Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-20
DAVIS FIGHTS
TO SAVELHE ]:
OF FERGUSON
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to the Silva home and the girl identi.
fieu him, as her assaiIant. +
Attorney Davis protested repeated
ly against the efforts of the prosecu.
ton to get this testimony before the
court and his struggle held the courts
attention during most of the morning
session. Having lost that point, what
further defense he will endeayor to
establish is unknown, though 1t Is be
lieyed he will seek to show the shot
which killed Abreu was fired acct
dentally. The prisoner may take the
witness stand and give his version of
the affair. >@ ~. Ct =
Ferguson probably is the only wit
ness who will testify In his behalf.
The only other persons who saw the
shooting were Aureus companion of
ficers, sent out from headquarters for
the special purpose of arresting the
soldier deserter.
The defendant was a member of
Company F, 4th cavalry, and disap-
peared from his troop during the ma
[neuyers around Diamond Head about
a week before his capture. Shortly
after his disappearance his name was
posted as a desertef at army head
quarters, and about the same time
Came the news of the assault on the
Portuguese girl. The police officers
sent out November 6son a report that
"a soldier was seen along the highway
near Diamond Head found Ferguson
walking along the road. When they
stepped out OF the automobile and
approached him. Ferguson opened fire
on them, his first and only shot strik-
ing Officer Abreu and inflicting the
fatal wound. The officers rushed the
soldier and they assert he tried to
shoot again, but owing to his excite
ment and some apparent unfamiliarity
with the revolver he was unable to
discharge 1t before they closed on
him and wrested it from his hands.
From every apparent aspect thus
far the case looks to be a gloomy one
for the youth. IL convicted of the
crime as charged he viii receive the
extreme penalty, execution.
He is only Is years old, and enlisted
in the army only about a year ago.
from his home at Jersey City, NJ. ],
He has mother and step-father liy-s
ing there Whether they have been
appraised of the crime their son has
committed and of the further tragedy
which may be awaiting him is not
known. 1t is understood, however,
that they are very poor people and
In no circumstances to give him any
aid, financially or otherwise, in the
hour of his greatest need, even If they
should desire to do so.
He obtained only fair common
school education ct home and does not
appear in court as lad of average in
telligence. Something in the face.
gives the impression there Is some
mental void I'M other words, 1t has,
somehow, the look Of a degenerate.
Throughout the first hours of the
hearing today he sat in his chair In
an urchanging attitude of overWhelm-
ing detection, the head hung forward
with eyes turned toward the floor and
face utterly devoid of expression. Oc-
casiohafiy bis head raised slowly and
the eyes gazed straight ahead at his
attorney with dull, vacant sire. The
fiery perorations OF Attorney Davis,
The loathsome story of the little girl,
he testimony of other witnesses and
The argument of the prosecution
aroused not the slightest hint. of In
telligent interest in his bearing.
IL Ferguson is convicted and gets
the extreme penalty it will be the
first time In about ten years that a
white man has been hung In the terri |
tory. The last one TO pay this penalty
was moral degenerate who assaulted
! little girl at Waia1ua, 0akn, after:
ward killing her, cutting the body into
pieces and buryfng them In an at |
Tempt to escape detection.
Other, witnesses who testified this |
were Mrs. Olivia Abreu, Wild
wv Of the officer who was killed; Po- !
ice Clerk Julius Asch and DR.. George
:. Straub. They told in turn of |
Aureus health on the day of the ar
ray, his service in the police depart
nent, of which he had been member
he last eight years, and finally, of the
atal nature of the wound he received.
rhe hearing was continued at 1890
}. m, until $3.50 O'clock tomorrow
morning.
The Jurors are George E. Bruins, En-.
yene NJ. Campbell, John Coffee, Jos-t