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Show 'KAWSHATA' TELLS OF KILLING With the same gun which caused the death of Oki Oka no. in his hand. George Kawshatt demonstrated in police coutt this morning how the homicide at the Jajanose boarding house? on. Twenty-fourth street i.ccur-rtd. i.ccur-rtd. While th- tragedy of his recital was weakened by tho tcdiousness of iU translation, the interest of tho spectators in the prisoner's demon-suatlon demon-suatlon was intense. For the mot part the court room was filled with Orientals, who have been following the preliminary hearing of their countryman coun-tryman with unusual Interest. The hearing which was continued Trom yesterday aiternoon opened this morning with the placing of Kaw-shata Kaw-shata upou the stand. The prisoner, althouuh haggard '.u appearance, au-swered au-swered all the questions put to him by the attorneys, through Interpreter Itoy Shadwlck, without any hesitation or evasion. He told of having met Okano on the night of the .Inpanese-Amcrlcan .Inpanese-Amcrlcan wrestling mntch and sUled that a wugr of $.'5 was laid on the result of the bout Okano bet that the Japanese wrestler would win. while he bet that the American would be the victor. The money was not I'osted. each party of the bet verbally verbal-ly agreeing that he would pay Hi money as soon as tho bout was decided. de-cided. This bout was won by the American, Amer-ican, Inn a protest, was made by the Japanese asalnst the decision of the referee When Kawshata ami Okano met the next morning in tho dining room of the hoarding house, tho former for-mer asked that the bet bo paid. Okano declined to pay ou the grounds that the referee's decision was not a fair one. While this argument was taking tak-ing place the two men were sealed at a table in the Twenty-fourth street house and were drinking tea. Okano became angered ami hurled his tea cup at Kawshata. Kawshata dodged the missile and sprang to his ieet. Okano, at the same time, leaped fr.'Ui his chair and with an olh vowed he would kill Kawshata. A revolver in the hand of Okano flashed In the face of Kawshata and, knowing that any attempt to flee would be fool hardy, Kawshata pounced upon his assailant, just . as the gun cracked. The bullet bad barely missed Kawshata's head, but the revolver was now held by both men and turned at such an angU that Okano could not shoot Kawshata. To emphasize his story at this point Kawshata Kaw-shata was handed the pistol for which he had struggled Attorneys James DoVInc and John C. Willis, counsel for the defense, and Attorney Divld Jensen for the prosecution arose from Iheir chain? In the pantomimic repetition repe-tition of tho grapple which ended In tb death of Okano.. kawshata showed how bo had held the plsiol hand of his assailant and how, inch by Inch, the two had struggled strug-gled from the dining room into the kitchen. The susgesllveLiess of the recital excited the prisoner and ho talked at such speed that the Interpretation Inter-pretation of his words was difficult for Mr. Cliadwick to execute. Kokl, a Japanese interpreter, who has been retained by the defense, lent his assistance and with his aid the prisoner's words were transposed Into In-to Encllsh In the kitchen Kawshata gained possession of the gun and sent two shots In the direction of Okano The shots were fired while the men still struggled and at exceedingly close range Okano fell Io the floor. What happened hap-pened lifter this Kawshata could not tell definitely. He could not explain what became of the empty shells that were missing from the gun when it was delivered by him to the police. He could toll nothing about any Jewelry Jew-elry which may have been stolen from Okano. He only related the story of the killing and stated that Immediately Immediate-ly thereafter he had come to the police po-lice station and given himself up to the police. The cross examination, which be. gan shortly before the noon hour adjournment, ad-journment, was taken up again when Ihe hearing was resumed and will probably not be completed until late tills afternoon. Kawshata's story of the homicide was listened to intently by the widow wid-ow of the dead man. but she appeared unmoved by It. Any trace of grief or emotion which might have been portrayed por-trayed by her countenance was hidden hid-den behind the heavy crepe v II. which was not once lifted during Kawshata's testimony. Oil |