The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-08
STORY IS TOLD.
BY CHALMERS
Coroner's Jury Hears Automobile
Owner Describe How He Killed
Five Year Old Child - Contra
dicted by Floyd Hind-Investi-
cation Continued Until Today
Chalmers Remains at Liberty.
(From Thursday Advertiser.l

(From Thursday Advertiser)
The testimony of William q. Chal.
mers and of AN eyewitness to the acct
dent in which the former ran down and
killed little Kaonohiokala Antoine last
Saturday, failed to bring the coroner S
inquest to close yesterday. 1t will
enter on its fourth session this after.
noon at two o'clock, and, it is hoped
result in a verdict. SO far Chalmers
has not been placed under arrest.
Further contradictions were heaped
on the record by the chief actor in the
accident, and Floyd Hind, private of
Company &, Second Infantry. The lat.
ter testified that he SAX the complete
accident from the time Chalmers
rounded the corner until he smashed
into the auto of sylvester j. Garrida.
Hind an Important Witness.
The appearance of Hind at the in.
quest was unexpected as it was be
lievcd that there had been no actual
eye'witnesses except those who figured
in it.
81 was coming in from Fort Shafter
on my motorcycle testified the sol.
der, "and shortly before reached the
place where the accident happened /
crossed over to the wrong side of the
street to avoid two big trucks, as the
car track was so rough / could not
ride there.
When / reached the bend | saw
an automobile coming down toward me
from the fire station, Zigzaggng across
the road and going not less than forty
,iIes an hour. | thought the man
lao was driving it must be drunk so
shut my machine off and rode in over
by billboard on the left side of the
road, which was my wrong side. | CON
slider my life as good as anybody's.
81 saw the auto coming from about
45O yards up the road and before it
reached the little girl it made several
zigzags across the road, ! should say
four or five. The girl was walking
across the road. She was not running
and did not know that the auto was
coming ! guessed that, at any rate
because she showed no sign of it and
was acting as if she thought she was
perfectly safe.
Describes Accident.
"When the little girl was about two
or four feet away from the track the
auto was ten yards away from her
and j exclaimed to myself, ooh, my,
the auto is going to hit her. At the
same moment 4 looked down to care
for my own machine, for | was almost
in the ditch. ,il
"The next instant, when j looked up,
the auto had already hit the girl and
was coming toward the right side of
the road-that is, the driver IS right
and then it turned to the left and hit
the other machine The other machine
was not turned up on the sidewalk
by the driver but was there after the
other auto hit IL.
81 examined the ear that hit the
girl afterwards and found that the
spark was full open and that the gaso-
line control was almost 50. Although
! did not see the actual striking of
the girl | knew, when | looked down,
that the auto was so close that there
was no possible chance to miss her. "
Hind stated that he has driven ears
as well as motorcycles and that he had
frequently gone forty or fifty miles an
hour.
He was cross examined at length and
added to his testimony, among other
things, that Chalmers was sitting in
such way that be was practically
lying down, so that he (IIind) could
not see anything more than his fore
head and his hat. Hind felt sure that
Chalmers could not see the girl and
added emphatically that it was his
opinion that the man was unfit to drive
car at that time.
He stated also that the Chalmers ear
was going so fast that it could not pos
sibly have missed or avoided the girl
unless the driver had turned into tree
or pole at the probable cost of serious
injury to some of his own family or
himself.
Hind made several exaggerated state.
ments particularly as regarded dis
tanees which the attorneys present
made the most of.
The girl s aunt was the next witness
called but added little to the facts pos
sessed by the jury. She was succeeded
on the stand by Chalmers.
Chalmers on the stand.
Chalmers asserted that the last time
he had looked at his speed0meter be
fore the accident was some distance
down the road and at that time he
was going "A few points below fifteen
miles an hour. He said that he did
not touch the gasoline after that. lie
first saw the child when he Was about
800 or $50 feet away he said and AZ
his electric horn was not working wei
he footed twice on his bulb horn.
At the same time, be continued, he
put his foot gently on the clutch and
the car halted tribe. lie continued
TO proceed, watching the girl closely
stating that she had stepped back into
n nook afforded by an abutting fence
lie thought TINT she was going 30 stay
there but when be- got closer she ran
out suddenly. llo turned sharply e
The lett, be- said mud did not Strike
her with the front Of tho machine but
glaneing blow with tho side OF the
fender,
lie says she fell there and he wa
unnblo 20 tuu back 10 tho right fid'
Of the street for fear that the rem
wheel would ruu over her and I'm her
Consequently, be- concluded 90 hcep ~
going sifaighi and deliberately ran Int,
tho 0nITlda auto although DC said hl
ibought that u might mean death 4