart. In either event, several
people would have been seriously in
jured, and not one. Sizing up the sit
uation, Mr.. Saylor promptly stopped
his machine This is shown by the
fact that when the motorcycle came
to a stop, it was less than three feet
in front of the boy Mr.. Saylor and
at once got off the machine and found
Frazier, the mail-carrier, beside the
boy, and then he started to pick him
up Frazier appeared to be excited
and started to put thess'boy down again
without carrying him any distance
whatever. Frazier then began to
abuse Mr.. Saylor, who pushed him
aside, and then Mr. Saylor took the
boy up in his arms and carried him
Mr.. Saylor's clothes were blOod-stain-
ed by this act, yet Mr.. Rice, in letter
appearing in your paper states that
Mr.. Saylor refused to carry his son
into the house, but stood arguing while
Frazier and the passenger took him
in, whereas, | never touched the boy
until he was on the bed. This is on
par with the rest of Rice's state
ments, which are UNANIMOUSLY unjust to
the man who kept cool and did what
there was to be done.
The boy being on the bed, Mr.. Say.
Tor asked for water to wash the blood
off the boys face. This was brought
by a Japanese woman. The mother,
& Hawaiian, threw herself on the
floor and screamed | induced her to
go into another room, where she sat
down on a lounge, staying with her,
trying to compose her. Meanwhile.
Mr.. Saylor was bathing the boys face
and carefully washing his wounds. In
about ten minutes | went into the
loom where the boy was, and found
him conscious and talking. A num-
Der of Hawaiians were in the room
wrineing their hands, and the only
person who kept cool besides Mr.. Say.
lor, was the Japanese woman who
brought water and clothes and helped
generally.
Most of this time, Frazier. the mail
carrier, who had left his mail wagon
in the street, spent in going from the
room where the boy was to the room
where the mother was, abusing Mr..
SaylOr in loud manner. He must
have been absent from his mail cart,
in my Judgment, for nearly half an
hour. This | know to he contrary to
the ruling of the Postal Department
and | call the attention of the Post
master to the fact.
Shortly after the boy had recover
ed consciousness, went again TO the
room where the mother was and tod
her the boy was talking.
then returned to the boy and pro
CoeGed to take IF his clothes, Mr..
SaylOr going into the room where the
mother was.
|. with the assistance Of the Japan