Show LT HETHERINGTON He Tells the Story of His Great Wrong 1 HIS WIFE MADE A CONFESSION He Looked Upon Her as an Outraged Woman Ills Feelings of RevulsIon Towards RobinsonThe Court Decision SAN FRANCISCO April 29The steamer Belgio today brought from Yokohama details de-tails of the closing events of the Hethering ton trial Commander Bartlett his wife and others further testimony gave and Hotherington testified at great length Ho told the story of his troubles and coming down to the latter part of the affair said that in January while Robinson was absent ab-sent in Kobe Mrs Hotherington made a I confession to him of her relations with Robinson Hetherington in describing it said it was a long and painful story I produced a revulsion of fooling in him and when he understood all he freely forgive her His feeling against Robinson was intensified and while his wife had done things which wero inexplicable to him he looked upon her as an outraged woman he had never heard anything more terrible and could not describe his feelings Robinson Robin-son returned from Kobe about February 10 Lieutenant Hetherington described the state of feeling which Robinsons return produced in him and said that the day of the shooting his ideas were confused He fred the shots more to stop the carriage than with any Idea of hitting Robinson and did not know for some minutes that a bullet had struck him Consul Tillotson in rendering his decision gavo an exhaustive review of the testimony and called attention especially to the confession which Mrs Hotherington to her husband ahortly before the shooting in which she described her wild midnight ride to Robinsons house last October and told of the threats Robinson held over her In finding Hetherington not guilty the consular con-sular court declared this confession together to-gether with another long train of distress ing circumstances in the case produced a great state of mental disturbance in de fendant and ho was not responsible for his actions at the moment the fatal shot was fired |