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Show HETHERINGTON'S STORY Induced the Court to Decide That he Was Not Responsible When the Fatal Shot Was Fired. Sax Francisco, April 30. The steamer Belgic yesterday brought from Yokohama details of the closing events of the Hetker-ington Hetker-ington 1rinl. Commander Bartlett, his wife and (.thert gave further testimony, and Hetherington testified at great length. He j told the story of his troubles, and. coming down to the latter part of the affair, ssrid that in January, while Robinson was absent in Kobe, Mrs. Hetherington made a confession confes-sion to him of her relations with Robinson. Hetherington, in describing it, said that it was a long and painful story; it produced a revulsion of feeling in him, and, when he understood all, he freely forgave her. His feeling against Robinson was intensified, and. while his wife bad done things which were inexplicable to him, he looked upon her as an outraged woman; he has never heard anything more terrible, and couldn't describe his feelings. Robinson returned from Kobe ahout February Feb-ruary 10th. Lieutenant Hetherington described the state of feeling which Robinson's return produced in him, and said that, on the day of the shooting, his ideas were confused. He fired 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 ren-dering his decision, gave an exhaustive review re-view of the testimony and called atten'ion especially to the confess which Mrs. Hetherington Hether-ington made to her husband snortly before t!ie 6hooting, in which she described her wild mid-night ride to Robinson's house last October, and told of the threats Robinson held her. In finding Hetherington not guilty, the Consular curt declared that this confession, together with the other long train of distressing dis-tressing circumstance in the case, bad produced pro-duced a great state of mental disturbance in the defendant, and he was not responsible for his actions in the moment the fatal shot ' was tired. |