Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-27

Clemens refused To hear further dis.
cussion on the point. saying il was
premature, as no attempt of the kind
had been made as yet
The first witness called this MORN
ing was the Rev Canon Osborne. rec
tor Of st. Clements Church. who tes-
titled that some n years ago be had
ing one George A. Bower and Mss
Mabel Newton. He admitted he had
no distinct recollection of the Incl
dent. however. and that he could not
identify the defendant as the Bower
for whom he had performed the cere-
mony The prosecution sought to In
troduce copy of the marriage record
kept in the church. but on objection by
the defense the document was merely
marked for further Identification. and
Rev. Osborne was ordered to produce
the original record later in the day.
One of the contentious vi the gov
crnment is that Bower has a wife,
with whom he was still living at the
time he is alleged to have committed
the crime charged against him.
Victoria Mortenson, who stated
that she will be Is years old next
June, testified on direct examination
to first meeting Bower late in No
vember, 1912, or early in December
of the same year. when he was called
to the home of her sister, Mrs. Ev-
ans, to take Mrs. Evans and the girl
downtown in his automobile. The
girl said she lived with her sister, al
Kapiolani and Prospect streets. most
of the time, though she occasionally
visited her parents in Manoa valley.
She said she saw him again q
couple Of days later. in the evening,
when she met him at the corner near
her sisters home and went with him
in his motor car to the Waikiki Inn.
After staying there a few minutes,
curing which time she took drink
of tgin,. they went to the Seaside ho-
tel, where she took another drink of
gin. Then they drove to the Hawa-
ian hotel, but on her refusal to get
out of the car they went toward her
home.
She ampliIied this statement on
REORGANIZATION, saying that Bower
wanted her to go to room when they
first stopped at the Waikiki Inn, but
she refused. At the Seaside, she
averred, he repeated the request, and
that she said she preferred the Ha-
waiian hotel When they reached that
place, she refused To enter the build
ing, and then Bower took her back
to the Waikiki Inn, where she had
another drink Of GIN Shortly after
ward, en- route to her home and with
in short distance of the house. she
said. she first yielded to his Immoral
suggestions.
She said series of JOY rides in
which she and Bower INDUCED, jour
neying to Wilhelmina Rise, out around
Diamond Head, and other places about
The suburbs continued at intervals un-
i'll the following April. It was about
that time that her father met her in |
Bowers company one day and asked |
he latter If he was a married man.
70 which, she said, Bower replied in
he negative. In answer to a question
by Attorney Douthitt she said she
Knew all the time that be was mar |
led. After this incident, however.
The said she was more careful and |
lid not permit her father to see her
With Bower.
Both on direct and cross-examina-
ion the name of the Waikiki Inn came
lp frequently in connection with Bow
RS alleged enticements of the girl. I
'he told of drinking gin there and !