The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-12-22

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MYSTERYsAS EVER
Directed Verdict Frees Man
Charged With Killing Of y II
Hiroki Emoto
PROSECUTION UNABLE TO
PROVE CHARGE IN COURT
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WidoW-bride Of Month Has No
Recollection Of CHASTITY
Nights Work

A directed verdict of not guilty
brought to a sudden close yesterday
the trial of the case of the Territory
against NJ. FuiimotO, alias Waichi Full.
motto, charged with first.degree murder
The verdict was not unexpected, for
those who had followed, the trial fore
saw the inevitable. viii T. Garden,
deputy city attorney, prosecuted the
case, Lorrin\ Andrews, of the law firm
of Andrews b Pittman, represented the
defense.
The jury, of which William w. Cham
berlain was foreman, was as follows:
William H. Soper, Morley Philip, David
B. Silva, Clifford F. White, Horace N.
Crabbe, Randolph G. Moore, William
w. Chamberlain, Samuel C. Macy, Rich
ard Westoby, Harry H. Holt, J. Kaihi-
hi Ii and Christian Gertz.
Several months ago HirOki EmotO
and his bride of a month were discov.
cred badly cut up with knife wounds
in bed in a cottage in the Castle
grounds at waikiki. Emoto was the
Castle chauffeur and Tome, the bride,
was dead when found and Tome only
escaped death by the narrowest of mnr
gins, having suffered terrible wounds.
Fujimoto, brother-in-law of Tome,
who had opposed her marriage and
whom, she testified yesterday, had been
living with her for some time past,
abusing and beating her as occasion
arose, was arrested on suspicion of be-
ing the man who had murdered Emoto
and come within an ace of doing a like
job for Tome.
Tome took the witness stand yester-
day, shortly before the directed YER
diet freed her brotherinlaw. She had
been weeks in the hospital and during
a number of days her life had been de-
SPARED of. At one time it had been
presupposed that with the recurrence
of memory she would be able to tell
a story that would convict the man who
had committed the bloody deed-but
the prosecution could prove nothing on
Fuiimoto, even with her testimony
Her memory remained a blank.
The widowed bride showed plainly
yesterday, although many months have
elapsed since the gruesome crime, the
narrowing experience she went through.
A livid, CHASTITY scar, cut across her
left cheek, showed plainly one of the
many knife wounds she had received
when the murderer of her husband had
tried to duplicate his work on her.
Tome, Hawaiian born, is well CONVEX
SAINT with the English language and no
japanese interpreter was necessary for
her. After telling of the conduct of
her brother-inlaw toward her, she tes
tilted that she was asleep with her hus-
band of a month. What happened to
her on the night of the murder she had
no recollection of. She remembered
nothing until she woke up some days
later in the hospital and even then
there was a blank. She could not, try
as she would, supply the void.
Tome is n comely japanese damsel.
Even with the dsfgurng scar on her
soft cheek that will carry with her
| to the grave the remembrance of her
night of tragedy, she is good looking
pretty, if one judges by the standard
of NippOnese beauty. She is, at seven
teen a bride and a widow, whose mar.
ried span of life did not extend beyond
the honeymoon period.
Fujimoto, now cleared of the crime
was opposed to her marriage with Emo
| to, she told the court and jury yester
day. During the two years, previous
to her marriage, which she had lived
in the Fujimoto household, she said
the accused man. had treated her az
"his own wife" Against her will anC
whenever he had chance, she swOre
FuiimOtO had repeatedly assaulted her
The Waikiki murder mystery still
remains a mystery, for the prosecution
failed dismally yesterday in connecting
FujimOtO in any way directly with tn,
crime. There was not even the slight
est scintilla of eireumstantial evidence
aside from the mere opposition of Fuji
motto to Tones marriage to EmOt'
and his treatment of her, whateve
that might have been while she wal
under his roof.