Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-03
VHALEY TAKES
STAND IN HIS
own BEHALF
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were reafirmed. On many points
his mind was not clear, he explained
he did not remember how long the
gun remained on the desk, after
he. had cleaned It, before his wife
came. After the shooting he remem.
bered STOPPING over and picking up
the revolver, putting it on desk:
from that time until the next day he
testified he could remember nothing
clearly. 80.
says wife Was jealous. "a.
In the early part Of direct exam
ination he testified concerning his re
lations with his wife-that they were
separated but met. often. that he FIRE,
squently gave her money, that she was
of an unusually jealous nature and
that when she was intoxicated she
was qnarrelsome, profane and often
threatened him. Gradually the ques
lions led up to the day prior to the
shooting. They met Saturday after
noon and he gave her a few dollars:
Sunday morning he went to sKapiolani
Park with the National Guards; al
about 8 o'clock in the afternoon he
reported for duty. During his spare
time he cleaned his revolver and then
loaded 1t and placed it on a desk
She rang him UP in the afternoon
and he realized from her conversation
that she was drunk.
The questions brought him up to
that evening, when the tragedy oc'
Cured. The woman entered the door
of the trouble" room, he stated, he
rose to greet her.
Il said, Good evening, mama when
/ saw her enter, testified Whaley. He
said she answered him with profane
abuse; then:
Il said, What have done?' And
Don't talk like that, the boss might
come in He said she repeated hel
abuse.
Tells Of Final Struggle.
He. testified that almost immediate
ly after his last words, the struggle
began. He said:
She grabbed me in the front By
the shirt here, like this, and grabbed
the gun that had placed on the end
Of the desk. After she grabbed the
gun, sir, grabbed her hands, having
her left hand here on me, while had
taken hold Of her left hand with my
right hand. as near as can remenn.
Der. and grabbing for her right hand
with my left. And there was strug
gle for the gun, which cannot ex.
plain; and in the struggle was con.
scious that the gun went OF. can,
not remember am not aware Of the
faet-if had my hands on the gun
4 cannot explain IN what, position ]
was; nor nothing, sir; but know
there was struggle and realized
End was conscious that the gun went
OF. Il
Q. Do you know where your wife
was shot?
A No, do not.
i @. You cannot say at this time
where the bullet struck her?
A. No.
@. What do you next remember?
. A. / next remember seeing the
gun lying on the floor. STOPPING over
to pick it up, saw blood on my shirt
and pants.
@. What next do you remember?
A. The last remember is leaning
over something like this and putting
it on O61's desk. That is the last
remember:
Two women, one an elderly and one
a middle aged woman, listened to the
testimony throughout the morning.
I Once during the examination when
the prisoner was asked to state the
profane language he alleged his wife
used in addressing him over the
phone, and later in the trouble
room," he asked to be excused, say
ing: E.s
. There are women, present, sir. !
cannot give il. - -: -. ~. H.. H.
/ .Thereupon Attorney Larnach re-
quested the women to leave the room,
but they declined. ~ ~. 81
Mr.. George Herbert, who visited the
prisoner at the Jail about an hour af.
ter his arrest, testified as to the men
tai condition of Whaley at that time.
He gave it as his opinion that the
prisoner showed all signs of having
received great mental shock. r A.
Backus, switchman at the Mutual
Telephone Office, testifid as to the con-
dition of the trouble room" as he
found it after the shooting -
President Huerta NAV not insist on