The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-06-09
CORONER S JURY
ABs0LVEs QUINN


Death through an accident IN run.
ming into an antomobiIo driven lv
one Tom Quinn which causing shock
and hemorrhagg and severe crushing,
was the verdict brought IN by coro.
ner's jury summoned BY Deputy
sheriff John Fernandez. Of Pearl City,
70 Investigate killing Of Rebecca Ahea.
akalani, the cieycn.year- child who
was run down and killed by an antuo-
mobile driven BY Tom Quinn on the
night Of June a.
What the jury evidently tried TO
really imply in the ambiguous verdict
was that the killing Of the child was
due TO an accident. Deputy sheriff
Fernandez conducted the inquest, as
sisted by Deputy County Attorney
Arthur M. Brown and Sheriff Rose. Az
torney James L. Coke represented
Quinn
The inquest was held at the court
house ia Pearl City. Tho taking Of
testimony consumed about an hour but
the jury took nearly two hours In ar.
diving at verdict.
jose Bafista, an employe OF the Wat
oahu plantation, testified that he saw
he deceased with two other children
the road few minutes prior to the
iccident. Two cars were approaching,
me driven by DR.. Leonard Case and
The other by Tom Quinn. DR.. Case
turned ont to let the Quinn car pass;
and brought his car to stop before
the child was struck, said Batista
DR.. Case testified that he was driv-
ng in toward Honolulu when his at,
ention was called TO ear approach.
ing him from the rear. He turned out
o let the car pass and brought his
sar to q full stop. Quinn 3 car, he
stated, was travelling at the rate Of
twenty FIVE miles an hour when it
| passed him. The three children were
in plain sight for some time before
the accident occurred, he stated, and
When he saw the Quinn car pass him
he automatically stopped his car as
ie felt certain that an accident would
occur DR.. Case stated positively that
| Quinn had not sounded his horn at any
lime prior 10 the accident.
Fred Carter and Joe Richards, who
were passengers in the car with Doc
tor Case, testified along the same lines.
DR. r. J. McGettigan, who perform
ed the autopsy, testified as to the ma
lure of the injuries which caused the
child's death
Joe Alfonso, an intelligent thirteen
year-old Portuguese boy, who was with
IN few feet Of the children when the
accident happened, testified that he saw
Rebeeca Aheakalnni, who was standing
ON the right-hand side Of the road run
across to the left-hend side and saw
her struck by the car. The automobile
was of the road several feet when the
accident occurred, he stated.
Jake Weinberg, passenger In the
Quinn car, stated that he was asleep
when the accident occurred and was
awakened BY Quinn vigorously blowing
his horn. This statement regarding the
horn blowing was not borne out by other
witnesses. Herbert Sehreiner, another
passenger in the Quinn car, stated that
no liquor was drunk on the trip and
the accident was unavoidable. He stat
ed that II the deceased child bad re-
manned with her companions on the
right-han side Of the road tho accident
would not have occurred He said that
the child became panic stricken at see
ing the two cars approaching and ran
into danger needlessly.
Deputy County Attorney Arthur M.
Brown stated last night that the case
would be presented TO the grand jury
tomorrow, at which time the case Of d.
n. Clement charged with killing a Chi
nese on the Iwilei road on May 30 by
running him down with his car win
also be heard.