Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 432, 14 April 1892 — Our Explanation. [ARTICLE]

Our Explanation.

The lett©r. frora whieh we obtained our infonuation as4o the death of the Japanese laborer waS published in full in Hawaiian in Ka Leo and eigned M. Pawehe. There was indēed a form of inquest held, but it was ooly a farce. The writer <iays in substance that the punish«t of the Japanese occurred in the iatter part of the last week in March t in a eane field, by being kicked on the epine and in the stoinacb by a luna, froui whieh he died in three days. After his dēath j a jury was empaneled, during 1 whieh "no effort at all was made j to obtain the witnesees who & tual-1 ly saw the punishment upon the, m%n who died. The witnesseB who i *vere brouebt before the coroner'}« inquest were nowhere near the plaee where the deed was do; Thew were witnesses to cover up the wrong done, and to entirely shield the man from the deed whieh he hadj committed. Some members of the coroner'e jury were not satisfied with the evidence of thesē witnegses, and one of them asked to postnone the sitting for the reason tt\at tbere was not sufficient evidence given to arnve at a just eonelunon as to the cause of the sudden death of the laborer, and that search should be made for further evidenee, from whenee a clearer knowledge of the man's death could be obtained. At the requeet of this member, the Deputy Sheriff of Waimea spoke up, that the CoronerYCourt could not be adjourned as the witnesseB present were all tbat he could find, and that there were no others remaining. It was such talk frona the Bheriff that changed the minds of the majonty of the Coroners to the request to postpone. The verdict was that th e man'B testes were ruptured. Tbe Japauese 4octor was very mueh difisatiefted with the decision of the jury. He returned to Koloa, from whenee he took steamer fbr Hono lulu, to lav the matter before ihe Japanese Consul. Oa the reception of the informaUon the Consul obtain«i the servioes of Mr. Neumann with he sailed for W|inea. The*ervice of the Court was invoked, eight witncssos were obtaiiMd who knew sll about the aftur f and a deoinon given: ( that the Jap died from the effects of kieka iufiicted on his spine and abdoaea, aud io three days thmāAm.™

A jary wts indeed eUM, asd tb*t waa all thlU may be »aid of it. But a« we itated in oar /eBterdair'o iaaoe, lor whioh tbe ByUetin Ukea *s to taak, ü be waa oalt apoorJap«H9W it appeanno" reai u ioq«iry no" real *faqM«t waahokl, over the eaoae thatkadtohia<Jap»death." Tbe Shariff waa eridently in a hurry, ft wqoeet to poet« poiko for fbrtlMr erideoce in tbe oiMi ii order to ooae to a clear T«rdiot. u Tbe poor IWlow waa buried and tbat wae all tbere waa 4bont it,° like the death and borial

of m&ny poor Asiatic and Hawniian plantaUon peoua who have passed in their checks before this poor Jap. The u indictment n is '*tfrrible" ar.tl we feap, if the lawyer« are not a!l paid to etand out, u a *rue bill" ean be found against the. &«i--thorities for being so unseeising!f hasty in barying a poor maa because unknown. 44 InBtead" of the "accused luna" beine fouad out in the first iustance by the effoH of the Sberiff, it took the Japaneee Doctor aad Japanese Ooneul, and a first elaea lawyer to briog tbe accueed inna before the bar ©f juatioe to aucwer to a Tery eerio«s charge ot murder of a poor Japan eee, aod that is M all there,was about it. M And 18 it not enough.