The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-05
SPEEDY JUSTICE
F0R THIS MAN
Korean Murderer Gets Twenty
Years Minimum Crime DC
cured Two Weeks Ago.
(From wedne.day AdvertI.sr.l

(From Wednesday Advertiser.)
choo Yee Goo, the Korean who shot
and killed his wife about two weeks
ago in Honolulu, was found guilty Of
murder in the second degree yesterday
Afternoon by jury in Judge Lyle A.
Dickey's criminal division Of the first
circuit court, after trial lasting but
two days. The convicted man was i'm.
mediately sentenced 70 imprisonment At
hard labor for a term Of not less than
twenty nor more than fifty years No
exception was taken or notice OF appeal
fled by the mans attorney, w =. 3D.
ingr, who had been appointed BY tho
court to defend Choo zee Goo. Deputy
City Attorney A. M. Brown prosecuted
Asked by Judge Dickey II he had
anything TO say before sentence was
passed on him Goo replied:
~ have lot to say, hut Il would
take long time to say H. :,
Asked for children.
After the sentence was passed on
Goo, who appears TO be man between
forty and fifty years OF age, the prison.
er asked that his children be allowed
TO visit him as he wished to see them
occasionally. These are, a married
daughter, girl about ten years Of age
and boy not more than FIVE years old
Goo was told that the children would
be allowed by the prison authorities 10
see him at proper times.
The jury was ont from eleven o'clock
until halflpabt three yesterday In arriv-
ing at verdict, the man having been
tried on q charge Of murder. IN the first
degree. The first ballot decided that
Goo was guilty Of the murder Of his
wife, but il was several hours before
the jurors could agree unanimously on
the degree, several holding out for the
extreme penalty, while others we're for
lesser degree Of conviction. A
compromise the jury finally agreed on
murder in the second degree, which may
be punished with imprisonment from
twenty years TO life.
After Foreman Charles W. ziegler
handed the verdict TO Clerk Job Batch
elor, Judge Dickey stated that he would
| pass sentence on Goo tomorrow at four
o'clock, bnt after some consideration,
the forty-eiRht hour minimum time not
being required IN eases not punishable
with death, sentence was imposed.
The Crime.
choo zee Goo fred -four shots on his
wife, the one taking effect in her abdo-
men being declared by the physicians
to have been the cause Of the woman :
death. Daring Coos trial he admitted
shooting his wife, bat claimed that he
only did so to main her as he Intended
/ to commit suicide.
I There had been trouble Ia the Goo
family for many months past Twice
Goo was sentenced to pay fine IN the
district court on charges OF assault aud
battery on his wife. On Goo = third
| appearance in the police eourt on
charge Of again beating his wife he
was given nine months in jail. from
which sentence he appealed to the cir.
cult court. fIe gave bail and was
allowed his freedom nhtil the case
should have come up in the circuit
court.
The man 5 next appearance in court
was when he appeared before the Uni
ted States district attorney and charged
his wife with unlawful intimacy with
a young Korean. Airs. Goo and her
alleged paramour We're arrested but
Il WIZ ul1cnnAHcu ~ NVM.Ia1luuNI
George A. Davis for insu1ieiency Of
evidence to convict, il being claimed
that Goo had tnmped up the charge on
the theory that since his wife would
be under arrest by the federal author
tiles she would not be allowed 10 tes-
tify against him In the circnit court.
Goo shot his wife few hours after
Commissioner Davis dismissed the stat
utory oifense charge against her.
The jury which heard the evidence
and convicted Goo was made up as fol-
lows: Charles w. zieeler (forcman),
Jacob orlenstein, "A. b. Angus W. II.
seper, Ulnlani +, Lemon, Ileary r..
Roth, Charles A. McWayne, Samuel @.
Dwight, Marshall II. Webb, "A. Henry
Along, John Coffee and Charles o Hot.
vel.