Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-04

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! when got there Drew was not there
and | didn't know VIVA 20 think. III
. last time J saw him he was k""piE"
! The crowd back from III" aid ! didn
know what happened to him. il" was
a friend | had visited at his moth
.trs house and had been instrumen
Z tai in bringing him here. and ! knew
! he was in danger. and felt | had &c
! 20 back and get him away from
there. NV shirt was torn and
changed H. and my hat was lost and
i put on another hat and drove back
again.
! q. Before you wont back did yOu
take anything from the house?
! A. Yes. As ! was changing my
clothes Drcws trunk was lying open
and saw his revolver lying in tn;
! TOP
@. Is this the one? Indicating
Prosecutions Exhibit "A."l.
A. don't know, II is that style
I don't know.-And picked it VI
and put it in my pocket
Q. What did you put It in your
pocket for?
| "A. 1 uCIl hlO". " do all d III III "
was in some trouble. The crowd had
| Jumped on me out there without any
provocation, as far as | knew, and
didn't know what would happen.
Q. Well. what then?
T A. | got out there and approached
the main entrance. | could see a par.
ty sitting along On the bench.
Q. Along here? Indicating makai
end on map Of the hula dance hall.
| A. Yes sir. | didn't want to have
any mixup with them. ] didn't want
to have any trouble with them.
wanted to get my friend Drew away
from them and take him home, so
went in te end of the building.
Q. That is this end? Indicating
mauka end on map Of house,.
A. Yes sir; and | walked in that
end and called for Drew AS | started
| in Eddie Miller. | didn't know who
ii was at the time-came towards me
and | told him wanted my friend
Drew to come home. So Drew got up
and his hat rolled down, and just then
fDick started towards me, just after
came in and some of the others. Just
then Guertler jumped up and said
Hold on, boys! Let me put him
Quit" And the whole crowd was com
| ing towards me and Guertler was
swinging people aside. Mrs. Puahi
tried to hold him, sling him aside
and the whole crowd was almost on
me. Guertler was saying, Marshall
| YOUTH kill you" And knew he
would, and | was scared, and / got
up against the bench
@. And then?
H. A. And then went down. l don't
know who was on me-the crowd.
Z O.. When you came in and Eddie
Miller came up did he say anything
to you?
A. Yes; he asked me if was look
ing for trouble, and said, mo; I'm
! looking for my friend Drew"
@. How much do you weigh?
| A. One hundred and forty-two.
| @. How much did you weigh on
August eleventh?
A. One hundred and fifty pounds
regular weight.
Q. After the shooting you were
taken to the station, were you not?
A Yes sir.
Q. The morning after you made
the statement to Mr.. Brown? deputy
i City and County Attorney A. NJ
Brown.
A. Yes sir.
@. What did you tell Mr.. Brown:
You heard his statement here. Did
you tell Mr.. Brown what he substan
TALLY said here?
| A. l told Mr.. Brown. He asked
! me whose gun it was, and told him
Drew's. He asked me where | got
the gun and told him l got it out al
Cassidy's, at my room, where Drew
and L were living together, and he
asked me when got it and l told him
got ii after went out to Cassidy's
Q. Did you make any statement tc
him in regard to things being hazy?
| A. Yes sir; did. l didn't want t
Ioffend Mr.. Brown. was alone anC
didn't want to talk too much.
/ @. And so you told him some
things were hazy in regard to t?a.s-
A. Yes sir
i Q. When the crowd was on top O
you what part of the room were you
in?
4 A. Right down in the corner. Qn
I dicates mauka corner on map of tn.
dance halD.
| Q. That is where the shot wa
fired?
A. Yes, sir; was up against, lean
ing back.
4 Discussing the same part of hi
story on cross-examination, beginnin;
with his departure from the hull
house with Startup, after the quarre
outside the house. the transcript Q
, testimony is as follows:
Mr.. Cathcart: And then you jumpe
into the machine and drove away. i
that it? A. Yes, sir.
Q. You Wen straight down to nea
1.-The Metropolitan Market on Kin
Istreet with Mr.. Startup, did you? A
Down near the Union Grill.
Q. On The opposite side of tn
street. was it not? A. Yes, sir.
Q. And went directly there fror
Puahi's house, you didn't stop on tn
way, did you? A No, sir.
Q. And then leaving startup a
about opposite the Union Grill or 81