Show barbarous SAN oal feb 16 the gall prints the lol lowing from honolulu the success of the government of hawaii in conducting its treason cases was due to the incriminating evidence giyen by captain william davies ot ane learner waimanalo Wai manalo the manner in which the statement wai wrong from Davies is in as showing the legal process at present existing in the hawaiian island 8 bis mate knudsen were arrested on the morn ing of january ath made a confession telling what little ho knew who ie an american citizen refused to give any information and while his innocence demanded an interview with the united states minister this was refused cayiea was then taken into the prison yard where he waa shown two 4 ring bolts in the wall above hie head the uninformed inquisitors inqui of the government then gave the captain to under stand that if a complete confession was not forthcoming he w donld DO up by the thumbs davies did not flinch determined that if the american minister coald not come the consul general should be informed that be as an american citizen wished to see him alis protest was in yain his less cere bound below ane knees and bia thumbs were lebleu with whip cord to the ring bolts A box was placed below him BO that the unfortunate mans boea just touched it da vies was stripped to the waist while marshal hitchcock attorney general smith and surgeon cooper with a stenographer awaited tho state ant which aney belieka be lieva would be shortly they were mis taken davies would not weaken sweat oozed from every pore the strong mau in big agony a drop of water to acol abo thirst that consumed him the tendons of the victims limbs stood out like strands of rooe knotted on his arma and lees swelling AS if ready to burst with congested blood restrained in ita course by his abnormal po his tore aryed him to implicate all known to be politically opposed to their methods without avail daliea refused to protect at last when it was apparent br hia respiration that it would be impossible to hold out longer nature suc combed and davies cursing the fiends who wera torturing him fainted dr cooper used salts of ammonia to reviva the gaetain Gan tain who had passed into the painless realms of unconsciousness As eoon as he revived two negro con viche suspended him again by tha his thumbs iaia operation was begun at noon and it was 6 in the evening before danes more dead than alive made the statement which him from the inhuman barbarity of hia persecutory perse cutora |